History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Part 61

Author: O.L. Baskin & Co
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 1080

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E. J. EATON.

Mr. Eaton, County Clerk and Recorder of El Paso County, was born at Tonica,

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La Salle County, Ill., September 3, 1847. His early life, until attaining the age of man- hood, was spent on a farm and in attend- ing publie sehool. In 1868, he removed to Lincoln, Neb., where, during the succeeding three years, he held the position of Assistant Postmaster. In 1872, he eame to Colorado Springs and accepted the position of book- keeper for the Sloan Lumber Company and the Pioneer Manufacturing Company, continuing in that capacity three years. During the spring of 1875, he was appointed Deputy Assessor for El Paso County, and the following fall was elected to that office, which he held until the fall of 1879. He was then appointed County Clerk and Recorder, to fill the vaeaney oeea- sioned by the resignation of Irving Howbert, and was shortly afterward elected to that office, in which capacity he has since honorably and with credit to himself and the county served. Mr. Eaton was united in marriage to Miss May S. Whipple, of Colorado Springs, April 13, 1876.

JAMES M. ELLISON.

Mr. Ellison, the well known Station Agent of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company at Colorado Springs, was born in Abingdon, Knox County, Ill., December 23, 1839. His early life was spent on a farm and in acquiring an education, which he completed in his nine- teenth year, at Hedding College in his native town. He then taught school two years. In April, 1860, he married Miss Lydia A. Sanford, of Prairie City, Ill. In 1861, on the breaking- out of the war of the rebellion, when President Lincoln issued his first call for 75,000 troops, Mr. Ellison was one of the first to respond and enlisted in Company H, Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until January, 1863, when he was taken siek and discharged. He then returned home and from there went to Chicago, where he devoted his attention to learning telegraphy. He subsequently went to Champaign, Ill., where he had charge of a telegraph office a short time. From there he went to Waukegan, same State, and served in the same capacity four months. He then as- sumed charge of the City Western office at Joliet, Ill., where he remained until September, 1869. During the succeeding year he had charge of the Atlantic & Pacific office at Ogden, Utah Territory. He then went to Salina, Kan., and there held the position of clerk and opera-

tor about eighteen months. In May, 1872, he accepted the position of local agent for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, at Colorado Springs, and has since had charge of the freight and passenger business. During the past year Mr. Ellison has erected a fine residence on North Tejon street, where he now resides, with pleasant and comfortable sur- roundings. He has a family of two children, a son and a daughter.

M. W. EVERLETH.

The above-named gentleman, of the whole- sale and retail grocery firm of Everleth & Tay- lor, was born in Portland, Me., October 11. 1843, and is of Seoteh-English deseent. He lived in Portland, Me., where he received his edneation, until 1871, when, owing to failing health, he was obliged to drop his studies. He removed to Winfield, Kan., the same year, where he remained two years, in order to regain his health ; failing, however, to find relief there, he removed to California in 1873, where he remained until 1876. While there he became associated with Don Juan Forster, one of the most prominent stock men in California, and in 1876, in the interests of the firm, brought a drove of 1,080 horses to this State, which he dis- posed of here and in Utah. While in Colorado, he became very much pleased with the climate and the State, and resolved to remain here, locating in Colorado Springs. He was first clerk in the grocery store of Trne & Sutton, which position he held until 1879. Being a gentleman of prudence, temperanee, energy aud industry, he was enabled at this time to pur- chase the stock in trade, in company with Mr. Taylor. The same sterling qualities which characterized him as a elerk remained with him after he embarked in business for himself, and have made him one of the most successful business men in the place.

ROBERT FINLEY.

Mr. Finley, one of Colorado's pioneers, who has been identified with her agricultural, stoek- growing, mining and lumbering interests, was born in Fayette County, Penn., in May, 1830. His early life, until his twenty-first year, was spent on a farm and in attending publie school, after which he attended Dunlap's Creek Presby- terian Academy at Merrittstown, Penn., one year. In 1852, he removed to Dubuque County,

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Iowa, where he clerked in a store one year and was with the Government Survey three years. He then went to Eastern Kansas, where he was connected with the Government Survey until 1859, and during that time held the office of County Surveyor of Johnson County, Kan., one year. During the latter year, he purchased an interest in a steam saw-mill, which he ran that season. In the spring of 1860, in company with W. H. Booth, Ambrose Flornoy, G. W. Smith and Peter Smith, brought the mill to Colorado, arriving on Cottonwood Creek, twelve miles northeast of the present site of Colorado Springs June 17, that being the first steam saw-mill brought into El Paso County, and continued to run the mill two years. From 1860 to 1864, he was variously engaged in milling, mining, car- pentering and surveying, and during 1863, sold his interest in the mill. In the fall of 1864, he enlisted in the 100-day service, to suppress the outbreak of the Indians on the plains, and participated in the Sand Creek massacre. After being mustered out of the service he took up 160 acres of land, the southern part of which included the town-site of Colorado City, and subsequently pre-empted the land and sold the town site to the Colorado City Town Company. He has since resided on his farm, principally engaged in farming and stock-raising, the re- mainder of the time being spent in surveying and carpentering. Mr. Finley was in the fall of 1861 elected first County Treasurer of El Paso County, but at the expiration of one year resigned. He was subsequently County Asses- sor three years, and in the fall of 1865 was elected County Clerk and Auditor, the duties of which office he discharged one year, when. owing to the pressure of other business, he resigned. Mr. Finley was married in June. 1877, to Mrs. Alvira Brown, widow of J. C. Brown, an attorney who came to Colorado in 1864, and has one daughter.

JAMES D. FAULKNER.

The subject of this sketch was born in Nova Scotia September 20, 1848. At an early age he, with his parents, removed to Fall River, Mass. He received a limited education and at the age of eleven he began an apprenticeship at the printer's trade, at which he remained three and one-half years. He then accepted a clerk- ship in a store, at which he was employed eighteen months. When the war of the rebell-

ion broke out, he enlisted in Company D, Six- tieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for the three months' service. In January, 1865, he was mustered out of service, and shortly afterward removed to Blendon, Mich., when he again ac- cepted the position of clerk in a store, serving in this capacity the following three years. In 1869, owing to failing health, he removed to Colorado and located in Colorado City. In the spring of, 1870, he was employed on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, but the following winter he returned to Colorado City, where he remained two years. engaged at clerking. In 1872, he purchased the store of R. A. Innis, and succeeded him in business. Two years after, he had bought out the store of Burr & Lamb and consolidated both stores under his own management and has since been engaged in general mercantile business. In January, 1876, he was appointed Postmaster of Colorado City, which position he still holds. Mr. Faulkner was married in June, 1877, to Miss Mary E. Stone, daughter of Judge E. T. Stone, of Colorado Springs, and has two children.

HON. MATT FRANCE.

Mr. France, one of Colorado's pioneers and a gentleman well known to nearly all the resi- dents of El Paso County, was born in Roanoke County, Va., September 2, 1830. He received his education at Botetourt Springs Academy in that State. In 1850, he removed to South Bend, Ind., where he entered a journalistic career, and when Schuyler Colfax first ran for Congress Mr. France took charge of Mr. Col- fax's paper. In 1854, he emigrated to Kansas, and during the Kansas troubles did not hesi- tate to affirm that he was a Free-State man. He remained in Kansas until 1860, when he found his health rapidly failing him, and decid- ed to follow the setting sun to the then almost unknown Colorado, which he did, thus becom . ing one of the first to seek health 'in this salu- brious climate, and during most of the journey across the plains was confined to his bed. He settled in Central City, Gilpin.County, and from 1863 to 1867 was employed as telegrapher. During the latter year removed to George- town, Clear Creek County, where he was en- gaged in mining until 1870, since which time he has been a resident of El Paso County, his principal business being stock-raising, and is still owner of the Jimmy Camp ranch. In

RESIDENCE OF HON H.A.RISLEY. COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.

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1871, he was elected County Commissioner, which office he has, by re-election, since held .. In the spring of 1878, he was elected Mayor of Colorado Springs, and in 1880 was re-elected, but subsequently resigned. Mr. France has been one of the Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Institute since its organization. He is one of the Trustees of the Colorado College at Colorado Springs, and has been President of the School Board the past two years.

FRANCIS R. FORD.

This gentleman, one of Colorado's '59ers, who has had an extensive experience in mining, not only in this State; but also in California, during the early gold excitement on the Pacific Slope, was born in Sumner, Oxford Co., Me., May 6, 1819, and is of English descent. After spending his early life on his father's farm and in attending public school, he completed his education, at the age of twenty, at Hartford Academy, in Hartford, Me. In 1839, he went to Ovington, Mass., and there clerked in a boot and shoe store five years. He then returned to Maine, located at Mechanic Falls, where during the succeeding seven years, he was engaged in manufacturing boots and shoes. In 1851, he went to California, via the isthmus route, and there remained five years, engaged in mining, in El Dorado and Sierra Counties. He then returned to the States, and shortly afterward located at Leavenworth, Kan., where he followed hotel-keeping two years. In 1859, he came to Colorado, and during the succeeding three years was engaged in mining, at Nevadaville, Gilpin County. He then bought a ranch on Platte River, six miles below Denver, an devot- ed his attention to agricultural pursuits. In 1864, he built a quartz-mill in Russell Gulch, Gilpin County, which he operated two years. In 1866, he went East, and bought a residence in Chelsea, Mass., where he resided nntil 1871; then returned to Colorado, and during the suc- ceeding three years kept the Gilpin House, in Denver. In 1874, he built the Monument House, at Monument, El Paso County, which he has since conducted. During the past two years, he has been engaged in mining operations at Leadville and Montezuma. where he has large interests. Mr. Ford was married, in 1844, to Miss Henrietta Beirce, of Yarmouth, Me., and has a family of two children, a son and a danghter.

JOSEPH W. GILLULY.

This gentleman, Cashier and Paymaster of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and of the Rio Grande Extension Companies, was born in Shrewsbury, N. J., February 13, 1851. He completed his education in the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., after which he entered a large wholesale dry goods honse in New York, where he remained several years. In 1872, he came to Colorado, and entered the employ of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, as clerk in the Auditor's office, continning in that capacity until 1878, when he was made Chief Clerk in that office. During the same year, he was appointed Auditor, and in Novem- ber, 1880, was promoted to Cashier and Pay- master of that company, and of the Rio Grande Extension Company, which position he now holds.

THADDEUS E. HOPKINS.

Mr. Hopkins was born in Madison County, N. Y., November 21, 1849. His early life was spent in obtaining an education, by attending the public schools. He also took a course of instruction at Gilbertsville Academy. At the age of eighteen, he went to Allamakee County, Iowa, where he followed farming the succeeding five years. He then removed to Independence, Buchanan Co., Iowa, where he learned the art of photography. In 1878, he left Independence, and emigrated to Colorado Springs, and has since been engaged in the photograph business. Mr. Hopkins was married in February, 1871, to Miss Lizzie Fish, of Lansing, Iowa.

G. S. HOLMES.

Mr. Holmes, junior partner of the firm of Hooker, Holmes & Co., dealers in groceries, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1857. His early life was spent in attending the pub- lic schools in that city. At the age of sixteen, he became a member of the firm of W. H. Thay- er & Co, in the wholesale dry goods and milli- nery business. He was connected with this house until October, 1878, when, owing to ill health, he removed to Colorado, and spent six months in traveling over the State. He then purchased a ranch of two hundred acres near Manitou, in El Paso County. He then returned East to Kentucky, and brought ont with him a number of thoroughbred horses from that State, and has since given a great deal of attention to breeding horses. During the summer of 1880,

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he entered partnership with Mr. E. E. Hooker in the grocery business in Colorado Springs. He is also engaged in mining interests in vari- ous parts of the State. Mr. Holmes was mar- ried in May, 1879, to Charlotte M. Leffell, daughter of James S. Leffell, the well known manufacturer of water wheels in Springfield, Ohio, and has one. daughter. Mr. Hooker is a young man of unusual business qualifications, and is respected by all who know him.

T. G. HORN, M. D.

This gentleman, a member of the medical profession of Colorado Springs, was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Va., September 5, 1832. Heis of German descent, and of his an- cestry he may well be proud, being a lineal de- scendant of Martin Luther. After completing his primary course at the age of ten, he entered St. James College, near Hagerstown, Md., for the purpose of preparing for the Presbyterian min- istry, from which he graduated in his sixteenth year. Owing to bronchial troubles, he gave up his profession, and taught school six years. In 1856, he removed to St. Charles, Mo. He then determined to adopt the profession of medicine, and began reading, Dr. E. D. Bevitt being his preceptor. In the fall of 1859, he entered the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, where he remained one term. On the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion in 1861, he entered the service as Surgeon, and at the closeof the war was retained by the Government, and had charge of various frontier forts until 1867. He then returned to St. Louis and entered the St. Louis Medical College, from which he graduat- ed and received the degree of M. D. the follow- ing spring, and subsequently, in 1872, was honored by the Missouri Medical College. In 1869, he removed to Junction City, Kan., where he practiced until 1874. He then removed to Colorado and located in Colorado Springs, where he has since resided, engaged in the ac- tive practice of his profession. He is a member of the State Medical Society, of which he was President one year, having been elected June 12, 1877. In 1876, he was appointed by the Governor a member of the State Board of Health for a term of eight years, which office he at present holds. Dr. Horn possesses those characteristics of industry, perseverance and honesty of purpose which lead to success, and has used well the powers given him, and en-

joys the respect and confidence of the entire community. He is an ardent worker in all ed- ucational interests and in the temperance cause and M. E. Church and Sabbath school. Dr. Horn was united in marriage, September 3, 1862, to Mrs. Emma C. Chenault, of Carthage, Mo., and has two daughters,

HENRY W. HUTCHIN.

Mr. Hutchin was born in Butler County, Ohio, November 1, 1825. He remained on the farm and attended public school until twenty- three years of age. During the succeeding five years, he was engaged in the hardware and stove business at Hamilton, Ohio. and Richmond, Ind. In 1853, he removed to Jefferson County, Iowa, where he followed farming nine years. In 1862, he came to Colorado and located near the mining camp of Hamilton, in Park County, and there engaged in dairying. In the fall of 1863, he homesteaded 160 acres of land ten miles southeast of the present site of Colorado Springs, and during the succeeding eight years followed farming, dairying and stock-raising. He then sold his stock, and for some years spent a portion of his time in the mountains and became connected with the min- ing interests of Tomichi Valley, in the Gun- nison District. In the spring of 1880, he bought a store-building in Fountain, where he has since been engaged in the grocery business and has held the office of Postmaster. Mr. Hutchin was married, in 1850, to Miss Elvina Russell, of Middletown, Ohio, and has a family of three daughters.

CALVIN R. HUSTED.

In the chronicles of pioneer life is revealed the fact that the successful founding and estab- lishing of the nucleus around which have grown up the great industries of Colorado was due to the efforts of a few hardy men whose ardor and energy were not lessened by the toilsome journey across the great plains or the hard- ships incident to frontier settlements. With- out a sketch of the life of Calvin R. Husted in this history would be to omit one of Colorado's most active pioneers-one who has witnessed the transition, step by step, of an almost un- known region into an empire, rich in resources and dotted with populous cities and towns. Mr. Husted was born in Salem, N. J., December 30, 1832. His early life was spent on a farm and in his father's saw-mill and in acquiring a

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limited education in the public schools. Then, after spending two years at sea, in 1857, he went to Illinois and worked in saw-mills in various parts of the State two years. In the spring of 1859, he crossed the plains to what was then known as the Pike's Peak country, but on arriving at Denver he met hundreds of people who gave such discouraging accounts of this country that he joined the stampede and spent the following winter in Eastern Kansas. In May, 1860, he again came to Colorado and located at the Bentley Pinery, on Cherry Creek, twenty-eight miles east of Denver, where he took charge of a saw-mill for T. J. Bayand & Co., which he ran three years, then returned to his home in New Jersey. During the summer of 1864, he again came to Colorado and ac- cepted his former position, where he remained until the fall of 1865, when he was married in Denver to Miss Amanda Talbert, of Keokuk Co., Iowa. He then went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he spent the winter. The follow- ing spring, he returned to Colorado and located on the divide, in El Paso County, where he has since resided and formed a partnership with Charles Ruter and engaged in the lumber busi- business ; that partnership existed three years, when Mr. Husted bought Mr. Ruter's interest and has since continued the business. Mr. Husted owns a fine stock-ranch of 2,500 acres in El Paso County, and has for some years de- voted considerable attention to raising horses and cattle. He is also to some extent connected with the mining interests of Southwestern Colorado. During the past eighteen months, Mr. Husted has held the position of tie and Inmber superintendent for the Rio Grande Extension Company on their western exten- sions. In the fall of 1875, he was elected County Commissioner of El Paso County, which position he has since, by re-election, held and has efficiently and creditably discharged the duties of that office. Mr. Husted has a family consisting of two sons and three daugh- ters.

TIMOTHY E. JOHNSON.

Mr. Johnson was born in Wayne Co., Ind., March 31, 1833. His early life, until attaining the age of manhood was spent on a farm and in attending district school. During the succeeding six years, he followed farming during summers and superintending pork and beef packing, for different firms in Chicago and various cities,

during winters. In 1860, he accepted a per- manent position as superintendent for the firm of Goodwin & Murphy, of Chicago, and went to Des Moines, Iowa, where he built a large pack- ing-house for that company, in charge of which he remained twelve years. In 1872, he re- signed his position, owing to failing health of his wife, and traveled over Colorado. In 1873, he crossed the plains with his family, bringing with him a herd of cattle, and located in Colo- rado Springs and began dairying and stock- growing, which he has since continued. He shortly afterward bought a ranch three miles south of this city, to which he has since added by purchase until he at present owns 2,400 acres, all under fence. Since 1875, he has supplied Colorado Springs and Manitou with ice. In the spring of 1880, he was elected a member of the City Council for a term of two years, which office he still holds. Mr. Johnson was married, in February, 1861, to Miss Mary E. McIntosh, of Wayne County, Ind., and has a family of four children, three sons and one daughter.

E. C. KIMBALL, M. D.

Dr. E. C. Kimball, the first physician located in Colorado Springs and next to oldest in El Paso County, was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., May 24, 1827. Spent the early years of his life on a farm. At the age of eighteen, he commenced teaching school and reading medi- cine. He attended two courses of lectures in Geneva Medical College, and one at Castleton, Vt., where he graduated in the fall of 1852. Commenced practicing in his native town, but in 1854 removed to Shullsburg, Wis., a mining town in the lead region, building up a success- ful practice. In 1862, he made Chicago his home, and until the close of the war was in the South. Returning to Chicago, he continued his business till the spring after the great fire of 1871. He started for Colorado, arriving at Colorado Springs the 12th of April, 1872, being among the very first settlers of the place. He took an active part in building up the place, and promoting her interest. Has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1876, was appointed County Physician, and in 1877, City Physician, which positions he still holds. In 1880, was President of the El Paso County Medical Association ; is a member of the State Medical Association. In the spring of 1880, was appointed Physician to the State

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Mnte and Blind Institute, and in the fall United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions.

CHARLES A. LEE.

Charles A. Lee, of the hardware firm of Dur- kee & Lee, Colorado Springs, was born in De- troit, Mich., in April, 1852. Shortly after that time, his parents removed to St. Louis, Mo., where they resided a year or two, removing thence to Beloit, Wis., where his father died in 1856. Young Lee remained in Beloit fifteen years, receiving a good English education, graduating from the Beloit High School in 1869. Soon after leaving school, he returned to St. Louis and entered the Valley National Bank, with which institution he remained two years, rising from the position of messenger to that of Teller. At the end of the two years, he concluded to try mercantile life, and left the bank to enter the employ of Waterman Bros. & Co., iron merchants. With this house he remained two years, first acting as shipping clerk and afterward as cashier. Desiring a more active life, he left this house to take the position of traveling salesman for George D. Hall, also in the iron business, and with him he remained till March, 1877, when he came to Colorado Springs. In July of the same year, he engaged in the hardware business with his step-brother, Mr. Charles E. Durkee. Mr. Lee is unmarried. He is a thorough business man, while his connection with first-class mercantile houses has given him a business training, which, coupled with his natural qualifications and ster- ling characteristics, admirably fit him for a successful business career.

COL. CHARLES B. LAMBORN.

This gentleman was born in Chester County, Penn., November 28, 1837. He received a lih- eral education, graduating from the University of Michigan in 1859. On the breaking-out of the civil war, he was one of the first to offer his services to the Government, and entered the Union army as Adjutant of the First Pennsyl- vania Reserve Corps, and served as Aid-de- Camp on the staff of Gen. John F. Reynolds, who was killed at Gettysburg, Penn., July 2, 1863. Col. Lamborn served two years in the Army of the Potomac, and afterward became Lieutenant Colonel of the Fifteenth Pennsylva- nia Cavalry (Col. W. J. Palmer, afterward Brevet Brigadier General, commanding), and

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History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Part 61

Author: O.L. Baskin & Co Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co. Number of Pages: 1080

Author: O.L. Baskin & Co
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 1080