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On the 23d of July, 1918, in Kansas City, Missouri, Mr. Zang was married to Miss Florence Genevieve Coffman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Augustus Coffman. He belongs to the Denver Country Club, also to the Denver Athletic Club and the Denver Civic and Commercial Association. He is a well known figure in the commer- cial as well as the social circles of the city and at the same time is recognized as a cooperant factor in many plans and measures for the public welfare and benefit.
OSCAR DAVID CASS, JR.
Oscar David Cass, Jr., well known in social and club circles in Denver, is president of the Bishop-Cass Investment Company and one of the wealthy young business men of the city. To accumulate a fortune requires one kind of genius; to retain a fortune already acquired. to add to its legitimate increment and to make such use of it that its possessor may derive therefrom the greatest enjoyment and the public the greatest benefit, requires another kind of genius. Mr. Cass belongs to that younger generation of business men of Denver called upon to shoulder responsibilities differing materially
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from those resting upon their predecessors. In a broader field of enterprise they find themselves obliged to deal with affairs of greater magnitude and to solve more difficult and complicated financial and economic problems. In an analyzation of the career of Oscar David Cass it is seen that the subjective and objective forces of life are in him well balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his opportunities and his obligations.
Mr. Cass was born in Denver, June 30, 1881, a son of Dr. Oscar David and Emogene M. (Babcock) Cass, who are mentioned at length on another page of this work. In early life the son attended the public schools of Denver and afterward became a stu- dent in a college at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, while later he matriculated in Princeton University. Ere reaching the point of graduation, however, he returned to Denver to take up business interests in connection with the family. He became identified with the real estate and investment business, and following the death of his father in 1894, the management of the interests of the estate was too arduous for the mother, so that the Cass Invesment Company was organized to manage such valuable business proper- ties as the Cass & Graham block and many other prominent real estate interests of the city. In the meantime Mr. Cass had organized the Colorado Brick Supply Company, which at one time controlled a large portion of the hrick trade of the city. Eventually he retired from that field in order to concentrate his efforts upon the real estate interests under his control and was joined by Edward A. Bishop in the organization of the Bishop-Cass Investment Company, which has developed into the largest real estate and investment business of the city. The property holdings of the company include the America Theatre building on Sixteenth and Curtis streets, which is one of the most valuable and prominent corners of the city, and this is only one of the many realty holdings of Mr. Cass that place him with Denver's capitalists. He holds various other valuable office and business properties, which are owned solely by him or by the firm. Mr. Cass is also a director and one of the largest stockholders in the Interstate Trust Company of Denver and his high standing in business circles is indicated in the fact that in 1912 he was chosen for the presidency of the Real Estate Exchange and in the same year was made director of the Chamber of Commerce.
On the 26th of May, 1902, Mr. Cass was married to Miss Maude Brewer, of Colorado Springs, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Brewer, of a prominent and influential family of that city. Two children have been born of this marriage: Dorothy, born in Denver in 1903; and Oscar David Cass (Il1), born in 1906. Both are now in the Denver schools.
Mr. Cass gives his political allegiance to the republican party and in 1912 was a candidate for mayor of the city, while on another occasion he was a candidate for congress. He is a most public-spirited citizen and takes an active and helpful interest in many plans and movements for the general good. He is serving as a trustee of Clayton College and is the president of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association. He belongs to the Denver Athletic Club, the Denver Country Club, the Denver Club, and in fact all of the leading clubs of Colorado. He likewise has membership in the Central Presbyterian church, in which he is serving as a trustee. He takes active and helpful interest in promoting various charitable and benevolent enterprises and projects and is continually extending a helping hand to the poor and needy. To make his native talents suhserve the demands which conditions of society impose at the present time is the purpose of his life, and by reason of the mature judgment which characterizes his efforts, he stands today as a splendid representative of the prominent real estate dealer and capitalist to whom business is but one phase of life and does not exclude his active participation in and support of the other vital interests which go to make up human existence.
JOHN S. McCLAVE.
John S. McClave, who for a long period was identified with the farming interests of Weld county, spent his last days in Denver, where he passed away on the 6th of October, 1914. He was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 23d of March, 1832, and was a son of Stevenson McClave, who was a native of Grafton county, New Hampshire, born in 1806. In young manhood the father went to Boston to learn the machinist's trade and afterward became a resident of Mobile, Alabama, where he resided for three years, being one of the sufferers during the yellow fever epidemic of 1830. When he had sufficiently recovered he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in that locality devoted his life to farming, but passed away in 1883 at the home of his daughter in Illinois. On
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the dissolution of the whig party, to which he had always given his support, he joined the ranks of the newly formed republican party. In his life he manifested many of the sterling traits of his Scotch ancestry, for the family was of Scotch origin and was founded in New England at an early day. The mother of John S. McClave bore the maiden name of Sarah Banghart and was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Her death occurred in 1874, when she was sixty four years of age. The children of the family were: John S .; William, who lived in Illinois; Sarah, who became the wife of Erskine Selleck, of Buckley, Illinois; Michael J., of Loveland; and Stephen, also of that place. All have now departed this life.
John S. McClave, born and reared near Cincinnati, Ohio, supplemented his public school education by a course of study in Antioch College and afterward took up the profession of teaching in Clermont county, Ohio, where he remained for five years as an active factor in educational work. He afterward turned his attention to farming and in 1872 engaged in the wholesale grain trade in Illinois, buying and selling in all parts of that state. During that period he made his home at Buckley and at Momence. He dated his residence in Colorado from 1883, arriving at Platteville on the 16th of March of that year. In the following autumn he purchased a farm and for many years was actively identified with agricultural pursuits. He became the owner of what was known as the Fulton farm in Weld county and thereon extensively engaged in general farming and stock raising. The place comprises two hundred and forty acres of land, much of which he brought under a high state of cultivation, while a large part of it was devoted to pasture. He fed about fifteen hundred sheep, together with a large number of cattle and horses, and his place was well improved with a comfortable brick residence, substantial barns and all necessary sheds for the shelter of grain and stock. In his later years, however, Mr. McClave retired from active farm life and took up his abode in Denver in 1906, making his home in the city until called to his final rest on the 6th of October, 1914.
On the 18th of April, 1859, Mr. McClave was united in marriage to Miss Harriet N. Goodell, a daughter of John Goodell, of Lime, Grafton county, New Hampshire. They became the parents of eight children. Albert, the eldest, living in western Colorado, married Artie Brown, of Fort Lupton, this state. Bayard T. married Rnby Shepard, of Greeley, Colorado, and has two children, Florence and George. Maude is the wife of Robert M. Haythorn, of Eaton, Colorado, and has two children, Joe F., who was mar- ried on September 16, 1917, to Jennie Hoberg, and Hattie McClave. Perry died July 22, 1899, at the age of thirty-two years. Harriet is residing in Denver with her mother. Ada, living with her mother, is a teacher in the North Denver high school. Blanche is the wife of G. C. Bishop, of McClave, and has one child, Robert N. Ray E. married Bluebell Philip and resides at Fort Lupton, Colorado. They have five children: Anna- belle Cecelia, Blanche Ray, John Albert, Philip L. and Harriet Bluebell.
Mr. MeClave always gave his political allegiance to the republican party and while a resident of Illinois served as justice of the pace. In 1888 he was named as a candi- date for the Colorado legislature and during a period of three years he was secretary of his school district. He became a charter member of Platteville Lodge, No. 81. I. O. O. F., of which he was a past noble grand, and he was a member of the grand lodges of both Illinois and Colorado and was identified with the encampment in Illinois. The family are of the Congregational faith. Mr. McClave had many admirable traits of character and he held friendship inviolable. He was loyal to any trust reposed in him and was devoted to the welfare of his family. His salient characteristics were those which make for honorable manhood and loyal citizenship.
JOHN PERRY KELLY, M. D.
Dr. John Perry Kelly, of Golden, Colorado, is not only widely known because of the prominent position to which he has attained in medical circles but also by reason of the important part which he has played in the development of the educational interests of the city and his connection with various plans and projects that have been directly beneficial in the life of the community. He was born in Webster county, Iowa, near Fort Dodge, on the 29th of September, 1858, a son of Dr. James and Minerva Jane (Dowd) Kelly, the former also for many years a well known physician of Golden. The Kelly family has long been represented in Virginia. There was born James Kelly, the great-grandfather of Dr. Kelly of this review, and his father. both of whom engaged in agricultural pursnits. James Kelly was the owner of a plantation in Morgantown, Monongahela county. He married Jane Dale, also a native of Virginia and of English
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lineage, and their family included Matthew Kelly, who was born in West Virginia in 1802 and who became the grandfather of Dr. J. P. Kelly. In an early day he removed to Ohio and afterward hecame a resident of Decatur county, Indiana, in 1839, his home being there established upon a farm, which continued to be his place of residence until he reached his eighty-sixth year and was called to his final rest. In early manhood he wedded Charity Howard, a native of Elizabethtown. Pennsylvania, who died in Indiana at the age of seventy-six years. She was a daughter of Stephen Howard, who removed from Pennsylvania to the Buckeye state, where his last days were passed. He had served with the American army in the War of 1812.
Dr. James Kelly was the eldest of the twelve children of Matthew and Charity Kelly, his birth having occurred in Ohio on the 31st day of December, 1826. He had two brothers who served in the Civil war, Stephen heing a member of an Illinois regi- ment and David of an Indiana company. It was in the year 1839 that Matthew Kelly removed with his family to Indiana, taking up his abode on a farm in Decatur county, and there Dr. James Kelly pursued a common school education, while later he taught in one of the old-time log schoolhouses of that locality for two years. He regarded this, however, merely as an initial step to other professional labor, for it was his earnest desire to become a medical practitioner and even before taking up the profession of teaching he studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Swem, of Greensburg, Indiana. In 1853 he became a student in the medical department of the State University of Michi- gan and was there graduated with the M. D. degree in 1854. Removing to Webster county, Iowa, he practiced his profession there until 1860, when he decided to come to Colorado. He outfitted at Topeka, Kansas, and with an ox team made the trip across the plains to Denver, where he arrived on the 11th of June. For a year he engaged in the practice of medicine at Idaho Springs and in 1861 settled upon a farm on Clear creek, Jefferson county, on which he put one hundred head of cattle. It was his purpose to give his time and attention to stock raising, but soon the demands made upon him for profes- sional skill became so great that he was forced to remove to Golden. Here he opened an office and it was not long before his practice extended all over Jefferson and into Clear Creek, Arapahoe and Gilpin counties. He also opened a drug store, which he con- ducted from 1866. In the later years of his life he retired from active practice save that a few families who had long benefited by his services refused to employ any other physician. In these later years, however, much of his practice was already turned over to his son. Dr. John P. Kelly, of this review. Through many years Dr. James Kelly was the loved family physician in many a household of Golden and Jefferson county, and such was his deep interest in his work and his fellowmen that he never refused to respond to a call even when he knew no pecuniary remuneration would be received. He was a man of deep sympathy and high purpose, honored and respected hy all.
Dr. James Kelly was a republican in his political views and in 1866 and 1868 was elected treasurer of Jefferson county. He served for several terms as mayor of Golden and as alderman of the city until he declined to longer continue in office. His fellow townsmen recognized in him one who was most loyal to the public good and whose efforts were of a most practical character in bringing about public progress and im- provement. He was very prominent in Masonic circles, taking all of the degrees up to the York Rite and becoming a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
Dr. John Perry Kelly was but eighteen months old when the family home was established in Colorado and his early education therefore was acquired in the public schools of Golden, in which he passed through consecutive grades to the high school. As a student in the University of Michigan he won the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist and in the spring of 1881 that of M. D. Returning to Colorado, he was superintendent of the old Arapahoe County Hospital for a year and he practiced for about six months in Denver. On the expiration of that period he again came to Golden, where he has since remained in active and successful practice. The name of Kelly is inseparably interwoven with the history of the medical profession in Jefferson county and has ever been a synonym for the highest standards and ideals of professional work. Dr. Kelly has constantly broadened his knowledge by reading and study and has further- more kept in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress as a member of the Denver County Medical Society, the Colorado State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
In Golden, on the 4th of May, 1886, Dr. Kelly was married to Miss Addie Bisher, a daughter of Abraham and Cicily (Mccutcheon) Bisher, the latter a native of Pennsyl- vania. To Dr. and Mrs. Kelly have been born two daughters and a son. Elizabeth May is the wife of John Charles Williams, a mining engineer, who is a graduate of the School of Mines of Colorado and is now assistant director of the experimenting plant. James married Juanita Smith and is operating a large ranch, five miles from Golden.
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Addie, the youngest of the family, is the wife of the Rev. Don F. Fenn, of Canon City, Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have a daughter, Elizabeth Jane, and Rev. and Mrs. Fenn have a son, Don Perry.
With the public interests of Golden Dr. Kelly has been closely and prominently associated. He was president of the school board when the high school was erected and for eighteen years was a member of the board of trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, serving as president of the board from 1903 to 1911, and he has been active in erecting all of the new buildings. He has served as county health officer and as county coroner and was physician for the Colorado Industrial School for sixteen years. He is likewise a director of the Rubey National Bank. He has in his possession the Bible which was used in swearing in the first territorial officials of Colorado, his father having been a member of the territorial legislature in the fall of 1863. Fraternally Dr. Kelly, like his father, is a prominent Mason, having membership in Golden Lodge, No. 1, A. F. & A. M .; Golden Chapter, No. 5. R. A. M .; Colorado Commandery, No. 1, K. T., of Denver; and El Jebel Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a life member of the Scottish Rite Masons and has membership relations with Central City Lodge, No. 558, B. P. O. E.
EDWARD M. SABIN.
Edward M. Sabin, a successful attorney and business man who since 1894 has engaged in the practice of law in Denver, was born in Dane county, Wisconsin, on the 3d of October, 1866. His father, Samuel Henry Sabin, was a farmer by occupation and was a veteran of the Civil war, having served as lieutenant in the infantry during the period of hostilities between the north and the south. He was born in Ohio in 1824 and death called him when he was eighty-five years of age. He married Adelia Bordine, of the state of New York, and she, too, has passed away.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Edward M. Sabin acquired a public school education in Dane county, Wisconsin, and afterward attended the State Normal School at Whitewater, Wisconsin. Subsequently he became a student in the law school of the Wisconsin State University at Madison and was graduated with the LL. B. degree as a member of the class of 1893. He has since engaged in the general practice of law, covering a period of a quarter of a century. He belongs to the Denver Bar Association and enjoys the high regard of his colleagues in the profession
In 1898 Mr. Sabin was united in marriage to Miss Laura North, a daughter of James North. They have one son, James North Sabin, eighteen years of age and now a student in Colorado College. Mr. Sabin belongs to the Phi Delta Phi, a college fra- ternity; is likewise a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; and gives his political allegiance to the republican party, which finds in him a stalwart advocate. He is a successful attorney and progressive business man, alert, farsighted and deter- mined, carrying forward to successful completion at all times whatever he undertakes.
ANDREW J. KELLY.
Andrew J. Kelly made his initial step in the business world in connection with mercantile interests and throughout his entire life has continued in that line, being now proprietor of a wholesale and retail general merchandise establishment at Pike- view, Colorado, conducted under the name of The Miners & Farmers Trading & Mer- cantile Company. In the opportunities of the west he has found the chance for the development of his industry and enterprise, which are his dominant characteristics. His eastern training has here found scope and his labors have constituted an important element in the upbuilding of the district in which he resides.
Mr. Kelly was born at Perryville, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of February, 1863, a son of James Poe and Margaret A. (Harl) Kelly, both of whom were natives of the Keystone state. The son, after acquiring a common school education at Dayton, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, started out in the business world when a youth of fifteen by securing a clerkship in a mercantile establishment and through- out all the intervening years he has been actively associated with commercial interests save for a period of three years, during which time he taught school for a year and was cashier of the Colorado Springs Street Railway Company for a year, while the remaining year was passed in California. Since 1903 he has been the manager of the business conducted under the name of The Miners & Farmers Trading & Mercantile
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Company at Pikeview, where as a wholesale and retail dealer in general merchandise he is conducting an annual business amounting to sixty thousand dollars. He is actuated in all that he does by a spirit of progressiveness that is manifest in the excellent appear- ance of his establishment and in the methods which he pursues. He has ever realized that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement and he has put forth every effort to please those who give him their trade. He is also serving as postmaster of Pikeview, which position he has occupied since 1905.
In 1896 Mr. Kelly was united in marriage to Miss Anna A. Zufall, who was reared in Pennsylvania and was liberally educated, being a graduate of Staunton College, of Staunton, Virginia, after which she taught school for two years, She is a daughter of William H. Zufall, who was appointed postmaster of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, by President Harrison, after which Mrs. Kelly largely had charge of the office. Her mother bore the maiden name of Mary E. Bowman and both she and her husband were reared in the Keystone state. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have a son, William A., who was born Sep- tember 11, 1897, and after completing a high school course by graduation he entered the Colorado College at Colorado Springs, which he attended two years. He likewise spent two years as a student in the University of Colorado at Boulder and then enlisted for active service in the Signal Corps branch of the army and is at the present ranking as master electrician. He enlisted on the 11th of March, 1918, in the Seventeenth Balloon Company and is now in France. He is a past master of the Kappa Sigma, a college fraternity.
Mr. Kelly is a thirty-second degree Mason. At present he is generalissimo of Pike's Peak Commandery, No. 6, K. T., at Colorado Springs and is in line for the office of commander at the next election. His business and fraternal relations have made him widely known and his genuine worth and ability have brought him prominently to the front as a leading, representative and honored citizen of his section of the state.
FRANK MAXWELL McCARTNEY, M. D.
On the list of Denver's able surgeons appears the name of Dr. Frank Maxwell McCart- ney, whose broad study, leading to the development of his powers, has placed him in the front rank among those who are specializing in surgical work in Colorado. He is a native son of this state, his birth having occurred in Park county, March 31, 1875. His father was the late William McCartney, a native of Ohio, whose family came of Scotch-Irish ancestry and was early represented at Youngstown. Ohio. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Frank M. McCartney came to the new world from Ireland during the uprising among the anti-Catholics there, and also during the potato famine in that country. He settled near Youngstown, Ohio, where his son William was reared and educated. On reaching young manhood the latter took up the profession of teaching. He afterward removed westward to Colorado, but soon retraced his steps to Iowa, where he remained for a short time. He then went to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he joined his future wife and was there married. They outfitted there for a trip across the plains with an ox team, and on reaching Colorado they took up their abode at Breckenridge, where Mr. McCartney cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers. He began prospecting and there discovered the Country Boy mine, one of the great Colorado producers, and also located several placer mines of note. After the discovery of his first mine he operated it for a short period and then sold his interests to the late Mr. Hoops of Breckenridge. Mr. McCartney then removed to Park county, Colorado, where he secured extensive tracts of land and engaged in ranching and in the raising of live stock. This business he followed very successfully throughout his remaining days, passing away when fifty-nine years of age. He was a stanch republican in politics and he served as justice of the peace while in Park county. His religious faith was that of the Methodist church and he was a devout Christian man, loyally adhering to the teachings of the church and doing everything in his power to promote its growth and extend its influence. He was also an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity. During the Indian wars in Colorado he took an active part in fighting the red man, and on several occasions had very narrow escapes. He was a man absolutely fearless and courageous, of fine physique, being six feet tall and well proportioned. and his weight was about one hundred and eighty-five pounds. He was one of the pioneer miners and stock raisers of this state and contributed in substantial measure to its growth and development. He married Cynthia Levisa Keys, a native of Ohio, who was reared and educated, however, in Iowa and Kansas, having gone to these states during the pioneer epoch in their development. The Keys family of which she was a representative was founded in America by one of the Mayflower passengers and
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