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MARK AUSTIN ELLISON
the Denver house at once sent him to Lafayette; but after an experience of three months, he moved over and took charge of the dry goods department of the company's new store in Loveland. Three years elapsed of this, and he spent a short while looking over business opportunities in Fort Collins, but soon returned to Loveland, and was with the Doty-Dundon Company a twelvemonth. Mr. Elli- son had long been deeply interested in and studi- ously observant of those phases of journalism which had to do with advertising, and during this period he bought an interest in the Herald newspaper. In February, 1910, he accepted the position as ad- vertising manager, and on August 1st, that year, at a meeting of the stockholders, he was appointed
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editor, secretary and general manager of the pub- lishing company. Mr. Ellison is intimately identi- fied with the religious, social and fraternal affairs in the city of his adoption and has a host of friends in the teeming valley of the Big Thompson.
LIEUTENANT JOHN H. MANDEVILLE was born September 25th, 1839, at Brookton, New York,
LIEUTENANT JOHN H. MANDEVILLE
where he was educated in the public schools; mar- ried Clara Vanorder, September 4th, 1861, at Ithaca, New York. Their surviving children are Mrs. Grace Gregory of Fort Collins, and Dwight Mandeville of Eaton, Colorado. On September 4th, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, 50th New York Engineers, and in January, 1862, was discharged for disability. In 1863, Mr. Mandeville enlisted in Company L of the 21st New York Volunteer Cavalry and was mustered out and discharged at Denver, Colorado, in June, 1866, as second Lieu- tenant. He returned to his New York home in the fall of 1866, remaining there through the fol- lowing winter. In March, 1867, he came back to Larimer county with his wife and located on a farm near Laporte, where he lived about a year and
then moved to Cheyenne and engaged in contract- ing and building, returning to Laporte in 1869 and reengaging in farming, which he followed un- til he moved to Fort Collins more than twenty years ago. During his residence in Fort Collins, he has served as justice of the peace and district court bailiff. Mr. Mandeville is one of the four officers of the 21st New York cavalry who elected to remain in the country after the regiment was mustered out, his comrades being Captain N. H. Meldrum, Lieutenant George E. Buss and Lieu- tenant Fred W. Wallace. Of these four, our sub- ject is the sole surviving resident of Fort Collins. During the Civil war, Lieutenant Mandeville served under Generals Siegel, Hunter and Sheri- dan, participating in thirteen battles in Virginia, among them being those of Newmarket, Win- chester and Piedmont. He was with Sheridan when that gallant cavalry leader chased Confederate General Early up and down the Shenandoah val- ley. When the 21st New York Cavalry arrived at Fort Collins in 1865, Chief Friday's band of Arapahoes was camped on the Sherwood place. A few years afterwards, Friday's band moved to the Sweetwater country and went on the war path, causing the government considerable trouble. In the fall of 1865, Lieutenant Mandeville and a de- tachment of troopers were sent to Fort Morgan to prevent freight and emigrant outfits from passing to and fro without adequate protection from rov- ing bands of savages that infested the South Platte valley that fall.
QUERIN SCHANG was born in 1853 in Loraine, France; came to the United States in 1868 and to Fort Collins in 1873; worked in Mason's mill and outside of the miller, was the only help employed. In July, 1874, in company with Kintz Pew started a meat market which they conducted two or three years; married Virginia Mason in 1879, and two of their children, Irene and Nora, survive. Mr. Schang conducted the Standard restaurant a few years and then turned his attention to farming and stock raising. He resides at Amarillo, Texas.
JAMES G. SEAMAN was born January 16th, 1848, near Utica, New York; spent several of his boy- hood years on the Erie canal; married Mary Jack- son in January, 1869, and two children, James H., and Arthur L. Seaman, were born to them. The family came to Fort Collins in May, 1881, and set- tled on a homestead in the Boxelder valley, which he has since converted into one of the finest, best improved and most productive farms in the
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county. His land is irrigated from the Larimer County canal and his farm and water rights are very valuable. His wife died in Fort Collins in 1905, and on March 26th, 1908, he remarried, his wife's maiden name being Julia E. Daily. A son Harold G. Seaman was born April 10th, 1911. Mr. Seaman is a good and thorough farmer, and though he had a few lean years while waiting for the completion of the irrigating canal from which his farm is watered, he has had remarkable suc- cess and is now enjoying the fruits of his stren- uous labors in the years that are agone.
CARL ANDERSON, principal stockholder, president and general manager of the Courier Printing and Publishing Company, Fort Collins, was born May 3rd, 1872, at St. Charles, Iowa, where he was reared to the age of fourteen years, the last few years on a farm near his birthplace. His father, James M. Anderson, then bought a half interest in the Indianola, Ia., Herald, and moved his family to that place. Here our subject worked at the printer's trade for the first two years, then entered Simpson College which he attended for several years. His health failing, he was compelled to give up his studies and for several years devoted himself strictly to regaining his health by traveling in the Southern states, spending the years from 1893 to 1897, inclusive, following different vocations. During the winter of 1895-6 he was employed by the Southern Railway to write up the territory adjacent to the railroad for Northern newspapers and traveled over the company's entire system. In 1896-7 he attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford. In the fall of 1898 he came to Colorado with the intention of buying the Love- land Reporter of W. L. Thorndyke and engaging in the newspaper business, but the deal fell through and he then purchased a majority of the stock of the Courier Printing and Publishing company of Fort Collins which he still retains. Since taking charge of the Courier on February 16th, 1899, Mr. Anderson has thoroughly equipped the news- paper and job printing plant with the best of mod- ern machinery and made the Courier one of the leading and most influential newspapers in Colo- rado outside of the large cities, advancing it from an eight-page patent inside weekly to a daily of often greater dimensions, and also issues two all home print weeklies, the Weekly Courier and Courier Farmer. He is overflowing with push and enterprise and has made his influence felt in every movement designed to advance the material, social
and moral interests of the home of his adoption. He contributes liberally of his time and means to promoting the growth and upbuilding of Fort Col- lins and is not content until he sees things moving in that direction. Mr. Anderson is the only son of James M. and Sarah E. Anderson. His father served Warren county, Iowa, two terms, from 1900 to 1904 as representative in the Iowa State legisla- ture, and is now and has been for a period of twenty-five years co-editor and proprietor of the Indianola Herald of that state. Our subject was joined in marriage with Genora Lillian Evans on June 28th, 1909 at Aurora, Illinois. They have one child, James Lorin, born March 12th, 1911. Mrs. Anderson was born November 6th, 1880, at Big Rock, Illinois, the youngest of four daughters of Daniel and Sarah "Evans. The family later moved to Aurora, Illinois, where she received her earlier education in the public schools. She received later scholastic training at Oberlin College, Ober- lin, Ohio., and at the Normal school at De Kalb, Illinois. She taught in the city schools of Oxford, Iowa, and Aurora, Illinois, and of Fort Collins, Colo.
DR. CHARLES ALFRED LORY was born at Sardis, Ohio, September 25th, 1872. At the age of nine years he began work in a planing mill, remov- ing to Colorado with his parents in May, 1888, and found work on a farm. In 1893 he was em- ployed as a ditch rider, on one of the big irrigat- ing systems of Weld county and later was super- intendent for the Big Cut Lateral and Reservoir company for five seasons. He worked his way through the State Normal School of Colorado, grad- uating in 1898 with the degree of Ped. B and in 1901 he graduated from the University of Colo- rado with the degree of B. S., receiving in 1902, the degree of M. S. In 1909, after his election to the Presidency of the Colorado Agricultural college, the University of Colorado conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. From 1899 to 1902, he was student assistant in the department of physics at the University of Colorado; from 1902 to 1904, principal. of the High school of Cripple Creek, Colorado; from 1904 to 1905 acting professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and in 1905 was chosen professor of physics at the Colorado Agricultural college and professor of physics and electrical engineering in 1907. During the sum- mer of 1906 and 1907, he was engaged in special irrigation work for the office of experiment station, U. S. department of Agriculture, under Dr. Elwood
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Meed. In 1909, he was chosen President of the Colorado Agricultural college, which position he now holds. In June, 1904, Dr. Lory was married to Miss Carrie Louise Richards of Quincy, Illi- nois. He is a member of the N. E. A. and of various scientific engineering and literary associa- tions, clubs and fraternal organizations in all of which he takes an active interest and an influential
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part. Dr. Lory is justly regarded as one of the leading and most successful educators in the west. To a mind well trained in his special line of studies, he adds executive capacity of the highest quality, and remarkable financial ability-characteristics which give him a superb equipment for solving and mastering the many intricate problems which come before him as President of a technical edu- cational institution under the joint patronage and control of the state and the nation. Quiet in manner; courteous in all of his dealings with both the faculty and the student body; eminently fair and just in all of his decisions; firm, yet kind and tactful in his discipline, he combines mental cult- ure with rare common sense and judgment in a combination of qualifications that has made the two
years of his administration the most successful that the Colorado Agricultural college has ever known; under his wise and skillful direction the college is growing, as it never grew before, in attendance, in scholarship, in usefulness as an institution upon which so largely depends the industrial develop- ment of the Commonwealth, and the creation of the type of citizenship that will assume the con- tinued upbuilding and prosperity of Colorado. For Dr. Lory is a firm believer in what has become known as practical education, which rightly in- terpreted means that to the culture of the mind should be added instruction such as will enable the graduate to at once enter upon some practical pur- suit which will assure him a livelihood for himself and family. The new and somewhat intricate problems involved in such a scheme of education Dr. Lory is working out with a success that prom- ises to endow him with a' lasting fame and also place the college under his direction upon the high- est plane of power and influence in the intermoun- tain west.
W. C. STILES .- One of the most prosperous and enterprising citizens of the county makes his home at Loveland. Well known to everyone in the south- ern part of the county, where he has been a promi- nent and deservedly popular figure for nearly half a century, W. C. Stiles has made his mark as a progressive farmer and stock grower. He came to Colorado in 1876; was born in Michigan. and was married in Denver to Louelle Herbert, October 3, 1881. A daughter, Glenn, and son, Bert, are graduates of Colorado college, Colorado Springs, and both are now teachers of note. Another son, Frank, and a daughter, Miss Helen, are at home with their parents. Mr. Stiles helped to con- struct the first building erected in Loveland. He erected buildings and otherwise improved five dif- ferent farms and now owns a 1,000-acre foothill ranch upon which grazes one of the finest herds of black cattle known in the state.
NORMAN H. MELDRUM was born October 11th, 1841, at Mixville, Allegheny county, New York. At the age of four years, he moved to Caledonia, Livingston county, that state. He attended the public schools, finished his education at the age of 19 at the Union school at Bergen, Monroe county, New York. He enlisted in Company B 100th New York Volunteer Infantry in August, 1861. Served under McClellan in the Chickahominy campaign, participating in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and the Seven Days fight. In 1862, he
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was commissioned as First Lieutenant in company G, 21st New York Cavalry, and did service in the Shenandoah valley; served as Aide-de-Camp on the staffs of Generals Siegel and Hunter during their Valley campaigns and also with Sheridan until the close of the war. In 1865 he was or- dered to Fort Collins, Colorado; served in the Ind- ian campaigns during that year and on July 13th, 1866, was mustered out of the service with the rank of captain. After his discharge Captain Meldrum settled at Fort Collins but soon after- wards moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and in 1867 was elected treasurer of that city. At the expira- tion of his term of office, he returned to Fort Col- lins and engaged in farming and stock growing. He was assessor of Larimer county from 1872 to 1874; was a member of the last territorial legislat- ure which convened in Denver in 1875. On Octo- ber 3rd, 1876, was elected a member of the Senate of the First general assembly. In the fall of 1878, was elected Secretary of State and re-elected in 1880. Appointed Surveyor General of Colorado in 1883 by President Arthur and served until December 9th, 1885, when he was removed for of- fensive partisanship by President Cleveland. In the fall of 1886, was elected Lieutenant Governor of Colorado and served one term with distinction. In 1890, he was appointed by President Harrison as Receiver of the Land Office at Sterling, Colo- rado, serving four years. Was then elected to the position of Receiver of the State Board of Land Commissioners of Colorado in 1894 and served a full term of two years. In the year 1897, he removed to Buffalo, Wyoming, where he engaged in stock growing and a large irrigation proposi- tion which will eventually prove beneficial to the state and county. Politically, he is a republican and exerted a great deal of influence in the councils of his party and was never defeated for any office that he aspired to at any general election.
J. NELSON HOLLOWELL is one of the Argonauts of the Big Thompson valley. He is one of the four surviving members of that hardy band of pioneers who settled in that beautiful valley in 1860, to help found a rich and prosperous com- monwealth in the Rocky Mountain region. They endured hardships, suffered privations and were surrounded by dangers, seen and unseen, that those who should come after them might enjoy the bless- ings of civilization, such as the inhabitants of Lari- mer county now rejoice over. To be sure the most of them came to Colorado in search of the "golden
fleece" but failing to find it, they turned their at- tention to the husbandman's peaceful pursuits and set about converting the wilderness into a habit- able region for civilized man. Mr. Hollowell's surviving companions engaged in this great under- taking are Judge W. B. Osborn, Hon. Thos. H. Johnson and John Hahn. Our subject was born in Yates county, New York, and received his edu-
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cation in Wyoming county, New York. He ar- rived in Colorado, May 10th, 1860, and settled in the Big Thompson valley a few months later, and that has been his home for fifty-one years. He was the first man to demonstrate that vegetables and grain could be successfully produced in Lari- mer county. In 1870 he married Mary E. Ward, who has borne him four children, Guy C., Maleen, William W., and Frank Hollowell. Some of Mr. Hollowell's pioneer experiences are related else- where in this volume.
F. M. AMES was born August 25, 1865, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania; received his edu- cation in the public schools of Michigan and Fort Collins, Colo .; came to Fort Collins April 30th,
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1882. Married Francis May Nelson, March 26th, 1889, and has six children, Gertrude M., Ray S., Lynn O., Nercilla S., Leola F. and Clinton N .; ranch and stockman by occupation.
PROF. CLARENCE P. GILLETTE .- The subject of this sketch is head of the department of Zoology and Entomology at the Colorado Agricultural Col-
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lege and Entomologist of the experimental station connected with that institution; made State Ento- mologist by act of the Colorado General assembly in 1907, and placed in charge of all the horti- cultural inspection work of the state; director of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment station ; long a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a charter member of the American Association of Economic Entomologists and of the Entomological Society of America. He is also a member of the Association for the Pro- motion of Agricultural Science; of the Iowa Acad- emy of Science; of the St. Louis Academy of Science, and was recently elected a member of the Permanent Committee of the Congress Interna- tional D' Entomologic. Prof. Gillette was born April 7th, 1859, on a farm in Lyons township,
Ionia county, Michigan. His father, William Henry Gillette, who is still living, was a pros- perous farmer. The boy remained on the farm and attended the public schools until he attained his majority and in 1880, entered the Michigan Agri- cultural college as a freshman, graduating there- from in 1884. He was wholly self-supporting throughout his college course, earning the money by teaching and selling books. The winter of 1885-6 was spent in special entomological work at the State University of Illinois. The following year he was chosen as assistant in the department of Zoology and Entomology in the State Agricultural college of Michigan, which position he held until May, 1888, when he accepted the post of Ento- mologist for the Iowa Experiment Station. In December, 1890, he gave up the purely station work in Iowa to take the chair of Zoology and Ento- mology, and Entomologist of the Experiment sta- tion at the Colorado Agricultural college, which positions he still holds. In 1907, the Colorado General assembly passed a law making the Ento- mologist of the State Agricultural college, State Entomologist, in charge of all the horticultural inspection work in the state. Prof. Gillette has since discharged the duties of this important office with exceptional skill and great fidelity. There is probably not an orchard in Colorado that he has not personally visited and inspected or had it done by trained assistants, resulting in an immense sav- ing to fruit-growers and in improving the health and vigor of the orchards and also the quality of the fruit. He has an intimate knowledge of the diseases and insect pests which affect fruit bearing trees and shrubbery and is skilled in the proper methods of treating the diseases, and eradicating the pests. Through his wise counsel and skill- ful treatment, many a Colorado orchard has been saved from destruction and are now yielding pro- fitable crops for their owners. He is the author of several valuable bulletins treating of insect pests and insecticides, which have been published by authority of the State Agricultural college and Ex- periment station and widely distributed all over the country. Professor Gillette is a recognized authority on all matters connected with the depart- ment of Zoology and Entomology at the college. In 1910, because of his superior skill and executive ability, the State Board of Agriculture appointed him Director of the Colorado Agricultural Ex- perimental station, and he is looked upon and considered one of the intellectually strong members of the college faculty. On March 31st, 1886,
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Professor Gillette married Clara M. Smith, of Portland, Michigan. They have two children, Florence Marie and Nola Esther. Mrs. Gillette is a member of the Cache la Poudre Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Chaplain of the Colorado State Conference.
WELLINGTON HIBBARD was born in 1841, in South Butler, New York, the son of Russell and Almyra (Craw) Hibbard. At the age of twenty, he went to Lowell, Michigan, to enter the employ of an uncle who was operating a flour mill. He remained there until he had mastered the miller's trade and then moved to Grand Rapids, that state, and entered the employ of the Star Mill. Two years later he was appointed foreman of the mills and taken in as a partner. In 1876, he built the Crescent mill in Grand Rapids. In 1880 the firm of Hibbard & Graff absorbed and owned all the mills then in that city. Between the years 1881 and 1892, he was engaged in business in New York, Chicago and Jackson, Michigan, succes- sively. In 1892, he again went to Chicago and be- came an attache of the History of Chicago company, achieving wonderful success in this line of work. In 1894 he went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as manager of the History of Milwaukee company, and two years later became manager of the History of Louisville, Kentucky company. From Louis- ville in 1898, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, as manager of the History of St. Louis company. In 1903, Mr. Hibbard came to Fort Collins to in- vestigate an irrigation project of which he later be- came manager. This enterprise then consisted of filings made in 1902 on what was known as the Link lakes, situated on the eastern slope of the Medicine Bow mountains in Larimer county, and it was only contemplated to divert the water in these lakes through the "Sky" line ditch and turn it into the Caché la Poudre river as a supplement- ary supply. Mr. Hibbard undertook to finance the enterprise and went east to interest capital. The idea of a tunnel through which to convey water from the Laramie watershed to that of the Poudre had, in the meantime, been conceived and our subject grasped its importance at once and also the full extent of its possibilities. In 1904, a corps of engineers was sent into the field to survey and out- line the proposed system and also to ascertain the extent of the available unappropriated water of the Laramie river. As a result of their reports, filings were made that year on the tunnel site and upon the unappropriated water of that stream and some
of its tributaries. The project now began to as- sume the proportions of a great irrigation proposi- tion, and in 1906, the partnership theretofore ex- isting terminated, and the Laramie Reservoirs & Irrigation company was organized in its stead to carry out the proposed plans. Mr. Hibbard was Secretary and General Manager of the company. A little later it was decided to extend the proposed
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system into Weld county and develop lands in the Crow creek district. Mr. Hibbard succeeded in interesting Messrs. D. A. Camfield of Greeley, and S. H. Shields of Denver, in the proposition and a new company was organized with greater capital, known as the Laramie-Poudre Reservoirs & Irriga- tion company. The Greeley-Poudre Irrigation district was then organized, embracing 125,000 acres of land in the Crow creek district. The com- pletion of the project involves the expenditure of $5,000,000. The development, the financing and the destiny of the enterprise were in Mr. Hib- bard's hands, and had he lived to see it fully con- summated it would have been the crowning glory of his life, the realization of his fondest hopes, for it would have been the fruits of his tireless energy,
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wonderful tenacity of purpose, in the face of op- position and what at times seemed unsurmount- able obstacles. The great work he started is now well under way and will be completed during the present year. Mr. Hibbard met a tragic death through the overturning of a runaway automobile on Pingree hill in March, 1910, while on his way to inspect the progress of the work on the tunnel. He left surviving him a widow and three daugh- ters, Mrs. H. B. Hutson, of Bethel, Ohio; Mrs. C. S. Potter and Miss Nana Hibbard of Fort Col- lins.
GEORGE H. CRAM was born in Rutland, Ver- mont, and educated at Castleton, that state. On September 4th, 1869, he married Sarah E. Baker, and a son, Dr. R. Lee Cram of Park City, Mon- tana, was born of the union. Mr. Cram came to Colorado on April 5th, 1876, and first located at Hillsboro, Weld county. He taught school the first few years of his residence in Colorado, was a stockholder in and secretary of the Hillsboro Canal company, for several years, and was the first man to put up money for that project. He moved to Larimer county in 1887 and is now a traveling salesman. He has lived to see Larimer county in- crease in population from a few hundred souls to more than 25,000 and has done his share in helping to develop its manifold resources.
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