History of Colorado; Volume III, Part 52

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

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Dr. Lewis turns to motoring and fishing for outdoor recreation and rest and he is a great lover of music. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity and also to the Modern Woodmen of America and his religious faith is that of the Christian church, in which he was reared. His is a nature that could never be content with mediocrity, so that his professional career has been marked hy steady advance result- ing from close study and investigation as well as from broad experience. He is inter- ested in everything that tends to bring a clear understanding of the laws of life and health and he readily adapts his knowledge to the demands of his practice and with good results.

JOHN WILLIAM YATES.

John William Yates is the president of the Yates-McClain Realty Company of Colorado Springs, in which connection he has established a business of large extent and importance. He was born upon a farm in Buchanan county, Missouri, on the 25th of April, 1874, a son of Martin Taylor Yates and a grandson of Washington Yates, who was born in Kentucky and in early manhood removed to Indiana, casting in his lot with the pioneer settlers of that state. Martin Taylor Yates is a second cousin of Hon. Richard Yates, who was the war governor of Illinois. Martin T. Yates was born in Putnam county, Indiana, in 1847 and in his boyhood days accompanied his parents on their removal to Missouri. He was married in Buchanan county of the latter state to Serena Feland, a daughter of Major Sanford Feland, a soldier of the Mexican war. Mrs. Yates passed away in 1913, but Mr. Yates survives and now resides near Cañon City, Colorado.

John William Yates was reared upon a farm in Missouri to the age of fourteen years and during that period attended the country schools. He afterward went to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he began clerking and while thus engaged he continued his education by attending night school. For four years his time was spent in that way, after which he walked the entire distance to California, starting in September, 1892. He arrived in Los Angeles the following January and then continued his tour on through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Finally he retraced his steps to St. Joseph, Missouri, and engaged in clerking until he had reached the age of twenty years. He embarked in merchandising on his own account at Waldron, Missouri, with a twelve hundred dollar stock that had been purchased for six hundred dollars, of which Mr. Yates contributed three hundred dollars, while his partner, J. O. McClain, put in an equal amount. They continued a merchandise business in various towns until 1903 and then sold out, after which they removed to Colorado Springs, where they organized the Yates-McClain Realty Company with Mr. Yates as the president. The partnership between them has been of a most pleasing character and yet main- tains. They have secured a large clientage and have built up a business of gratifying proportions. Mr. Yates is also a director of the South Cheyenne Canon and Seven Falls Development Company and is a director of the San Luis Valley Irrigated Land Company. His interests are constantly growing in volume and importance and his

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activities have brought him prominently to the front as a leading business man of this section of the state.

On the 6th of May, 1896, in St. Joseph, Missouri, Mr. Yates was united in mar- riage to Miss Sallie C. Smith, a daughter of the late Washington Smith, who was born in Virginia and became one of the pioneer settlers of Platte county, Missouri. He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church and devoted his life to that holy calling. His daughter, Mrs. Yates, was gradnated in 1894 from Park College of Park- ville, Missouri. By her marriage she has become the mother of two sons: Albert Smith, born in 1900; and Jack Kenneth, born in 1904.

Mr. Yates holds membership in the Christian Science church and he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His wife is affiliated with the Presby- terian church. His political support is given to the democratic party bnt he has never been an office seeker, preferring at all times to concentrate his efforts and attention npon his business affairs, which have been wisely and carefully directed, bringing to him a substantial measure of success.

WILLIAM GARSTIN.

William Garstin, a civil and mining engineer of Colorado Springs, was born on the Isle of Jersey, England, in 1862, a son of Norman and Marian (Wilson) Garstin. He comes of Norman-French ancestry, the name being originally de Garston. His father. Norman Garstin, was a chaplain in the British army throughont his active life. His father, Norman Garstin, and the latter's father, also named Norman Garstin. had held the same office and rank. Chaplain Norman Garstin, the father, died in France. The maternal great-grandfather was John Walter, the founder of the London Times. The mother, Marian (Wilson) Garstin, was born in Somerset, England. Following the death of her husband she removed from London, England, to the new world in 1874. The following winter William Garstin came to Colorado Springs, where he continued his education and afterward became a student in Colorado College but did not gradnate. When seventeen years of age he put aside his textbooks and joined a corps of engineers. engaged in survey work for the Denver & Rio Grande, and since that time he has followed the profession of civil engineering. In 1897 he opened an office in Colorado Springs for the conduct of civil engineering and also as United States mineral surveyor. His developing powers have brought him to the front in professional connections and his business ability has gained for him a liberal and well deserved patronage.

In 1897, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Mr. Garstin was married to Miss Isabel Newton Conrad and they have one daughter, Harriett Winslow. The religious faith of the family is indicated in the fact that they are communicants of St. Stephen's Episcopal church. Mr. Garstin votes with the democratic party and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He is now a member of the Reserve Watch of El Paso connty. Dependent upon his own resources from an early age, he has steadily worked his way upward, step by step, and each advance has brought him a broader ontlook and wider oppor- tunities. Thoroughly mastering every practical and scientific phase of civil and mining engineering, he is now accorded a liberal patronage and has conducted important pro- fessional activities along those lines.

HERBERT WESTON MCLAUTHLIN, M. D.

Dr. Herbert Weston MeLanthlin, largely specializing in the practice of internal medicine, with offices in Denver, was born in Plympton, Plymonth county, Massachn- setts, September 23, 1854, a son of Simeon W. and Frances (Bradford) MeLauthlin. The father was of Scotch descent, his ancestors arriving in New England in the latter part of the seventeenth century, at which time settlement was made at Duxbury, while later a removal was made to Kingston, Massachusetts. The mother of Dr. McLanthlin is a descendant of Governor William Bradford, one of the founders of Plymouth colony and its first governor. Dr. McLauthlin's father died in Kingston, Massachusetts, in 1878.

The early yonth of the Doctor was passed at Kingston, where he attended the public schools, passing through consecutive grades to his gradnation from the high school. He afterward entered Amherst College in 1873 and was gradnated therefrom

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with the class of 1877, winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He next entered the medical department of Harvard University and was graduated in 1882 with the M. D. degree. In October of the same year he was united in marriage to Miss Emma L. Stranger, of Kingston, Massachusetts, and then on account of his wife's health came to Colorado, entering upon the active practice of his profession in Denver.

When the medical department of the University of Colorado was organized in 1884 Dr. McLauthlin became one of the faculty and for several years occupied the chair of theory and practice of medicine. From 1885 until 1887 he was health commis- sioner of Denver, being the first to hold the office. He served as county physician from 1886 until 1891, having charge of the Arapahoe County Hospital, under control of the board of county commissioners. He inaugurated the Hospital Training School for Nurses and in 1893 he was appointed county health officer, which position he con- tinuously filled until 1899. He is a member and ex-president of the Denver and Arapahoe County Medical Society, is a member of the Colorado State Medical Society, of which he served as secretary for four years, and for several years he was medical examiner for various life insurance companies but confines his attention now to his private practice, which has steadily grown in volume and importance, placing him among the leading physicians of the city.

In 1901 Dr. McLauthlin was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away on the 4th of January of that year, leaving three sous: Alden B., Herbert F. and Carl A. Dr. McLauthlin is a member of the Plymouth Congregational church. He also has membership in the Masonic fraternity and in these connections are indi- cated the rules which govern his conduct and actuate him in all of his relations with his fellowmen. He holds to high professional ideals and standards and his life work has been of great benefit to the community in which he has now resided for more than a third of a century, winning a prominent position in professional circles as educator and practitioner.

ADAM S. WAGNER.

Adam S. Wagner, general agent for the Columbian National Insurance Company at Denver, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 4, 1868, and is a son of Henry and Anna (Hegdorn) Wagner, both of whom were natives of Germany. The father was a machinist by trade and on coming to the United States established his home in Cleve- land, Ohio, where be passed away in 1873, when his son Adam was but five years of age.

In early boyhood Adam S. Wagner was taken to Canada and there acquired his early education in the public schools. He afterward again crossed the border into the United States and early in his business career held the position of assistant railway trainmaster in Illinois. His identification with Colorado dates from 1888 at which time he entered the field of carpentering and mechanical engineering in Denver. He occu- pied the position of superintendent of the Denver street cleaning department for two years and still later he filled the position of city market master for a similar period. He then embarked in business on his own account as a contractor and builder and became prominently identified with construction work in Denver. He has been con- nected with insurance interests since 1900, at which time he became a representative of the National Casualty Company. He afterward represented the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company for three years and for a year and a half was identified with the Equitable Company. In 1905 he became a representative of the Colorado National Insurance Company, which in 1911 was merged into the Columbian National Company, of which he has since been the general agent. In the intervening period he has built up a business of gratifying proportions. His experience in the insurance field has been broad and he is thoroughly familiar with every branch of the business in principle and detail. He knows the full worth of insurance investment and its protective force as well, and his progressive spirit and indefatigable energy have made the business of his agency a large and very satisfactory one.

In 1909 Mr. Wagner was married to Miss Helen Kimball, of Ouray, Colorado. He is well known in Masonic circles, having membership in Montrose Lodge, No. 63, A. F. & A. M .; also in the Royal Arch chapter and Knights Templar commandery of Montrose; in Colorado Consistory. No. 1, S. P. R. S .; and in El Jebel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He has thus taken all of the degrees of Masonry save that of the honorary thirty-third degree and in his life has been a faithful exemplar of the teachings of the craft, which is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of

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mankind and the obligations thereby imposed. He is also connected with the Elks lodge of Montrose. His political endorsement is given to the republican party, which finds in him a stalwart champion. When leisure permits he turns to hunting and motoring for recreation and he has thus become largely familiar with the many places of notable scenic beauty throughout Colorado.

T. J. BELL.

T. J. Bell, a druggist and well known business man of Limon, was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1862, a son of Stephen Nelson and Sarah (Bess) Bell. On leaving St. Joseph the family went to Kansas and the father took up a homestead there about the time the Civil war was in progress. The son acquired a limited education in the schools of that state and his boyhood days were spent upon ranches which were devoted to the raising of cattle and sheep. He had early experience along that line and remained in that business until he attained his majority. In the meantime the family had removed to northwestern Nebraska. When he reached adult age he went to Eustis, Kansas, near the town of Goodland, and took a homestead. He was accompanied by his mother and two sisters, the husband and father having passed away when T. J. Bell was but twelve years of age. The family lived there for four years and Mr. Bell proved up on the property. He was quite successful in his efforts in that locality and after acquiring title to the farm he went to work for the Rock Island Railroad Company in the engine service and water department. He also took charge of the roundhouse at Limon and since 1912 he has been an active business man of the town. He has conducted a livery business, has also engaged in the butchering business and has been proprietor of a pool hall. At the present time he is owner of a modern and thoroughly up-to-date drug store, which he is successfully conducting, and he also has a rooming house. When he came to Limon there were only about three buildings in addition to the post office and the railroad eating house.

Mr. Bell has been married twice. He first wedded Elzada Gummere and they bad two children, Edna May and Izora. For his second wife he chose Mand L. Miller and they became the parents of four sons. Max LeRoy, who was a boiler maker, enlisted in May, 1918, in the Spruce Squadron of Washington. Rex. Clinton C. and Stephen N. are still with their parents.

The family adhere to the Methodist faith and in politics Mr. Bell is a democrat. His father-in-law, F. C. Miller, was county commissioner of Lincoln county for several years, but Mr. Bell has never sought or desired office. preferring to concentrate his undivided attention and his time upon his business affairs, which have been developed along substantial lines until he is now one of the leading representatives of com- mercial activity at Limon.

TOROS SARKISIAN, M. D.

Among the well known physicians and surgeons of Denver is numbered Dr. Toros Sarkisian, who has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine in Denver for a number of years, and whose specialty is the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Sarkisian has not only studied on this side of the Atlantic but has attended great centers of clinics in Europe. He has, moreover, lectured on medical subjects himself, and his wide experience therefore entitles him to meritorious dis- tinction. He was born in Sebastia, Armenia, in 1868, a son of Sarkis and Anna (Boyajian) Sarkisian, both of whom were horn in Armenia. The father was a secre- tary of a large importing and commission house, a man of high integrity, benevolence, kindness and generosity to those who came to him for help, and he passed away in Armenia, where the death of the mother also occurred. To them were born two children of whom Dr. Sarkisian was the elder.

In his boyhood Toros Sarkisian attended the Armenian schools and later the American Foreign Missionary School, but in 1884, when sixteen years of age, came to America in order to benefit by the opportunities offered in this country, which were denied him in his native land. He located in Boston, Massachusetts, working at various trades and attending school at night. He thus continued until 1886, when at the age of eighteen, on account of his health, lie came to Colorado. Having thoroughly recovered. he returned to the east and attended the medical department of the New

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York University and later Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1897. He opened an office in the metropolis of the Great Lakes and made that city his residence until 1900. In the meantime, however, he had decided to further improve his knowledge by study in Europe and attended clinic and post-graduate courses at colleges in Berlin, Vienna and Paris, remaining abroad for over two years, greatly angmenting his university knowledge by study under the masters and authorities of the old world. Upon his return to the United States he again took up the active practice of medicine in Chicago, but his health compelled him in 1903 to again seek the climate of Colorado and he located in Pueblo, where he remained for two years or until 1905. since which year he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Denver. During the years 1905 and 1906 Dr. Sarkisian taught physical diagnosis in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Denver but outside of this he has since given his entire attention to his practice. He is considered a good diagnostician and is careful and painstaking in reaching a decision. He has had a number of important and intricate cases both surgical and medical, with which he has been very successful. Perhaps the first case of a goiter operated on under local anæsthesia in the city of Denver was per- formed by Dr. Sarkisian, with great success.

On April 22, 1903, Dr. Sarkisian married Miss Lillian Moose, of Chicago, Illinois, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Moose, of that city. To this union have been born two children: Justine, whose birth occurred in Denver in 1906; and Harold, also a native of Denver, born in 1909. Both are now attending school. There is much that is honorable and worthy of emulation in the career of Dr. Sarkisian, who made his way to professional eminence in his city entirely unaided. In order to earn an honest livelihood and to learn the language of his adopted country he first had to take comparatively lowly positions, but this did not deter him to continue upon the path which he had mapped out for himself and which led to a college career. For years he was caretaker for the Hon. Joseph Medill, editor and owner of the Chicago Tribune, with whom he remained a trusted employe for four years and a half, accompanying Mr. Medill on his extensive travels. Dr. Sarkisian organized the first Young Men's Christian Association in New York city among his own people and was the first president of this organization. Although his professional duties take up most of his time and his studies practically take up all of his leisure hours, for he is continually occupied with complementing his medical knowledge, he has found time to cooperate in movements undertaken for the public welfare of his city and in the best sense of the word is a thoroughly public-spirited citizen of his adopted country. In politics he is a republican but outside of supporting the measures and candidates of his party has no political ambitions. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, in which he belongs to the blue lodge, the chapter and the council. Having as a boy shown the energy necessary to throw off the restrictions of his native country by emigration, he has utilized that same energy to make use of, the chances for advancement offered in this country and has become a man of high pro- fessional standards in the particular line of work to which he devotes his efforts. There is great honor due him for what he has accomplished and the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens is not withheld from him.

NORMAN GRISWOLD BURNHAM, M. D.

Dr. Norman Griswold Burnham, former president of the State Homeopathic Society of Colorado, the first contributor to the now splendidly equipped Denver Medical Library, and for many years an eminent and able practicing physician of Denver, was born September 30, 1828, in Berlin. Erie county, Ohio. a son of Ellsworth and Maria (Walker) Burnham, whose early American ancestors in the paternal line came to the new world in colonial days. His grandfather, Captain Joseph T. Burnham. was born in Hebron, Connecticut, and was of English extraction. He followed agricultural pursuits and also engaged in carpentering and building. He was thrifty and enterprising and accumulated considerable property, so that his old age was spent in comfort, while his high character and standing made him greatly esteemed by his fellow citizens. His family numbered four sons, two of whom. Ellsworth and Moses, removed from Connecticut to Ohio in 1819. settling in Erie county. where they were well known pioneers and became successful farmers.

Ellsworth Burnham, father of Dr. Burnham, was born in Connecticut and died in Saginaw, Michigan, at the age of eighty-four years, having removed to the latter state

DR. NORMAN G. BURNHAM In his eighty seventh year.

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from Ohio, after which he retired from active business life. He married Maria Walker, who was born in Tollaud county, Connecticut, a daughter of Norman and Hulda Walker of that state. She. too, passed away in Michigan when in the eighty-fourth year of her age, leaving three sons. Joseph T., Norman G. and Henry E.

Norman G. Burnham spent his youthful days upon an Ohio farm and at the age of seventeen became a student in the Norwalk (O.) Academy, where he was a roommate of the late General J. B. McPherson, one of the noted generals of the Civil war. His studies were pursued in the summer sessions of the school and in the winter seasons he engaged in teaching. In 1849, however, he decided to make the practice of medicine his life work and with that end in view began studying in Cincinnati, being gradnated in 1851 from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, He then entered upon the active work of his profession and for two years was physician at the Berlin Heights (O.) Sanitarium, where he was associated with Professor B. L. Hill, M. D., his former preceptor, who obtained the charter for the Cleveland Homeopathic College. Dr. Burnham was for two years also a student in Ohio Wesleyan University and afterward an attendant for a time in the Cleveland Homeopathic College, now merged into the medical department of Ohio State University, the faculty of which conferred upon him an honorary degree. While in Cincinnati he attended the first lecture course on homeopathy delivered west of the Alleghany mountains, and for three years he was associated with Professor H. P. Gatchell, the dean of the Cleveland Homeopathic College.

Upon leaving Cleveland Dr. Burnham became a successful practitioner of medicine at Indianapolis, Indiana, where he resided for eleven years. The succeeding three years were passed in St. Louis, Missouri, and on the 9th of October. 1879, he arrived in Denver. Colorado, where he has since made his home. He was not long in attaining a high position as a medical practitioner in Denver and became recognized also as one of its most promi- nent and highly esteemed citizens. For several years he was on the medical staff of the old Arapahoe ( Denver) County Hospital and was also a member of the Denver Advisory Board of Health. The Homeopathic State Medical Society honored him with election to its presidency and he became one of the founders and the first president of the Denver Homeopathic College and Hospital Association. For years he has been a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and also a member of the City & County Homeopathic Society as well as the Homeopathic State Medical Society. He is a member of both the Denver City & County Medical Society and also the American Medical Association.

Dr. Burnham is also widely known as a writer and contributor to medical journals and as a fluent speaker upon professional subjects and with the organization of the Denver Medical Library, which is now splendidly equipped, he became its first contributor.

On the 7th of May. 1861, in Medina, Ohio, Dr. Burnham was united in marriage to Miss Mary K. Treat, daughter of the late Adna Adams Treat, who passed away in Denver at the advanced age of one hundred and three years and eight months, retaining his physi- cal and mental strength and vigor almost to the last. He was born in Hartford, Connecti- ent. April 8, 1797, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Burnham, December 8, 1900. Like her husband, Mrs. Burnham is descended from Revolutionary ancestry. She was born in Fayetteville, New York, and her girlhood days were spent amid the scenes and environments of farm life. She pursued her education in the academy at Medina, Ohio, and is a lady of high accomplishments and a devoted worker in St. Mark's Episcopal church. She has been prominently identified with the Women's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions of St. Mark's church, was the first vice president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Diocese, was also the originator and for several years president of the Lectern League of the Diocese of Colorado and actively interested in the Coal Guild. Dr. and Mrs. Burnham became the parents of two sons and two daughters: Arthur T .: M. Grace. mother of Genevieve K. and W. Burnham Knight; Florence, the wife of N. O. Vosburgh, Jr .; and Norman G., Jr., who died in 1890 at the age of seventeen years .. For nearly thirty years Dr. Burnham has lived on the corner of California and Fourteenth streets in Denver, and he remains the last resident in a locality that formerly included the most prominent citizens of Denver.

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History of Colorado; Volume III, Part 52

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