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On the 6th of November, 1896, in Denver, Mr. Donley was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hennessey, a native of New York city and a daughter of Patrick and Gore Hennessey, who were of Irish birth. To Mr. and Mrs. Donley have been born three children: Margaret, who is a student in the Colorado State University; and John and Marie, twins.
The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholle church, their membership being in the Immaculate Conception cathedral. Mr. Donley is also a member of the
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St. Vincent de Paul Society and is a liberal contributor to organized and public chari- ties. In politics he is a Roosevelt republican, being a stanch admirer of the New York statesman who has remained for so many years a leader of the people. Mr. Donley and his family reside at No. 1922 East Fonrteenth avenue, where he owns an attractive home. He was four years in saving enough money from his wages to bring him to the west. At length he had thirty-five dollars and with this he started for Colorado. Through the intervening period he has remained in this state, utilizing the opportuni- ties that have come to him, and at length by judicious investment, the result of sound business judgment, he became the owner of the mining property which has since been to him a source of a most gratifying income and now enables him to live retired.
EDWARD CHASE.
Edward Chase, of Denver, Colorado, who is now nearing his eightieth birthday, is one of those picturesque figures who have been closely connected with the pioneer development of this state. He was born in Saratoga county, New York, December 20, 1838, a son of Richard and Maria Chase, who spent their entire lives in that county.
When about twenty-two years of age Edward Chase left the Empire state and on June 6. 1860, arrived in Denver, Colorado. For many years he was engaged in various business pursuits in this city and therefore he has witnessed the growth of Denver from a little hamlet to its present magnificent metropolitan proportions. He grew up with the country of the west and with its development he acquired the means which now enable him to live retired.
In 1880, in Denver, Colorado, Mr. Chase was united in marriage to Miss Frances Barbour a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Barbour, who were natives of Pennsylvania. Politically Mr. Chase is independent, giving his support to those candidates whom he considers best fitted for office irrespective of party affiliation. He has never aspired to public honors, preferring to do his dnty as a private citizen. However, this does not infer that he is indifferent to the public welfare, as he has often readily cooperated in movements for the growth and development of his adopted city. Since his twenty- first year, or for practically three score years, he has been a life member of the blue lodge of Masons and he is also a life member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is popular in these organizations and has many friends in Denver and throughout the state, all of whom esteem him highly on account of his genial, cordial and kindly nature.
EUGENE E. TOBIN, D. V. S.
Although comparatively a young man, Dr. Engene E. Tobin has already built up a high reputation as a veterinary surgeon and enjoys a large practice, returning to him a gratifying measure of success. He is located in Greeley, having come to this city several years ago. He was born in Montrose, Colorado, December 19, 1891, a son of Bernard and Bridget (McTiernan) Tobin, natives of Wisconsin. The father is a farmer by occupation and has been successful in this line of business. He came to Colorado about 1883 and after selecting land near Montrose operated his farm with gratifying success for many years. He now holds the position of assistant secretary of the Uncompahgre Water Users' Association, residing in Montrose. His wife also survives.
There Eugene E. Tobin was reared and educated, graduating from the high school in 1910. He then entered the State Agricultural College, taking his degree in the vet- erinary department with the class of 1913. Being thus well prepared for the profession, he entered the government service as veterinary inspector in the Bureau of Animal Industry and so continued for a year and a half. In that way he put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test and was therefore well prepared to engage in practice on his own account. He first established himself at Berthoud, Colorado, where he remained for one year, but subsequent to this period came to Greeley, and here he has since been located, enjoying a large and lucrative patronage. He keeps ever in contact with modern-day inventions and discoveries along his line of work and employs the latest methods and treatment, having been very successful in a number of complicated cases. His practice has on that account grown very rapidly and Dr. Tobin is today a very busy man, indeed, trying to take care of all those who come to him in search of professional advice.
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On the 31st of October. 1914. Dr. Tobin was married to Miss Lucy Herring and to them has been born a son, William C., whose birth occurred on the 25th of October, 1917.
Dr. Tobin is popular in social and fraternal circles, belonging to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus at Montrose, Colorado. Along pro- fessional lines he is connected with the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association and politically he is a democrat. His religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church. He maintains an office at No. 70916 Ninth street and the family residence is located at No. 1201 Eighth street, where the Doctor and his wife often extend a hospitable welcome to their many friends. Both are popular in Greeley and are favorably known and highly esteemed because of their high qualities of character.
WILLIAM KREOGER.
William Kreoger, living in Kit Carson county and actively identified with farming interests, was born in Germany in the year 1854 and came to the United States in 1871. His education had been acquired in the schools of his native land and he was reared in the family of an aunt. On crossing the Atlantic he took up his abode in Wisconsin and went to work on a farm at six dollars per month in the winter seasons, while in the summer he received ten dollars per month. He was employed in that way for seven years, spending his time on three different farms. In 1878 he removel westward to Kansas, where he homesteaded and proved up on his property in 1885. In the year 1882 he began herding cattle and also continued his active farm operations. He had to haul water eight miles for an entire year. Later he bought some school land in Phillips county, Kansas, of which he is still the owner. The year 1902 witnessed his arrival in Kit Carson county, Colorado, at which time he settled on section 29 of the northeast quarter of 43 range, township 6. He secured one hundred and sixty acres of land. but afterward removed to another quarter section to the southwest. At a still later period he purchased his present place, at which time a quarter section of land sold for one hundred dollars. For a considerable period Mr. Kreoger was actively identified with farming interests in this section of the state and contributed much to the agricultural development.
Mr. Kreoger was married in Kansas in 1881 to Miss Emma Hoff, who was born in Illinois and passed away In 1888, her remains being interred in Kansas. The chil- dren of this marriage are as follows: Lewis, the eldest, married Mary Broadsword, by whom he has two children, and they are now living upon the old homestead with his father, Lewis devoting his attention to the further development and improvement of the place. Charles, also living in the same locality and actively following farming, married Pearl Inman and they have three children. Louise died in Kansas at the age of three months.
In politics Mr. Kreoger has usually voted with the republican party but is a member of the Nonpartisan League. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and he has many friends in this organization and throughout the community in which he resides. He has lived to witness many changes here and with the pioneer develop- ment has been closely associated. When he came to his homestead there were only three houses between his place and Burlington, a distance of sixteen miles. He lived in a dugout for seven years after coming to the county, but through his business enterprise, energy and integrity he won success so that when his sons were old enough to take the responsibility of managing the farm they had a very good start in life. Mr. Kreoger made all the improvements upon the place and where years ago he occupied a sod house and dugout there stands today a nice modern residence which is a monumet to his progressive spirit and business enterprise.
EDWIN H. SNYDER.
Edwin H. Snyder, editor, publisher and proprietor of The Highland Chief. has devoted twenty-eight years of his life to newspaper work in Denver along with his printing business. Mr. Snyder was born in Whiteside county, Illinois, August 17, 1864, his parents being Simon B. and Mary (White) Snyder. The father was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while the mother was born in Sunderland, England, whence she came to America in her childhood days. The parents were married in
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Illinois in 1857. At the first call for volunteers in 1861, the father enlisted, but hy an accident he was incapacitated for military duty soon thereafter. On his recovery in the spring of 1864, he went to Colorado, locating in Central City. He was a close friend of Henry M. Teller, who went to Colorado from the same county in Illinois. Mr. Snyder located several claims in Gregory gulch which he worked successfully, but afterwards sold and returned to Illinois in 1867. In 1873 he went west with his family, locating a claim west of Arkansas City. Kansas, then the frontier, seventy-five miles from a railroad, where he continued to make his home to the time of his death in 1905, when he had reached the age of seventy-six years. The mother passed away in 1886, at the age of forty-six years. In the family were four children: Lucius E., now residing at Salt Fork, Oklahoma; Linna E., the widow of Thomas Bassler, who resides in Stillwater, Oklahoma; Edwin H., of this review; and Elmer A., who is located in Provo, Utah. It is a matter of interest that this branch of the Snyder family has been represented in America from early colonial times, the great-great-grandfather, Isaac C. Snyder, having been a colonel in the Revolutionary war. Both before and after the Revolution this branch of the family lived in and near Philadelphia.
During the period of his minority Edwin H. Snyder resided and worked upon his father's farm in Kansas and had the occasional opportunity of attending country school, three months during the winters. In 1884 he entered the Kansas State Agri- cultural College at Manhattan with the purpose of becoming a civil engineer, the great boom in railroad building at the time having created a demand much greater than the supply in that profession. While there pursuing his studies the printing depart- ment offered employment, and in that work he earned his expenses, with the exception of teaching one term of school, and completed the four years without missing a day or a recitation. He was graduated in June, 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, but, while he had specialized in engineering, the railroad building boom had vanished ; the printer's trade, however, presenting immediate means of livelihood, he found em- ployment in Topeka as a journeyman printer until April, 1889, when he removed to Denver. On account of impaired eyesight he determined to secure outside work. and worked in the sawmill camp of S. P. Gutschall near Colorado Springs. After a little more than a year he opened a print shop and established The Highland Chief in the town of Highlands, then a most attractive suburb of Denver, but now a part of the Queen City. Since that beginning in the newspaper work, in July, 1890, the paper has never missed an issue. His office is completely equipped for newspaper and job printing. His policy with the paper has been one which measures up to the highest standards of journalism outlined recently by him as follows:
"There is no greater dishonesty than writing a news item in a way to make the event treated tell a story other than it would if truthfully related, for few persons see any event; few know the inside facts of any situation; hence, the multitude must depend upon the newspapers to tell them, and it is here that the newspaper meets the acid test If by reason of business or politics it colors a story, the sin committed is one for which there should be no pardon, for knowingly deceiving those who depend upon you for information is about the lowest round in the ladder of despicableness. Public opinion is created by information; opinion leads to action, and the resultant action is right or wrong according to the truthfulness of the information upon which the opinion was founded. In years gone by some one proclaimed an honest man the noblest work of God, but in these latter days when so much depends upon the news- papers, it is equally true to say the noblest work of man is an honest newspaper."
Mr. Snyder has pursued the course indicated, giving to the public fair and impar- tial information, thus making his paper of the greatest possible value to its readers. In addition to his regular vocation, like thousands of others, he has made occasional deposits of his savings to further the development of promising mines and oil wells, but only to the extent of signing the checks paying for the interest purchased never to the interesting point of receiving dividends.
On the 12th of December. 1888, in Carthage, Illinois, Mr. Snyder married Miss Dora Van Zile, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Van Zile, of that place. Mrs. Snyder was a student at the Kansas State Agricultural College at the same time as her husband. With ninety dollars in his pocket, he went from Topeka, Kansas, where he was employed, to her home where they were married, and immediately returned to Topeka to live. They have shared each other's joys and sorrows, the adversity and the prosperity which checkers the careers of all. They are the parents of two sons. Clifford M., born in Denver in 1890, is a well established factory repre- sentative with offices in Denver; he married Miss Mabel Brown of this city. The younger son, Elmer B., born in Denver in 1892, is a salesman located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Besides their attractive home in the Highlands, Mr. and Mrs. Snyder own
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and greatly enjoy a delightful summer place in the canyon of the Platte river, forty- two miles from Denver.
Mr. Snyder never has engaged actively in politics as a partisan, preferring to be independent as a writer, and he never hesitates to espouse with vigor causes which promise a fairer deal to the masses of humanity. He has never been a candidate for political honors, nor accepted an appointment, except as a member of the state board of agriculture and editor of the Denver City Municipal Facts. Mr. Snyder has been an active member of Highlands Lodge, No. 86, A. F. & A. M., since 1891, being the first Mason made in the lodge under its charter. He served the lodge in many minor capacities and was its worshipful master in 1898. He was secretary of the Highlands Masonic Temple Association from its organization until the temple was completed, paid for and deeded to the lodge; then the association dissolved. He was high priest of Highlands Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in 1910, and commander of Highlands Commandery of Knights Templar in 1909; also a member of Colorado Consistory, No. 1, of the Scottish Rite.
Of course he is a member of the Colorado Editorial Association and of kindred trade and club associations pertaining to the printing business. In his earlier years Mr. Snyder found his diversion in prairie chicken, duck and goose hunting, but later learned to follow the footsteps of Isaak Walton, along the streams in the mountains of Colorado, engaging the attention of the speckled beauties. He recognizes the truth of the old saying that to work well one must also play well; he has traveled over much of the United States, and made use of the hours apart from business to further develop his physical and mental strength. He holds to upright standards of manhood and citizenship, and in his newspaper work and business dealings his purpose has been never to deviate therefrom.
ARTHUR E. SWENSON.
Arthur E. Swenson, one of the owners of the Swenson Auto Company and agent for the well known Republic trucks, was born in Denver, September 30, 1886, a son of Ake and Bengta Swenson, both of whom were natives of Sweden but came to America in early life. They removed to Denver in 1869 and the father followed the carpenter's trade, with which he was connected for many years as a representative of the McPhee & McGinnity Company. He died in Denver in 1902 at the age of sixty-nine years, while his wife survived until March 2, 1911, passing away at the age of seventy-two years. They had a family of eight children, one of whom died in early life, while those still living are Mrs. P. W. Peterson, Mrs. J. Hultquist, Alfred Swenson, Mrs. Hattie Black, Miss Tilda Swenson, Carl Swenson, and Arthur E.
The last named, the youngest of the family, attended the public schools of Denver in his early boyhood and afterward pursued a commercial course in The Modern School of Business at Deuver. Later he took up another course in the Colorado Commercial College and still later attended the Barnes Business College. He made his initial step in the business world as an office boy for the Morey Mercantile Company, wholesale grocers, of Denver, and later he secured a similar position with the J. S. Brown Mer- cantile Company, with which he was advanced through intermediate positions in various departments from that of office boy to credit manager, a position of large responsibility After thirteen years of devoted and faithful service with that house he determined to engage in business on his own account and entered into partnership relations with his brother, C. V. Swenson, who had established an automobile garage. They continued suc- cessfully in that line for some time and then decided to branch out on a much larger scale, which they did by securing the exclusive agency for the Republic motor trucks. A large building was erected at Nos. 1946-60 Champa street and since that time they have conducted a growing and most successful business. They employ a large force of expert workmen and also capable office help, being well represented in both the sales- rooms and in the repair shop. Mr. Swenson's business affairs have been wisely, care- fully and successfully managed and conducted and step by step he has progressed, each forward move bringing him a broader outlook and wider opportunities.
On the 24th of December, 1913, Mr. Swenson was married to Miss Carrie Banzhaz, of Denver, and they have become the parents of two children: Esther May, born June 11, 1915; and Louise Marie, born September 15, 1916.
Fraternally Mr. Swenson is a member of Arapahoe Lodge, No. 160, A. F. & A. M., and socially is connected with the Kiawanis Club. He also belongs to the Civic and Com- merclal Association of Denver and is in hearty sympathy with every plan or move-
ARTHUR E. SWENSON
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ment that is calculated to advance the welfare of the city or to support those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. In an analysis of his business career it will be seen that his progress has been made as a result of close application, indefatigable energy and persistency of purpose. Always thoroughly reliable and pro- gressive, he has reached a most gratifying and creditable position in the business circles of his native city.
OTTO HEBESTREIT.
Otto Hebestreit, manager of the Denver Country and Golf Club, fills his present position in a manner that meets every requirement, fully sustaining the dignity and prestige of the club and at the same time displaying marked executive ability and business enterprise in caring for the interests of the organization. Hr. Hebestreit is of European birth. He was born June 16, 1875, a son of Johann Gottfried Otto and Frederica (Grauer) Hebestreit, who were also of European birth and spent their entire lives on that side of the water. The father was engaged in agricultural pursuits and was an honored and respected resident of his community.
Mr. Hebestreit of this review was the sixth in order of birth in a family of seven children. In early life he attended the public schools near his father's home and after- ward received private instruction in the languages at an educational institution of Switzerland. He learned to converse fluently in several different tongues in order to equip himself for the activity which he had chosen as a life work. He then became an apprentice to the hotel and catering business at Nice, France, and later went to London, England, where he became an employe in the Metropole Hotel, there remaining for two years. At the end of that period, in order to be able to return to his native country because of his parents, he went back to Germany to perform the military service demanded from every young man and was in the army from 1897 until 1899. Immedi- ately afterward he went to Paris, France, and became head of the service department in the Hotel de Calais, there continuing for two years. On severing that connection he crossed the Atlantic to America. He was with the Cafe Martin for five years and later was head of the service department of the Hotel Knickerbocker in New York city, where he remained until 1907. He afterward occupied a similar position at the Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for three years and subsequently was offered the position of manager of the Denver Country and Golf Club, which he accepted on the 1st of October, 1910. He immediately took over the duties of the position and has since served in that capacity. He is a most popular manager, having conducted the affairs of this noted club in a most capable and satisfactory manner. It includes in its mem- bership some of the most prominent men of Denver who there find ideal club service and equipment. Mr. Hebestreit's long experience in connection with hotels and clubs well qualifies him for the important and responsible duties that devolve upon him. He thoroughly understands the demands of a high class cinb of this character and sees that the organization meets every requirement.
On the 6th of May, 1912, Mr. Hebestreit was married to Miss Adella Bott, of Denver, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Carl Bott and a sister of Carl Bott, who is men- tioned elsewhere in this work. They have one child, Otto August Hebestreit, who was born in Denver in June, 1913.
Mr. Hebestreit gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He belongs to the Royal League and to the International Geneva Association. He is also a member of L'Union Francaise, No. 17, of New York city, and of the Masonic fraternity.
GEORGE WHITE SKINNER, JR.
George W. Skinner, Jr., the president and treasurer of the Bar J. H. Cattle & Land Company, with offices in Denver, is a native son of the Empire state, where his ancestors lived for several generations. The family comes of English and Scotch lineage, but has long been represented on this side of the Atlantic. His father, George W. Skinner, was also born in the state of New York and was reared and educated in the central section of that state. About 1878 he came to Colorado, settling at Colorado Springs, where he engaged in the live stock business and in mining. In 1879 he moved to Denver, where he has since resided, and since 1908 he has lived at Coronado Beach, California, retired from active business. Previous to that time he was exten-
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sively and successfully engaged in business as the originator and president of the firm of Skinner Brothers & Wright, dealers in clothing and shoes, a firm that is widely known throughout the western states and was succeeded by the May Company. He is a republican and has always taken an active interest in politics and in civic mat- ters. He married Leonora Wormouth, a native of New York and of Scotch descent. She passed away in Syracuse, New York, survived by her husband and son, George W. Skinner, Jr., her only child.
It was in the public schools of Syracuse that George W. Skinner, Jr., began his education, which he continued in Holbrooks Military School at Ossining, New York. Following his graduation he went to Andover, Massachusetts, where he entered the Phillips Andover Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1896. He next matriculated in Yale University for the study of law and won his LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1899. Immediately thereafter he settled in Chicago, where he engaged in the wholesale woolen business in connection with the firm of Skinner Brothers, remaining in that city for two years. He then returned to Denver and became interested in the live stock business, in which he has since been engaged. He is now president and treasurer of the Bar J. H. Cattle & Land Company, which owns and controls a ranch of sixty thousand acres in the Arkansas valley devoted to the breeding of registered Hereford cattle and on which are branded as high as twelve hundred and fifty calves per year. The business is most wisely and carefully directed and the company has enjoyed a very substantial measure of success. Mr. Skinner is also a director of several other Colorado corporations and is recognized as a forceful and resourceful business man whose insight is keen and whose enterprise is unfaltering.
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