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REV. JOHN G. KLENE, pastor of the First Pres- byterian church, was born in Sparta, Illinois, and educated at Monmouth college and McCormick seminary; married Sarah B. Hood in 1895, and four children have blessed the union-Vivian C., Lorine L., Pauline H., and Helen Redell; came to Colorado in 1904 and was for three years pastor of Boulder Presbyterian church and in 1907 was called to the Presbyterian church of Fort Collins of which he is still in charge.
CHARLES GILPIN-BROWN was born in 1857, near Richmond, in Yorkshire, England. He was educated at Harrow school and at Wimbledon Mili- tary school. He came to Colorado in 1888 and set- tled upon a ranch at Livermore, in Larimer county, in 1892. In 1891 he was married to Miss Helen Graham Poland. He served in the office of county commissioner from 1904 to the date of his death in 1906. He is survived by his wife and two daugh- ters, Margaret and Frances.
MORTIMER M. JONES was born July 24th, 1854, in Macon county, Missouri, where he was edu- cated ; married Marietta Isenburg September 24, 1883; came to Byers, Colorado, April 1st, 1879, and to Larimer county July 1st, 1879, and has since followed farming in this county. Mr. Jones
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is a nephew of Michael Jones, better known to the old timers as "Ranger" Jones, who settled in the Caché la Poudre valley near the present town of Timnath in 1860.
MRS. ALVINA C. KOEPER .- This worthy lady was born at New Bremen, Ohio, on the 10th of August, 1862. She was married to August H. Koeper, January 18, 1883, at the same place. Twelve years later in February, 1895, she ac- companied her husband to Colorado, making their home at Bellvue. Two sons and one daughter were born to them, Herbert C., Dewey John and Alice L. After the death of her husband which occurred in Bellvue in October, 1903, Mrs. Koeper sold her valuable farm property and stock inter- ests and is now a resident of Fort Collins.
PROF. BURTON O. LONGYEAR .- Born July 16th, 1868, on a farm near Leslie, Michigan; moved to Mason, Michigan, when 18 years of age and later engaged in the drug business; took a special course at the Michigan Agricultural college and became an instructor in botany in that institution in 1894; came to Fort Collins July 31st, 1904, to teach botany in the Colorado Agricultural college and is now Professor of botany and forestry at that in- stitution. Prof. Longyear married Jessie L. Bond, December 28th, 1897, at her home in Leslie, Mich- igan ; two children have been born to them of whom the eldest; Lawrence B. is alone living, and he is now nearing the 12th anniversary of his birth. Prof. and Mrs. Longyear are zealous and influen- tial members of the First Baptist church of Fort Collins.
L. H. FAGAN was born at Winnebago, Minne- sota, on the 21st day of November, 1871. He at- tended the high school at Winnebago, from which he was graduated in 1892. After teaching school for a time he came to Berthoud, in Larimer county, in the spring of 1893. He purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres near Berthoud and en- tered upon the business of farming, and since the year 1896 has been continuously engaged in winter sheep feeding in which he has been very successful. He has landed interests at Berthoud as well as at Bennett, Colorado, and at Maxwell, New Mexico. In November, 1908, he was elected to the office of county commissioner and is a director of the First National bank of Berthoud. He is also a member of the Masonic order and other lodges and of the Presbyterian church. Two sisters are living, both of whom graduated at the Normal
school at Greeley. One of these ladies is married to Dr. D. W. McCarty, of Berthoud, the other to Mr. Earnest Carter of Leadville. The father of Mr. Fagan, Mr. Daniel Fagon, was born in Ire- land on the 23rd of March, 1835, and is still living. He came to America when eight years of age and moved to Minnesota in 1857. He enlisted in the
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Union service in June, 1861, and served under General Thomas and was with Sherman on the March to the sea. He served with distinction and was in many hard fought engagements. At the time of his discharge in July, 1865, he had risen from the ranks to the grade of second lieutenant. He was married on October 10th, 1867, and came to Colorado in 1892 and engaged in farming.
WILLIAM F. GILKISON .- Our subject is a native of Colorado, born January 11th, 1872, at Cari- bou, Boulder county; graduate of the Colorado Agricultural college, class of 1895; assistant in M. E. department of his alma mater one year and then promoted to a professorship and head of the depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wyoming, where he remained until 1908 when
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he returned to Fort Collins to engage as a whole- sale dealer in farm products and as a stockman. He married Minnie F. Harrington, a college class- mate, June 30th, 1897 and has one child, Irene.
JAMES D. MANDEVILLE .- Born September 21st, 1841, in Tompkins county, New York; received his education in the public schools and at Ithaca acad- emy; enlisted September 12th, 1861, in 50th New York volunteer engineers; mustered out September 20th, 1864; married Olivia L. Denson, August 23rd, 1866; printer by trade; edited and published Candor, New York, Press two years; came to Fort Collins in March, 1881, where he has since resided. Mr. Mandeville came of revolutionary stock, his great grandfather having been a General under Washington. Recruited for 198th Ohio volunteer infantry and received a commission from Governor John Brough as adjutant of the regiment.
WILLIS S. MILLER .- Born in Queen City, Mis- souri, where he received his education; married Emma A. Foglesong in 1886, and came to Fort Col- lins in 1887 ; children are named, Calvin, Leo, Bert, Clarence, Lloyd, Allie, Earl, Myrtle and Freda Miller ; postmaster and general storekeeper at Elk- horn, 45 miles west of Fort Collins; proved up on a homestead at Elkhorn in 1902, and has met with good financial success. Mr. Miller cast his first vote in the fall of 1887 in Fort Collins.
NATHANIEL THOMAS was born in northwestern Ohio, in 1835, where he received his education. After completing his studies, he taught school in Hancock county for years. In 1862 he and Nancy McAnelly were united in marriage. Miss Mc- Anelly was a school teacher in the same county. In 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas moved to south- western Indiana, where both resumed their work, school teaching. They were engaged at that work till Mr. Thomas' health failed. He was advised to seek a milder climate, and in 1892 they came to Colorado, locating in Larimer county. In a short time his health was so far recovered that he again took up his work as school teacher, continuing in that profession till a few years ago, when he re- tired, thinking that forty-five years as a teacher was enough.
ADDISON N. HOAG .- One of the first men to demonstrate beyond peradventure by actual results, in spite of predictions to the contrary, that fruit could be successfully and profitably grown in Lari- mer county, was Addison N. Hoag, the subject of
this sketch. He was a native of Massachusetts, and came to Colorado in July, 1860. He mined, hunted and trapped in California gulch, on the headwaters of the Arkansas, the Grand and Caché la Poudre rivers. In 1864 he went to Kan- sas and married Miss Ludema Williams, and in 1871 returned to Colorado, locating first at Gree- ley, thence in 1874 coming to Fort Collins. In February of that year he took up as a homestead an unpromising 80-acre tract of land four miles northwest of the town. This he first placed under a high state of cultivation and then planted a por- tion of it to an orchard, embracing apples, pears, plums, cherries and small fruits. He also carried on market gardening with good results, and kept bees and poultry. His orchard came into bearing in 1880, and he was able to realize a handsome in- come from his fruit and other ventures from that time on. His success at fruit-growing stimulated others to follow his example, and now the irrigated portions of the county are dotted with orchards which are producing large quantities of luscious, health-giving fruit for export, in addition to that needed for home consumption. When Mr. Hoag sold his property in the 90's and went to Arizona for his wife's health, he had 400 acres of land, work horses, farm tools, cattle and dairy cows, valued in those days of low prices at $20,000. When he located his homestead, in 1874, he was $175 in debt for team and wagon.
W. A. HAWTHORNE .- Born June 14th, 1874, in Denver, Colorado; educated at the Colorado Agricultural college; married Anna M. Wills, daughter of Joseph R. Wills, a Fort Collins pio- neer, May 17th, 1899, and has one child, a daugh- ter, Roma. Mrs. Hawthorne was born November 28th, 1875, in Fort Collins. Mr. Hawthorne owns and conducts a garage on S. College avenue, and is a dealer in automobiles, in which business he has been very successful.
DR. WILLIAM A. KICKLAND came into the world in 1868 at Crystal, Michigan; educated at Uni- versity of Michigan, graduating in 1892 with de- gree of B. S .; receiving degree of M. D. in 1895. Dr. Kickland came from Michigan to Fort Col- lins in 1895, and that city is still his home; mar- ried Kate Lee, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Lee in 1895; member of Larimer county Medical association, Fort Collins Hospital association, and Colorado State Medical association. Since com- ing to Fort Collins, Dr. Kickland has built up an extensive practice in medicine and surgery He has
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a beautiful home at the corner of West Mountain avenue and Sherwood street. Mrs. Kickland is a popular member of the Woman's club and has served the club as president.
MARCUS COON .- One of the early settlers of Fort Collins, was born February 10th, 1831, in Hudson, New York. He enlisted in the service of the United States, April 22nd, 1861, and was commissioned captain of Company D 1st Connect- icut Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the first battle of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861. He was discharged July 31st, 1861, but re-enlisted Aug- ust 2nd, 1861, and mustered in as first lieutenant of Company B Harris Light Cavalry, subsequently known as the 2nd New York cavalry. Later the command of the company fell to him and he re- signed as captain September 25th, 1863. Captain Coon was married October 16th, 1871, to Miss Julia Davis, who survives him. In 1872 Mr. and Mrs. Coon came to Colorado, locating first at Greeley, a little later removing to Fort Collins. In 1873, he built the Agricultural hotel which stood at the corner of Mountain avenue and Mason streets where the Fort Collins Express building now stands, attaching the first dwelling house erected in Fort Collins to the rear of the hotel for use as a kitchen and laundry. This old building has since been purchased by the Pioneer Women of the Cache la Poudre valley, moved to a new site and is being fitted up as a Pioneer museum. Mr. Coon conducted the hotel until 1877, when he sold it to D. M. Harris, who, in 1879, moved it on to the site now occupied by the Northern hotel, en- larged and renamed it the Commercial hotel. In September, 1876, after Colorado had been admitted into the Union, Capt Coon was elected sheriff of Larimer county, but resigned in 1877 and James Sweeney was appointed his successor to serve until the next succeeding general election. In 1885, Cap- tain and Mrs. Coon went to the White river coun- try and located on a stock ranch near Buford in what is now Rio Blanco county. On the organization of Rio Blanco county in 1889, he was appointed sheriff by Governor Cooper and resided at Meeker, the county seat for about four years, dying there February 15th, 1903, aged seventy-two years.
ARTHUR E. LAMB, son of the late Rev. L. J. Lamb, was born March 31st, 1884, near Fort Col- lins; educated at the Colorado Argicultural college taking the Civil Engineering course; married Beulah Sherman, December 21st, 1910, and is a civil engineer by profession and occupation. Mr.
Lamb is First lieutenant of Company "F" first in- fantry, Colorado National guard. Has been as- sistant to City Engineer and County Surveyor, E. C. McAnelly for several years and was recently appointed City Engineer of Fort Collins.
FRANCIS C. GRABLE, born September 22d, 1854, of Scotch-German parentage; Scotch on his mother's side, German on his father's; the latter coming
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from the valley of the Shenandoah in Vir- ginia, the valley made immortal by the great ride of Sheridan-the footsteps of whose horse beat faster and faster as he bore his master to the scene of the battle from Winchester Town, twenty miles away. Because of delicate health as a boy, the subject of this sketch was compelled to close his school days at the age of sixteen and it seemed as if the light of his life went out when, with his books under his arm, he went for the last time from the old school house near his father's country home on the Ohio farm. Seeking health he came to Nebraska in 1872, where at Falls City he en- tered his brother's bank, remaining there four years. In 1876 he became cashier of the State Bank at
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Kearney, Nebraska, from which position he re- a poet; for he loves passionately everything bea- signed in 1880 to form a law partnership with Mr. utiful and artistic. He is a word painter, and we doubt not that the "History of Colorado" that he is now writing will be a valuable acquisition to Western literature; for he possesses the happy faculty of blending facts with fancy, prose with poetry and clothes statistics with the artistic touches that brightens and embellishes and entertains. In Valley View he had selected a spot for a home that was ideal. In full view were the mountains, the valleys and the lakes; no sightlier place was to be found in all the beautiful state of Colorado. That night in 1909 that saw its entire destruction by fire was a night that will live in the memory of the builder while memory lasts, and that a great sanitarium may be erected on that sightly and health restoring spot, is a wish that all hope to see fulfilled. H. C. Andrews, of Kearney, a gentleman well- known to many of the citizens of Northern Colo- rado because of his connection with the North Poudre Irrigation company at its organization. In 1881 Mr. Grable was married to Katharine Mc Allister. Their only child is Katharine Lee, a daughter, who is devoted to books and art. In 1887 Mr. Grable moved to Omaha, where he has had an office ever since and where his family reside. For years thereafter, Mr. Grable's work was in connection with the Lincoln Land company, a corporation owned by the officers and friends of the Burlington railroad-the business of which was the location, ownership and development of the townsites along that great railroad. Over six hundred miles of that work went into Mr. Grable's charge, comprising the line of road from DAVID M. HARRIS .- Born April 9, 1841, in Devonshire, England; died September 12th, 1904, in Fort Collins, Colorado. On attaining his ma- jority, Mr. Harris served three years in the British navy as a ship carpenter, and then spent five years in the English merchant marine. He was married to Elizabeth A. Galloway, February 10th, 1867. In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Harris came to the United States and in 1873 to Fort Collins. In the spring of 1877, he bought what was then known as the Agricultural hotel, which stood where the Express building now stands, at the corner of Mountain avenue and Mason streets, changing the name later to the Commercial hotel and moving a part of the building to where the Northern hotel now stands. He added to the building and personally conducted the hotel for many years, and until failing health admonished him to give up active business pursuits. His death resulted from paralysis. He left a widow, who has since died, and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Vandewark, who lives at Gering, Nebraska. Alliance in Nebraska, to Deadwood, South Da- kota, and from Edgemont to Billings, Montana. He located the townsites and then started out to make them grow by developing the country tributary to them. He built an irrigating canal and two storage reservoirs at Crawford, Nebraska; constructed a ditch and reservoir system at Edge- mont, South Dakota; developed mines at Union Hill, where he started a stamp mill and smelter. A panic swept him off his feet financially before his work was finished, leaving him with an indebtedness that would have appalled a less cour- ageous man, but he went at those debts as he has everything else, with an energy that would admit of no defeat, and says he hopes to live long enough to get them all paid. In 1901 he came to Fort Collins and turned the ditches, reservoirs and lands of which he was sole owner, into a corporation known as The North Poudre Irrigation company. The ten years he has given to this great undertaking has made him a factor in the development of irriga- tion in Northern Colorado. Thirty-nine active WILLIAM N. BACHELDER, a pioneer in the wool growing industry of Larimer county, died October 21st, 1908, at Gebo, Montana, aged 70 years. Mr. Bachelder was a native of Castleton, Vermont, but came to Larimer county in 1871 and established a home and a sheep ranch at Spring canon where he lived for about a score of years. He was the third man to engage in the wool growing business in the county and his venture proved to be success- ful for a few years, and until the county became so thickly settled that the sheep range was almost entirely obliterated. He took an active interest in political affairs and was one of the leaders of business years are to Mr. Grable's credit at this time, so active that he hardly knows what a holiday occasion is like. He has never had time to travel abroad or at home, and has the pleasure yet in store of seeing the Pacific ocean and the sunny western slope. He likes work. He worked at first from boundless energy and to see things done; later, from force of habit-then to get the debts lifted over to the right side of the ledger. He has never worked for the sake of accumulating, for he values neither money nor property. Had Mr. Grable have had the time, he would have been an artist or
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the greenback movement in Colorado. He was a candidate at one time for lieutenant govornor on the greenback ticket, and at another time was his party's choice for representative in the General assembly, but was defeated on both occasions. He finally sold off his flocks and engaged in other busi- ness enterprises. In 1893, Gov. Waite appointed him superintendent of Water division No. 1, an office he filled with ability and satisfaction. In 1899 he went to Montana to be near his son, Fred S. Bachelder, where he died.
ADELBERT F. BROWN was born on the 18th day of June, 1871, in Fort Collins, Colorado. He was educated at Fort Collins and at the Normal school of Fremont, Nebraska. On the 14th day of Feb- ruary, 1895, he was married to Miss Mabel E. Picken, of his native city. They have three child- ren; Jas. R., Hallett P. and Roy G. Mr. Brown, upon coming to man's estate occupied himself for a few years at farming, but later became associated with Mr. Frank Mathews in the butcher and pack- ing business in Fort Collins under the firm name of Mathews & Brown. He has been from early boy- hood, in one way or another, always connected with the stock business, having passed through its various grades from cow-boy to herd owner.
C. E. DANIELS was born in Wisconsin, and went in the year of 1888, to Loraine, Ohio. Here he engaged in the banking business. To this line of business he has devoted his life, having been as- sociated in the organization of several banking in- stitutions. He was married in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901, to Miss C. Louise Rogers, and in 1907 moved to Fort Collins where he still resides.
CHAUNCEY W. HARRINGTON was born in 1822, in Batavia, New York; died, March 22nd, 1906, in Fort Collins. Mr. Harrington was a true Western pioneer, an excellent citizen and a devoted husband and father. He crossed the continent in 1859, and after spending one year in California returned to Denver, which was his home until 1868, when he moved to Laramie, Wyoming, coming thence to Larimer county in 1871 and locating on a farm in Pleasant valley, near the Shipp bridge. He spent the winter of 1868-9 on the headwaters of the Lara- mie river getting out ties for the Union Pacific rail- road, and floated them down the river to Laramie City in the spring of 1869. He sold his farm in Pleasant valley in 1897 and moved his family to Fort Collins, which place had since been his home. A wife and five children survived him. The names
of the children are, Mrs. Stanley Davis of Greeley, Mrs. F. A. Bear of Idaho, and Mrs. E. D. Searing of Portland, Oregon, W. H. Harrington and Mrs. Sarah Shipp, both of Idaho.
THADDEUS A. GAGE .- To be a direct descendent of John Alden and Priscilla, made famous in Long- fellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish" is an honor
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that falls to the credit of the subject of this sketch. John Alden accompanied the Pilgrims from South- hampton as a cooper. The youngest of the Pil- grims, being then twenty-one years of age, he after- ward became a magistrate of the colony, serving as such for more than a half century. Thaddeus Alden Gage was born November 7th, 1844, at Salisbury, New York. Eighteen years later he moved to Illinois, where he spent ten years at teach- ing, clerking and farming. He came to Colorado in 1873 and to Larimer county in 1874. In 1875 he married Esther R. Riddle and moved to his mountain ranch near the Forks hotel, where he en- gaged in dairying and stock raising. Ten years later he was elected county assessor and moved his family to Fort Collins He declined a second term as assessor, but continued in the cattle business
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until 1901. He helped to organize the Fort Collins National bank in 1900 and was a director of that institution until 1908, when he moved to Denver. He also helped to organize the Larimer County Fair Association and was its secretary for two years ; helped to organize the Larimer County Stock Growers association and took an active part with other citizens in securing the sugar factory and the street railway. Was a member of the chamber of commerce and also a director until he left for Den- ver; member of the board of directors of the Pub- lic Library; president and manager of the Poudre Valley Live Stock company; assisted in organiz- ing the First Unitarian society and was a member of the board of trustees for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Gage have two children, Bertram A. Gage, assistant cashier of the Fort Collins National bank and Harriet F. Gage, married to Robert A. Pierce, chief mining and construction engineer of the North- ern Coal & Coke company. Mr. Gage is a Master Mason, a Royal Arch Mason, and a Knight Tem- plar. Has filled all the chairs in those orders, except E. C. in De Molay Commandery. While Worshipful Master of Collins' lodge No. 19, he had the pleasure of conferring the degrees upon his son, Bertram A. Gage. Was a charter member of lodge 804, B. P. O. Elks.
DR. HARRY E. KINGMAN, professor of veter- inary surgery in the Veterinary department of the Colorado Agricultural college, was born May 13th, 1881, at Fort Collins; attended public schools of Boulder; received degree of B. S. at Colorado Agricultural college; D. V. S. at Kansas City Veterinary college; M. D. V. at McKillip's Veter- inary college, Chicago; married Edna Garbutt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Garbutt, July 29th, 1908. Dr. and Mrs. Kingman have one child, Edward A., and the family home is in Fort Collins, Colorado.
THOMAS J. WILKINS .- This sketch has to do with the earthly career of a Christian man who died at Timnath Sept. 9th, 1900. He passed to his long rest after years spent in deeds of brotherly love, charity and forbearance. Thomas J. Wilkins was born at Grenloch, New Jersey, Dec. 6th, 1852; educated in the public schools of his native state and attending the academies of Williamstown and Black- wood. He was married Dec. 24th, 1874, to Martha Scott, a young lady of Quaker parentage. Four daughters have blessed the union, three of whom are married : Mrs. J. A. Coy, living at Timnath ; Mrs. James Elliott at Morrill, Nebraska, and Mrs.
O. J. Ripple at Denver. Miss Emma T. is a teacher in the Fort Collins schools. Mr. Wilkins came to Colorado in August, 1878, locating at Tim- nath, his wife following him six months later. He homesteaded the Edwards' farm; was the founder of the First Presbyterian church at Timnath, which he served both as deacon and elder, holding the latter position until his death.
DAVID A. BLACK was born at Bethlehem, Iowa, on July 1st, 1863. He came to Colorado at the age of eleven years and passed his youth on a farm in the vicinity of Fort Collins. On June 11th, 1900, he was married to Miss Mabel A. Gregg. They have two sons and he is still engaged in farming. "Dave" is possessed of a happy nature which finds sunshine where others see only shadows. He is recognized as among the intellectual class of farm- ers who are raising agriculture to the rank of a science. Honest, industrious and thoughtful, Mr. Black enjoys the esteem of his acquaintances and respect of the community in which he lives.
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