History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 66

Author: Hall, Frank, 1836-1917. cn; Rocky Mountain Historical Company
Publication date: 1889-95
Publisher: Chicago, Blakely print. Co.
Number of Pages: 791

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eventful voyage he arrived in New York ceeding year he traveled for Joseph Metzler, and proceeded to Philadelphia, where he re- sided until the outbreak of the civil war, in stockyards in 1884.

and then kept books for H. 11. Mills at the Ile remained with Mr. Mills three years, when the Burkhardt Packing company was formed, he being the

1861, when he enlisted in the 2nd artillery and served until the final surrender of the Confederate armies, a considerable part of chief corporator. Remained there three years longer, when the partnership that ex- isted between himself and Mills was dis- solved, and the name of the firm was the time as assistant surgeon. After the war, being partially disabled from wounds, and from disease contracted in the service, he began the study of medicine and meta- changed to the Colorado Packing company. physics, as taught by Plato. Socrates, Pyth- Some time afterward the B. & M. Packing company iwas organized. and a year later agoras and other sages. le came to Colo- rado Sppt. 1. 1852. and engaged as book- Mr. Burkhardt sold his interest. Mr. Cam- keeper, and later was elected secretary of pion is a member of the Chamber of Com-

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merce and was on the Dallas state exhibit. years spent in New York) until 1851. Ilis

Ile was married in June, 1890, to Miss Emily Kaub.

CARSON, Kit. See Vol. I, page 153.

CHASE, T. C., mechanic, was born in Har- wich, Mass., in 1845, where he lived until twelve years of age, then moved to Wal- worth county, Wis. After two years he lo- cated in Effingham county, Il., and at the age of twenty-two returned to his native state and took up his residence at Taunton. After being engaged for the winter in the iron works of that city, and the following summer on a farm, he, in 1869, entered the bridge department of the Providence and Wooster railroad company, spending two years therein; he afterwards worked in the car department of the same company eight years. Hle came to Colorado in the summer of 1879, and entered the service of the Den- ver, South Park and Pacific railroad com- pany, as foreman of the car department, and continued with the road until the spring of 1ss0, when he tried prospecting in Clear Creek county. After that he engaged in railroad and contraet work in Colorado and the East, until 1888, when he was employed by the Mexican Mica Mining Co. In 1891 he was elected supervisor of the city of Denver, and filled that position, as well as all others he has held, in a highly satisfactory manner. At this writing he is assistant building in- spector for the city of Denver.

education was derived from the public schools of Kansas, supplemented by a course at the state university, from which he was graduated in 1879. After leaving the uni- versity he taught school for two winters. In 1881 he came to Colorado and settled in La Junta, where he became connected with the Santa Fe railroad, and remained there until Christmas of 1881. Ile worked the first month for that company as rodman and was then given a level. The following two years his summers were spent in the pursuit of his profession and during the winters he took the post-graduate course at the Kansas state university. In the spring of 1SS4 he returned to Colorado and went into the San Luis valley, where he was connected with the Henry ditches for one summer; then re- moved to Breckenridge, where he remained until 1893, being engaged during that time as mining engineer and U. S. deputy mineral surveyor. He was county surveyor of Sum- mit county and city surveyor of Brecken- ridge. In 1893 he was appointed state engineer and made an excellent record in that important office.

CROWLEY, J. H., farmer and horticul- turist, was born in Lexington, Ky .. June 25, 1549. llis father died when young Crowley was but eighteen months old. In 1556 the family moved to Lucas county, lowa, where he attended the public schools. lle began CHILDS, H. C., business man, was born in Vermont in 1829. He was left an orphan at seven years of age, and was educated in the common and academic schools of New England. He taught the English branches in a graded school several terms, beginning at the age of eighteen; early entered the col- lege of human experience and does not in- tend to be graduated until about the age of ninety. He became a citizen of Chicago in 1853, was engaged in manufacturing, bank- ing and insurance; was a member of the constitutional convention of Illinois in 1862; entered the Illinois House of Representa- tives the same year, and continued a member until 1570. Ile purchased ranch property in 1869, in El Paso county, Colo .: sent into the state sixty head of short-horn eattle, mostly Imported, a large flock of pure blood merino sheep and a large herd of American horses. Ile became a citizen of El Paso county in 1871, and has been interested in stock grow- ing. mining, lumber business and farming. In 1873 he was appointed by the state board of land commissioners, register of state and school lands, which position he filled with marked ability for two years, then retired to his business pursuits in El Paso county. life as a farmer and continued this pursuit until 1865, when his step-father took a rail- road contract and the subject of this sketeh accepted a position as foreman on the work. lle remained in the employment of the rail- road company for the period of one year, when he located in Warren county, the same state, and resumed the occupation of farm- ing, in connection with bridge building. In 1869 he removed to the "Neutral Strip," where after a residence of seven months, he returned to Fremont county, lowa, and en- gaged in the railroad business for two years. From there he went to Lincoln, Neb., and took employment on the Nebraska railroad and also the B. and M. railroad for six years. In 1878 his wife's health became so impaired that he decided to come to Colorado and try the effect of this climate, and accordingly came to Booneville and engaged with the Santa Fé railroad company. After six month's service he removed to Larkspur, Where the ensuing six months were spent. Returning to Nebraska he remained there until 1881, when he again became a resident of Colorado, resumed his connection with the Santa Fé road and continued with that company until the summer of 1852, when he engaged in the general merchandise business CRAMER, C. B., engineer, was born in at Neposta. He continued this for two Saratoga, N. Y., Nov. 26. 1858, but when years, sold out and lived on a ranch for one only ten months ofl was taken to Kansas, year. From Colorado he removed to Mis- Where he lived (with the exception of two souri and engaged in the fruit business in

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the southwestern portion of that state. where he remained ten months. His wife's bealth again failing, he returned to Colorado and at the age of thirteen was apprenticed to and worked for the Santa Fe road for ten the blacksmith's trade. His opportunities for months, then occupied his present ranch in an education were very meager, affording him Otero county, of 160 acres, 55 of which are the chance only of learning the merest rudi- devoted to fruits and nursery. In connee- tion with this it may be said that Mr. Crow- ley made the first fruit exhibit from his county. In 1892 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Otero county and his career in that body was that of an honorable, industrious and an able member. Among the bills be introduced and passed was the one to construct the Twin Lakes reservoir; one to provide for getting the shops were removed to Pocatello, when he ments in the common schools. He came to America in 1878, and located at Blackfoot, Idaho, where he became a clerk in his unele's store. In 1882 he moved to Eagle Rock in the same state. and entered the railroad shops, resuming his trade. While there he took part in the labor movement, and was known as one of its most earnest champions. He continued to live at Eagle Rock until the changed his residence to that place. Although industriously following his vocation, he en- gaged in politics, and at the solicitation of his friends became a candidate for the office of probate judge. He received a majority of

water in the ditches earlier in the season and to place the House and Senate journals in each county of the state. He has always taken a great interest in county and distriet fairs, and was appointed county agent to collect the agricultural exhibit for the Col- the votes cast, but says he was finally counted umbian Exposition, and was also state agent for the collection of Colorado fruits for the same purpose.

CARNEY, Francis, contractor and miner, was born in county Fermanagh, in the north of Ireland, Sept. 20, 1846, where he resided until 1859, at which time the family removed to New York and located at Corning. There the following three years were spent, when the family went to Watkins in the same state. Here Mr. Carney's education, which had been begun in Ireland and continued in Corn- ing, was completed, finishing with a course in the Watkins academy. After the completion of his education he engaged in bookkeeping, but finding indoor life too confining he soon resigned his position and learned the mason's trade in all its branches. He followed that business in New York for ten years, then came to Colorado and located in Onray; upon his arrival he pursued his trade and has con- tinued it up to the present time with marked success. ITe has erected a large number of the more prominent buildings in his county and has done a general contracting business. In connection with his other pursuits he has been quite extensively engaged in mining. and at the present time is the owner of some very promising property. In 1879 he was elected a county commissioner of Ouray county for the term of three years, but find. ing that his business, was suffering on account of so much time devoted to county affairs, he only served one year and then resigned. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to the House of Representatives from his county on the populist ticket, and soon became a leading and an influential member of that body. Mr. Carney struggled up from the foot of the ladder to an honored seat in the legislature of his adopted state, the record of his life showing what a man possessing ambition, in- dustry and a determination to win may ac- complish.

CATER, James H., justice of the peace, was born in Grantham. England. Jan. 1, 1854,

out. In 1SS9 he came to Denver, and con- tinned his labors as a blacksmith until he became the editor of the silver state "Odd Fellow," holding the position about six inonths. He was afterward editor of the "United Labor," a paper published in the in- terest of working men. A year later he em- barked in the insurance business, being the general agent of the Red Men's life and ac- cident insurance company. In the latter he won signal success. He then received the ap- pointment of bailiff in the police court under judge Frost, and in 1893 was elected a justice of the peace for the city of Denver. He was for two years vice-president of the trades' assembly of Denver: was the grand master of the interstate brotherhood of blacksmiths (organizing that institution and writing its constitution), and in IS73 was grand seignior sagamore of the imperial order of Red Men. About the year ISTS he married Miss Lotta Summerfield of England, and to them have been born five children-all girls. Mr. Cater has achieved some prominence as a public speaker, and while residing in Idaho he was known as the "blacksmith orator." being fre- quently called from his anvit to the hustings during political campaigns, to aid the cause which he so ardently espoused. While re- siding in Idaho he was an intimate friend of Senator Dubois of that state. He possesses a well-knit, compact and muscular physique, and enjoys robust health.

CASTELLO, Frank F., was born on Rose Hill farm, St. Lonis county, Mo .. Aug. 28, 1857, and came to Colorado with his parents six years later. The family located in Park county. where he remained until 1870. He was educated in the public schools, and dur- ing the year last mentioned moved to El Paso connty. his present home. In 1878 he en- graged in the mercantile business, and has con- tinuously followed it. excepting about a year and a half. He was postmaster of Florissant from 1878 to 1891, except the interval men-

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tioned, when he was engaged in mining in grated to Wisconsin and became a tiller of the Dolores county. He was a member of the soil until 1871, when he came to Colorado. House of Representatives, of the Eighth Gen- He remained six months in Denver, and then eral Assembly of Colorado in 1591-92, and was permanently located on his present place, one of the conscientious, faithful, and work. ing members of that body. where he has since resided. Ile combines farming with raising horses and cattle, and his efforts have been largely remunerative.

CAMPBELL, Horace, was born in Tippe- canoe county, Ind., Oct. 15, 1847, and re- mained at his home until he was nineteen years of age. He was educated in the com- mon schools, and afterward spent one year in

CROWFOOT, David, hortieulturist, was born in England in 1819, and has resided in America since he was nine years of age. Ile grew to manhood in Oswego county, N. Y., Kentucky and Tennessee on a farm. He and obtained his education in the publie crossed the plains in 1868, with a six mule schools of that state. He moved to Wiscon- team, but did not settle in Colorado until 1869. He engaged in freighting from the railroad sin, worked at the blacksmith's trade and farmed for fourteen years, then went to Min- to different points in the state until 1873, nesota, where he remained ten years. He emigrated to Colorado in 1865, and engaged

when he finally located in Saguaebe county. Here he has been following agricultural pur- in the stock business on a ranch on Cherry suits and stock raising. In ISI he was elected county treasurer on the people's party ticket, and in 1893 was re-elected by a hand- some majority. Mr. Campbell's management of the affairs of his office has won for him the commendation of the public, through his efficiency as an officer, and because of his personal worth and sterling integrity.

CANTRILL, W. W., came to Colorado from Ohio in 1862. Being a pioneer he is well and favorably known. He engaged in the lumber trade and did the largest business in that line of any man in the state. He is the pro- prietor of the West Cliff hotel, and the owner of a sawmill, which he manages with fine success. Mr. Cantrill has held the position of county commissioner of Custer county, and has been on the aldermanie board of West Cliff. Ile is one of the substantial, thrifty men of Custer county, known by almost every person in that part of the state, and highly respected.

CARROLL, Miles, came from Illinois to Leadville in ISTS, and worked in the mines until the following fall. He then went with a party of six men to Roaring Fork on a pros- pecting tour. Hle located the Little Giant and some other claims at Aspen but made little money from them. He planted the first po- tatoes that were grown in Pitkin county, in ISS1. During that year he settled in his pres- ent home on Brush creek and has lived there since ISS2. He owns 169 acres of good land,

CLARK, John S., iron founder, was born in Troy, N. Y., where he lived until 1579, then engaged in river boating, and became captain and 100 head of stock. the latter being the in- of the "Edith," serving in that capacity four crease from 13 eows which cost him $200. the money being borrowed with which he made the purchase. When he left Leadville his property consisted of a pair of mules, but be- ing Industrious and economical, his accumu- lations have been considerable. The first winter that he spent on his ranch he carried in his supplies on snow shoes, and suffered many hardships and privations, of which the more recent settlers in Colorado know but little.

CALKINS, H. D., farmer, was born in New York in 1828, and at the age of fifteen emi- father's employ.

creek. He afterward spent some time at Sampson's Gulch and Red Springs, and finally removed to his present farm where he is raising small fruits, At the outbreak of the late civil war he enlisted in the 5th Minn. volunteers, and served twenty-two months in the Union army. He was com- mander of Major Anderson post, G. A. R. lle is married and has seven children.

COURVOISIER, August, jeweler, was born Nov. 11, 1821, in the county of Neuchatel, Fleurrier, Switzerland, near the boundary line of France. He learned the jeweler's trade and after remaining in his native land until IS52 came to America, locating in Providence, R. I., but after a brief residence there and at Attle- boro, Mass., he moved to Madison, Wis., in 1855, where he remained eleven years. He came to Denver in 1866, and resumed his old profession. He married Victorine Colard. a native of France. Mr. Courvoisier is a mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity, having been "raised" in his native land. He has been quite an extensive traveler, having thrice visited his birthplace, while living in Wis- consin. During the late civil war he was drafted into the Union army, but hired a sub- stitute. lle went to New Orleans to spend the winter, and while there was drafted into the Confederate service, but made his escape.

years. Afterward he was employed as con- ductor on the Troy & Boston railroad, re- maining three years, lle emigrated to Colo- rado in 1879, and was engaged in a muuber of pursuits until Ist, when he was established in the foundry business, Ilis ancestors were among the early settlers in the Mohawk vai- ley, and were contemporaries of the Van Rensalears, About the year 1870 he married Sarah A. Allen, daughter of G. B. Allen, who was for fourteen years sheriff of Reno county, N. Y. George 12., the only child, Is in his

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COOPER, A. D., was born in Venango listed and served three years and two months county, Pa., Sept. 19, 1822, and until sixteen in the Union army, Returning from the war years of age his early life was passed on a he followed agricultural pursuits, and his farm. He received his education in the com- trade as a blacksmith. Ile is a member of mon schools. At sixteen he attended Frank- the G. A. R., and has for twenty years been lin academy, remaining two years, then en- a director of the school district in which he tered Farmington academy in Ohio, where resides.

for two years he studied the higher mathe- maties, with Latin and Greek. In the fall of 1844 he went to Kentucky and there taught school three years, In 1848 he returned to Pennsylvania and engaged in the live stock trade. In 1858 he went to Nebraska, locating in Belleview, and in 1859 came to the Rocky Mountains and engaged in mining in the counties of Summit and Clear Creek. Ile was elected a delegate to the first constitu- tional convention of 1864, and also to the Senate of the first state legislature of 1865, which elected John Evans and Jerome B. Chaffee, U. S. Senators. He was enrolling clerk of the House in the 4th and 5th terri- torial legislatures, In 1870 he settled in Canon City, whence he was elected to repre- sent Fremont, Park, Lake and Sagnaehe counties in the House of the 9th territorial legislature. In 1875 he was elected to the eon- stitutional convention which framed the pres- ent state constitution. An account of his services in that body appears in our second volume. He was twice elected mayor of Cañion City, and served two terms as post- master of that town, As will be seen from this rapid epitome, Mr. Cooper was an active participant in the early political history of the territory. He was a member of the re- publican party from its organization, a good citizen, a just and upright man.

CLINE, Solomon, farmer, was born in Norfolk county. Canada, in 1839, where he grew to manhood and received his education. Ilaving been reared on a farm, in 1867 he came to Colorado and located on a ranch north of Clear Creek, where he remained two years, and then moved to his present farm consisting of two hundred and eighty acres. For ten years he was a director of school district No. 3, and also held the office of road commissioner two years,

CROWE, Patrick, was born in Ireland, and came to America in 1877. Ile remained in the East two years and in 1879 came to Colorado. Locating in Leadville he was ein- ployed in the smelters for a year, and then began transporting ores from mines to smelt- ers and railways. He has also leased and worked several mining properties. In 1885 he was elected to the city council, and re- elected in 1887. In 1894 he was elected to the Ilouse of the state legislature.

CLARK, John, farmer, was born in Eng- land in 1832, emigrated to America when twenty-two years of age, and settled in Wis- consin, where he passed the two subsequent years of his life. Ile came to Denver in 1860 and remained in the eity until the following year, when he located on his present farm, situated in Jefferson county, It is a valuable tract, consisting of two hundred and forty acres, and is chiefly devoted to erops of al- falfa. Mr. Clark is said to have been the first Colorado farmer who raised wheat at a profit.

CRISMAN, John, farmer, was born in Ohio, Aug. 15, 1852, and emigrated to Colorado with his father, in 1862, where he was given such advantages for education as circum- stances afforded. 1Ie lived in Black Hawk and the town of Golden for some years, but now occupies his farm a few miles east of Denver. His principal occupation for many years has been that of a farmer and dairy- n:an. In 1880 he married Miss Tanner. They have one child, a daughter, who lives with her parents in their beautiful home.

CRISMAN, Obed, manufacturer, was born in Maryland, Dee, 10, 1817. Ile went with his parents to Buffalo Creek, Va., and there learned to be a mechanic, and labored at his calling all the early years of his life. He then lived in Iowa from 1855 to 1858, spent two years in Missouri, and in 1861 came to Colorado; went to Gilpin county, farmed a short time in Jefferson county, and managed a four mill at Golden for three years. He located in Denver in 1871, and ereeted the four mills known as the "Star Mills." which he conducted for ten years, after which he built a quartz mill in Boulder, then returned to Denver and re-engaged in the milling trade: purchased largely of real estate, lands and lots, improved and unimproved. thereby ae- quiring a modest competency. His first wife was Naney Wells, to whom four children were born; his second was Mrs. A. G. Pepper,

CARICO, James M., was born in Carroll county, Va., Oct. 15, 1845. He was the son of a farmer, and while attending the schools of the neighborhood. assisted his father in agricultural pursuits until 1861, when he, but a mere boy, enlisted in company C, 24th Vir- ginia infantry, Confederate army. for the period of twelve months. He participated in a number of important battles, after which he was taken sick and sent to the Lynchburg

CARROLL, W. C., was born in Lenaway county, Mich., in 1810; came to Colorado in 1859, and located at Golden, where he fol- college hospital, where, after recovering. he lowed the carpenter's trade for a year of so, was detailed as hospital steward. Remaining and then moved to Gleneve and engaged in there something over a year, he rejoined the farming until the fall of 1861, when he en- army, this time enlisting in Gen. Lee's body

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guard of seonts, guides and couriers. He was They are now among the larger and more sent to Camp Lee at Richmond, Va., and was prosperons dealers in their line. Their prop- with the Confederate chieftain until the close erty, consisting of twenty-four lots, has been improved by the erection thereon of modern went to Clinton county, Ohio, and engaged in brick buildings, intended for stores. of the war. When peace was declared he farming for one year: thence to Kansas; lo- cated on a farm near Topeka, and from there went to Ft. Dodge, where he entered the eui- ploy of the government. Ile then purchased a span of mules and went to New Mexico, from whence he came to Denver in 1867. or 18GS, and engaged in freighting until 1878. He then engaged in railroad contracting un- til 1882, when he returned to Denver, since which time he has been engaged in the real estate business.

CAMPBELL, Mrs. I. B., artist, was born Dec. 15, 1832. in Cuhrhessen, in one of the western provinces of Germany. Her father was a successful merchant and landowner. Up to eight years of age her life was ex- tremely happy; then shadows, which dark- ened all her future, began to appear, through acute dissensions in the family non differ- ences of religious belief. She was sent to fassen Cassel, one of the best educational institutes for young ladies. On attaining her twelfth year came her first great affliction in the death of her mother; the next, when but a mere child she contracted a marriage that proved very unhappy. At twenty, after the death of her children. she applied for and ob- tained a divorce. Disowned and disinherited by her father because of her marriage against his wishes, she emigrated to America in 1850. In the spring of 1860 she came to Colorado and found employment with Mrs. Daniel Palmer, a fashionable dressmaker in Denver. On the 27th of March, 1863, she married Mr. W'm. Campbell. After four months of ex- treme happiness, her husband was foully murdered. Aug. 15, 1863. This awful tragedy dethroned her reason, and for the remainder of that year she was a raving maniac. Her husband left some city property, and also a fine ranch a few miles distant. In the sun- mer of 1864 much of the city property was swept away by the terrible flood in Cherry Creek, which all old residents remember. Next, a cloudburst and a deluge upon the farm destroyed a large and splendid crop. rulned the land. and obliterated the irrigat- ing ditches. This left her well nigh destitute, but with sublime courage she began the struggle anew. After fourteen years of hard- ship and trials she joined the tide moving up- on Loadville in 1878, began speculating in real estate and mining, was successful and accumulated a considerable competency. At the age of fifty-three, after a due course of study, she became an artist, to which calling her talents have since been devoted with gratifying success.

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History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 66

Author: Hall, Frank, 1836-1917. cn; Rocky Mountain Historical Company Publication date: 1889-95 Publisher: Chicago, Blakely print. Co. Number of Pages: 791

Author: Hall, Frank, 1836-1917. cn; Rocky Mountain Historical Company
Publication date: 1889-95
Publisher: Chicago, Blakely print. Co.
Number of Pages: 791