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In his boyhood days George W. Heffner attended the public schools of Watson- town, Pennsylvania, and afterward learned the carpenter's trade and the lumher business under the direction of his father. He continued to work along those two lines until he had attained his majority, when he left home and went to Billings, Montana. There he engaged in contracting and building for a few years with good success and then removed to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where he engaged in mining and prospecting, continuing a resident of that state for a year. He then returned to Elwood, Indiana, where he established and conducted a lumber business and planing mill on his own account. He met with success in that undertaking and after thirteen years at Elwood sold all of his interests there and removed to Los Angeles, California, where he lived retired from active business for a year. Indolence and idleness, however, are utterly foreign to his nature and he could not content himself to remain without some occupation, so after a year's rest in southern California he removed to Chicago, where he established a wholesale lumber business which he conducted successfully for seven years. Disposing of his interests there, he removed to Toronto, Canada, where he became one of the owners of the Gold Medal Furniture Manufacturing Company, Ltd., and acted as manager of the business. He remained in that connection for about a
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year, at the end of which time he sold his interests and removed to Missoula, Montana, where he engaged in the wholesale lumber trade. Mr. Heffner remained in Missoula until 1905, when he decided to locate in Denver, where he at once established himself in the wholesale lumber business. His extensive experience and familiarity with the trade made his venture a success from the beginning. He rapidly built up a profitable and growing business, which in 1915 was organized into the Heffner Lumber & Manu- facturing Company, a copartnership, conducting a wholesale and jobbing business, with Mr. Heffner as general manager.
In 1918 Mr. Heffner purchased a block of ground at the southwest corner of Forty-fourth and York streets in Denver, where in 1919 the firm will begin the operation " of a planing mill in connection with the conduct of its wholesale and retail lumber business, which will include the handling of builders' hardware of all kinds, glass, paint, cement, building paper and roofing. To facilitate the handling of the increased business their interests were incorporated in 1919 as the Heffner Lumber & Manufactur- ing Company, with George W. Heffner as president and general manager.
In January, 1885, Mr. Heffner was married at Anderson, Indiana, to Miss Rosa Besch, a daughter of John and Theresa Besch, of that city. Mrs. Heffner died Sep- tember 8, 1905, in Elwood, Indiana, leaving a daughter and a son. The former is now Mrs. Frances Currier, and the son is Frederick Eugene, manager and head of the credit and traffic department of the Palm Olive Company of St. Louis, a branch of the B. F. Johnson Soap Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the present time Mr. Heffner is erecting a fine home at 1650 Albion street, in one of the best residential districts of the city. He is justly accorded a prominent place among Denver's progressive business men and leading citizens. He has through his splendid business ability built up one of the leading commercial houses in its line in the great west. His connection with the lumber and building trade extends through more than a third of a century in various sections of the country, thus affording him a rare opportunity for acquiring a practical knowledge of its various lines and workings. Mr. Heffner is a Blue Lodge and Chapter Mason, belonging to the order at Kankakee, Illinois. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church and its teachings have guided him in all the rela- tions of life, making him a man whom to know is to respect and honor because of his sterling worth and his loyalty to high principles.
CLARENCE B. FRINK.
Clarence B. Frink is a member of the Carlson & Frink Creamery Company, con- trolling extensive dairy interests in Colorado, with branch establishments at various points. They have their headquarters at Larkspur, Douglas county, where Mr. Frink makes his home. He was born in Madison county, New York, December 12, 1878, a son of Orrelo and Etta (Pickham) Frink, natives of the state of New York. The father was interested in the creamery business in the Empire state, where he resided until 1890, when he brought his family to Colorado, settling at Fort Lupton. Clarence B. Frink spent one year in study at the Colorado State Teachers College of Greeley and one year as a student in the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he pursued a course in agriculture and dairying. He further continued his studies along that line at Columbus Ohio, where he spent a year, and in 1902 he established a creamery at Larkspur, Colorado, and was associated with C. G. Carlson, of Denver. At present Mr. Frink is doing business under the firm style of the Carlson & Frink Creamery Company, with headquarters at Larkspur, Douglas county, where he has his office and the main business. He has, however, established branch creameries at various points, including Sedalia, Castle Rock and Cherry in Douglas county; Kiowa in Elbert county, and Calhan and Monument in El Paso county. He practically handles the entire milk supply in a radius of many miles. The business is done on strictly modern lines and according to the most scientific methods concerning sanitation and everything that has to do with keeping the milk clean and healthful. His establish- ments are all models of neatness, while the business methods employed commend the company to the full patronage and support of the general public. The firm of Carlson & Frink is a close corporation, all stock practically being owned by Mr. Frink and his family.
In 1902 Mr. Frink was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Cheely, a daughter of Alli- son and Sarah (Slate) Cheely. Mrs. Frink was born near Golden, Colorado. Her father was one of the pioneers of this state, settling near Golden at an early day. To Mr.
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and Mrs. Frink have been born three children: Eugene, who is in the Kemper Military School at Boonville, Missouri; and Genevieve and Robert, at home.
Fraternally Mr. Frink is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and he has his blue lodge membership at Fort Lupton. He is likewise a member of the Denver Athletic Club. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and although he is not an office seeker, he is active in framing public thought and action in regard to local politics. He owns a large, fine residence at Larkspur but removed in the winter of 1918-19 to Denver in order to give his children the better educational opportunities afforded by the city. His course has been marked by steady progress since he made his initial step in the business world. Year by year he has progressed, wisely utilizing his opportunities, and he is today at the head of an extensive and important creamery business that covers a wide territory and has become one of the important commercial interests of the section in which he operates.
E. J. JONES.
E. J. Jones, an alert and enterprising merchant of Broomfield, was born in Richland county, Illinois, October 17, 1867, a son of Oscar and Mary (Nicholas) Jones. The father was born near Troy, Wisconsin, while the mother's birth occurred in the state of New York. They were married in Illinois in 1865, where they resided until 1879. It was in 1859 that Oscar Jones left Wisconsin and came to Colorado with John C. Fremont. Later he was with Kit Carson, the scout, in New Mexico at the time when the Civil war broke out. In 1862, however, he returned to St. Louis, Missouri, and thence went east to Richland county, Illinois, where he was married in 1865. as mentioned above, and there their children were born. Illinois remained the home of the family until 1879, when they removed to northern Michigan, where they resided for two years. In 1881 Mr. Jones, Sr., again became a resident of Colorado, where he is still living with his son, Edgar J., at the advanced age of eighty-five years. His wife, however, has passed away. In their family were two children, both of whom sur- vive.
E. J. Jones accompanied his parents on their various removals and completed his education in the schools of Colorado. In 1896 and 1897 he engaged in merchandising at Broomfield, but was not engaged in that line from 1897 until 1901, when he bought the building in which he is still located and resumed business. He opened a general store and has since carried a large and complete stock, meeting the demands of many customers. He has always recognized that satisfied patrons are the best advertisement and has put forth every effort to please those who give him their support. In 1901 he was appointed postmaster of Broomfield and has since occupied that position, con- ducting the office in addition to the management of his store.
In 1903 Mr. Jones was married to Miss Minnie Churchill and to them have been born two children, Eva M. and Edgar, Jr. Mr. Jones has always been a stanch advo- cate of republican principles and in matters of citizenship is most public-spirited, giving his active support and aid to all interests of benefit to the community at large.
FISHER E. SMITH, M. D.
Since 1915 Dr. Fisher E. Smith has resided in Parker, where he gives bis attention to the general practice of medicine, and in connection conducts a drug store, in the management of which he has proven very successful. A native of Colorado, he was born April 11, 1876, in Golden, and is a son of Joel W. and Mary F. (Haslip) Smith, the former born in Tennessee and the latter in Missouri. Joel W. Smith is numbered among the famous pioneers of Colorado and now makes his home in Denver, where he is prominently engaged in the dry goods business, being the only surviving partner in the firm of Daniels, Fisher & Smith, the pioneer dry goods house of the capital city.
Fisher E. Smith spent his boyhood days under the parental roof and after suitable preparation for university training decided upon the profession of medicine as a life work and entered the Medical University of Louisville, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1899. Being duly qualified. he then established himself in practice at Grand Junction, Colorado, and later practiced for some time in Rocky Ford, Colorado, and also in Leadville and Denver, but in 1915 came to Parker. During the intervening years he has built up a lucrative and gratifying practice. Dr. Smith is of a studious
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nature and has ever kept in touch with the latest discoveries made in the field of medical science and as his knowledge and experience have expanded has gained the confidence of the public, so that he is considered one of the ablest physicians and surgeons of his part of the state. In 1916 he acquired a drug store at Parker, which he manages in connection with his practice.
In 1904 Dr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Carrie A. Luvall, of Galesburg, Illinois, who is a graduate nurse and by reason of that experience is now able to assist her husband in numerous ways, both as far as the conduct of the drug store is concerned, as well as in the treatment of his cases.
Dr. Smith has always given his allegiance to the democratic party, in the principles of which organization he thoroughly believes, and has ever taken a helpful interest in matters of public import although he has never put himself before the public as an office seeker. However, anything that pertains to progress and development in his district finds in him a warm champion and he is ever ready to sacrifice time or money in order to advance the interests of his community. There is an interesting military chapter in the career of Dr. Smith, who in 1900 enlisted at Seattle, Washington, in the United States Medical Corps and served with the United States army in the Philippines until 1903. Fraternally Dr. Smith is a member of the Benevolent Protec- tive Order of Elks, belonging to the lodge at Leadville. Both he and Mrs. Smith are popular in the social circles of their neighborhood and are highly esteemed for their rare qualities of heart and character.
CHARLES F. HEIMBECHER.
Charles F. Heimbecher is a member of the firm of Heimbecher Brothers, cement and gravel roofers, conducting business in Denver, where he has resided since 1889. His life is one of industry and unremitting toil and his success is the direct result of close application and indefatigable effort. Mr. Heimbecher is a native of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He was born June 24, 1865, of the marriage of William and Minnie (Luebke) Heimbecher, both of whom were natives of Germany but came to America with their respective parents in early childhood. They were reared. educated and married in Wisconsin, where their parents had settled on farm land, becoming pioneer agriculturists of that community. William Heimbecher learned the boot and shoe- making trade and followed that pursuit in early life. Eventually, however, he turned to other business interests, taking up his abode upon a farm, and, like his father before him, he became one of the prosperous and well-to-do agriculturists of Wisconsin. His remaining days were devoted to the further development and improvement of his fields and he passed away on the old homestead in 1882, when he had reached the age of fifty-four years and. eight months. His wife was also reared and educated in Wisconsin and after her husband's death she came to Denver, Colorado, to visit her daughter and here passed away in 1913. She was then almost eighty years of age. her birth having occurred on the 8th of March, 1834. By her marriage she had become the mother of ten children, seven of whom have now passed away. while those still living are: Charles F .; Fred, who still makes his home in Manitowoc, Wis- consin; and Adolph, who is living in Denver and is a partner of his brother Charles in the contracting business.
In early life Charles F. Heimbecher attended the district schools near his father's farm and afterward continued his education in the city schools of Manitowoc, but when his textbooks were put aside he concentrated his efforts and attention upon the work of the fields, in which he aided from the time of early spring planting until crops were gathered in the late autumn. He was thus employed until he reached the age of twenty-four years, when he left home and went to Chicago, where he took up work in contracting lines in connection with cement and gravel roofing. The opportunities of the west brought him to Colorado and in 1889 he established his home in Denver. Here he embarked in business on his own account and so well has he succeeded that he is today known in business connections throughout the entire city and in many parts of the state. Everywhere he goes in Denver he can see the results of his labor, as miles and miles of concrete sidewalks and curbing have been laid by him and his brother, who constitute the firm of Heimbecher Brothers. Adolph Heimbecher came to Denver in May, 1907, and entered into partnership with Charles F. Heimbecher in the concrete and gravel roofing business under the style of the Heimbecher Brothers Cement & Gravel Roofing Company. They do expert work in this line and their trade has steadily and rapidly developed, bringing to them well merited returns.
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Mr. Heimbecher has many times been tendered public office but has steadfastly declined to serve. He is bound to no political party and at the polls he votes for the man whom he deems best qualified to fill the position which he seeks. Fraternally he is identified with the Royal Arcanum, of which he has been a member for twenty-one years.
On the 21st of February, 1894, Mr. Heimbecher was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Wilson, of Denver, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Heimbecher have two children: Louis, who was born November 21, 1894, in Denver and was graduated from the Denver high school, while now he is attending Colorado College; and C. F. Heimbecher, Jr., who was born in Denver, August 31, 1898.
Whatever success Mr. Heimbecher has achieved or enjoyed is attributable entirely to his persistency of purpose and efforts. He has worked diligently, has acquainted himself thoroughly with every phase of the business, has kept abreast with the times concerning progressive methods, and his thorough reliability has brought to him a liberal patronage, which is justly deserved.
JOHN G. COY.
John G. Coy, who resided a mile east of Fort Collins but has now passed away, was born in Oswego, New York, April 14, 1833, a son of William and Elizabeth (Thorpe) Coy, who were natives of Yorkshire, England. Upon coming to America they estab- lished their home in Oswego, New York, where the father worked at the miller's trade and there spent his remaining days. Both he and his wife passed away in 1845, within four weeks of each other.
John G. Coy was reared and educated in the Empire state. He was a lad of but twelve years when left an orphan, at which time he went to live with an uncle near Chicago, Illinois, residing with him until he reached the age of nineteen. About 1852 he made his way to California, where he followed mining, and in the fall of 1861 he removed to Iowa, where he worked until the spring of 1862, when he started to drive across the country to California with three yoke of oxen. Ill luck, however, seemed to attend him at this time. Three of his oxen were stolen while en route and on reaching Fort Collins he paused, and changing his plans, decided to settle in that vicinity. While it was his misfortune that caused him to discontinue the journey, it seemed on the whole, in the light of later events, a fortunate circumstance, for in the course of years Mr. Coy became one of the representative and substantial citi- zens of Larimer county. He took up his abode on what became the old family home- stead near Fort Collins, but the land was not surveyed at the time. In fact this was not done until 1865. He took a trip east in 1866 and, fearing he might lose his place during his absence, he bought it outright. The ranch contained one hundred and sixty acres and later he took up a homestead adjoining and became the owner of three hundred and twenty acres, which was entirely wild when it came into his possession, not a furrow having been turned nor an improvement made. He at once began the task of plowing and planting, however, and in the course of years had worked a marked transformation in the appearance of his ranch, converting it into one of the best improved places in' the county. Upon it he had two nice residences and various other buildings furnishing ample shelter to grain and stock. He continued the further cultivation and development of his ranch to the time of his death, which occurred July 22, 1912, when he was seventy-nine years of age. He had been ill for only a short time, doing a half day's work on the day that he died.
On the 17th of April, 1862, Mr. Coy was married to Miss Emily Adams, a daughter of John and Frances C. (Eglington) Adams, who were natives of England. Mrs. Coy was born in Norfolk, England. September 26, 1838. Her father was a blacksmith by trade and in June, 1841, he left his native country and came with his family to the new world, settling near Bristol, Illinois, where he again followed blacksmithing. He continued to reside in that state until called to his final rest, passing away in Kane- ville, Illinois, December 27, 1859. For six years he had survived his wife, who died on the 15th of April, 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Coy were the parents of ten children, six of whom are living, namely: Elizabeth, the wife of Professor J. W. Laurence, who for thirty years was connected with the Colorado State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, where he still makes his home; William B., a well known cattle man of Wyo- ming; Frances, the wife of John Hoffman, owner and operator of a grist mill at Fort Collins; Anna V., the wife of George W. Bertram, who is farming the old Coy home- stead in partnership with John E. Coy, who is the next of the family; and Burgis G.,
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who is a civil engineer and has been in France for two years, while now that the armistice has been signed he has been sent with American troops into Germany.
Mr. Coy served as county commissioner for three terms. He belonged to the Grange and politically he maintained an independent course. His religious faith was that of the Episcopal church, while his widow is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He long gave his attention to the business of feeding cattle and sheep in Larimer county and his sons are still well known as cattle feeders in this district. Mrs. Coy still remains upon the old homestead where she has lived for fifty-seven years and the family is a well known and honored one throughout the community.
JOSEPH WILLIAM YOUNG.
Joseph William Young, a rancher near Parker, upon which place he has resided for three years, was born in Atchison county, Missouri, January 16, 1867, a son of James Wesley and Martha (Bradley) Young. He comes of Revolutionary war ancestry on the paternal side, the family being originally from Virginia, and on the mother's side he is of English lineage.
Joseph W. Young was educated in the schools of Colorado, for the family came to this state in 1872, when he was a lad of but five summers. They located first about two miles south of Littleton and afterward removed to Melvin, Colorado, in Arapahoe county, where Joseph W. Young remained for twenty-two years. For seventeen years he was in business in Denver but three years ago came to his present large ranch in the vicinity of Parker and has had exceptionally fine crops during the past two years. He is now extensively engaged in ranching and his business is bringing to him well merited success.
There is no feature of Colorado's development and upbuilding with which he is not familiar. In the early days he attended for a time the old Cherry Creek school, one of the first country schools established outside of Denver in Arapahoe county. As a hoy he remembers distinctly riding along by the side of Colerow, the noted and belligerent Indian chief. To the family home the Indians came for food, which was always given them, and this they never forgot. Mr. Young has lived to witness remarkable changes as the work of development and improvement has been carried steadily forward and his memory forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present.
In Denver, twenty-five years ago, Mr. Young was united in marriage to Miss Mary Agnes Montgomery, a daughter of Frank L. and Elizabeth E. (O'Neil) Montgomery, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and they became the parents of three children, of whom the son. Lester Lee Young, is now in the army with the Thirty- second Engineering Corps, in service in France. The daughters, Mildred and Josephine, are at home.
Mr. Young is one of the best informed men in his county. He has always been a great reader and possesses a fine library, with the contents of which he is largely familiar, spending many of his happiest hours there in the companionship of the master minds of all ages.
EDWARD G. SEIDENSTICKER.
Edward G. Seidensticker is one of the active and enterprising ranchers of Douglas county, controlling extensive and important interests. He was born April 26, 1885, on the ranch which he still occupies, his parents being Julius and Kate (Bauer) Seidensticker, both of whom were natives of Bavaria, Germany. The father and his brother, William Seidensticker, became pioneer settlers of Douglas county, Colorado, having come to America in the late '60s. Crossing the country to this state, they homesteaded in Douglas county, preempted and also took up timber claims. As the years passed on they added to their landed possessions until at present the ranch comprises four thousand acres of land. They were associated in their business under- takings until the death of William Seidensticker. The father, Julius Seidensticker, is still living but is now somewhat feeble. He was born December 23, 1847, and has therefore passed the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten. His wife came to America in her childhood days with her parents and they were married on this side of the Atlantic. She has departed this life.
Edward G. Seidensticker, reared under the parental roof, completed his public
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school education by graduation from the high school, after which he pursued a four years' course in the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins. He then returned to the ranch, where he has since remained, concentrating his efforts and attention upon the business connected with its further development and management. There are good buildings upon the place, including a comfortable residence and large barns and sheds for the shelter of grain and stock. He keeps from five to six hundred head of cattle and raises a large amount of hay together with cereals. His business affairs are energetically prosecuted, his plans are definitely formed and promptly executed and in his business dealings he displays sound judgment and keen discrimination. He and his father reside upon the farm which has now been in possession of the family from pioneer times.
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