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Judge Rucker belongs to the Denver Athletic Club and his religious faith is indi- cated by his membership in the Christian church. He has turned to hunting and fish- ing for rest and relaxation, greatly enjoying those sports. While he has passed beyond the Psalmist's span of three score years and ten he is still a most active, energetic man and in spirit and interests as well as in personal appearance seems yet in his prime. The term seventy-one years young may be appropriately applied to him. He keeps closely in touch with the trend of modern thought and progress and gives out of his rich stores of wisdom and experience for the benefit of others. His activities have covered a broad field, touching the general interests of society, and Colorado has reason to class him with her valued, honored and representative citizens.
JOHN D. WARBERG.
John D. Warberg has extensive landed interests in Larimer and Weld counties but makes his home in the former, living on section 32, township 5, range 68, his place being pleasantly situated about five miles southeast of Loveland. He was born in Sweden, November 4, 1861, a son of Carl and Gustava (Danielson) Warberg, who were also natives of Sweden. The father followed farming in that country throughout his entire life, his labors being ended in death in January, 1891. His widow survived him for a considerable period, passing away in December, 1910.
John D. Warberg spent his youthful days in his native country until he had com- pleted his first two decades. He was educated in the schools of Sweden and in 1881 the opportunities of the new world attracted him across the Atlantic and he became a resident of Boulder county, Colorado, where he was employed as a farm hand for five years. Anxious and ambitious to engage in business on his own account, he then rented land in Weld county and continued its cultivation for five years. On the ex- piration of that period he bought land a mile and a half north of Berthoud, but the country soon afterward was swept by a widespread financial panic and he lost every- thing. He then had to go to work again for others for another year, at the end of which time he took a contract for digging irrigation ditches. Later he rented his present place, upon which he lived for four years as a renter and then purchased the property, which he has since owned and cultivated. He has ninety-seven acres and has improved the place in nice shape. For years he fed cattle and sheep but for the past three years has not engaged in stock feeding on account of impaired health. He has purchased more land from time to time and is now the owner of eight hundred and forty acres of dry land in Weld county and two hundred and fifty-seven acres, upon which he resides, in Larimer county, most of which is irrigated. He rents most of his land at the present time, however, leaving the arduous work of further developing and cultivating his farm to others.
On the 28th of December, 1892, Mr. Warberg was united in marriage to Miss Sophie Carlson, a daughter of Carl and Eva (Carlson) Carlson. who were natives of Sweden. Mrs. Warberg was born in that country in December, 1864. Her father also made farm- ing his life work and passed away in Sweden in April, 1914, while the mother survived until March of the following year. Mr. and Mrs. Warberg have become the parents of five children: Ellen, who is at home; Annie. a teacher at Milliken, Colorado; Daveda; Cecelia, who is attending the State Teachers' College; and Carl, who is a student in the high school of Loveland.
Mr. Warberg has served on the school board for fifteen years and the cause of
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education has ever found in him a stalwart champion. He has given his children excellent advantages in that direction, desiring to prepare them in the best possible way for life's practical and responsible duties. Fraternally he is connected with the Loyal Order of Moose, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. Politically be is a republican and his religious belief is that of the United Presbyterian church. He is a man of excellent traits of character and of high principles and his genuine worth is attested by the many friends that he has made during the period of his residence in Colorado.
NELS ANDERSON.
Nels Anderson is the owner of a well improved farm property near Sedalia, largely devoted to dairy interests. He was born in Sweden in 1867, a son of Andrew and Mary (Anderson) Anderson, both of whom were natives of the same country. In 1887, when a young man of twenty years, Nels Anderson crossed the Atlantic to the new world and established his home in Brainerd, Minnesota. After living in that section for two years he removed westward to Castle Rock, Colorado, and was for eight years employed in the stone quarries, thus making his initial step in the business circles of his adopted state. On the expiration of that period he located in Sedalia, where he conducted business for fifteen years and then sold out. He next turned his attention to agri- cultural pursuits and purchased the farm of one hundred and twenty acres, a half mile west of Sedalia, upon which he now resides. He has put all of the improvements upon this property, erecting a new house, a large and substantial barn and all the necessary sheds for the shelter of grain and stock. He is engaged in dairy farming and for this purpose keeps a large number of high-grade cows. Everything about the place is most sanitary and he displays sound judgment in the care of his milk from the time it is taken from the cows until it reaches the consumers.
In 1902 Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Elma Victoria Anderson, who was born in Denver and was reared in Elizabeth, Elbert county, Colorado. They have become the parents of four children: Esther G., Thelma M., Grace G. and Helen E.
In his political views Mr. Anderson has always been a stalwart republican since becoming a naturalized American citizen. He is much interested in the cause of public education and for four years has been secretary of the Sedalia school. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church and he is a man of genuine worth whose progress has been continuous since he came to the new world and who is ever a stalwart cham- pion of material, intellectual and moral progress.
DR. PETER CARPENTER.
One of the pioneers of the Greeley colony was Daniel Carpenter, father of Dr. Peter Carpenter and mentioned at length an another page of this work in connection with the sketch of LeRoy S. Carpenter. Peter Carpenter purchased land seven miles east of Fort Collins, Colorado, and located his family thereon in 1870, hoping to regain his health in the outdoor life. He died, however, in 1871, leaving a widow and three sons, George, Harry and Don. The eldest George S. Carpenter, remained with his mother, Mrs. Mary P. Carpenter, upon the farm and developed it, thus giving to the state another ideal home. He is still the owner of the old homestead property east of Fort Collins, near Timnath. He was married January 2, 1900, to Jessie Fox, of Odebolt, Iowa, and they have three children, Harry, Dorothy and Harold. George S. Carpenter still con- tinues to engage in farming and stock feeding and is one of the representative ranch- men of the community.
MRS. SARAH LOVELAND, a daughter of Daniel Carpenter, was married December 10, 1872, to Revilo Loveland and they lived near Windsor, Colorado, for several years but later removed to Fort Collins, where Mrs. Loveland passed away and was laid to rest in 1916. Her husband still resides there at the advanced age of eighty-two years and he has a very clear memory of his early adventures in the state, when he was in the employ of the government upon the frontier in 1857, guarding the country from Denver to Laramie, Wyoming, against the Indian depredations. He came west from Connecticut for his health and remained in the government service for eight years, employed in various ways, He then retired to the farm near Windsor and devoted
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his attention to its development and cultivation. He is a man of unusual, sterling character and many newcomers have been encouraged and cheered by his good advice and generous hospitality. He still relates many interesting experiences which have become matters of history and which have contributed to making Colorado the great state that it is today.
MRS. MATTIE BOSWORTH, a daughter of Daniel Carpenter, the Greeley pioneer, became the wife of Harlan P. Bosworth, a native of West Virginia, who removed to Larimer county, Colorado, at which time Bellvue was his postoffice. Subsequently he removed to Stove Prairie. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bosworth, which was celebrated in March, 1879, there were born two sons, Jay S. and Homer C., who assisted their father in his agricultural labors and the clearing of the farms in the mountains, where they raised stock. They also made a specialty of the production of seed potatoes for the valley and later Homer C. Bosworth became a forest ranger in Montana.
ALFRED B. CARPENTER, a son of LeRoy S. and Martha A. (Bennett) Carpenter, men- tioned elsewhere in this work, and a grandson of Daniel Carpenter, has done a great deal toward the improvement of the home farm near Greeley, as he very early dis- played natural aptitude in promoting irrigation. When but ten years of age he com- menced to irrigate successfully and took the job of thoroughly irrigating his father's farm, while later he performed an equal service on his own land near Ault. He was married September 6, 1904, to Mary Edna Caward, of Butler, Missouri, and to them were born three daughters, Mabel, Ida and Emeline, all of whom were horn on the father's farm two and a half miles west of Ault. There Alfred B. Carpenter developed a new farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He also owned a farming property east of Ault but disposed of these tracts of land in 1913 and removed to other new lands near Gowanda in Weld county, on the new line of the Union Pacific Railroad, extending from Denver to Fort Collins. There he has continued farming and has earned the just reputation of being one of the best potato growers of the state, having tested the moun- tain soil as a restorer of the run-out potatoes of the valley, by his own efforts, on a claim he homesteaded near Stove Prairie in Larimer county.
HON. JOHN W. GOSS.
Hon. John W. Goss is now living retired in Longmont. His career has been one of activity and usefulness, for he was long numbered among the prominent farmers of Boulder county and in public affairs he has been a contributing factor to the welfare and progress of community and commonwealth. Twice he has represented his district in the state legislature.
Mr. Goss is a native of New York, his birth having occurred in St. Lawrence county on the 11th of May, 1840. His parents were Darius and Sophia ( Blackstone) Goss. The father was a native of Vermont, and the mother of New York. They were married in the Empire state and there resided until 1852, when they hecame residents of Kent county, Michigan, taking up their abode upon a farm. In addition to cul- tivating his land the father engaged in preaching as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Both he and his wife passed away in Michigan and of their family of eight children four are now living.
J. W. Goss of this review spent the period of his boyhood and youth in Michigan and acquired his education there. He was a young man of twenty-one years when in 1861 he responded to the country's call for aid and joined Company C of the Twenty- first Regiment of Michigan Infantry. He went to the front with that command and stanchly aided in the defense of the Union, returning to his home with a creditable military record. In 1864 he drove an ox team across the country to Colorado and took up his abode in Boulder county, where he secured a homestead. Later he purchased more land hut has since sold this property to his children. He is, however, the owner of a fine residence in Longmont, where he now resides. For many years he was actively and successfully engaged in general agricultural pursuits and brought his land under a high state of cultivation. He is one of the stockholders in the farmers' mill and elevator of Longmont. He assisted in the organization of this company, which is one of the things that has put the county ahead, and his cooperation therewith is some- thing of which he has every reason to be proud.
On December 15, 1867, Mr. Goss was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Olcott, who was born in the state of New York, a daughter of Philander and Elizabeth H. (Stevens) Olcott, who were likewise natives of New York. In 1852 they removed to Michigan, where they continued to reside until called to their final rest. To Mr. and Mrs. Goss
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have been born six children: Bertha, now the wife of F. Lee Johnson, of Palmer, Idaho; W. D., who is also living in that state; Percy A., of Boulder county; John B. and James A., twins, who are successful ranchers; and Charles N., following the same line of occupation. All the children now occupy honorable positions in life and are a credit to their parents. The latter have passed their fifty-first wedding anniversary and have ever been true helpmeets to each other. They knew each other from early life, as they come from the same neighborhood in Michigan, Mr. Goss having taught the school in which Mrs. Goss was one of the pupils. Dependent only upon themselves, they started married life and they have fashioned their own success. The prosperity that has come to them and their present ease they richly merit, having devoted many years of hard work to attain that measure of affluence which has permitted them to place their children in respectable positions in life and to now live upon a competency sufficient for their wants.
The parents attend the Congregational church and are interested in all that works for progress, development and improvement in the community. Mr. Goss is a member of the Grange, with which he has been identified for forty years. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and, active in its ranks, he was elected to serve in the nineteenth general assembly of the state legislature, where he made a creditable record, and he also served in an extra session called by Governor Ammons. He gave earnest consideration to the vital problems which came up for settlement and proved an able working member of the lawmaking body of Colorado. His life, carefully directed in its purposes and activities, has been productive of substantial results and today he is one of the men of affluence of Longmont and, moreover, he enjoys the highest respect because his success has been most honorably won.
HON. JAMES R. NOLAND.
In the election of 1918 there probably was among the larger honors bestowed by the state none more justly and deservedly given to any candidate than the one which Hon. James R. Noland received in his reelection to the office of secretary of state. Not only is Mr. Noland a well known and well informed newspaper man of Denver, of positive ideas and accomplishments, who has had a deep insight into public affairs and vast experience, but he has also always been a loyal adherent of his party and as secretary of state has ably demonstrated his peculiar fitness for the office. While Mr. Noland occupies an eminent place on the roster of state officials, he has never lost the common touch and to his old friends he is still plain "Jimmie" Noland and such he will always affectionately remain to them.
Mr. Noland was born in Jackson county, Missouri, February 18, 1873, a son of Hinton H. and Mary Elizabeth Noland. There he was reared and in the acquirement of his education he attended the common and high schools of that state, including Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri. In September of 1897 he was united in marri- age in Kansas City, Missouri, to Miss Ida B. Matthews, a daughter of James S. and Ella E. Matthews, and to this union was born one son, James M. Noland, on April 1, 1900. The family removed to Denver in 1905 and has ever since made the capital city their home.
Since coming to Colorado Mr. Noland has been prominently connected with Denver newspapers, having given his whole attention to that line of business until elected to the office of secretary of state, with the exception of three years-from 1909 to 1912- when he efficiently served as secretary of the fire and police board. As a newspaper writer and reporter he became familiar with legislative, city hall and statehouse work and in that way became closely informed in regard to public affairs. Under his own name he wrote feature stuff which became famous in Colorado and made him eminently popular. Mr. Noland has also excelled in handling judiciously many newspaper articles regarding organized labor, which brought him in touch with the working men and in that way he earned the friendship of union men generally. In this regard the Denver Post in one of its issues in 1916 said: "In covering any trial growing out of labor disputes which was difficult to handle he always gave both sides a square deal and there- fore successfully retained the friendship and confidence of all."
It was in the autumn of 1916 that Mr. Noland's name first became identified with the democratic nomination for secretary of state. He was named by the executive com- mittee of the democratic state central committee when the resignation of William F. Allen as democratic nominee was formally but reluctantly accepted. the committee hav- ing united upon Mr. Noland after considering his qualifications most carefully and from every point of view. At that time the Denver Post of October 8, 1916, wrote:
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"To everybody the new candidate is plain 'Jimmie' Noland and the committee feels that in putting him on the ticket they have placed before the voters a name known to every county in the state, for Mr. Noland's work as newspaper writer during the last several years has taken him into every section of the state, just as his service as secretary of the Denver fire and police board from 1909 to 1912 added thousands to the number of his personal acquaintances and friends." At that time the Denver Post said also: "If anyone has a wider personal acquaintance than Jimmie Noland that person's name does not occur at this moment," and this statement still stands today and to it it may be added that all of this large acquaintance are thoroughly agreed as to the high qualities of character of Mr. Noland as well as his executive ability and entire fitness for the position to which in 1918 he was reelected on the democratic ticket in the face of a state-wide republican landslide, as a just tribute to these qualities.
To his duties in the office of secretary of state Mr. Noland brings rare qualifications, partly intuitive and partly acquired. He has a judicial as well as an executive mind, is well versed in the law and, moreover, as a newspaper man has gained a deep insight into general conditions pertaining to all walks of life, which highly qualifies him for the multitudinous duties which fall to his lot. He has introduced a number of short cuts and systems into the administration of his office which have proven of great benefit to the public in that they have not only accelerated and facilitated the work but have made that work of greater benefit at less expenditure. Mr. Noland has always seen to it that in the relationship with the general public the greatest courtesy has been main- tained by all officials and clerks serving under him and information desired from his office or any business transaction with it receives careful, painstaking consideration.
Mr. Noland is a member of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, the Optimist Club and the Denver Press Club, and from his college days has retained mem- bership in Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The affectionate regard in which he is held by his newspaper friends is evident from the fact that he was president of the Denver Press Club during 1911-12 and the high position which is accorded him as an editorial writer is founded entirely upon his merits. His opinions have always been based upon penetrating studies and before coming to this state he was for many years a valued member of the editorial department of different Kansas City (Mo.) newspapers.
Mr. Noland throws his whole soul and effort into the administration of his im- portant public duties, which have been especially trying during the last years under war conditions, and he has fully sustained that confidence which all who know aught of him have in regard to his ability, experience and honorable purpose. His wife is one of the most widely influential women in Colorado and is affectionately and universally known as "Mrs. Jimmie." She and Mr. Noland have always been inseparable chums. The son was in the students' reserve corps and is now attending. the State University at Boulder.
WALTER J. PRENDERGAST.
Although Walter J. Prendergast is now nearing his eighty-sixth birthday he is still actively engaged in the live stock industry in Larimer county, where he owns a valuable ranch on section 36, township 7, range 69 west, four miles south of Fort Collins. Through enterprise and industry he has become recognized as one of the leading citizens of his part of the state, having not only attained individual pros- perity but also having played a conspicuous part in making his section the rich agri- cultural district which it is today. A native of Ireland. Mr. Prendergast was born in Mayo county, in the western part of the island, on Easter Sunday, 1833, a son of Patrick and Margaret (Laughlin) Prendergast, also natives of the Emerald isle. The father followed agricultural pursuits in his native land but in later life went to Eng- land, where he died in 1846, his widow surviving until 1852.
Walter J. Prendergast was reared and educated in Ireland but in 1848, at the age of fifteen, also went to England, where he spent six years as a farm hand, becoming thoroughly acquainted with valuable agricultural methods during this period. In December, 1854, he decided upon emigration to America and crossed the Atlantic. Upon arriving in New York conditions there obtaining at that time in regard to employ- ment did not come up to his expectations but on the contrary he looked for work for five or six weeks unsuccessfully, not being able to find anything to satisfy his taste or ability. During this period he had gone to surrounding districts but instead of finding a place he suffered nothing but hardships, so at the end of six weeks he decided to return to the city and then enlisted in New York as a member of Company K, Seventh United States
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Infantry, in 1855. The company was subsequently sent to New Orleans and later to the Indian Territory, being stationed at Fort Arbuckle until 1855, and in 1857 it was sent to Leavenworth, Kansas, there remaining for three or four months. It was then sent to Camp Floyd, Utah, where the Mormons were becoming troublesome. Mr. Prendergast served with the organization for five years, being discharged in February, 1860, and during part of that time acted as government wagon boss. In 1860 he came to Larimer county, Colorado, and settled on the Little Thompson, putting up hay for one year. He then moved to the Poudre river, taking up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, receiving his patent in 1860. He lived there for sixteen years, and then sold that ranch, and moved to his present location. He is therefore one of the oldest and most honored pioneers of this district, having ever since made his home here and having witnessed the development of Colorado from territorial days to its present high condition of prosperity. When he arrived here he witnessed some of the troubles with the Indians but personally was not molested by the redskins. As the years passed and his income from his tract increased he acquired more land and now owns two hundred and forty acres. He has bought and sold farm lands here all his life and now has also sold his homestead, having improved the place to quite an extent. His present farm is highly developed, standing as evidence of his enterprise and industry and from it Mr. Prendergast receives a most gratifying income. He has always given his attention to high grade stock and has specialized in feeding cattle, sheep and lambs for years.
In April, 1860, Mr. Prendergast was married to Miss Martha Hanson and to them were born six children: Mary, who died in April, 1917; Margaret, the wife of Allen McLain, who is a college professor located in Canada; John, a successful agriculturist of Weld county, Colorado; Walter H., who is assisting in the management of his father's place; Martha, the wife of Clifford S. Atherley, a resident of Ogden, Utah, where he is engaged in government work; and James, who also is farming part of his father's property. On April 9, 1917, Mrs. Prendergast passed to the home beyond after nearly fifty-eight years of an ideal marital union. At the time of her demise she was seventy-five years of age, and enjoying the best of health throughout her long life, was sick only a short time before her death.
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