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In 1874 Mr. Cell was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Dean, of Missouri, and to them have been born four children. Joseph, born January 3, 1875, acquired a common school education and on the 11th of January, 1903, he wedded Katharine Gee, from whom he afterward secured a legal separation. They had one child, Blanche, who was horn October 7, 1906, and is now a student in the Loretto Acad- emy in Pueblo. Joseph Cell is a member of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, No. 1816, at Fountain, Colorado, and lives with his father, cultivating the home ranch. Martha, born July 22, 1878, was married to Silas King and they had two children, Roland and Leona. She afterward became the wife of Frank Barge, of Granada, Colorado, who is employed by the Santa Fe Railroad Company. Gertrude, born May 26, 1881, hecame the wife of Arthur Pettingill, who was killed in a railroad wreck on the Santa Fe. She afterward became the wife of Joe Laurence and resides upon a ranch in Alberta, Canada. She has two children, Melvin and Ruby. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Laurence was a successful school teacher. Amanda, horn May 22, 1883, is the wife of William Higby, of Pueblo, who is a railroad engineer on the Santa Fe, and they have one child, Rose, born July 3, 1903.
Mr. Cell is a member of the Woodmen of the World, belonging to Camp No. 230, of Fountain. His political allegiance is given the democratic party but he has never been an aspirant for office. His farm makes full claim upon his time and attention and his energy is manifest in the excellent appearance of his place, which is recognized as one of the good farms in the neighborhood of Fountain.
WILLIAM F. DOERTENBACH.
William F. Doertenbach is conducting business in Pueblo as a furrier and sub- stantial success is attending his efforts. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 17th of January, 1866, and is a son of Carl F. and Carolina ( Hower) Doertenbach. The father was a native of Germany, horn in 1832, and the mother's birth occurred in 1834 After living in Ohio for a time Carl F. Doertenbach removed to Wisconsin, and became the first mayor of his town. He engaged in the meat and packing business and at the time of the Civil war he joined the army, serving as a non-commissioned officer. Both he and his wife have passed away, the father dying in 1867, while the mother survived for about a quarter of a century and passed away in 1891. They were the parents of two sons and three daughters.
William F. Doertenbach, the youngest of the family, pursued his education in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, and in the Ohio Business University. He started out in life on his own account as cabin boy on a lake steamer when but thirteen years of age. He became an able seaman on the Great Lakes when a youth of seventeen, gradually working his way upward in that connection, but later he left the water to become connected with the trade of furrier, entering the employ of the firm of Benedict & Ruddy. In 1887 he came to Pueblo, Colorado, where he entered the employ of S. H. Stevens, taxidermist and furrier. In 1896 he embarked in business on his own account and has become quite successful in this connection, building up a trade of large and gratifying proportions. He carries a very attractive line of goods and his reasonable prices, honorable methods and earnest desire to please his patrons have gained to him a business which is most enviable.
On the 14th of November, 1885, Mr. Doertenbach was united in marriage to a Miss Hayden, a Canadian by birth, and to them have been born three children, Alice C., Miriam H. and William F. In his political views Mr. Doertenbach is a republican and served as a member of the thirteenth general assembly. He was also a member of the civil service board of Pueblo and was reelected to that office serving for a second term or for a period of six years. He has ever been most loyal to the duties devolving upon him in any relation, loyalty being one of his marked characteristics. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and with the Modern Woodmen of America
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and he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of the Uniformed Rank of the Woodmen of the World and a major of the Knights of Pythias. He was one of the organizers of the Commerce Club of Pueblo, in which he has beld office. His interest in military affairs was indicated by his joining the National Guard of Colorado in 1888. He rose from the ranks to the position of major. He organized a company in Pueblo, went to the Philippines at the time of the Spanish-American war and returned with the rank of captain. The experiences of his life have been varied. In his boyhood he served in a print shop and as a messenger with the Western Union Telegraph Company. From a humble position he has steadily worked his way upward, ever broadening his knowledge by reason of his reading, his observation, his rententive memory and his experience. He has become an authority on taxidermy and there are few better informed concerning the animal and bird life of this section of the country than he. He is ever alert and enterprising, interested in all matters of general concern, public-spirited in citizenship and progressive in business.
WILLIAM R. BEATTY.
Deeds of valor have been the theme of song and story throughout the ages and in this period of world crisis when thousands of America's best young men are going to the scene of battle, one's thoughts naturally revert to others who have displayed heroism on the firing line. Among this number is William R. Beatty, of Denver, who is a veteran of the Civil war and now proudly wears the little bronze button that is an indication of his military service in defense of the Union.
Mr. Beatty was born in Xenia, Ohio, October 26, 1838, a son of Henry Rush and Katherine O. Beatty. The father was born in New Jersey, of Scotch Irish stock, while the mother was a native of Ohio and came of English ancestry. Henry R. Beatty was a saddler by trade and in following that pursuit provided for the support of his family.
It was in the common schools of his native town that William R. Beatty acquired his early education, which was supplemented by a course in a commercial college in Cincinnati. His mother was a staunch Methodist and planned to send him to college at Delaware, Ohio, to make of him a minister of the Methodist Episcopal faith, but the lure of the west was upon him and so after finishing his commercial course he removed westward to the Missouri river in 1857 and some months later started for Colorado in charge of an ox train, making the trip for the benefit of his health, which was fully restored in the excellent climate of Colorado. His trip began at Lawrence, Kansas, and in November, 1859, he rode into Auraria-Denver on horseback. The first work undertaken by Mr. Beatty was at Blackhawk, where he was employed in a store con- nected with the Fisk mine. There he continued until 1861, when the Civil war was inaugurated, and, aroused at the very first by the attempt of the south to overthrow the Union, he at once enlisted, in 1861, and joined Company F of the First Colorado Cavalry, with which he served until the close of hostilities in 1865, participating in various hotly contested engagements and thoroughly proving his loyalty to the Union canse. Now a man of over 80 years, remarkably well preserved, he prides himself in being one of the few living privates of the Civil war. During his years of service he had several opportunities to accept advanced positions but firmly declined to the end.
When the war was over Mr. Beatty settled in Denver, where he obtained a clerk- ship in the grocery store of D. C. Dodge. He was later with the firm of Daniels & Brown, the predecessor of J. S. Brown, while later the establishment became the property of the firm of J. S. Brown & Brother. For sixteen or seventeen years Mr. Beatty was connected with the grocery business and at one time was a member of the firm of Bates & Beatty, who were owners of a grocery store. In 1889 he went to Buena Vista, Colorado, then a typical frontier mining town, run by "tin-horn" gamblers and gunmen and filled with a lawless class of people. Mr. Beatty, as one of the better class of citizens, at a secret meeting one night was chosen captain of the first vigilance committee whose purpose was to clean up the town and make it a place of decent habitation. Although Mr. Beatty modestly disclaims any credit for what was accom- plished, it is well known that this vigilance committee succeeded in restoring law and order in a great degree. After five months passed in Buena Vista he returned to Denver, where he entered the employ of the McPhee-McGinnity Company in the lumber business, remaining there for a year. He became well known as "the best accountant in Colorado," having the reputation of never making a mistake in figures. Finding this
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work too confining, he severed his connection with the McPhee-McGinnity Company and went upon the road as a traveling salesman, in which work he continued for a number of years. He then again took up his abode in Denver and entered the fish and oyster business, first with the Cornforth house and later with the Flint Mercan- tile Company. He was afterward with the Electric Light Company of Denver for sev- eral years, including two years after its consolidation with the gas company. On the expiration of that period he retired from active business and has so remained to the present time.
On the 20th of April, 1871, Mr. Beatty was married in Denver by. Rev. B. T. Vin- cent to Miss Mary M. Baker, a native of Devonshire, England, who came to America in 1868 and after landing on American shores made her way direct to Colorado. She was a daughter of William Baker and a niece of John H. Martin, a pioneer of Colorado. They became parents of three children: Jessie B., who was born in 1872 and is now deceased; Henry M., born in 1875; and Clarice M., who was born in 1879. The former has been with the First National Bank since 1893 and was at one time receiver for the old Western Bank. He married Miss Hagerman and has two children, Helen H. and Mabel Harriett. Clarice M. Beatty was graduated from the East Denver high school and is now the wife of Charles Marquis, of Denver, by whom she has one son, William Beatty Marquis. Mrs. Beatty is active in Red Cross work and also in church work.
In politics William R. Beatty has always been a republican and enjoys the honor of having been the first city auditor of Denver, holding the office from 1883 until 1885. He has been offered numerous other positions, including that of postmaster, tendered to him by President Grant, but has refused all. At various times he has given his services to different building and loan associations in order to tide them over a rough place in their road. He is one of the owners of the Sorrento apartment building, which he had erected, one of the handsomest in Denver, adjoining the state capitol, and from this he derives a most substantial annual income. He is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, the Colorado Veteran Firemen's Association, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Colorado Pioneers Society. He is known as a liberal, public-spir- ited citizen who has grown up with the city and has aided materially in conquering the lawless element which once existed in Denver. In fact, he has contributed to the growth and substantial development of the city throughout the years of his residence in the west, holding at all times to high ideals of municipal progress and civic honor.
TYLER D. HEISKELL.
Tyler D. Heiskell, with a complete set of abstract books of Morgan county, is con- ducting a successful and growing business in that line and also in real estate and fire insurance. He is numbered among the native sons of Tennessee, his birth having oc- curred in that state on the 18th of September, 1850, his parents being Dr. Milton Y. and Caroline (Kelso) Heiskell, the latter a native of Tennessee, while the father was born in Virginia. He was a practicing physician who served throughout the Civil war as a surgeon in the Confederate army and afterward practiced medicine in Vir- ginia throughout his remaining days, there passing away in the year 1883. His widow survived for several years, her death occurring in 1892.
Tyler D. Heiskell spent his youthful days in Virginia and is indebted to private schools for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed. On leaving the school- room he made his initial step in the business world as clerk in a store and was thus employed for two years. In 1872 he came to Colorado, settling at Green City, where he became a cow puncher. He was employed along that line of work until 1881, when he began sheep raising on his own account, purchasing a large number of sheep. For six years he continued in the business and then suffered heavy losses by fire, after which he turned his attention in other directions. In 1889 he was elected county clerk of Morgan county and served for six years in that office. The excellent record which he made led to his selection for still other positions of political preferment and he was chosen by popular suffrage to the office of county judge. He served upon the hench for ten years, rendering decisions which were strictly fair and impartial. At the present time he is acting as justice of the peace, a position which he has filled for the past four years. He has held public office altogether for twenty years and over his official record there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. After retiring from the bench he engaged in the abstract, real estate and loan business, with offices in the First National Bank building of Fort Morgan. and he now enjoys a large clientage. He also makes fire insurance a department of his business activities.
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Mr. Heiskell was married on the 12th of January, 1876, to Miss Wilhelmina Bricken and to them were born nine children, namely: Milton, now a bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Denver; William Tyler, who is bailiff of the supreme court, having served in that capacity for the past nine years; Carrie, a clerk in Crouch Brothers' store; Bettie, the wife of F. W. Quackenbush, living in Fort Morgan; Agnes, the wife of George Holmes, a resident of Merino, Colorado; Daisy, the wife of Howard Kennedy, a merchant of Fort Collins; Alma, the wife of Howard Reynard, residing in Canton, Illinois; Clara, who died in 1886; and Preston T., who passed away in 1877.
Mr. Heiskell's military experience covers six months' service as a messenger at the close of the Civil war, at which time he was but fifteen years of age. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and exemplifies in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He is also connected fraternally with the Wood- men of the World and the Knights of Pythias. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. The Heiskell family back to remote generations have always been interested in politics and Tyler D. Heiskell is a stanch supporter of the principles in which he firmly believes. What he has undertaken he has accomplished and as the years have gone by has made for him- self a creditable place in business and financial circles in Morgan county.
CARLOS W. HALL.
Carlos W. Hall enjoys the reputation of being the best versed man on Holstein cattle in the west. His work has not only been a source of individual prosperity but also of great benefit to the state in improving the grade of cattle raised and in setting the highest standards for cattle raisers and dairymen. He was born in Rosendale, Wisconsin, January 12, 1874, a son of William S. and Mary ( Wheeler) Hall. The ancestral line in America can be traced back to 1630, when John Hall, coming to the new world from Coventry, England, probably in the fleet with Gov- ernor Winthrop, settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts, now a part of Boston. His grandfather was Storrs Hall, who removed in 1851 to Rosendale, Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of Yale University, in which he completed a medical course, and after his removal to Wisconsin he engaged successfully in practice there. He was also the founder of Ripon College, one of the leading edu- cational institutions of the state, and remained a director thereof until his death. His son, William Scribner Hall, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1847, and was married in 1870. He went to Texas and became a successful stockman of that state. In 1884 he removed to Colorado and is now living in Alice, where he is engaged in mining.
Carlos W. Hall was a youth of but ten years when the family home was estab- lished in Colorado and his education was acquired in the public schools of Denver. He, too, took up the cattle business, buying and selling from an early age, and in 1896, in connection with his brother, Storrs Hall, he became identified with the stock raising and dairy interests of Jefferson county. In 1906 they purchased their present property and have since been most extensively engaged in breeding and raising Holstein cattle. They are also heavily interested in the Producers' Milk Com- pany, of which Carlos W. Hall is vice president. The farm is a model property in its equipment, every advantage being secured for the successful conduct of the dairy business and for the care of the live stock. Hall Brothers are the owners of the Western Holstein Farm, known as the home of Sir Colantha-Lass, Colorado's greatest show bull, and Dutchland Hengerveld Ascalon, Colorado's greatest dairy cow. They have raised thereon some of the finest Holstein cattle ever produced. Dutchland Hengerveld Ascalon is the champion butter cow of the west. In this connection a leading agricultural journal said: "Dutchland Hengerveld Ascalon produced 26,485.2 pounds of milk, giving 1,263 pounds of butter in three hundred and sixty-five days. She was developed and owned since her calfhood by Hall Brothers, owners of the Western Holstein Farm. She was six years and seven months old when she freshened for this record. As a yearling she held the world's seven day milk record of 436 pounds. Her records are the result of careful study of breeding and feeding methods. The Hall Brothers are keen students of cows and they favor those individuals and families which lack nothing, but which com- bine showyard type and large producing proclivities. In the May 1, 1916, issue of Kimball's Dairy Farmer, Carlos W. Hall expressed this fact in these words: 'It
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is very plain to all students of producing or performing animals that constitution and vitality are all-important factors in breeding, and records alone cannot be trusted as a true guide to build upon. A cow may be milk simple and milk herself to death, and still be valueless as a producer of her kind, because she has not the stamina to stand the work and reproduce.' Not only their knowledge of breediness in animals, but their courage and foresight to keep an animal of superior merit for their own herd regardless of cost, has resulted in their success in breeding. This was well indicated by the characteristic reply sent one time to W. J. Gillette of Rosendale, Wisconsin. Hall Brothers had purchased a bull calt for use in their herd closely related to Colantha 4th's Johanna. When the latter became the world's champion cow, Mr. Gillette wired an offer of two thousand dollars for the animal. Quickly the wires flashed the answer. 'No.' An offer of two thousand dollars and another bull as good individually was then made. Hall Brothers then killed the offer by replying that the bull was not for sale, for they needed as good a bull as anyone. Such breeders are the Hall Brothers; the best is not too good for them. Had they sold the bull in order to make a little profit, as many breeders do, the dairy world might never have known of them. Dutchland Hengerveld Ascalon has produced a record which is the outcome of good breeding, feeding and management, and her record stands as a milestone in the advance which live stock interests are making in the once 'wild and woolly west.'" In connection with his stock raising and dairying interests Mr. Hall has exhibited his stock in many of the principal stock shows of the United States, carrying off many prizes. He has also been called upon to act as judge at state and local fairs, including the Oregon State Fair in 1917. In August, 1918, he was appointed by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America one of the national judges of the breed. He is the president of the State Dairymen's Association and he was one of the promoters and is a director of the Western National Stock Show. In banking circles he is also known, being a director of the Merchants Bank of Denver. He is a director of the Agricultural Ditch, and a member of the Denver Automobile Club.
On the 14th of October, 1901, Mr. Hall was united in marriage in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Miss Anna T. Mohnsen, a daughter of George and Minnie J. Mohnsen. Mrs. Hall was born in Indiana but was reared and educated in Nebraska.
Fraternally Mr. Hall is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. In the November election of 1918 he was elected by a handsome majority, to serve as a member of the state legislature. being the only republican candidate elected in Jefferson county. He has served as school director of his district and as mayor of the old town of Valverde, which was afterward annexed to Denver, he being treasurer of the town at the time of annexation. There are men who deserve credit for having founded and established successful educational institutions, who merit regard for valuable public service in office, but there are none more worthy of public consideration and gratitude than the man who, in the development of business affairs, places within the reach of others the means of becoming self-supporting and substantial citizens. Mr. Hall has contributed largely to the prosperity and progress of Colorado along the line of stock raising and good farming through the development of his herds and through the impetus which he has given to the dairy industry, and today his opinions are accepted as authority upon many questions of stock raising. especially in regard to Holstein cattle.
PHILIP A. ZANG.
Philip A. Zang, well known in financial circles in Denver, is recognized as a young man of business ability and of promising future. He represents one of the old pioneer families of the state and his genuine worth and successful accomplishment make him a worthy representative of a name that has long been a respected one in Colorado.
Philip A. Zang is a native son of Denver. He was born January 4, 1883, his parents being Adolph Joseph and Minnie L. (Vogt) Zang, who are represented elsewhere in this work. The paternal grandfather, Philip Zang, was one of the pioneer settlers and early prospectors and miners in the Leadville district of Colorado.
In his youthful days Philip A. Zang attended the public schools of Denver, while later he had the benefit of instruction in the University of Michigan, from which he
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was graduated as a member of the class of 1907. He then returned to his native city and with broad educational training to serve as the foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of his success he entered banking and financial circles, becoming identified with the American Bank and Trust Company in a minor capacity. However, opportunity has ever been to him the call to action and he soon realized that advance- ment comes in recognition of merit and capability. He accordingly worked his way upward through various departments, winning promotion from time to time by reason of his loyalty and his effective service. During the decade that has just passed he has occupied every position in the bank save that of president, and is regarded as one of the most capable bankers and financiers of the city. He occupied the position of trust officer of the American Bank and Trust Company for eight years, resigning therefrom June 1, 1919, but still remains a member of the bank's directorate, having served on the board for the past five years.
He has closely studied every phase of the banking business and his thorough knowledge along that line is of great value to him in other connections as well. Increas- ing business duties led to his retirement from the position of trust officer that he might give his attention in larger measure to his work as treasurer of the Vindicator Con- solidated Gold Mining Company of Denver, treasurer of the Adolph J. Zang Investment Company and president of the Zang Realty & Investment Company.
On the 11th of September, 1912, Mr. Zang was united in marriage to Miss Ruth M. Burnell, of Denver, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Burnell. She, too, was born in this city, her people being prominent in the early history of Colorado. Mr. Burnell was one of the first prospectors and mine owners in the days when Leadville, Central City and Georgetown figured so prominently by reason of gold discoveries and opera- tions in the mineral fields. He was the owner of the Iron Duke, a famous gold pro- ducer, and of other equally well known mining properties. Mr. and Mrs. Zang have become parents of three children: Margaret Louise, born in Denver on the 24th of July, 1914; Wilhelmina Louise, born December 26, 1915; and Flora Burnell, born Janu- ary 23, 1917.
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