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In 1906 Mr. Nix was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Ortman, whose parents
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were natives of Berlin, Germany. They came to America when their daughter, Mrs. Nix, was but three years of age and both have now passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Nix have become parents of four children: Francis, who died when a few months old: Byra; Gtenna; and James H. The last three are in school. Mr. Nix and his wife are members of the Baptist church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He does not seek nor desire office, however, wishing to give his undivided attention to his business affairs, and he has prospered in his undertakings as a stock feeder and farmer. He has interests in two corporations in the town of Eaton, but the major part of his attention is devoted to his ranching and his well defined business affairs, carefully managed, are bringing to him substantial and well merited success.
ALBERT F. SWAN. M. D.
Dr. Albert F. Swan, engaged in the practice of medicine at Ramah, was born in Spofford, New Hampshire, on the 25th of October, 1875, a son of B. H. and Sarah ( Fletcher) Swan. The father was a native of Massachusetts and the mother of New Hampshire. In 1883 Mr. Swan came to Cotorado and in 1884 established his home at Brighton, where he conducted a livery stable for more than thirty years, being one of the well known business men of that locality.
Dr. Swan of this review completed his more specifically literary education by graduation from the East Denver high school as a member of the class of 1896. He afterward attended' the Homeopathic Medical College of Denver, from which he was graduated with the class of 1902 and since that time he has continuously practiced medicine, his marked ability winning for him success in his chosen field. He has ever been most carefut in the diagnosis of his cases and conscientious in his practice. He is seldom, if ever, at fault in foretelling the outcome of disease and is ever deeply interested in anything that tends to bring to. man the key to the complex mystery which we catl tife. In 1915 he located at Ramah and is now the only practicing physi- cian of the town. He also conducts a drug store in connection with his practice and is one of the representative business men of the community.
Dr. Swan was married to Miss Edith Sarah Putnam, a danghter of Clarence F. and Ida (Smith) Putnam, the former a native of Vermont, white the latter was born in Rhode Island. Mrs. Swan is a direct descendant of Generat Israel Putnam of Revo- lutionary war fame. She was born in Wyoming and is also a graduate of the East Denver high school. For a number of years she successfully taught school prior to her marriage. She has become the mother of three children: Robert, born November 21. 1903: Ida. born April 20, 1906: and Olive, born January 20, 1908.
Dr. Swan is an Odd Fellow, holding membership in the lodge at Ramah, and he also has membership with the Masonic lodge of Brighton, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Woodmen of the World. His political support is given to the repub- lican party where national questions and issues are involved, but at local elections he casts an independent baltot. His wife is of the Episcopat faith and both are highty esteemed, enjoying the warm regard of all whom they meet socially, while the hospi- tality of the best homes of the community is freely accorded them.
ALBERT E. REYNOLDS.
One of the best known capitalists and mining men of Colorado is Albert E. Reynolds, who is president of a number of the largest mining companies and interested in various other business enterprises which have constituted an important source of the state's material development. Moreover, the soundness of his judgment and his public spirit have made his opinions of much worth concerning matters of general interest and vatne to the commonwealth. Mr. Reynolds is a native of Niagara county, New York. He was born February 13, 1840, of the marriage of Henry A. and Caroline (Van Horn) Reynolds, both of whom were representatives of prominent families of the Empire state. The father was a leading farmer and merchant there and upon his removal westward he became a successful business man of Grand Ledge, Michigan, where he passed away.
Albert E. Reynolds was the second in order of birth in their family of ten children. His school days were passed in New York and after completing the branches of learning taught in the public schools he continued his education in the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute for a year and next entered Madison University, now Colgate College, which
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he also attended for a year. He decided to follow in the business footsteps of his father and took up merchandising, receiving his initial training in his father's store and thus gaining valuable instruction in business principles which have constituted a source of his later success. He remained with his father until 1865 and then decided to start out independently. He made his way westward to Leavenworth, Kansas, and afterward, at Richmond, Missouri, he was again engaged in mercantile pursuits. A year later, however, he sold his business there and took up his abode at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where he opened a store, which he successfully conducted from 1867 until 1870, trading with the soldiers of the fort. He thus became one of the pioneer merchants of the west. Deciding to expand hls business interests, he then went into Indian Territory and was engaged at the Military Post of camp supply in mercantile business, trading with the Military and the Indians and post settlements. He conducted these two stores for a time and eventually established a third at Fort Elliott, Texas, and a fourth at El Reno in the Cheyenne Indian Agency. One after another was added to his chain of stores until he owned and was operating seven such establishments in connection with W. M. D. Lee, under the firm style of Lee & Reynolds. In this he displayed his characteristic enterprise and progressiveness, which have always prompted him to reach out along broader lines into fields of greater activity and usefulness. Mr. Reynolds became one of the most noted Indian traders of the country. He confined his operations to dealings with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes and among the peoples of those two nations he was regarded with the utmost confidence and respect, being one of the few white men whom the Indians would trust in their councils. They soon learned that he was absolutely strict and absolutely fair in his dealings and that his word could be relied upon at all times. The chiefs of these two tribes often called upon him to settle im- portant matters for them which necessitated a mediator between the government and the red men. On one occasion when the government wished to settle claims for Indian de- predations committed on settlers, in which a deputy Indian agent was sent to verify a number of claims, Mr. Reynolds became an important factor. Fortunately he was at the Cheyenne camp on a trading trip at the time when the deputy agent appeared with these claims. The man knew not how to handle the matter and for a time serious trouble seemed imminent until at length the chiefs called a council and Mr. Reynuils was asked for his views upon the matter. After a lengthy discussion he finally secured the consent of the leaders of the tribes to look into the matter and after a three days' investigation, in which many unjust accusations were discovered, the agent with the information given him by Mr. Reynolds straightened out the tangle with the heads of the Cheyenne tribes and everything was again serene. Mr. Reynolds had more influence over these two tribes than any other white man in the west. He never feared for his safety among these people, for he found the Indians were steadfast in their friendship when they had proven the trustworthiness of the white man. He long continued busi- ness relations with them, trading merchandise and such necessities of life for fu:s and products which the Indians manufactured. He won a very substantial measure of success through the conduct of this buisness, in which he continued for a number of years, but finally he decided to give up that mode of life, as it required much physical endurance and long months spent away from civilization. Accordingly in 1881 he sold his interests and returned to Colorado. At this time he began operating in the mining field, locating first at Lake City, Colorado, where he conducted mining operations and also mercantile pursuits. He was connected with and interested in a company owning the Palmetto mine, a silver and lead producer, and the Virginius mine, from which he also took silver and lead. Both of these were rich in ores and were located in Hinsdale and Ouray counties. The Virginius mine was operated under the name of the Caroline Mining Company and in this connection Mr. Reynolds began and completed the Revenue tunnel, one and a half miles long, which was the first full electric mine and mill equip- ment in the United States. The plant is still in operation in the Revenue tunnel, which is the property of Mr. Reynolds individually, and he also has important mining properties elsewhere in that locality, all of which have been splendid producers of gold, silver and lead. In fact his holdings were among the most famous mines of the country and the operating plans of these properties were regarded as among the most extensive and efficient in machinery and equipment in connection with the mining industry of the state. In addition to his property near Ouray. Mr. Reynolds owns six hundred mining claims in Gunnison county, Colorado, also the Golconda mines at Summitville, Colorado. He is extensively interested as a stockholder in and is president of the May Day Gold Mining Company of Durango, Colorado, and of the Gold Cup Mining Company of Gunnison county, Colorado, and the Emma Gold Mining Company of Dunton, Colorado.
In 1883, Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage to Miss Dora Earll. of Columbus. Wisconsin. a daughter of Dr. Robert W. Earll of that place, and they have one child,
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now Mrs. Anna E. Morse, who was born in Columbus, Wisconsin, and is a graduate of Miss Masters' School, a private college on the Hudson, and of Smith College, North- ampton, Massachusetts. She became the wife of Bradish P. Morse, president of the Morse Machinery Company of Denver, and they have one child, Albert Reynolds Morse, born in Denver in 1914.
Mr. Reynolds is a trustee of the University of Denver and is a member of its executive committee. He is deeply interested in much that has to do with the material, intellectual, social, political and moral progress of the state and yet he has not sought to figure in any public light outside of business. He is a forceful and resourceful man, actuated in all that he does by a spirit of progress, and his career has been characterized by a ready recognition and utilization of opportunities that others have passed heedlessly by. He had the courage and initiative to face the hardships and privations of frontier life, spending much of his time on the Indian reservations in order to lay the founda- tion of his fortune, which in later years has been developed through the mining industry. There is no phase of pioneer life with which he is not familiar and his history, if written in detail, would present mauy a chapter more thrilling and interesting than that of any tale of fiction. Retiring from the mercantile field and his trade with the Indians, he concentrated his efforts and attention upon mining, taking up the task of developing the rich mineral resources with which nature has endowed Colorado. His work in this connection has been of the utmost benefit to the state in advancing its prosperity through the employment of large forces of workmen, and while he is today numbered among Colorado's wealthy men, the most envious cannot grudge him his success, so worthily has it been won and so wisely used.
ALBERT C. LUSBY, M. D.
Dr. Albert C. Lusby, a physician and surgeon practicing at Brush, where he is serving as medical representative of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com- pany and the Great Western Sugar Company, was born in Owen county, Kentucky, on the 22d of December, 1875, a son of John T. and Jennie (Mefford) Lusby, who were likewise natives of the Blue Grass state. The father followed the occupation of farm- ing in Kentucky throughout his entire life and passed away in October, 1911, having for many years survived his wife, who died in April, 1888.
Dr. Lusby was reared in his native state and after mastering the branches taught in the public schools by the completion of a course in the high school at Owenton, Kentucky, he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for five years in his native state, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge that he had acquired. He regarded this, however, merely as an initial step to other professional labor and took up the study of medicine while still teaching. Later he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, there spending two terms, and was gradu- ated from the Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville as a member of the class of 1898. Having thus qualified for professional duty he then practiced medicine at Balls Landing, Kentucky, until the fall of 1905. In October of that year he removed to Denver, Colorado, on account of his health, remaining a resident of that city untii 1906, when he took up his abode in Brush. Morgan county, and opened an office in the Stockmen's National Bank building. He has since practiced his profession and has enjoyed a liberal patronage as the years have gone by. He keeps in close touch with modern scientific thought, investigation and progress along the line of his chosen life work and is a most able practitioner, very careful in the diagnosis of his cases and seldom, if ever, at fault in foretelling the outcome of disease.
In March, 1894, Dr. Lusby was united in marriage to Miss Ella Kemper and to them was born one child, Arnett B., whose birth occurred in April, 1896, The wife and mother passed away in the spring of 1898 and Dr. Lusby was again married in February, 1900, his second union being with Miss Goldie Morgan. They have one child, L. Cecil, born December 12, 1904. The parents are well known socially, having a large circle of warm friends in Brush and vicinity. Mrs. Lusby is a member of the Baptist church. Fraternally Dr. Lusby is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Rebekahs. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party but he does not seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his professional duties, which have constantly grown in volume and importance. He is, however, a stockholder and director of the Stockmen's National Bank of Brush. He is acting as Colorado physician for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, also for the Great Western Sa:gir Company and the Ebenezer
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Mercy Institute of Brush and he holds membership with the Morgan County and Colorado State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association and through the proceedings of those bodies keeps in touch with the latest medical research and all improvements made in methods of practice. He is earnest and purposeful and, moreover, he has the faculty of inspiring confidence in his patients thus gaining their heartiest cooperation in his efforts.
HON. GIDEON H. AUSTIN.
Among the able judges of the state of Colorado is numbered Hon. Gideon H. Austin, of Julesburg, who in 1912 was elected to the position of judge of Sedgwick county, which office he now holds. He has proven himself an able administrator of the law and his decisions have ever been fair and impartial. Judge Austin was born in Mercer county, Illinois, on the 3d of October, 1874, and is a son of William Henry and Clarinda (Hays) Austin. The father, who was a blacksmith by trade, has passed away but his widow survives, having attained the venerable age of eighty-four years.
Gideon H. Austin attended the common schools of his native county and at the age of fifteen years entered the Bryant Normal School at Stromsburg, Nebraska, and later attended the State Normal School at Peru, Nebraska. He then engaged in teaching for ten years, being so occupied in Hamilton and York counties in that state. At the end of that time he became connected with newspaper work, continuing in that line for three years as editor and owner, in Hot Springs, South Dakota. In 1909 he came to Julesburg, Colorado, and was elected county judge in 1912, having ever since held this important office. He is well qualified for the position, being thoroughly learned in the law, and his decisions have received the commendation of the profession. Judge Austin is interested in farm lands and derives a gratifying income from his investments. He has served on the city council and at present is mayor of Julesburg, giving his town a businesslike administration, bearing good results.
On September 20, 1905, at Marquette, Nebraska, Judge Austin was united in marriage to Miss Josephine M. Eaton, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Eaton, the former of whom was for many years engaged in the general merchandise business. Three children have been born of this union: Vance, eight years of age; Kathryn, four; and Donald, two.
In his religious faith Judge Austin is a member of the Methodist church and his deep interest in its work is evident from the fact that lie is serving as an official on the church board. He is concerned in all movements undertaken in behalf of the public welfare and is ever ready to give his aid to worthy projects Since coming to Julesburg he has made many friends, all of whom speak of him in terms of high appreciation.
GUY KNOX.
Guy Knox was born the same day Colorado entered statehood-August 1, 1876, in Topeka, Kansas; was educated in the public schools and Washburn College of that city and moved to Denver with his parents in 1894. He is directly descended from Major General Henry Knox of Revolutionary fame, who, by act of congress was appointed secretary of war in 1785. Members of the original Knox family in America were residents of Massachusetts, but at an early date one branch of the family moved to Maryland and built the town of Knoxville in historic old Frederick county, where Joseph Knox, grandfather of Guy Knox, was born. At a later date Joseph Knox came west, in the meantime having married Charlotte Selsom of Burkittsville, Frederick county, Maryland. To this union there was born in Circleville, Ohio, in 1851, a son, William Scott Knox, father of the subject of this sketch. In September, 1875, William Scott Knox then a resident of Kansas, married Sophironia Nelland and Guy Knox, their first child was born the following year. Later, two daughters were born, Fay Louise (Mrs. H. L. Willis), of Pueblo, now deceased; and Ada Charlotte, now Mrs. A. E. Lane, of Salt Lake City; and then another son, Henry Howard Knox of Oklahoma City
Early in life Guy Knox found it necessary to earn his own living and entered railroad work in Pueblo in a clerical capacity. After a brief period of clerking he became interested in journalism and turned to that field for a livelihood. For fifteen
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years he continued in that line of work, being engaged at different times with various Colorado newspapers and magazines. Developing into a special writer he was em- ployed for several years by an eastern news syndicate in the production of feature articles for Sunday magazines on development of western resources. Traveling ex- tensively in the intermountain states he devoted his spare time to study and today is recognized as an authority on the mineral, agricultural and industrial possibilities of mountain states and particularly Colorado's natural resources. He is up on modern methods of mining and milling, is posted by practical experience on farming and stock raising and has given years of attention to the subject of production and markets, which is today so vital to the success of western enterprises in general. He is an ardent supporter of permanent improvements for general use such as irrigation enterprises, reclamation of waste lands, good roads, and in fact, anything and everything that tends to upbuilding, home making and maintenance.
In 1910 Mr. Knox made a trip into the northland, the Hudson Bay country-but returned to Colorado in less than a year satisfied that the big field was here and that it would be here the big things would he done. In 1911 he joined with Cyrus W. Barnholt in the organization of The Knox-Barnholt Company, a corporation whose purpose was to be the financing and developing of meritorious enterprises and today the company is engaged along the same lines in a decidedly successful way.
Mr. Knox is deeply interested in charity work, believes in better laws and a broader interpretation of present statutes, less technicality and more practicability; in other words, more "do it" and less "talking" about it. He may be a dreamer, as some of his intimate friends have expressed it, but he dreams big dreams, is a stanch advocate of fair play, a lover of the finer things of life and has faith in his convictions, all of which cover a multitude of sins.
Mr. Knox is of Episcopal religious faith, of democratic political persuasion, is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks fraternity, the Brotherhood of American Yeomen; an officer of the White Advisory Board of the Colorado-African Colonization Society, and member of a number of social, civic and political organizations.
Mr. Knox married Miss Mayne Louise Longmoor, of Cynthiana, Kentucky, in 1900. There are no children. Besides a farm home and mountain home he maintains a permanent residence on Capitol Hill in Denver.
EDWARD CHARLES HANLEY.
Edward Charles Hanley, whose interests and activities are varied in character and broad in scope, is now connected with the Colorado National Bank as special auditor, loan inspector and expert accountant. He was born in New York city, November 15, 1876. His father, Edward R. Hanley. was born in Wolverhampton, England, August 16, 1851, and on the 13th of February, 1876, was married in New York city to Miss Mary Ann Donovan, a native of the eastern metropolis. In the late '70s they came to Colorado and the father, who while residing in New York had been connected with the New York Rapid Transit system entered the real estate field in Colorado, becoming actively engaged in the conduct of a real estate and rental business in Denver, in which he continued for many years. He was also at one time deputy secretary of state of Colorado, filling the office in 1882, and afterward was secretary of state. Entering the field of mining, he became secretary to the late Thomas F. Walsh, owner of the Camp Bird mine at Ouray, Colorado, and is now connected with the Camp Bird Com- pany, Ltd., of that place.
Edward Charles Hanley, pursuing his education in the Denver public schools, passed through consecutive grades until gradnated from the East Denver high school and later he took a special course in the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colorado, in livestock husbandry and agronomy. From early boyhood he was more or less familiar with the real estate and rental business through the assistance which he rendered his father and after his education was completed he concentrated his efforts and attention along that line. At various times he has figured in business circles as an officer and director of the Railroad Supply Company of Chicago, his work in that connection covering 1900 and 1901; as an officer of the State Mercantile Company of the Northern Coal & Coke Company, of the Minnequa Coal Company, the Union Securities Corporation, the Railroad Building Investment Company and the Colorado Mutual Securities Company. He has thus extended his efforts over a broad field, becoming connected with many of the important corporate interests of the state
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which have contributed in large measure to the business development, upbuilding and consequent prosperity of Colorado.
On the 4th of June, 1903, Mr. Hanley was married in Denver to Miss Ethel Emma Yardley, a daughter of William and Emma ( Dunston ) Yardley. Mrs. Hanley was born in Stourbridge, England, where her father was at that time engaged in merchan- dising. Coming with his family to the new world, he established his home in Denver. To Mr. and Mrs. Hanley have been born two children, Edward Sidney and Eleanor Winifred. The parents are communicants of St. Barnabas Episcopal church and Mr. Hanley is the secretary of the Men's Club of that church. He is a prominent Mason, holding membership in Arapahoe Lodge, No. 130, A. F. & A. M .; Colorado Consistory, No. 1, A. & A. S. R .; and El Jebel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He served as secretary of Arapahoe Lodge for seven years and was worshipful master in 1915. He has occupied all the offices in the Denver Council of Kadosh, Scottish Rite, including that of com- mander in 1917-18, and he compiled, prepared and produced the ritualistic and dramatic work for the twenty-third degree, as presented in the Denver Council of Kadosh. He likewise served as secretary of the Denver Association of Masonic Officers for five years, from 1910 until 1915, and is now grand representative of the most worshipful Grand Lodge of South Carolina. He was also designated knight commander of the Court of Honor by the supreme council of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, October 16, 1917. He is a member of the Beta Kappa Alumni Chapter of the Theta Sigma fraternity. In club circles he is also widely known. He is treasurer of the Kiwanis Club of Denver, belongs to the Crescent and Phoenix Athletic Clubs, the Twilight and Rambler Wheel Clubs, the Century Road Club, the Amateur Athletic Association, the Denver Motor Club, and the Colorado Sportsmen's Association. He participated in many road and track events from 1894 until 1896 inclusive, winning many events and achieving high honors in the athletic world. He served as editor of the Colorado Eagle Knight, also the Arapahoe Tomahawk and was formerly a member of the National Editorial Association.
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