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Aside from his membership in St. Mark's Episcopal church, in which he was for years a senior warden, Dr. Burnham has membership in the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar. a Consistory Mason and a Mystic Shriner. He is likewise a life member of the Denver Athletic Club. His attractive social qualities have made him very popular wherever he is known, while his marked intellectual strength and scientific training have placed him in the front rank of the physicians of his adopted state.
On his ninetieth birthday Dr. Burnham presented the following to the thoughtful and heeding:
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RULES OF CONDUCT FOR HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.
PREPARED ON MY NINETIETH BIRTHDAY.
"Ist. Keep your mind attuned to freedom from pessimistic thought and worry.
"2nd. Live a simple life, avoiding extremes.
"3rd. Cultivate regular habits in eating, sleeping and work.
"4th. Well regulated optimistic thought brings sunshine and prosperity to your vocation.
"5th. Live soberly, truthfully as a free agent from all slavish habits.
"6th. Looking backward as a habit portends senility so let the past bury the past.
"7th. Live while you live for the joys of supernal life that betokens an eternal fruition.
'8th. Biology teaches us that we should live a hundred years with the aid of well regulated nutrition and radium emanation.
"NORMAN G. BURNHAM, M. D., "September 30, 1918."
CHARLES ECKLAND EMERY.
Charles Eckland Emery, a leading photographer of Colorado Springs, was born in Sweden in 1859 and was a young lad of but eight years of age when he came to the United States in 1868. He was largely reared in northern Michigan and acquired a common school education in that state. The year 1880 witnessed his arrival at Silver Cliff, Colorado, at which time he was twenty years of age. He had previously taken up the study of photography and he opened a photographic studio at Silver Cliff, there conducting business until 1885, when he removed to Canon City, Colorado. In 1892 he came to Colorado Springs, where he opened a studio, and in 1901 he erected his present studio at the corner of Cascade avenue and Kiowa street. He there has a splendidly equipped establishment and he employs the latest and most improved processes in photography. His work is of the highest class and his patronage is most liberal.
In June, 1884, in Silver Cliff, Colorado, Mr. Emery was married to Miss Bertha A. Francis, a daughter of Elias R. Francis. She is a native of Maine and became a resident of Silver Cliff in 1881. The children born of this marriage are: Mabel, now the wife of Dr. Asa Z. Hall, of Eaton, Colorado; Charles Francis, who was born in 1893 and who married Miss Eleanor Philips Washburn, of Colorado Springs and is at the present time serving with the rank of second lieutenant of artillery at Camp Lewis, Washington; Dorothy; Ralph Waldo, who was horn December 25, 1901; and Franklin Hall, born in 1908.
In his political views Mr. Emery is a republican and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He holds membership in the Winter Night Club and both he and his wife are members of the First Baptist church, in which he is serving as a trustee. Mrs. Emery also takes a most active and prominent part in church work and in other public activities which look to the benefit and welfare of the section in which she resides.
S. T. CHAPMAN.
S. T. Chapman, who has extensive farm holdings, his property interests including nine hundred and sixty acres of land in the vicinity of Calhan, was born July 30, 1868, at Bonaparte, Van Buren county, Iowa, a son of Samuel and Charlotte (Miller) Chapman. The father was a native of Scotland hut of English descent and the mother was born in Pennsylvania. The grandfather in the paternal line was gamekeeper for Lord Cumming in Scotland, who was the father of Cumming, the noted African hunter and explorer.
S. T. Chapman, after mastering the branches of learning in the common schools, started out to provide for his own support by working by the month as a farm hand and was employed in that way for several years. At the age of nineteen, however, he left Iowa and removed to York county, Nebraska, where he resided for two years and later he went to Kansas City, Missouri, where he became connected with the secret service, being thus employed for a year. During that time he traveled south to Memphis, Tennes- see, and into several of the middle western states. Subsequently he made his way to
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Denver and to Pueblo and was employed at odd jobs in those cities. He also spent some time in Colorado Springs and was employed on the famous Pike's Peak cog railroad. He next went to the divide west of Monument, Colorado, and still later to Calhan, where he preempted one hundred and sixty acres of land. Later he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres additional and from time to time he has added to his holdings until his possessions now include nine hundred and sixty acres of rich and valuable land, much of which he has brought under a high state of cultivation. He also leases other land for pasturage, keeping one hundred head of cattle. He is regarded as one of the progressive and enterprising farmers and stock raisers of this section of the state. He also owned and conducted a mercantile business at Calhan for two and a half years but devoted little of his attention to the business, as he had competent employes in the store. He is justly accounted one of the leading ranchers of his part of El Paso county, for his busi- ness affairs are wisely and carefully conducted and an air of neatness and thrift pervades his place everywhere. He has good buildings upon his land and he takes a just and com- mendable pride in being thoroughly up-to-date in all of his farming methods.
On the 23d of August, 1900, Mr. Chapman was united in marriage to Miss Effie Worley, who was born and reared in Topeka, Kansas, their marriage being celebrated in Colorado Springs. They have one daughter, Isabelle, born October 2, 1902, and now a senior in the Calhan high school.
Mr. Chapman votes with the republican party, of which he has been a stalwart advo- cate since attaining adult age. He belongs to the Odd Fellows lodge of Calhan and is loyal to its teachings. He is now serving as one of a committee of two for Calhan. and vicinity who have charge of the sale of war savings stamps and he supports all measures for the good of the community and for the advancement of the welfare of the country at large. He is a progressive and energetic citizen and business man, loyal at all times to the high ideals of his country, and he commands the confidence and respect of all with whom he has been associated. His tife record should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when there is a will to dare and to do.
ARTHUR HUGO EARLEY, M. D.
Dr. Arthur Hugo Earley, who in 1905 became an active representative of the medical profession in Denver, through the intervening period has specialized in surgery, in fact, his entire attention is confined to that branch of practice. He was born in Sidney, Ohio, May 7, 1877, a son of James E. and Ella (Yakey) Earley, the father a native of Virginia and of Scotch-Irish and English descent. He became a successful contractor and builder, erecting many large structures, including churches, and thus was prominently connected with industrial activity in Ohio throughout his life He passed away in 1892 at the age of forty-two years. His wife, a native of the Buckeye state, was descended from an old family of Virginia, of English lineage, that was founded in America prior to the Revolutionary war. She died in Dayton, Ohio, in February, 1917, at the age of sixty-eight years.
Dr. Earley, their only child, was educated in the public schools of Dayton and in preparation for his professional career matriculated in the medical department of the University of Ohio at Cincinnati and there won his professional degree upon graduation with the class of 1904. He then entered St. Elizabeth's Hospital at Dayton, where he served as an interne for a year, and for nine months prior to his graduation he acted as externe in connection with that institution. Removing to the west, he located for the private practice of medicine in Denver, where he arrived on the 17th of November, 1905. He has since maintained his office in this city and has been most successful in rectal surgery. His studies have been directed along that particular line and his operations by reason of his developed skill and broad knowledge have been most successful. Dr. Earley belongs to the American Medical Association, also to the Colorado State Medical Society and the Denver City & County Medical Society. On several occasions he has served as a delegate from the state society. He is now a member of the medical staff of the City & County Hospital, also of Mercy Hospital, the St. Luke's Children's Hospital, the National Jewish Hospital for Con- sumptives, the National Swedish Hospital, the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the Denver Orphans' Home.
In 1906 Dr. Earley was married in Denver to Miss Edith Fletcher Stewart. a native of Colorado and a daughter of Judge Alexander and Sarah (Fletcher) Stewart. They have one son, Arthur Stewart Earley, born in Denver, January 24, 1909. The family reside at No. 2052 Bellaire street.
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Dr. Earley turns to motoring and golfing for rest and recreation. His political support is given to the republican party, with which he has voted since age con- ferred upon him the right of franchise. He has attained high rank in Masonic circles, belonging to the lodge, chapter, commandery and the Mystic Shrine, all of Denver, and he also has membership in the Denver Athletic and in the Lakewood Country Clubs. His military record covers nine months' service with the Hospital Corps in the Spanish-American war. While he is appreciative of the social amenities of life and at no time neglectful of his duties of citizenship, his attention and energies naturally are most largely concentrated upon his professional duties and obligations and since locating for practice in Denver he has made steady progress, his study and experience constantly promoting his skill and efficiency until he has come to be recognized as an authority upon that branch of surgery in which he specializes.
DOUGLAS MILLARD.
Douglas Millard, manager of the retail department at Denver for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, was born September 29, 1879, in Cleveland, Ohio, a son of Addison Millard, who is a native of Michigan and of English descent. The family was founded in America at an early period in the settlement of the new world, rep- resentatives of the name living in New York, while later a removal was made to Michigan, Addison Millard becoming one of the pioneers of that state. He has been engaged in the real estate business in Chicago for many years, conducting a business of very extensive proportions. He wedded Mary Weeks, a native of Canada and of Scotch descent, the family, however, having been represented in Ohio for a long period. Mrs. Millard passed away in 1908, at the age of forty-eight years. By her marriage she had become the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.
Douglas Millard, the elder, was educated in the public schools of Chicago and of Evanston and after completing his studies came to Colorado in 1900. He immediately entered the live stock and ranching business on his own account and devoted his attention thereto for four years. He then took up his permanent abode in Denver and became associated with Walter Allison in the real estate business, in which he continued for three years. He next became associated with the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, entering the employ of that corporation as a clerk, and for the past seven years he has heen in charge of the retail office as manager, this being the largest office of the kind in the state. Heavy responsibilities therefore devolve upon him, but he is found capable of meeting all of his important duties and his course has won for him the full confidence of the company which he represents.
In Colorado Springs, on the 23d of January, 1907, Mr. Millard was married to Miss Lilian M. Wood, a daughter of Tingley S. Wood, of Leadville. They have become parents of two children: Douglas, who was born in Denver, March 21, 1912; and Gordon Leonard, born July 23, 1914.
Mr. Millard owns an attractive home at No. 541 Franklin street. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and in religious faith is a Presbyterian. He belongs to the Denver Country Club and to the Denver Civic and Commercial Asso- ciation and is interested in all those forces which have to do with the upbuilding and welfare of the community. He turns to hunting and fishing for his chief diversion and also plays golf to some extent. His business record has been characterized by steady advancement, the result of his individual labor and ability. He has worked his way upward without financial aid or assistance from influential friends, his personal capability and laudable ambition constituting the means that have brought him from a humble position to a most creditable one in the business circles of his adopted city.
JOHN M. CARNEY.
John M. Carney, conducting an extensive wholesale lumber business. comes to Denver from Indiana, Pennsylvania, where his birth occurred on the 1st of Novem- ber, 1877. He is a son of Finley and Martha (Hill) Carney, both of whom are natives of the Keystone state and are still living in the town of Indiana. The father has engaged in farming as a life work hut during the period of the Civil war he put aside all business and personal considerations and joined the army as a member of
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Company I of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After serving throughout the entire period of hostilities he received an honorable discharge and returned to his home with a most creditable military record. He has since devoted his attention to his agricultural interests and yet resides upon the old homestead in Pennsylvania. To him and his wife were born the following named: Charles Sheridan, a resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Wellington, living in Indiana, Pennsylvania; Walter and Mary, also of Indiana, Pennsylvania; John M., of this review; Clara, whose home is in Indiana, Pennsylvania; Norman E., of Denver, Colorado; and Mrs. P. S. Baker, of Indiana, Pennsylvania.
During his youthful days John M. Carney was a pupil in the country schools near his father's home and after his textbooks were put aside took up farming upon the old homestead, where he remained until February, 1899. He then came to Denver and secured a position with the Fleming Brothers Lumber Company on South Broad- way and continued with that company for thirteen years, working his way upward from a humble position to that of general superintendent. He acquainted himself with every phase of the lumber trade and in 1912 he purchased the business of D. C. Fleming and has since conducted it under the name of John M. Carney, wholesale dealer in lumber and builders' supplies. Long connected with the lumber trade of the city, he enjoys a liberal patronage and employs from ten to twelve men who are expert in this line. He is also interested in farming, owning a tract of land in Jefferson county, where he maintains a summer home as well as cultivating portions of it.
On the 15th of July, 1903, in Denver, Mr. Carney was united in marriage to Miss Marietta M. Thompson, of Denver. a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Thompson, the former a well known and prominent physician of the city. They have become parents of three children: Millard F., who was born February 13, 1904, and is now attending the West Denver high school; Wendell C., who was born in May, 1908; and J. Delbert, in December, 1915.
In politics Mr. Carney maintains an independent course, nor has he ever been an aspirant for public office. He is a Master Mason and belongs to the Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. In these associations are found the rules which govern his conduct and shape his relations with his fellowmen. He is a man of sterling worth and high purpose, active and enterprising in business, loyal and progressive in citizenship and faithful in friendship.
JOHN LEO STACK.
John Leo Stack. widely known in Denver and throughout Colorado, has been identi- fied in large measure with the oil industry of the state and has also been a leader in political circles. He was born in Camden. New Jersey. December 29, 1885, a son of Robert A. and Bridget K. Stack. His parents were both natives of the United States but of Irish parentage, the mother being a direct descendant of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, famous in Irish history, her mother having been a Fitzgerald from Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. The ancestry of the father is traced back through three generations of American stock that came originally from the Emerald isle.
John Leo Stack attended the Henry Disston public school of Tacony, Philadelphia county, finishing his primary and grammar studies in the public schools, after which he became a student in the Union College of Philadelphia and later matriculated in the Georgetown University Law School at Washington, D. C. As a lad attending the Union College in Philadelphia he accepted a position as a district reporter on the Philadelphia Record and afterward became general reporter on the Philadelphia North American. After this experience in newspaper work he entered the woolen importing business with the firm of John B. Ellison & Sons in their office in New York city. After a brief period there passed his health failed and he was compelled to seek a change of climate. He therefore made his way to Denver and with the interests of this city has since been closely associated. In 1911 he managed the athletic board of Sacred Heart College and in the following year he entered actively into the political field as state chairman of the speaker's bureau of the democratic campaign committee. In 1913 he became assistant sergeant at arms of the state senate of Colorado and in the same year was appointed special agent of the department of the interior for the states of Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma. In 1914 he accepted a position in the legal department of the Midwest Refining Company, which position he held up to his entrance into the political campaign of 1918 for con- gressional honors. He also became interested in the oil industry as the owner of valuable
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properties. In 1915, with seven associates. he located seventeen hundred and sixty acres of oil lands in the Big Muddy oil fields of Wyoming and is still owner of an eighth inter- est, together with a block of stock in the Marine Oil Company, which has the lease to drill the lands. Mr. Stack is also the possessor of a block of Merritt oil stock and is thus closely associated with the development of the oil industry in the west.
On the 25th of June, 1913, at St. Philomena's Catholic church in Denver, Mr. Stack was married to Miss Mildred Frances Sheedy, a daughter of William A. and Elizabeth ( Flynn) Sheedy, and the solemnity of the occasion was emphasized and made memorable, especially to those directly concerned, by a gracious cablegram from Pope Pius X, his holiness sending his blessing to the marriage of John Leo Stack and Mildred Frances Sheedy through Cardinal Merry del Val, the papal secretary of state. Mrs. Stack was born in Yuma, Colorado. and attended the Loretto Heights Academy of Denver, after which she spent two years as a student in Mesdames of the Sacred Heart Academy in New York city, while her education was completed at Parkside, Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Stack have become parents of three children: Margaret Elizabeth, Marie Louise and Mildred Frances.
The religious faith of the family is as indicated that of the Roman Catholic church and Mr. Stack is an active member of the Knights of Columbus, having been lecturer of W. A. Dumphy Council and warden of the Denver Council and state warden of Colorado for three years. His military service began in 1903, when he enlisted in Company M of the First Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry. After seven years' service he was mustered out with the rank of sergeant. At the present time he is a member of the famous Veteran Corps of that regiment, which command is now the renowned One Hundred and Ninth, which paid such a heavy toll at the battle of Chateau Thierry in August, 1918. The official communiqué states the following: "The regiment paid heavily for the glorious record it has achieved. The companies hardest hit were L and M." In politics Mr. Stack has always been a stalwart advocate of democratic principles and an earnest worker in the interests of the party. He has, however, never been a politician in the usually ac- cepted sense of office seeking and never held a position of public preferment save that of special agent of the interior department in 1913 and 1914. At the present time, how- ever, he is a congressional candidate. In July, 1918, he started his campaign for dele- gate to the democratic congressional convention for the first Colorado district and on the 25th of July received the second highest vote of the convention for the democratic designation. At the statewide primaries held on September 10th he defeated William L. Morrissey, E. V. Holland and James R. Killian for the democratic nomination for congress and is now facing the campaign for the general election, where he shall contest with William Vaile, the republican nominee, for the congressional seat. Mr. Stack belongs to the Democratic Club of Denver, to the Denver Athletic Club and to the Veteran Corps of Philadelphia. He is a man of forceful and resourceful nature, of genial disposition and of strong purpose. His ability is acknowledged by all who know aught of his career and his record has been marked by that steady progress which is indicative of notahle capacity.
JOSEPH J. HOFFMANN.
Among those who have been factors in the business development of Denver and of Colorado. none has gained wider distinction in connection with the wholesale meat industry than Joseph J. Hoffmann, the president of the Hoffmann Packing & Provision Company, who within a few short years has made for himself a most enviable name and place among his business acquaintances. Although of European birth, he came to America when but two years of age. His natal day was June 16, 1877, his parents being David and Augusta (Gericke) Hoffmann, who crossed the Atlantic with their family in 1879, settling first at Higginsville, Missouri, where the father engaged in mining. He remained a resident of that state for twenty-two years and then removed to Cañon City, Colorado, where he also was identified with mining interests. He passed away in Denver in 1912 and is survived by his widow, who is yet living in the capital city. In their family were seven children, one of whom has passed away. The surviving members of the family are Augusta, Emil, Ida, Annie, Mary and Josephı J.
The last named, who was the fifth in order of birth, attended school at Corder, Missouri, and afterward became connected with the meat business, thoroughly learning the trade. Later he came to Colorado, settling in Denver, where he accepted a position in the Gienger meat market on Larimer street, there remaining for twelve years. At length deciding to embark in business on his own account, he determined to give
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his attention to the wholesale branch of the meat industry and in 1915 organized the Hoffmann Packing & Provision Company, a close corporation. He began business in a modest way at 1743 Market street but later was obliged to seek larger quarters as his trade developed and in 1915 bought out the business of Raymond & Hoffmann at his present location. He has since been the directing head of the business, which has grown to most gratifying proportions. The plant is thoroughly equipped with modern cooling and refrigerating rooms and also a large salesroom, and the handling of the day's business requires sixteen people. He also utilizes four delivery trucks for the transportation of goods from the wholesale house to retail merchants.
On the 17th of February, 1900, Mr. Hoffmann was married to Miss Elizabeth Pass, of Denver, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Pass, who were pioneer people of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffmann have become parents of three children: Agnes, who was born in 1902 and is now attending high school; Joseph E., who was born October 19, 1904, and is now an eighth grade pupil in the Denver schools; and William, who was born in 1917.
Mr. Hoffmann is a Mason of high rank, having become a member of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs also to the Denver Civic and Commercial Association and is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the city and in all the projects put forth by the association for the development of trade relations or for the upholding of high civic standards. His business career has been marked by that steady progress which is the result of energy and sound judgment, and while he started out in life empty-handed, he is now one of the prosperous representatives of the meat industry at the capital.
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