History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Part 71

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

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HENRY C. MANARY, M. D.

Dr. Manary was born in Carroll County, Ind., November 30, 1848. At the age of fif- teen years, he graduated in the scientific course at Tippecanoe Institute, Indiana; for seven and a half years following this, he taught school. In 1871, he commenced read- ing medicine, which he continued for three years, and then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1875; he then went to Casey,

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Iowa, where he had a successful practice for five years. In May, 1880, he came to Colo- rado, locating in Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., where he has devoted his attention, since, to mining and assaying; he is also one of the drug firm of Manary & Yelton. The Doctor was married, May 30, 1878, to Josie Lowery, of Casey, Iowa.

G. D. MOLL.

Mr. Moll was born in Holland May 4, 1857. He received a good education in his native country, and, in 1878, came to America. He spent some time in Virginia, Baltimore, Md., and New York City, and in May, 1880, he came to Colorado, locating in Salida, Chaffee Co., where he has been engaged in the wholesale and retail tobacco and cigar business since. Mr. Moll is highly respected in Salida, and has shown business energy in building up his trade in that town.

THOMAS F. McGIFF, M. D.

This gentleman was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 10, 1852. At the age of fifteen years, he went to clerk in a large wholesale tobacco house in New York City; here he re- mained until twenty-one years of age, after which he commenced the study of medicine, and graduated from the Long Island College Hospital in 1878. Immediately after grad- uating, he sought a home and practice in the Far West; he first located in Denver, but, after one year, he removed to the young and grow- ing town of Buena Vista. His practice is keeping pace with the growth of the town; his close attention to business and his gentlemanly deportment have won him many warm friends; he has been eminently successful with his pa- tients, and has already built up a lucrative practice.

WILLIAM C. MORGAN.

Mr. Morgan was born July 2, 1826, on a farm in Dearborn County, Ind .; he received a gcod common-school education, and, at the age of eighteen years, he went to Wisconsin and engaged in the lumber business for him- self; he remained at this business five years, and then sold out and returned to his former home in Indiana. He was there married to Diana Clark, of his native town. They com-

menced their new life upon a farm, upon which they lived for four years, and then went to Centralia, Ill., and ran a hotel and railroad eating-house for two years. At the breaking-out of the war, he was in Washing- ton, and raised the First Regiment of District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry, and was elected its Colonel; he was in the service two years, after which he was in different kinds of business at various places till 1879, when he came to Colorado, and soon after located in Buena Vista as proprietor of the Lake House, but soon after sold out, and has since been engaged in mining.

CHARLES NACHTRIEB.

Among the names of those who crossed the plains in 1859, and who have battled with privations and frontier life since, is the one which appears at the head of this sketch. He is a German by birth, born April 29, 1833. When he was quite young, he came to America with his parents, who located in Bal- timore, Md .; he received a good common- school education. In 1859, he came to Den- ver with a small stock of goods; after one year, he went to California Gulch and en- gaged in merchandising; he has carried on business there since, but, to make a good home for his family, he located a ranch in Chaffee County, five miles from Buena Vista, where he erected a saw-mill and grist-mill;" the South Park Railroad now runs through his ranch. He has built an elegant hotel at Nathrop Station, where the South Park branches off to St. Elmo. Mr. Nachtrieb is a man of great energy, strictly honorable, and has been very successful in his business vent- ures. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Mar- garet Anderson.

EDWARD R. NAYLOR.

Mr. Naylor was born in Shelby County, Mo., April 27, 1852. At the age of seventeen, he went to Iowa, and, when nineteen years of age, went to California; he engaged in farm- ing for one year and a half, and then returned to Missouri and attended the North Missouri State Normal School, graduating. in 1873; he then came to Colorado and bought a ranch in the Arkansas Valley, Chaffee County, where

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he has since resided; he has been elected twice to the office of School Commissioner, and one term as Justice of the Peace. He was married, in 1878, to Lydia Cameron.

JOHN W. O'CONNOR. M. D.

Dr. O'Conner was born in St. Charles, Illinois, August 22, 1849. When twelve years of age, he entered Dixon High School, in Lee County, Ill., and graduated from there four years later. He then clerked in a drug store until twenty-one years of age. He then commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Langan, of DeWitt, Iowa, and graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill., in February, 1879. On account of failing health, he came to Denver, Colo., in October, 1879, and was assistant physician in the County Hospital until April, 1880, when he came to Maysville, Chaffee Co. He has built up a large and lucrative practice. He was one of the City Trustees in 1880, and in 1881, City Treasurer and member of the School Board. He is also surgeon for the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, at Maysville. In politics, he is a strong Democrat. He was married, in July, 1872, to Miss S. J. Gorham, of Chicago, Ill.

A. J. OVERHOLT, M. D.

Dr. Overholt was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1840, and emigrated to Christian County, Ill., in 1852. His father died in 1854, and he lived with and assisted in the support of his mother until he had ar- rived at his twentieth year. In 1860, he came to Colorado and worked in the mines in California Gulch. Here he remained during the mining season of 1860, and returned to Sangamon County, Ill., where he worked on a farm, attending school winters, until he accu- mulated enough money to bear his expenses at the Illinois State University for three years. He then engaged in teaching for eight years, the last four of which he studied medicine. He then attended lectures at Rush Medical Col- lege of Chicago, until his course was com- pleted, after which he settled in Loami, San- gamon Co., Ill., where he at once engaged in the active duties of his profession. In 1880, he agaiu came to Colorado, and located at Maysville, where he enjoys a large and lucra-

tive practice. He is thoroughly a self-made man, having carried out his own way from comparative poverty to a well-to-do position in life. He was married, in 1875, to Mary L. Franklin, of Edinburg, Ill., and has an inter- esting family of four daughters.

ELIAS ORTON.

Among the successful miners of Colorado is Elias Orton, who was born in Genesee Coun- ty. N. Y., April 21, 1837. When four years of age, his parents moved to Adams County, Ill. He remained at home upon the farm till the war broke out, and then enlisted in the Fiftieth Illinois Volunteers, as musician; he was in the service three years and three months. After leaving the service, he re- mained upon the farm two years, and then removed to Labette County, Kan. In 1873, he came to Colorado and was engaged in mining at Trinidad, Lake City and Cleora till 1879. He then went to the Gunnison and bought one-half interest in the Silver Queen Mine, which was then only a prospect. It has since been developed into a rich mine, and Mr. Orton has sold his interest for large money. He still owns valuable property in the Gunni- son, but has bought him a ranch and built a nice residence, two miles from Poncha Springs, where he intends to make his home. He was married, in Illinois, in 1857, to Miss Eliza- beth Davis.

J. S. PAINTER.

J. S. Painter, lawyer and editor of the South Arkansas Miner, was born on a farm near Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa, March 22, 1848. His father being an invalid, he was deprived of the advantages of an edu- cation until he was eighteen years of age, when he entered the high school, at Keosau- qua, Iowa, and, by close application, soon fit- ted himself for teaching the common branches. He then taught three months in the year, and attended school nine, until he had pushed himself through college, carrying off the hon- ors of his class on the day of graduation. In the spring of 1870, he entered the law office of Hutchinson & Hackworth, in Ottumwa, Iowa, and began the study of the law. In the fall of that year, he was made Deputy Audi- tor of Wapello County, Iowa, a position which

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he filled with such satisfaction that the Board of Supervisors voted him $1 a day extra com- pensation for his services. On the 2d day of September, 1872, he was admitted to the bar in the District Court of Wapello County, and immediately engaging in the practice, soon built up a lucrative business. In December, 1873, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Iowa, and two weeks later, in the United States Circuit Court. He now holds certificates from the Supreme Courts of five different States. In April, 1874, he moved to Chicago, and engaged in the practice of his profession, also in the printing and publish- ing business. He was very successful in his new field of labor until the fire of July 14, 1874, swept over the city, consuming all that he had, left him almost in a penniless condi- tion. He then went into the newspaper busi- ness, and during the next two years was in the employ of various daily and weekly jour- nals of the Garden City, winning quite a rep- utation as a writer of humorous paragraphs and comic and burlesque sketches. In the spring of 1879, he bought an office in Adel, Iowa, and started an eight-column folio, called the Dallas County Gazette. This paper he edited with such ability that it soon gained a wide circulation, and the editor became known all over the State for his pungent par- agraphs and biting sarcasm. He sold this paper, in December, 1879, with the intention of taking up a residence in Kansas, but changing his mind, came to Colorado, in March, 1880, and located at Buena Vista, where he was immediately employed as editor of the Daily Clipper, then run at that place. In May, he moved to Maysville, his present home, and, in connection with Ed D. Lunt, started the South Arkansas Miner. In the latter part of July, he severed his connection with the paper and again resumed the prac- tice of the law. About the middle of Septem- ber, he bought Mr. Lunt out, and the paper was soon enlarged and otherwise improved, soon taking a prominent place among the papers of the State.

WILLIAM PARKER.

William Parker is a native of Fayette County, Penn. He was born September 5,

1830; he is of Irish descent and the eldest of seven children. At two years of age, his par- ents removed to Ohio; it was here his boy- hood days were spent in clearing off the heavy timber, to prepare a comfortable home for his parents in their old age. At the age of twen- ty-two years, he went to Missouri and worked as foreman on the farm of Abe McPike & Bro., near Ashley; here he remained until the winter of 1855, and then returned to Mon- roe County, Ohio, and married the daughter of. Bennet Coen, one of the prominent fam- ilies of that county. In 1857, he returned to Missouri, and engaged in farming for two years; in 1863, as a civilian, he took charge of the transportation, in the Post Quarter- master's Department at Warrensburg and Lexington, Mo. After the war, he purchased a farm three miles from Louisiana, which he ran with success, for three years, and then went into the livery business, in Louisiana, which he ran till 1877. He filled the office of Mayor of the city for three years, to the perfect satisfaction of the people. In 1879, he came to Colorado, and is now the proprie- tor of Feather's Hotel, Maysville; also fills the office of Justice of the Peace and Police Justice.

CHARLES AUGUSTUS PETERSON.

Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden August 31, 1826. He came to America in 1851, and was engaged for ten years farming in Illi- nois. He was one of the early pioneers of Col- orado, coming here in 1861, locating on Cache Creek, near Twin Lakes. He was stock-rais- ing and mining till the fall of 1865, when he located the ranch upon which he now lives, near Salida, Chaffee Co .. His was one of the first ranches located in this valley. He was married, in 1875, to Mrs. Ellen Malina Solo- mans.

H. A. E. PICKARD.

The name of Mr. Pickard will be familiar to all the old pioneers of Colorado, having come here in a very early day, and been an active business man in different portions of the State since. He was born in Syracuse, N. Y., July 11, 1839. His father was a Meth-' odist clergyman, and they were moving around to different places. In 1845, they located in

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Freeport, Ill. He received a good education at the district schools and Mt. Morris Semi- nary, Illinois. In 1860, he joined the throng moving westward, and located in Missouri Gulch, Colo., and started the first hydraulic process in that part of the country; in 1861, he went to Denver and was engaged in keep- ing the Planter's Hotel, in connection with James McNasser, till 1867; from there, he went to Pueblo, and took the Pueblo House, and later on, the Lindell, which he continued to run till 1875. This house, during his management, was the home of all the officials of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Mr. Pickard manufactured brick very extensively while in Pueblo. In 1875, he went to El Moro and kept hotel there for one year; in the win- ter of 1877, he went to Florida, and traveled through that State for pleasure; he kept the hotel at Argo in 1878; in the fall of 1878, he went to Hutchinson, Jefferson Co., and kept hotel till he came to Buena Vista in 1880; while there, he was also Postmaster, and was appointed Postmaster at Buena Vista in April, 1880, which position he still occupies. Mr. Pickard was married, in 1864, to Miss Hawkins, daughter. of Samuel Hawkins.

VAN BUREN PURDUM.

Mr. Purdum was born in Brown County, Ohio, January 28, 1848; his father died when he was only five years of age; at the early age of fifteen years, he enlisted in the Seventieth Ohio Infantry, and, after two years, re-en- listed in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry, and re- mained till the close of the war. In the spring of 1866, he emigrated to Iowa, and followed the building of the Union Pacific road. In 1877, he went back East for the winter, and in the following spring, he came to Colorado, and was mining near Georgetown till 1879, when he removed to Maysville, and organized the Continental Mining Company, and was elected its Superintendent. He was married, November, 1876, to Jennie Sarchet, of Burlington, Iowa.

SAMUEL D. QUAINTANCE.

Mr. Quaintance is the upright, straightfor- ward proprietor of the Quaintance Hotel, Poncha Springs He lived in Crawford

County, Ohio, until twenty-one years of age, when he removed to Mercer County, Ill., where he was engaged in farming for several years. Again, he removed to Tunica County, Miss., where he remained one winter. As Colorado had now become an El Dorado for adventurous young men, Mr. Quaintance joined the outfit of the Black Hawk Com- pany, and, June 10, 1860, struck the spot on Clear Creek where Black Hawk is now lo- cated. Here he witnessed the advent of Prof. Hill, and the inception of his new enterprise, which laid the foundation for fame, fortune and a Senatorship. Several years afterward, Mr. Quaintance engaged in the feed and liv- ery business at Black Hawk, and in 1866 united to these a hotel business, and was thus engaged about fourteen years. From thence, he removed to Golden, and ran the old Barnes Flour Mill for a year and a half. Owing to circumstances beyond his control, Mr. Quain- tance here lost money. From thence, he went to Como, and kept an eating-house some four months. This experience he repeated at Weston and Buena Vista, thus following the progress of the South Park Railroad. From thence, he came to Poncha Springs and started his hotel, which promises to be a per- manent and lucrative enterprise. Mr. Quain- tance has had a large share of experience in prospecting and mining. In 1862, he pros- pected all over the Leadville country, and was one of a party that first sunk a hole in Buffalo Flat, which afterward yielded thousands of dollars to the placer miners. He has also prospected extensively in the Gunnison coun- try and the Elk Mountain region. His career, in full, would occupy many pages.

JOHN ROLLANDET.

Mr. Rollandet was born in Holland April 23, 1848; he was educated at Leiden Univer- sity, Leiden, Holland. After completing his education, he traveled for eighteen months in Austria, Germany and Belgium; in 1873, he came to America. He spent the first year in the mines of Virginia, and then came to Col- orado. He was in various kinds of business at Rosita, Leadville and Denver till 1879, when he came to Buena Vista and started the grocery business as one of the firm of Krause

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& Rollandet. They were among the first to start a business in what is now a live and prosperous town. They went through many a trying scene in the start, but have now a very flourishing business.

WILLIAM W. RIVES.

Among the highly respected citizens of Maysville, Chaffee Co., is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He was born in Franklin County, Va., February 4, 1824; he received a good common school education and also two years at Emory & Henry's Col- lege, Washington County, Va. At the age of twenty-one, he embarked in the tannery busi- ness, in connection with farming. When the war broke out, he was a Union man, and did everything he could to keep his State from seceding, but when she did go out, he joined the Confederate service for one year; he was then exempted from the service and was ap- pointed Acting Sheriff for his county, which position he occupied till the close of the war.

In June, 1865, he walked across the country, to Paris, Ill., having just 25 cents when he got to the end of his journey. He got em- ployment in a store, as clerk, and in the fall moved his family there. After about a year, he engaged to do business for a fanning mill company, at Kenosha, Wis. In 1874 and 1875, he was engaged by Beers & Warner, in getting up a history and atlas of Illinois, and later on was in the collecting business. In January, 1879, he came to Colorado and lo- cated in Leadville; the following August, he went to Maysville, Chaffee Co., and is largely_ interested in mining in the Monarch District, and also the Tomichi and Gunnison. In April, 1881, he was elected Mayor of the city of Maysville; in 1845, he was married, to Sarah A. Thatcher, daughter of Capt. Thomas F. Thatcher, of Bedford County, Va. He has a family of four sons and one daughter.

CALVIN O. ROGERS.

Calvin O. Rogers was born in Lenawee County, Mich., March 8, 1841; he has taken care of himself since thirteen years of age, working on a farm by the month; at nineteen years of age, he went to Sheridan County,

Mo., and was engaged in farming and saw- mill for one year. In 1861, he enlisted in the Twenty-second Missouri Volunteers; after serving one year, he was discharged on ac- count of sickness. He lived in Missouri for sixteen years. In September, 1879, he came to Colorado, and ran a saw-mill in Pueblo County for about one year. In December, 1880, he moved to Maysville, and has been engaged in mining, railroad contracting and the grocery business; in April, 1881, he was elected one of the City Trustees. He was married, in 1861, to Miss Martha Hunt, of Sheridan County, Mo.

COL. WILLIAM W, ROLLER.

Mr. Roller was born in Gowanda, Erie Co., N. Y., November 1, 1843. When the war broke out, he was one of the first to respond to the call of his country. He enlisted as private, and was mustered out, after four years and five months, as Lieutenant Colonel. After leaving the army, he attended Dart- mouth College, and afterward went into the furniture business in Ottawa, Kan. He re- mained there six years. In 1875, he emi- grated to Colorado, and was engaged in the furniture and stock business in Colorado Springs, until June, 1880, when he removed his furniture business to Salida, while the surveyors were still laying out the town. Here the firm of Roller & Twichell have built up a large trade. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Clara M. Hayes, of New York.

JAMES W. RULE.

Mr. Rule, one of Chaffee County's most successful stock men, was born in Clay Coun- ty, Mo., March 1, 1847. He received a good common school education, and, at the early age of sixteen years, he started out to make his fortune in the Far West. He came to Col- orado, and was mining in the different camps for two years; he then returned to Kansas City and spent one year. In the fall of 1866, he again came to Colorado and was placer mining in California Gulch for two years, after which he located in the Arkansas Valley, near where Salida now stands, and has been engaged in the stock business since with the . best success.

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CHARLES E. SEITZ.

Charles E. Seitz was born in Lancaster City, Penn., September 8, 1845; his father was a distiller, and moved to Parkersburg, Va., when Charles was three years of age. At the age of seventeen, he went into the Confeder- ate service, and served under Gen. Lee for three years. He then went to New Mexico; he remained but a short time, and then went to Douglas County, Colo., and went into the cattle business. In 1874, he removed to Cen- terville, in Lake County; in March, 1880, he came to Chaffee County, and, in connection with others, surveyed and laid out the town of St. Elmo. He was appointed the first Post- master; also the first Town Clerk and Re- corder, and in 1881 was elected one of the Trustees of the town. He is also Secretary of the St. Elmo Land Improvement Company.

ENOS SHAUL.

Mr. Shaul was born in Liverpool, Onondaga Co., N. Y., October 5, 1856; he went to the common schools and worked upon a farm until eighteen years of age, when he went to Rochelle, Ill., and clerked in a railroad office till May, 1874, when he came to Colorado and remained in Denver most of the time till May, 1878, when he removed to Granite, Lake Co. (now Chaffee), where he has since resided. He has occupied the position of Deputy County Clerk, Deputy Sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and is now Assessor for Chaffee County. Mr. Shaul was married, July 31, 1880, to Minnie L. Pine, of Granite.

G. H. SIMMONS, M. D.

Dr. Simmons was born in England in 1853; in 1870, he came to Canada, and in 1871 to Nebraska. He had to educate himself by his own exertions, which he did, at Tahor College, Iowa, and University of Nebraska. His med- ical education, he received at the Bennett Medical College, Chicago, Ill. He came to Colorado in May, 1880, and was one of the founders of St. Elmo, Chaffee Co. He was elected its first Mayor; he is also Notary Pub- lic; he is also one of the drug firm of Sim- mons & Helmer. He is a man highly re- spected, and has built up a large and lucra- tive practice.

AARON W. SINDLINGER.

The subject of this sketch was born in Center County, Penn, July 22, 1847; his father was a Methodist clergyman, and we find them sent around on different circuits, as all Methodist clergymen are. Aaron re- ceived a good common school education, and, at the age of twenty, he entered the North- western College, at Plainfield, III. After re- maining here two years, he went to the Law School at Ann Arbor, Mich., graduating from there in 1872, and being admitted to the bar, he commenced his practice in Naperville, Ill. In 1873, he was elected Police Magistrate, which office he held four years; in 1876, he was elected State's Attorney for Du Page County, Ill., and held this office until Decem- ber, 1880; he then came to Colorado and lo- cated at Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., and formed a partnership with George K. Hartenstein. The firm of Hartenstein & Sindlinger are doing a flattering and lucrative business.

JUDGE SAMUEL S. SINDLINGER.

This gentleman was born October 24, 1849, in Union County, Penn. His father was a Methodist clergyman. At an early age, they removed to Freeport, Ill. At the age of four- teen, he enlisted in Company G, Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry; he was in the army until the close of the war, after which he attended the Northwestern College at Plainfield, Ill., for three years, and later on, was in the Ann Arbor Law School for one year. He entered into partnership with his brother, at Naper- ville, Ill., where he practiced his profession six years. In the fall of 1878, he came to Colorado, and followed prospecting at differ- ent camps till the fall of 1879, when he lo- cated in Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., and has been practicing his profession since. In the fall election, 1880, he was elected County Judge, of Chaffee Co., which office he now holds to the satisfaction of the people.

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History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Part 71

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