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located about twelve miles from Cimarron; in the Southern states throughout the stormy held the office of county judge one term: was period of the days of reconstruction. In elected to the legislature of New Mexico in 1877, and again in 1879. lle introduced the act restoring Colfax county: was chairman of several important committees, and took an active part in the work of the legislature. lle moved to Trinidad, Colo .. in May. 1881, bought and sold cattle, and established the Cimarron Cattle Co., which has about 30,000 cattle, and of which company he is the presi- dent. The Doctor is not only a physician, but a sagacious business man as well, and has ae- 1870, his health becoming impaired from the effect of his wounds, he made application to be placed on the retired list of the army, which being granted, ho, in 1871, located in Denver with his family. Soon afterward he engaged in the purchase and sale of real estate, negotiating loans, etc. Since that time he has been connected with a number of important enterprises, mostly mannfactures of different kinds, and the founding of in fluential public institutions, etc. He was,one cumulated a fortune. lle owns a number of of the pioneers in establishing the first roll-
houses and blocks of land in Trinidad, and is financially interested in many of the best and most successful enterprises of that city.
ing mills located in Denver, and was for a time president of the company. Into this en terprise he put much energy and something He was elected mayor of that place in ISSo, of his capital. He was a member of the old without opposition. He has built an elegant three-story mansion, where he resides, enjoy- ing the companionship of his family and the fruits of his long years of toil and industry.
SWEENEY, Bo., lawyer and legislator, was born in Clinton, Henry county, Mo., Sept. 20. 1861, but when quite young the family moved to Texas, where he grew to manhood, receiv- ing, in the meantime, his education in the public schools, which was supplemented by a collegiate course in Tennessee. He also at- tended the Cumberland university at Leb- anon, Tenn., where he was graduated in the law class of 1888, with the degree of LL. B .. and was admitted to the bar the same year. Returning to Texas he remained there a few months, when the desire to try his fortune elsewhere caused him to settle in Trinidad. Colo., where he engaged in the practice of his profession, and has continued to the pres- ent time. In 1892 he was elected to the Ilouse of Representatives of the Ninth General As- semlily on the democratie ticket. A man of fine physique and pleasing address, welt cat- eulated to command and hold the attention of his auditors, he was one of the more active and valuable members of the legislature. fearlessly advocating all measures that bad for their objeet the good of the people.
SPRAGUE, Wellington G., real estate operator, was born in Cherry Valley, Ohio, Dre. 18, 1839. During his childhood his par- ents moved to Wisconsin, where his boyhood was spent on a farm. He received his edu- ration in the common schools of the country, and also at Hillsdale college in Michigan. and taught school in the meantime, to earn the money with which to pay expenses. Soon post ( subsequently surgeon-general I. S. A., after the beginning of the civil war he en- listed in the Union army, and participated in many campaigns and battles. He was promoted captain and brevet lieutenant- colonel, and subsequently transferred to the I. S. regular army. During the siege of Richmond and Petersburg he was twlee wounded. once very severely, and lay for some time in a hospital. Recovering. he re- joined his command, remained with it during the continuance of the war, and was stationed
Board of Trade, and later of its successor, the Chamber of Commerce, the Real Estate Ex- change and other potential organizations. No citizen of Colorado is more zealous in pro- inoting good causes and in fostering worthy projects looking to the broadest develop- ment. Being a shrewd and careful business man, he has become wealthy.
STANTON, Irving W., soldier and lawyer, was born in Waymart, Wayne county, Pa., Jan. 6, 135, where he remained to the age of twenty. From his twelfth to his sixteenth year he worked on a farm in the summer, at- tending a country school winters. The po- sition he since has attained in the ranks of men has been reached by conscientious appli- cation to the duties of life as they came in the regular course of experience and self- cultiva- tion. At sixteen he secured employment with the Delaware & Hudson Canal company, con- dueting one of its railway trains four years, when, imbued with desire to explore the great new West, he moved to Fort Riley, Kan., then an important military post, and there accepted such employment as was of- fered, mainly wood-cutting and building. He witnessed the opening seenes in the long chapter of tumults and tragedies attending the early history of that territory, the elec- tion of the first legislature. that historie body which met at Pawnee City, in a build- ing which he assisted in ereeting. and by its aets added fresh fuel to the flames of interne- cine war then raging. While at Fort Riley he was prostrated by severe illness, which, but for the medical skill and devoted attention of Dr. William A. Hammond, surgeon of the How one of the most noted physicians in the Jand, located in New York City), might have terminated fatally. This incident in after years led to deep attachment between these men. which has existed to the present day. By a combination of circumstances that are a part of our national history, Surgeon- General Hammond was removed from his office. In the days of his prosperity. Mr. Stanton went to Washington, and by enlist- ing the aid of the Colorado Senators and
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Representatives in behalf of that officer, suc- of the many complex questions constantly ceeded in removing the clouds which shad- arising, and rendered still more perplexing owed his name and restoring him to hts rank and standing in the army, from which he had been displaced by erroneous impres- sions. Restored to health by the ministra- tions just referred to, Mr. Stanton went to Chicago and there became clerk to his uncle, Mr. George Wentz, who was engaged in some extensive railway contracts in Illinois and Jowa, with headquarters at lowa City. Here he remained occupied with clerical work un- til the spring of 1857, when he entered a hotel in Washington, lowa, first as clerk, but subsequently acquired a partnership in the business. In 1860 he came to the Rocky Mountains and engaged in mining at various points, but without material success. Finally. -Oct., 1862-he enlisted in the 3rd Colo. in- fantry. subsequently consolidated with the 2nd cavalry, marched to the seat of war in Missouri, and took part in all the principal engagements fought by that regiment and the brigades to which it was attached. being pro- moted to sergeant, in Jan., 1863. to 2nd lieu- tenant, and in Dec., 1864, to a 1st lieutenancy. While 2nd lieutenant he commanded com- by the erndeness of the original statute relat- ing to locations, miners' rights, etc., and the somewhat sullen acceptance by the miners of congressional interference with primary cus- toms. Notwithstanding, Mr. Stanton's inti- mate acquaintance with the office in Wash- ington. its methods of procedure and its officers, together with his affability and un- disguised desire to establish harmonious re- lations, enabled him to manage affairs with- out serious friction, and to preside over the many contests resulting from this attempt to revolutionize old systems in a manner tomeet all material requirements. It was not until after the passage by Congress of the amenda- tory aet of 1872, however, that the general government acquired the control that has since obtained. In 1871 a land office was es- tablished in Pueblo. A Mr. Wheeler was the first register but died after a few months' service, when Mr. Stanton was appointed to this more important position, where instead of almost exclusive transactions in mining claims, as at Central City, the duties related to large tracts of agricultural land. Here. pany F of his regiment in the battles of again, superior skill and experience were re-
Little Blue, Big Blue, Westport, Mine Creek quired for upon the register tell the burden of establishing titles and deciding many diffi- cult problems involved in ohl Mexican grants. In June. 1874. having meanwhile taken up the study of law with the view of adopting that profession, he resigned from the land office and formed a partnership with Hon. George Q. Richmond, later judge and Newtonia. After the latter engagement he commanded the available men of four com- panies, and was made acting quartermaster and commissary during the remainder of the remarkable campaign known as "the Price raid of 1864." and until the return of the command to Leavenworth, Kan., in Decem- ber of that year. Until July following, he of the court of appeals. This relation con- commanded company L; then was appointed provost-marshal of the district of the Upper Arkansas, on the staff of General John B. Sanborn, serving in that capacity until the regiment was mustered out at Leavenworth. Sept. 23. 1865. The winter of 1865-66 was passed at his old home in Pennsylvania. resting from three years of wearing service on the frontier, where his regiment had been almost constantly battling with some of the most trying conditions of the rebellion, largely against bushwhackers, guerillas and assas- sins, with some fierce engagements with tinued with a steadily increasing practice for five years. From April, 1875, to May, 1879, he was a member of the Pueblo school board. During his teri of office, and largely through his efforts, the first brick school building in that city was erected. known as the Cen- tennial school. The structure was recently remodeled and enlarged, and is now one of the finest school buildings in the state. Jan. 1, 1867, he married Miss Mary A. Singer of Potosi. Mo., an accomplished graduate of Bonham's Female seminary in St. Louis. In 1SSI Mr. Stanton organized the Pueblo Gas Price's large army. In the spring of 1866 company, and was its president until 1886. In he went to Washington, intending to return 1883 Governor Pitkin appointed him to repre- sent Colorado at the celebration of the anni- versary of the surrender of Yorktown, Va., to George Washington, held in 1883. In 1888 he was elected president of the Pueblo Board of Trade, an association of eminent citizens organized to promote the general advance- ment of that city. Under his administration the often defeated enterprise of unifying and consolidating the Merchants' Exchange and the Board of Trade and the reorganization of the latter was successfully consummated. Long prominent in the Masonic order, master of one of its local lodges, and at the head to Colorado, but when President Johnson ve- toed the bill for the admission of our state, he accepted the tender of a clerkship in the gen- eral land office. This proved the beginning. the school of instruction, so to speak, which fitted him for his useful citizenship in Colo- rado. In Feb., 1868, he was appointed reg- ister of the first U. S. land office instituted in the Rocky Mountains, under the mining act known as the "Chaffee law." passed in 1866. Equipped with the requisite experience, sup- plemented by instructions from his chief, he proceeded to Central City, then the principal center of mining operations, and there opened his office. It was a ditheult position because of its Royal Arch chapter, also a member of
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the Grand chapter of Colorado, he was made chairman of the committee on finance. In 1800 he was unanimously chosen presi- dent of the municipal council, and presided with marked suecoss. Ile was active in all improvements and brought about many re- forms: was especially interested in the fire department, and for his labors in that be- elected deputy grand high priest of the latter body in 1875 and elevated to the headship in 1876, succeeding Win. N. Byers. In 1876 he was elected grand generalissimo of the grand commandery, Knights Templar, in 1877 deputy grand commander, and in 1878 grand commander. In the fall of 1890 his half the first steam fire engine introduced friends in the southern division of the state in Pueblo was named "The A. T. Stewart No. brought him forward as the republican candi- 1." In polities be is one of the leading demo- crats, with high protective tariff views, a disciple of the late Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania. In 1SSS he was chosen by his party as a candidate for the state Senate, date for governor, but John L. Routt was selected instead. Though not wealthy, he has acquired an elegant home, considerable landed estate, and a comfortable competence. Ile is a good lawyer. an industrious worker, and though the county was largely republi- religiously moral, and devoted to the np- building of the community in which he lives and, to the extent of his ability, the state of Colorado.
SUTHERLAND, Fernando H., dentist, was born at Union IIall, Va., May 24, 1848, and educated in the schools of Philadelphia, and also in the llinois normal school. Ile chose the profession of dentistry, in which he has been very successful. Failing health induced him to visit Colorado, in 1871, and, receiving great benefit from the climate, he made his permanent home here. An ardent democrat. he took deep interest in the affairs of that party, but in 1890 abandoned it and joined the republican organization. Ilaving been fully restored to health, he is an enthusiastic admirer of the state, its climate and re- sources. In 1880 he was a candidate for state Senator in the 5th senatorial district, but later was elected to the House of the General Assembly. le is a progressive citizen of Pueblo, where he is widely esteemed. In 1872 he married Miss Belle 11. Grimes at Colorado Springs.
STEWART, Alexander Thomas, manu- facturer, was born in New York City, Sept. 15, 1855, and was educated in the public schools. At an early age he learned the blacksmith's trade, and soon after was made foreman of the establishment. In Jan .. 1876, he came to Colorado, settled in Pueblo and. on the 13th following, opened a shop in that city. For several years he did all the black- smithing and repairing for Barlow & San- derson's stage line. From a small unpre- tentions shop. the business, by virtue of his industry and excellent management, con- stantly expanded with the succeeding years, until now the wagon and carriage house of F. HI. Stewart & Co., of which Mr. A. T. Stewart is the senior member, has no equal in the state. The firm occupies two large build ings, one on Victoria avenue and E street, and another on U'nion avenue and E street. each having a floor space of 10,500 feet. The latter is a two-story brick, erected in 1891. In 1880 Mr. Stewart was elected alderman from the 3rd ward, and was re-elected in 1886 and 1989. In this office he evinced fine ability, and under two administrations was until 1ss1. when he came to Pueblo and en-
ean, and he was opposed by a very popular candidate, Mr. Stewart made an excellent race, being defeated by only a very small majority. In 1589-90 he was unanimously chosen chairman of the county democratic central committee, and each time won a victory for his party. He has always been an active horseman, and, in company with his brother, F. 11. Stewart, has owned some of the finest race horses in Colorado. These gentlemen were the first to successfully in- troduce the practice of inserting a silver tube in the throat of racing stock to facili- tate easy breathing while on the track. Mr. Stewart was married to Miss Mary E. Morrissey, in Pueblo in 1580, and tive children have been born to them. The family occupy an elegant residence on Broadway Mesa. The success he has achieved is quite as gratifying to his large coterie of friends as to himself.
STEWART, J. S., was born in Armagh. Indiana county, Pa .. in 1815, and was edu- cated in the public schools. When the civil war occurred he was only sixteen years of age, and being too young to enlist in his native town, but determined upon entering the army, he went to Harrisburg, and there being unknown, contrived to enlist in company 11, 12th Pa. reserve corps. While serving in this company he was en- gaged in the battles of Drainsville, 2nd Bull Run and Antietam, in the last of which he was wounded. In March. 1863, he was dis- charged from company HI and returned home. In 1861 he enlisted for three years in the engineer corps of the regular army, during which he took part in many brisk engage- ments, among them the battle of the Wilder- ness, Spottsylvania. River Po, Gurney Sta- tion. North Anna river, Cold Harbor, Chick- ahominy, the siege of Petersburg. before Richmond and in the pursuit and final cap- ture of General Lee's army. In 1867 he was honorably discharged, returned to Pennsyl vania, and at once entered the service of the Nutter-Cunningham Manufacturing company with whom he remained six years, In 1873 he went to the Cambria Iron Works. remain- ing four years. In 1857 he re-engaged with the Nutter-Cunningham company and served
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tered the employ of the Colorado Coal and enviable reputation, great courage and in- Iron company. In 1883 he was elected clerk dustry, it is fair to assume that the chief and recorder of Pueblo county, re-elected in glories of his career lie in the undeveloped 1885 and for a third term in 1887. He was opportunities of the future. In 1894 he was a very capable and efficient officer, adminis- tering the duties to the general satisfaction, as evidenced by the popular elections. MIr. Stewart died in Pueblo May 19, 1889, of heart failure. brought prominently forward as the candi- date of his party for governor, but prior to the state convention withdrew in favor of the Hon. A. W. MeIntire, who was nominated and elected.
SMITH, William G., ex-lieutenant-governor of the state, a young man who has made his way from a lowly to an exalted position by steadfast adherence to honorable principles, was born in Newton, N. J., April 27, 1857. Ilis father was a member of the board of education in that state, and for many years largely identified with its educational in- terests. In 1865 he removed to Detroit, Mich., and there entered the Presbyterian ministry, in which the remainder of his life was passed, and vast good accomplished through the purity and zeal of his effort. His son William received a fair education in the public schools of Birmingham, Mich., and subsequently un- der the tutelage of Prof. Spencer prepared himself for Ann Arbor university, but the declining health of his father prevented him from taking the classical course. In Ang., 1872, the family removed to Colorado and settled in Golden. Soon after William en- gaged in school teaching in both Jefferson and Douglas counties. In the fall of 1873 he entered the office of the Golden "Globe" as a compositor, having previously learned the art of type setting, retaining his position at the vase until 1874, when he purchased a half in- terest in the paper, continuing in partner- ship with Mr. Edward Howe until Jan. 1, 1879, when he became sole proprietor. IIe was not at first a brilliant editor, but by hard study and constant practice he became a forcible and interesting writer. He was a careful and conscientious writer, a fervent politician in the republican party, In April, 1880, the municipal council of Golden elected him city clerk. During the same year he was appointed private secretary to Governor Pitkin and served until the end of that execu- tive term. It is a faet worthy of note that Governor Pitkin had four private secretaries, two of whom died while serving in that capacity. Mr. Smith, in Nov .. 1SS7. Was elected lieutenant governor of Colorado, by the republican party, his majority being much larger than that of the governor-elect. an honor dne to his high standing among the people, who had no criticism to pass except that he was very young. Ile presided over the Senate of the Seventh General Assembly with more than ordinary ability. having fitted him- self by intelligent study of parliamentary law and practice. In the absences of the governor. which were frequent. he conducted the duties of the executive office to the general satis- faction. Being a good business man he has areundated some property. As he is still young, not yet in the prime of life, with an
SCOTT, James C., lawyer and jurist, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, June 12, 1834, and was educated at Allegheny college. Mead- ville, Pa. He commenced his business career as a banker in the fall of 1857. in Bridgeport, Ohio, were he continued for nine years. lle was cashier of the First National Bank at Smithfield, Ohio, in 1864, when stricken down with inflammatory rheumatism, and by that fearful affliction confined to his room for six years. In Sept., 1870, he came to Colorado and settled with the Union Colony at Greeley. lere he devoted himself to the study of law, and was admitted to the bar of Colorado, Jan. 25, 1876, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of that profession. lle was county judge of Weld county from Sept., 1876, to Jan., 1887. June 8, ISSO, he married Miss Margaret Gilbertson, of An- burn, N. Y. Being crippled and unable to move except on wheels, Mr. Seott is a strik- ing example of what energy and indomitable perseverance can accomplish in obtaining a competency, and also illustrates what the climate of Colorado ean do toward restoring a sadly broken invalid to almost perfect health.
STREETER, O. B., merchant, was born in Kankakee county, Ill., June 4, 1857. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm, where he learned the stern lessons of toil and economy. He attended a distriet school, after- ward taking a thorough high school and business course. He taught school for several years and then engaged in farming and stock raising, which he followed with marked suc- cess up to the time he left his native state. lle came to Denver in 1887, and for a time was engaged in the real estate and building trade, with good results. In 1889 he was instrumental in organizing the Summit Fuel and Feed company. Notwithstanding dull times, and heavy losses by fire, the trade of the company has steadily prospered. In 1892 Mr. Russell Gates bought a large inter- est in the concern, and with his superior tact and energy, supplemented by the well-tried experience of Mr. Streeter, who is the gen- eral manager, the company has been success- ful and self-sustaining. Mr. Streeter is a man of excellent character, and thoroughly in sympathy with every movement that has for its object the good of the city and the state. In the spring of 1893 he was elected alderman from the Sth ward and filled that office worthily for two years.
SAMPLE, N. W., railway superintendent,
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was born in Lancaster county, Pa., Aug. 11, Leadville, Colo .. to begin life anew. In 1883 1813, and educated at the Moravian academic he was elected city attorney of Leadville- Institute at Litiz. At the age of sixteen he being the only democrat on the ticket who was entered the Baldwin Locomotive Works as elected. Failing health compelled his removal an apprentice and remained there contin- nously for three years, when he enlisted in the 15th Pa. cavalry, company K, and served until the close of the war, being mustered out in July, 1865, as 1st lieutenant and assistant adjutant-general. Returning home a month later he again entered the Ballwin works, where he remained until 1871, then came to Colorado with the first three locomotives built for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, and here made his per- manent home. Entering the original ma- chine shops of that company, he was soon afterward appointed foreman, and in 1877 promoted to master mechanic of the great es- tablishment, which had meanwhile been
from that high altitude, and in 1885 he as- sisted in founding the town of Glenwood Springs, He was made county attorney for Garfield county white living in Leadville, and continuied as such for two years after his re- moval. He was called to Denver in Feb., 1893. by Attorney-General Engley to assist in the work of that office. Mr. Sale organized the people's party in Garfield county in 1892, and in 1894 he was nominated by acclamation for attorney-general by the state convention of his party at Pueblo, but was defeated at the election in November of that year by Col. By- ron L. Carr, the republican candidate. He has already acquired an enviable repu- tation at the bar of the state by reason of the erected at Burnham. In 1880 he was again ad- able opinions he has drawn as assistant attor- ney-general, and it is understood that he pre- pared many of the opinions that came from that office during the years of his incumbeney.
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