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In April, 1907, Mr. Hawkins with his family came to Colorado Springs and Mr. Hawkins became associated with the legal firm of Orr and Cunningham, composed of Hon. James A. Orr and Hon. Louis W. Cunningham. Afterwards Mr. Hawkins prac- ticed alone in Colorado Springs until the death of his wife. From January, 1913, to January, 1915, Mr. Hawkins served as county attorney of El Paso county.
Following this he came to Denver as an assistant to the attorney general of Colo- rado. In November, 1915, having resigned as such assistant Mr. Hawkins entered the private practice in Denver, being associated with his cousin, Hon. Horace N. Hawkins.
On January 23, 1917, Mr. Hawkins married Miss Florence A. Babcock, who is the daughter of Hon. Frank Watson Babcock and Marie Patton Babcock, both being promi- nent people-and of prominent families-of northern Ohio; the daughter Florence being born in Canton, Ohio. To this union a daughter, Rosemary, was born August 15, 1918.
During his college days Mr. Hawkins became and is a member of Kappa Alpha fra- ternity and is also a member of the Phi Alpha Delta.
SAMUEL STEVENS LANDON.
Samuel Stevens Landon, who at the time of his death was president of the Landon Abstract Company of Denver, became a resident of this city on the 1st of June, 1870, and was identified with its interests and upbuilding to the time of his demise. He was born in Penn Yan, Yates county, New York, September 7, 1842, a son of Alfred Landon, an attorney at law. In tracing his ancestry we have record of Mrs. Edna (Jackson ) Landon, who was born in 1769 and passed away in Cameron, New York, in 1840. Her husband left home one day with his rifle, stating that he was going to war, presumably to fight Indians, and never returned. There was one son horn to them, Joshua, who became the grand- father of Samnel S. Landon of this review. Joshua Landon was married twice and by the first marriage had two children, Edna and Alfred, while a son and a daughter, John and Jane MI., were born of the second marriage. Joshua Landon passed away about 1845 and was laid to rest in Barrington, a short distance from Penn Yan, New York.
His son, Alfred Landon, was born in New Jersey on the 23d of August, 1818, and his life record covered the intervening years to October 4, 1879. He wedded Rebecca Hunt Van Gorder, who was born October 18, 1819, and passed away December 2, 1899. in Chicago. Their marriage was celebrated September 25, 1841, in Penn Yan, New York, and they became the parents of the following named; Samuel S .: Catherine E .; Helen A .; John M .; Frank A .; a daughter who died in infancy; Anna, who also died in babyhood; Willard G .: and Edward C. The only survivor of the family is Willard G., now living in Kenton, Ohio. It was in the year 1852 that Alfred Landon removed with his family from Penn Yan. New York, to Tiffin, Ohio, where he was one of the leading attorneys of the city, filling the office of prosecuting attorney for two terms and mayor of Tiffin for twelve years, thus leaving the impress of his individuality upon public thought and action in that locality. He was widely known and highly respected and enjoyed in large measure the esteem of all with whom he came in contact.
Samuel S. Landon was but ten years of age when the family removed to Tiffin, Ohio. At President Lincoln's second call for troops he enlisted as a member of Company D. Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three months' service. On the 25th of August, 1863, he started across the plains to Colorado, dressed in overalls and driving a team of white oxen. He thus journeyed to Central City, Colorado, after which he was employed in the mines aud later worked in a stamp mill. He subsequently entered the printing office of the Central City Register, and working his way upward in that connection, became manager of the paper after a few years. In 1868 he went to work in the abstract office of Sayre & Parmelee and in 1869 removed to Georgetown, where he was employed by the same firm in an abstract office. On the 1st of June, 1870, he came to Denver and entered the employ of Daniel Witter, who was engaged in the abstract business and from whom he afterward purchased the set of abstract books. He then organized the firm of Anthony, Landon & Curry, which later became the Arapahoe County Abstract Company and finally the Landon Abstract Company, Mr. Landon remaining the president to the time of his death.
Mr. Landon was married twice. At Buffalo, New York, on the 27th of September. 1877, he wedded Anna B. Scott, who was there born on the 18th of February, 1855, and passed away in Denver, August 23, 1899. They became the parents of a son, Alfred Scott. who was born September 12, 1879. and died May 18, 1891. It was on the 21st of April,
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1906, at Wheaton, Illinois, that Mr. Landon wedded Winifred A. Donaldson, a daughter of John S. and Anna V. (Verner) Donaldson, of Toronto, Canada, both now deecased. Mr. and Mrs. Landon became the parents of a daugliter, Winifred Alicia, who was born April 28, 1910, and lives with her mother. Liberal educational opportunities are being accorded her in the best private schools of Denver.
Mr. Landon gave his political allegiance to the republican party but was never an aspirant for office. He was much interested in fishing and turned to it for recreation. During the early years of his residence in the west he pursued many occupations and lived in various places in what was then a frontier region but he never allowed the con- ditions of the mining camps to influence his high character and honorable purpose in any way. He was a versatile man who did many and diverse things not always for a livelihood but chiefly to gain experience and by reason of his love for excitement, romance and change. He had many friends who were as loyal to him, as he was to them. When he passed away at his Denver home on the 22d of January, 1918, the Denver Real Estate Exchange wrote of him as follows: "Death has deprived us of Samuel S. Landon. Of tull, ripe age, he has lett to us an example of a wholesome, clean life, well spent, successful, honorable. He was a charter member of the Denver Real Estate Exchange and stood stanchly by its interests throughout his life. At the time of his death he enjoyed the distinction of being the sole member left of those who first formed the mem- bership of the Exchange. Coming to Colorado in his boyhood days, he fought the energetic struggle of business life without a waver, without a weakening, until he conquered the proud position of the foremost rank in his chosen avocation. His deep, quick insight in affairs gave to his sententious remarks a clear, incisive effect that remained long in the memory of his listeners. Instantaneous judgment, sharp, clean decision. marked him as a mau of rare perception and his words were listened to as those of a master of the art. In his strong, vigorous days no public movement was complete without him, no advance in general welfare or utility was made without finding him in the front rank of the progress. In later years his ripe judgment and instant decisive stand was called con- stantly to the aid of every public deliberation and to his honor we can say that he was ever found on the side of justice. right and mercy.
"To these immediate ones stricken with grief and sorrow we extend our condolences and tender our most sincere sympathies.
"The Denver Real Estate Exchange, "John McNamara, Chairman." (Signed)
JOHN R. ROBINSON, M. D.
This is preeminently an age of specialization. In almost every great field of business the work is divided into particular lines and almost every individual con- centrates his efforts upon a single department, thereby gaining skill and efficiency which he could not hope to attain were his efforts dissipated over the entire field. This is particularly true of medical practice and the man who attains eminence is he who bends every energy to the mastery of every scientific principle bearing thereon. Such a course has Dr. Jolin R. Robinson, of Colorado Springs, followed and he has attained distinction and honor as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. His identification with the medical fraternity of Colorado dates from 1888, at which time he took up his abode in Denver, but in the same year he removed to Colorado Springs, where he has since practiced.
Dr. Robinson was born in Mountain Dale, New York, in 1855, and is a son of Jonas Robinson, whose birth occurred in the north of Ireland in 1806, and who was married on the Emerald isle to Miss Margaret Roberts. They crossed the Atlantic to the new world in 1848 and became residents of Sullivan county, New York, establish- ing their home upon a farm, which the father continued to cultivate and improve until his death, which occurred in 1864. His widow survived him for a time and also passed away in Sullivan county. To Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were born three children, of whom John R. is the youngest. His two brothers, William and David, served in the Civil war. The former, a sergeant, was killed in 1864 at .Honey Hill, South Carolina. The latter was wounded in the same battle and died at home in 1865 from typhoid fever.
Dr. Robinson attended the public schools of Mountain Dale and the high school of Lockport, New York. In 1882 he was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, having therein prepared for the active practice of medicine. He located in Woodbourne, New York, where he remained in general practice for six years, and in 1888 came westward to Colorado. For a brief period
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he resided in Denver and there concentrated his efforts upon diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. In the latter part of the year 1888 he removed to Colorado Springs, where he has since practiced as a specialist, and his marked ability in this direction is widely acknowledged by all who know him.
Dr. Robinson has been twice married. On the 28th of November, 1882, in Chatham, New York, he wedded Miss Fanny Fitch, a daughter of Allen C. Fitch, a native of New York and one of the founders of the Christian Union, a Congregational publication. Mrs. Robinson passed away a month after her marriage in Philadelphia when on her honeymoon, being then but twenty-three years of age. On the 26th of June, 1890, in Clarksville, New York, Dr. Robinson was married to Jessie Duncan Brown, a daughter of the Rev. Walter Scott and Janet G. (De Witt) Brown, a collateral descendant of Cornelins and John De Witt, of Holland. To Dr. and Mrs. Robinson have been born two sons. George De Witt, born in 1891, was married in New Jersey in 1916 to Adelaide Mary Wright and they have one son, Theodore B. Walter Scott Robinson, the younger son, was born in 1898 and enlisted in the Naval reserve, in his fourth year at Columbia University.
In his political views Dr. Robinson is a republican and fraternally is a Master Mason. In 1892 he was elected alderman of Colorado Springs and in 1898 was elected mayor, in which position he made so creditable a record that he was reelected and served for two terms, or four years, giving to the city a most beneficial and pro- gressive administration. He is a devoted member of the First Presbyterian church, in which he is serving as elder, and for many years he has been a teacher of the Men's Bible class. Along strictly professional lines his association is with the El Paso County Medical Society, the Colorado State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto Laryngology. He is interested in all those forces which tend to advance the efficiency of the profession and in all those forces which work for the uplift and benefit of mankind, and Colorado Springs numbers him among her valued and honored citizens.
JULIUS FRANK SCHMIDT.
Julius Frank Schmidt, who through his lifetime was one of the well known busi- ness men of Denver, rounded out a career of more than thirty-five years in connection with the city's business and financial interests through his activity in mercantile, banking and real estate circles. A native of Hanover, Germany, he was born February 2, 1857, a son of Julius and Lena (Schmidt) Schmidt. The death of his parents left him an orphan at a tender age and from infancy he was reared by his two aunts, Lena and Fredrica Schmidt. He secured his education in the schools of Hanover, completing a high school course, and in his youthful days went to sea, shipping in a vessel used in the sugar trade. He spent four years at sea, making various trips during that period to Manila, after which he left the vessel at Baltimore, Maryland, and went to live with an uncle, Carl Schmidt, who was then residing at New Rochelle, New York, this uncle being well known as an artist, doing fresco work for the Goulds and other prominent people of New York.
After spending a short time with this uncle, Julius F. Schmidt went to New York city, where he became engaged in the meat business, there remaining for about three years. He was an energetic, industrious young man and concluded to go west, where opportunities for advancement were better than in the east. Answering to this call of the west, he came to Denver in 1878 and here engaged in the meat business in connection with Charles Starkloff, their place of business being at No. 1921 Blake street, where it was continued until 1909, when the owners sold out to some of their employes. Mr. Schmidt then became connected with what is now the American Bank & Trust Company, first as a director and later as manager of the real estate and loan department, in which capacity he continued until his demise on the 27th of June, 1914. His excellent judgment and thorough knowledge of realty values were no small factors in the business, building up this department of the bank to extensive proportions. His reputation for straightforwardness and strict integrity won for him a prominent place not only in the institution with which he was connected but in banking circles generally throughout the city. His marked executive ability and powers of organization were always felt in whatever connection his business relations brought him.
On the 4th of September, 1879, in Denver, Mr. Schmidt was married to Miss Augusta Starkloff, a daughter of Henry and Henrietta Louisa (Hatshold) Starkloff. She was born in Eisenburg, Germany, December 3, 1849, and in her girlhood days came
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to the new world, locating in Illinois, where she joined her brother Charles. Her mother and another brother, Herman Starkloff, afterwards came to America in 1876, in which year Mrs. Schmidt removed with her mother and two brothers to Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt became the parents of two children, Kari F. and Julins Karl. The latter died in infancy, while the daughter is the wife of George W. Williams, one of Denver's leading automobile men.
Mr. Schmidt was fortunate in his selection of a wife whose help and hearty cooperation contributed in no small way to his success. Mrs. Schmidt still survives and while nearing the Psalmist's three score and ten years is remarkably well pre- served for one of her age and is numhered among the city's most highly respected residents.
Mr. Schmidt was a member of the Denver Turnverein. He also had membership in Schiller Lodge, No. 41, A. F. & A. M., of Denver, which he joined in 1887. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and he served as alderman of Denver in ISS2, while from 1895 until 1897 he filled the position of supervisor. His enterprise and ability brought him prominently to the front in a business way and his success was attributable entirely to his own efforts, for he started out in life empty-handed and through persistency of purpose, intelligently directed, worked his way steadily upward and attained a position of honor and respectability that was conceded by all who knew him.
HON. I. F. JONES.
Hon. 1. F. Jones, prominent in the field of real estate since pioneer times in Cheyenne county and making his home in Cheyenne Wells, was born in Mount Vernon, Illinois, on the 2d of November, 1859, a son of William G. and Elizabeth (Clampet ) Jones, who were farming people. The father was a self-made man, owing his success entirely to his unfaltering efforts and enterprise. He was a veteran of the Civil war, enlisting in the Thirty-second Illinois Infantry and participating in several engage- ments. In days of peace he always gave his attention to agricultural pursuits and passed away in 1908. His wife died in Illinois in 1889.
I. F. Jones acquired a common school education and on attaining his majority took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for eight years at different places in Illinois, Kansas, Texas and Missouri. He afterward established his home in Rawlins county, Kansas, where he took up a preemption and timber claim. He proved up on the preemption claim and sold the timber claim. He lived upon his land there from 1885 until 1887.
It was in the latter year that Mr. Jones was married to Miss Princess A. Parker, a daughter of Elias and Martha Parker, who were natives of Ohio and have now passed away. Mrs. Jones took up a homestead in 1887, comprising the southeast quarter of section 34, township 13, range 44. They resided upon that place until she secured title to the property. In 1889 Cheyenne county was organized, being set off from Bent county. Mr. Jones was one of the committee that appeared before the legislature in Denver, seeking the organization of the county, which was effected on the 19th of March. At the first election, held in 1890, Mr. Jones was chosen assessor and two years later was reelected to the position. When another two years had passed he was chosen by popular suffrage superintendent of schools and in 1904 was elected judge of Cheyenne county, continuing upon the hench until 1908.
The present home of Mr. Jones is the finest residence in Cheyenne county. As the years have passed he has prospered in his business affairs, having confined his attention largely to real estate activity. It was in 1910 that he embarked in the real estate business. He became a member of the Cheyenne Land Company, which was organized in 1906, his associates in the undertaking being H. C. Nelson, C. H. Norman, L. M. Gudgel, Don Sears, P. O. Hedlund, J. P. Cahill, James Mcintyre, W. E. Hickman and George Clawson. This proved a very profitable concern. At length Mr. Jones, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Norman purchased the interests of all the other stockholders and now as members of the company are owners of about five thousand acres of land. Mr. Jones also owns a third interest in the Cheyenne Telephone Company and at present he is associated with O. K. Burns in another real estate undertaking. When he came to Cheyenne county the Rock Island Railroad had not yet been built. On the plains at that time were seen large herds of antelope and many wild horses. There was only one house between Cheyenne Wells and Lamar on the Santa Fe. He has lived to witness the remarkable growth and development of the county and has borne an
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appreciable part in the work of substantial development as the years have gone by. As a pioneer he has contributed in marked measure to the work of upbuilding and aided in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which has been built the present progress and prosperity of the county.
As the years passed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jones was blessed with three children, but Alden and Vada are now deceased, leaving Zelda, a high school pupil, as the only surviving child of the family. The religious faith of Mr. and Mrs. Jones is that of the Methodist church. They are both keenly interested in the Red Cross and various war activities, giving freely to the support of all these and cooperating heartily in every plan and movement of the government that will uphold national aims and pro- mote the interests of the allied armies. Mr. Jones is a Mason, having been initiated into the order when twenty-one years of age, and is now a charter member of the lodge at Cheyenne Wells. He was also a charter member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows but is not identified with the lodge at the present time. He likewise became one of the original members of the Knights of Pythias. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he does not hesitate at any time to freely express his honest convictions. Those who know him, and he has a wide acquaintance, recognize the sterling traits of his character, his thorongh reliability and his progressiveness. While he has won success, its attainment has not been made the sole end and aim of his life. He has at all times recognized his duties and obligations to his fellowmen and at the present writing is particularly earnest and active in support of everything that has to do with the national welfare and the present aims of the country.
FOSTER HARRINGTON CARY, M. D.
A Harvard man, recognized as one of the best known members of the medical pro- fession in Denver, is Dr. Foster H. Cary, who was born at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on the 30th of August, 1874. He is a son of Hiram Foster and Frances Jane (Harring- ton ) Cary, the former a native of Maine, while the latter was born in Massachusetts, where for many generations the ancestors of Dr. Cary had resided. The first representa- tives of the Cary family in America came from England and through all the intervening period the family has been represented in New England. Hiram Foster Cary was a well known factor in the business circles of Jamaica Plain, where he remained for a considerable period but afterward removed with his family to Saratoga, New York, where he continued actively to the time of his death, which occurred in 1909, when he was sixty-eight years of age. His widow afterward returned to Millbury, Massachusetts, and there passed away in 1913, at the age of sixty-six years.
Their son, Dr. Cary, was an only child. In his youthful days he was a pupil in the public schools of Saratoga, New York, and later attended the Worcester Academy, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1894. He decided upon the prac- tice of medicine as a life work and with that end in view matriculated in the medical department of Harvard University, where he won his professional degree in 1898. He served as house physician at the Boston City Hospital graduating in 1900, and later as resident physician and surgeon at the Boston Lying-In Hospital, graduating in 1901. In 1902 he took up his abode in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in successful practice from 1902 until 1916. In the latter year he heard and heeded the call of the west and came to Denver, where he has since built up a large and successful practice, although his residence in the city scarcely covers two years. He did important hospital work in the east, this bringing to him broad experience and valuable knowledge which can never be obtained as quickly in any other way as in hospital work. He is now a member of the staff of the City and County Hospital. He keeps in touch with the onward trend of the profession through his membership in the Denver City and County Medical Society, the Colorado State Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association. While a resident of Worcester, Massa- chusetts, he was visiting obstetrician to the Worcester City Hospital and obstetrician in chief to the Memorial Hospital.
On the 26th of October, 1911, Dr. Cary was united in marriage to Miss Catharine W. Carter, of Denver, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Carter, well known and promi- nent residents of this city. Dr. and Mrs. Cary had two children, of whom Jane Walton died in infancy. The surviving daughter is Elizabeth Carter, who was born in Denver in November, 1916.
Dr. Cary belongs to the Masonic fraternity, joining the craft in Massachusetts, and is a past master of Olive Branch Lodge. He belongs also to the University Club and
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his religious faith is that of the Congregational church. He recognizes the duties and obligations of the man and of the citizen as well as of the professional representative. In his chosen calling he holds to a high standard of service and adheres closely to the most advanced ethics of the profession. His knowledge and experience are broad and he is most conscientious and faithful in the performance of all of his professional duties.
A. P. TONE WILSON, JR.
A. P. Tone Wilson, Jr., a prominent attorney practicing at Burlington, was born at Johnson, Nebraska, June 26, 1875, a son of Anthony P. and Mary E. (Boldon ) Wilson, of Topeka, Kansas. He comes of a family that has been closely connected with the legal profession tor many years. His father, Anthony P. Wilson, is an attorney and several of his brothers have followed the law, these being: Chalkley A. Wilson, who in addition to his law practice is president of the Citizens National Bank at Akron, Colo- rado; Asher B. Wilson, a lawyer and banker of Twin Falls, Idaho; Roy R. Wilson, a member of the bar, now serving in the United States army; and Clement L. Wilson, a practicing attorney, who is now serving also as county attorney at Tribune, Greeley county, Kansas.
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