History of Colorado; Volume IV, Part 92

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 836

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Fred F. Reinert attended the country schools of Keokuk county, Iowa, and later high school at Sigourney, that state, after which he continued his education by a year's study in St. Ambrose's College at Davenport, Iowa, and a year in the State Agri- cultural College at Ames. He next entered the dental department of Drake University at Des Moines, in which he continued his studies for two years, while later he became a student in Creighton University at Omaha, Nebraska, and completed a course with the class in dentistry of 1907. In the same year he removed to Brush, Morgan county, Colo- rado, where for two years he successfully practiced his profession, and then took up his · abode in Fort Morgan. where he continued in active practice until July 1, 1913, when he was appointed postmaster, and has since occupied that position, making a most creditable record. In his care of the mails he is systematic, thorough and painstaking, and his treatment of the patrons of the office is always courteous and obliging.

On the 23d of June, 1909, Mr. Reinert was married to Miss Effie M. Behm, a daughter of Cyrus and Sarah L. Behm, who were natives of Pennsylvania and pioneer residents of Colorado, making their home in Denver for many years. The father has now passed away, but the mother is still living in that city. Mrs. Reinert is a graduate of the East Denver high school, and also spent a year in the musical college of Oberlin University. She was graduated from the Denver University with the class of 1907. To Mr. and Mrs. Reinert has been born a son, Frederick B., whose birth occurred June 9, 1911.

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Mr. Reinert has always given his political allegiance to the democratic party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and his religious faith is that of the United Presbyterian church. He has been very active and helpful in war service work and is secretary of the Morgan County Council of Defense and chairman of the home service of the Red Cross, while he also was secretary of the first Young Men's Christian Association and Young Women's Chris- tion Association and the second Red Cross war fund drives. His life has been charac- terized by many sterling qualities of manhood and citizenship, and devotion to duty has ever been one of his marked characteristics.

WILLIAM I. LAMBERT, JR.

William I. Lambert, the owner of a splendidly developed ranch, exemplifying all that is thoroughly modern along agricultural lines, was born in Denver, June 5, 1884, a son of William I. and Rachel ( Paleman) Lambert. He acquired his education in the schools of his native city, being graduated from the high school and a manual training school, and since the completion of his education he has managed the two thousand acre ranch on which he resides in Douglas County. This his father took up as a home- stead, a preemption and a timber claim many years ago and it has been developed to a high state of perfection under the management of William I. Lambert, Jr. He has upon the place several hundred head of cattle, specializing in shorthorns. He has an irrigation reservoir, excellent buildings, a large apple orchard and in fact all of the equipment, improvements and accessories of the model farm of the twentieth century.

On the 15th of November, 1917, Mr. Lambert was married to Miss Edna A. Manhart, of Sedalia, Colorado, a daughter of George and Bertha (Hoffman) Manhart, the former a leading merchant of Sedalia, where he has been in business for forty-two years.

Mr. Lambert is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Sons of Colorado, of Denver. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and in November, 1918, he was elected to represent Douglas county in the state legislature. His father is a prominent title and trust man of Denver and William I. Lambert had excellent home and educational training. His success in business is the direct result of earnest and persistent labor, intelligently directed. He has closely studied every phase of agricultural development in this section of the country and his labors have been directed along the most progressive lines, resulting in added benefit to the farm and in the development of his individual fortune.

HENRY O. ANDREW.

Henry O. Andrew, a well known and representative member of the Boulder bar, who is actively and prominently identified with interests that have much to do with public welfare and progress, was born in Boulder in 1874. His father, Joseph Wier Andrew, was born in Sparta, Washington county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1839, and in November, 1861, when a young man of twenty-two years, responded to the country's call for military aid and joined Company A of the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with which he served throughout the period of the war or until mustered out on the 19th of December, 1865. On the 14th of February, 1867, he was united in marriage to Sarah Lavina Day, also a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where the marriage was celebrated. In 1871 they removed westward to Boulder county, Colorado, where they reared their family of nine children, three of whom are yet living: Hilliard S. and Henry O., both of Boulder; and Ida, who is the wife of James S. Maxwell, of Minden, Louisiana. The father, Joseph W. Andrew, became one of the sub- stantial and influential citizens of Boulder and in 1891 was elected to the office of county commissioner, which position he filled for four years. He died on the 23d of August, 1917.

Henry O. Andrew pursued his education in the public schools of his native county and of the city of Boulder and in 1896 was graduated from the University of Colorado with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He then took up the study of law and won his LL. B. degree upon graduation from the law department with the class of 1899. At once he began practice in Boulder, where he has since remained, concentrating his efforts and attention upon the work of the profession. He is a strong advocate with the jury and concise in his appeals before the court. To an understanding of

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acuteness and vigor he added a thorough and conscientious preparatory training, and in his practice he has been constantly inspired by an innate, inflexible love of justice and a delicate sense of personal honor. His fidelity to the interests of his clients is proverbial, yet he never forgets that he owes a higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. His diligence and energy in the preparation of his cases, as well as the earnestness, tenacity and courage with which he defends the right as he understands it, challenge the highest admiration of his associates.

On the 31st of January, 1906, in Boulder, Colorado, Mr. Andrew was married to Miss Bertha M. Thompson, a daughter of the late Clay Thompson, who was a Con- federate soldier from Kentucky. Mrs. Andrew passed away November 6, 1914, leaving a daughter, Jeanne.

Mr. Andrew attends the Presbyterian church. He belongs to the Boulder Club, also the Sons of Colorado and the Delta Tau Delta. His membership relations also extend to every branch of Masonry. He has attained the Knight Templar degree of the York Rite and the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and has crossed the sands or the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He took the master's degree in 1903 and in 1907 he was elected worshipful master of Columbia Lodge, No. 14. A. F. & A. M., of Boulder. In 1913 he filled the position of excellent high priest of Boulder Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M., and in 1914 was eminent commander of Mount Sinai Commandery, No. 7, K. T. In 1917 he became a member of El Jebel Temple of the Mystic Shrine and in the same year he attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Rocky Moun- tain Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S. His political allegiance has always been given to the democratic party and in 1905 he was elected for a two years' term as city attorney of Boulder and in 1916 was elected to represent his district in the state senate for four years, so that he is now filling that position, giving most thoughtful and earnest con- sideration to the vital and intricate problems which are now arising not only in the management of state affairs but those which have relation to the nation in this hour of crisis. In 1917 he was elected a member of the charter convention of Boulder, which provided for a city manager, and he is now serving as a member of the city council. He thus takes active and helpful part in community interests and in all that has to do with the welfare and upbuilding of city and state.

FRANK J. KEICHER.

Among the efficient public officers of Washington county is Frank J. Keicher, of Akron, Colorado, who holds the important position of assessor. He has shown fit- ness for the office and displayed ability in the discharge of his duties, the general public being as one in its approval of his administration of the office. He was born in Keokuk, Iowa, July 16, 1885, his parents being Michael and Amelia (Moore) Keicher, the former a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, and the latter of St. Louis, Missouri. The father came to America about 1873 at the age of twenty-five years and soon after- ward located in Keokuk county, Iowa, there renting land for several years. In October, 1888, he came to Washington county, our subject being only three years of age at that time, and here he filed on a homestead and tree claim. improving his land and bring- ing it to a high state of cultivation, operating his farm until his death, which occurred in September, 1905. He enjoyed great esteem in his community. His widow survives.

Frank J. Keicher was reared and educated in Washington county and remained with his father upon the farm until the latter's death, ably assisting him in his agri- cultural pursuits. At the same time he did some outside work on neighboring farms. After his father's death he took over the management of the home place, taking charge of the same for his mother, and so continued for two years, at the end of which time he rented the farm, operating the same for several years on his own account. At the age of twenty-one he also had homesteaded across from his father's farm and improved this land. using the latest methods and instituting modern facili- ties and machinery, thus securing plentiful crops. In 1912 Mr. Keicher gave up active farming, although he retained ownership of the property and went to Yuma, Colorado, where he engaged in the automobile business. He conducted an enterprise of this kind until March, 1914, with satisfactory results, at which time he sold out and returned to his land, which he operated until the fall of 1916, when he was elected assessor of Washington county. He has since served in this capacity with creditable success. He has thoroughly systematized the office, and his books and official records are kept in the best condition. In his intercourse with the public he is obliging and

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has made many friends since entering upon his duties. Washington county is indeed favored in having officers of the stamp of Mr. Keicher.

On February 28, 1907, occurred the marriage of Frank J. Keicher and Miss Blanche Shook, daughter of R. A. Shook, and to this union was born a daughter, Blanche, whose birth occurred April 10, 1908. The death of Mrs. Keicher occurred on the same day and in October, 1910, Mr. Keicher wedded Dee Prater and they became the parents of three children, all of whom died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Keicher are well known in the social life of their city and county and have many friends who esteem them for their high qualities of character and those inherent traits which make people worth while.

In his political views Mr. Keicher is a democrat and has always supported the principles and candidates of his party. He is well known in fraternal circles, belong- ing to the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the humane principles underlying those organizations guide him in all the relations of life. As an American citizen, as a public official and as a man Mr. Keicher stands high in the estimation of those who are acquainted with him. He is ever ready to give his support to public measures which he considers of value, and by deed and word has contributed to the material and intellectual development of his section.

FREDERICK AULT.

Frederick Ault is the owner of a farm of two hundred and forty acres in Jefferson. county, on which he is engaged in the raising of various crops, also in dairying and stock raising. He was born in Monroe County, Wisconsin, June 20, 1863, a son of Andrew J. and Elizabeth (Wagner) Ault. The father was a millwright and farmer, devoting his life to those pursuits in order to provide for his family. The ancestral line can be traced back to colonial days, representatives of the name participating in the Revolutionary war.

Frederick Ault was a young lad when his parents removed from Wisconsin to Nebraska and his education was acquired in the public schools of the latter state. In his youth, however, his opportunities along that line were somewhat limited, for his aid was needed in the work of the farm and he continued to assist in its cultivation until the family left Nebraska to become residents of Colorado. Here the father took up a homestead in Jefferson county but Frederick Ault and his brother Perry went to Dillon, Colorado, and as partners engaged in farming and stock raising there for twelve years. Returning to Jefferson county, Frederick Ault then purchased two hundred and forty acres of land not far from Littleton and has since been actively engaged in general farming and stock raising. He also makes dairying a feature of his business and each branch of his activity is proving a profitable one. He displays marked energy at all times in the conduct of his affairs and attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm. He early recognized the value of industry as a basic element of success and as the years have passed has so directed his efforts that splendid results have accrued.

Mr. Ault was married in Jefferson county on the Berdolet ranch on Deer creek to Miss Jennie Ramey, a native of Virginia and a daughter of George and Leah ( Wharf) Ramey. She spent her girlhood days in the Old Dominion and was there educated. She came to Colorado in 1885 and it was on the 15th of June, 1898, that she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Ault.

In politics Mr. Ault is a supporter of the socialist party but has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his time and energies upon his business affairs, and his close application and persistency of purpose have brought him to a creditable position among the successful farmers and stock raisers of his part of the state.

ARTHUR H. HAWKINS.

Arthur H. Hawkins, assistant manager of sales with the Carnegie Steel Company at Denver, had thorough preliminary educational training which well qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties, and at every point in his career he has measured up to the demands made upon him. He was born in Collinsville, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1882, a son of the late Edmund Miller Hawkins, who was also born in the Keystone

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state and was of English descent. The family was founded in America by Major Edmund Miller Hawkins, who came to the new world in 1826 and settled originally in New Jersey. He built the first government fort at Sandy Hook and was a government engineer. He was graduated on the completion of an engineering course in England and through the greater part of his life was in the employ of the United States govern- ment in a professional capacity. His son and namesake was born in 1840 and passed away in 1882. He was reared in New Jersey and at the time of his death was super- intendent of the Lehigh & Susquehanna Railroad. For the greater part of his life he, too, was engaged in the railway business. He became a lieutenant of the Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry at the time of the Civil war, in which he served throughout the greater part of hostilities, but at the battle of Gettysburg he was wounded. In his fraternal relations he was a Mason and in religious faith an Episcopalian, leading the life of a devout Christian. He wedded Mary Louise Oliver, who was born in Whip- pany, New Jersey, and was descended from one of three brothers who were the founders of the family in the United States. William, the progenitor of her branch of the family, came from England prior to the Revolutionary war, in which he bore arms in defense of American interests. Mrs. Hawkins died in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1899, when forty-one years of age. She had become the mother of three children: Oliver Ernest, now residing in Scranton, Pennsylvania; George F., a resident of New York; and Arthur H., of this review.

The last named was educated in the country schools of Middlesex county, New Jersey, and in a preparatory school at Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He started out at the age of twenty years with the American Sheet Steel Company, accepting a clerical position with that corporation in New York city. He remained with the company for seven years and afterward entered into connection with the Carnegie Steel Company, by which he has since been employed. He arrived in Denver on the 18th of August, 1905, to act as assistant manager of sales at this point and here he has now remained for thirteen years, carefully and wisely directing the interests of the corporation in this city. That his work is entirely satisfactory is indicated by his long term in the position.

On the 7th of November, 1907, Mr. Hawkins was married in Denver to Miss Mary Thompson, a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a daughter of J. H. and Jennie V. (Mathews) Thompson, who have passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have a son, Arthur H., who was born in Denver, August 29, 1908.

Politically Mr. Hawkins is a republican. He belongs to the Denver Athletic and Lakewood Country Clubs and also to the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Trinity Methodist church. His military record covers service with the Seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard. The story of his life is the record of earnest endeavor, for he started out with- out financial aid or the influence of friends. Persistently and with strong purpose he has worked his way upward, gaining advancement and promotion through individual worth and ability, and now for thirteen years he has occupied a most responsible position with the Carnegie Steel Company.

JESSE RADER.

Jesse Rader, an honored pioneer now deceased, was a leader in the development work in Fremont county. He was born in Greene county, Tennessee, May 25, 1829, and in 1855 removed to Missouri, where he resided until 1860, when he came to Colorado. He resided in Summit county until 1864 and then went east for his family. In the fall of that year he removed to Fremont county, crossing the plains in a prairie schooner with two yoke of oxen. It was in 1854 that Mr. Rader was united in marriage to Miss E. D. Bell, of Greene county, Tennessee. His family remained in the east in his first trip to Colorado, but he went back for them in 1864. On the trip they brought with tbem a white-faced cow which the first day had to be driven but after that followed the oxen. She gave milk during all of the long journey and also enabled the family to make butter. For many years thereafter she continued to give milk, but finally "Old Whiteface" was killed in a washout.

The first farming which Mr. Rader did in Colorado was at Parkdale, on the south side of the river. He sold butter in those days for a dollar per pound and he took a wagon load of vegetables to Breckenridge which he sold for a thousand dollars. These were grown on his Parkdale farm. The first work which Mr. Rader did in Fremont

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county was at the oil wells and he was paid four dollars per day by an old-timer of the name of Murphy.

Turning his attention to the cattle business, Mr. Rader started with a "churn-dash" calf. He developed his herd until he had fifteen hundred head of cattle and was also the owner of three ranges. For some years he moved about considerably and for a time he was running Judge Terry's famous ranch. He also resided at one period in Florence and afterward engaged in mining in Summit county. Through the con- duct of his business affairs along these varions lines he obtained enough money, especially through placer mining, to go east and pay off all of his indebtedness there. Later he took up a claim in Garden Park, securing it hy squatter's right, for no sur- veys had been made at that period. He afterward removed to a ranch on the north side of the river at Parkdale and subsequently sold that property. Finally he purchased the farm on Four Mile, now known as the Rader ranch, and built thereon one of the finest brick houses in Fremont county. It was erected forty years ago and is still in excellent state of preservation, being today occupied by one of his granddaughters.

Just before his death a few years ago Mr. Rader built a fine home at Ninth and Main streets in Canon City and there he passed away. Mrs. Rader later bought the house at Third and Greenwood streets in Canon City and there her death occurred on the 18th of May, 1915, when she was in the seventy-ninth year of her age, her birth having occurred in Greeneville, Tennessee, on the 28th of October, 1836.

In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Rader were ten children, five of whom are living: Mrs. Anna Gardner, a resident of Canon City; C. V. Rader, of Cripple Creek; Mrs. Emma Carroll, of Canon City; Mrs. Perry Black, of Portland, Oregon; and L. F. Rader, living in Colorado Springs.

Jesse Rader was twice sheriff of his county and was a leading supporter of the democratic party. His wife was a lady of many splendid traits of character who took an active part in church work and was loved by all for her many kindly acts and virtues. Both were highly esteemed as honored' pioneer people and their work con- stituted an important element in the social, intellectual, moral, material and political progress of the community.

WILLIAM AUSTIN HAMILTON LOVELAND.

William Austin Hamilton Loveland, one of the great builders of Colorado, was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, May 30, 1826, a son of the Rev. Leonard Loveland, a Methodist minister, who in 1827 took his little family to a farm near Brighton, Illinois. There he not only successfully tilled the soil but became noted as one of the most powerful pulpit orators of his day. The elder Loveland had begun active life as a sailor in the War of 1812 and for twenty months lay in a British prison. It was while reading the Bible and hearing the sermons of some of the English preachers of his denomination that he determined to make the ministry his life profession.

W. A. H. Loveland received his education in, the public schools of Brighton and later spent a brief period in McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois. This was in 1845, just three years before the Mexican war, in which he enlisted as a wagon master, being present in all the important engagements. At Chepultepec he was severely wounded and in July, 1848, was invalided home.

Then came a strenuous, restless period in the young man's life. In 1849 he took an ox team across the plains from Illinois to Grass valley, California, where he built the first house in that camp. He failed to find the riches he had dreamed of and went with the William Walker expedition to Nicaragua, where eastern American capital was seeking to build a canal across what became known later as the Nicaragnan route. In 1851 he was back in his Illinois home, following mercantile life. But in 1859 the tale of the gold discoveries in Colorado brought back the lure of the west and with a heavily laden train he started once more across the plains. He located on the present site of Golden, a town which he tried for many years to make the metropolis of Colorado. That was a struggle of the giants of that period and the men who won ont acknowledged at the finish that it had been one of the noted historical fights of the west, for Golden was the entering point to the new gold discoveries on Clear creek. Both the Gregory and Jackson diggings were the only gold discoveries of importance in this period. Mr. Loveland at once assumed the position of leader and a large part of the great army of gold hunters who had come to Colorado in 1860 were inspired by his splendid energy and rare faith to settle in the town which he had created- Golden, then a most pretentious rival to Denver. The first wagon road up Clear creek

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to the mines was built by him and even in those early days he conceived the plan of following the wagon road with a railroad. He opened a coal mine close to Golden which provided fuel for the factories and mills which were then being constructed on a small scale. In his vision even then it was the shortest route to the Pacific and at his own expense he had a survey of a Colorado road to Salt Lake City prepared and later sub- mitted to the Union Pacific directorate in the hope that they would adopt it with Golden as a railroad center. He scored many victories for Golden and from 1862 until 1867 it was made the capital of the territory altogether through his influence. His career as a railroad builder is fully detailed in the chapter on railroads and forms one of the most thrilling epochs in the history of territory and state.

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History of Colorado; Volume IV, Part 92

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed Publication date: 1918 Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Number of Pages: 836

Author: Stone, Wilbur Fiske, 1833-1920, ed
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 836