History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 74

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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FITZGARRALD, S. R., lawyer, was born and a covered wagon, accompanied by his at Center Point, Iowa, Dec. 25, 1854. He at- wife, son and daughter, and after fifty days tended the public schools of that state, and reached Canon City, where he resided until afterward took a two years' course at Mount about 1891. lle also brought a number of bibles, hymn books, sermons and Sunday-

Vernon. Inclined to the legal profession, he began the study of law, and, in 1879, was ex- school books with him. Finding no churches amined and admitted to the bar. In 1881 he in Cañon, and none elaiming to be christians, came to Colorado, and settled in Telluride, the since been engaged in the practice of his profession. March 22. 1885, he married Miss Letha L. McConnell, at Welton, Iowa. For three years he was county attorney, and is very successful in his practice. especially in jury trials. The year 1878 was passed in Leadville during the mining excitement of he called the people together on Sundays for capital of San Miguel county, where he has religious exercises, read to them the sermons and engaged them in song and prayer. He made it his duty every Sunday morning to visit all the camps and places of residence. distributing tracts and giving notice of re- ligious services. At length a minister of the M. E. church with a few christians came.

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that period. Mr. Fitzgarrald is a prominent was offered and accepted the position of as- member of the democratic party of San Miguel sistant general manager of the company, un- county and an earnest and effective worker der J. H. Ernest Waters, superintendent and in that interest. He is also a member of the general manager, and one of the best known Masonie order. He was elected to the House and most successful mining men in the state. of Representatives, Eighth General Assembly The fact that Mr. Fisher held the position he and was a very efficient member of that did under one so prominent in mining circles, body.

is of itself a strong commendation of his ability in mining matters. Mr. Fisher was elected mayor of Telluride in April, 1591. 11e is a member of the A. F. and A. M .. and Jan. 7, 1890, married Nellie B. Jarvis of MIt. Ver- non, N. Y.

FARLEY, John F., lale chief of police of the city of Denver, is a native of Ireland. born in county Cavan, April IS. 1849. At an Party age he emigrated to America, settled in Connecticut and was educated in the pub- Jie schools of Norwich At the age of eigh- teen, attracted to army life, he enlisted (March 1, 1867) in the 3rd U. S. cavalry for five years,

FISHER, George L., mine manager, was born in Akron, Ohio, May 14, 1854, and edu- cated entirely in the public schools of ('hi- cago, at which place on attaining his majority he engaged in the lumber business until March, 1876, when he moved to Colorado Springs. This, however, was not his first trip West, for as early as 1869 he had vis- ited Kansas and eastern Colorado. Shortly after his arrival in Colorado Springs he en- tered the employ of the D. & R. G. railroad company, and for a year or so was engaged in making the early preliminary surveys of that company. On leaving the employ of the and during that time was frequently en- gaged in campaigns against hostile Indians in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, In a battle had with the Mescalero Apaches at Apache Pass, Ariz., in 1871, he was severely wounded in the hip, which kept him in the hos- pital for nearly six months. Ile was pro- moted to the rank of Ist sergeant of his com- pany and held that position at the time of his discharge. He was then for a time in the sutler's department in Arizona. Jan. 1, 1873. he adopted the profession of a detee- tive and assisted in organizing Thiel's agen-

D. & R. G. he again engaged in the lumber business, first at Stevens' Gulch on the Platte, and later in Manitou Park, moving to Durango in 1879, where he continued in the business of manufacturing lumber, as superintendent and manager of the San Juan Lumber Co. He was closely identified with the early history of Durango and took part in many of the stirring incidents connected with the founding and progress of that city. In 1885 he moved to New Mexico, having taken charge of a number of large land grants. Down to this period he has at va- cies in St. Louis, St. Paul and New York and rions times been interested in mining ven- tures, but it was not until 1886 that he en- gaged in mining permanently, at which time he moved to San Miguel county and with Mr. John Nicholas became one of the lessees of the Sheridan and Mendota mines. Min- ing was then comparatively in its infancy in San Miguel county. The producing mines were being worked on a small scale, and by reason of the high altitude were closed down almost with the first snow in the fall. MIr. Fisher changed this plan entirely.

for a time managed the latter office. In 1885 he established a brauch in Denver and be- came manager of the same, continuing until ISS9. In 1875 he married Miss Annie E. Skinner. While in charge of Thiel's ageney here the famous case wherein Mr. D. H. Mof- fat, president of the First National Bank, was robbed of $21,000 was placed in his hands. lle had already been apprised of the close connection existing between the lien- tenant of police in Denver and the notorious The chief of burglars and thieves, Jim Marshall of Kansas City. Detective Halliday of New York having been detailed to assist Mr. Far- loy in tracing the bank robber, he was in-

thines were worked with largely increased forces all the year round. lle demonstrated that the trail into Marshall Basin could be

kept open for pack trains all winter, and the structed to visit Marshall in the capacity of

result of his management of these properties a burglar, and employ his keenest skill in ferreting out through him not only the man they were then in pursuit of, but the exact status of the relations between Marshall and the Denver police. Having secured all es- sential evidence. Halliday came to Denver, reported to Farley and the plans were com- pleted. Meanwhile, however, the public ro- mained In entire ignorance of the tremend- ons revelation, until after Mayor Londoner, In 159. tendered Mr. Farley the office of and the demonstration that what were previously considered insurmountable ditti- «ulties could be overcome, has placed San Miguel county in the rank she occupies as a producer of precious metals The lease on these properties continued until Oct., 1591. when it expired by limitation. The Sherl- dan and Mendota mines belong to the Sheri- dan Consolidated Mining company Limited). a corporation organized under the laws of England with its headquarters at Shanghal. chief of police and it was accepted. As a China. The owners were so well pleased with Mr. Fisher's management of the prop- orties under lease that on its expiration he

matter of duty he then apprised the mayor of the true condition of his police department and of all the evidence he had collected on

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Union men from rebel prisons at Cohaba and Andersonville, Ga. The camp in the rear of Vicksburg to which they were taken was which he was active and useful; was one of the most urgent and efficient projectors, through his letters, interviews and speeches, named by them Camp Fisk in his honor. At of the Trans-Mississippi congress, held in the surrender of General Pemberton to Denver during May, 1S9]. lle was inter- Grant. Col. Fisk signed the paroles and fur- ested in real estate at different points from Chicago to San Francisco, owning a large amount of property in St. Louis, farms in Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Utah and California. He was heavily interested in the erection of cheap houses for the wage- workers of Denver and vicinity, scores of which he aided in building, and selling to mechanics and others on a convenient in- stallment plan. The foregoing hasty synop- sis indicates the breadth and character of his enterprises here. In 1893, in common with a majority of large operators in real property, he suffered heavy losses from the crash of that very unfortunate period. nished transportation to their homes for about 75,000 Confederate soldiers from the armies of Generals W. B. Forest, Dick Tay- lor and Wirt Adams. At various times during his military service Col. Fisk received honorable mention from his commanding of- fieers. When mustered out, in July, 1865. he remained in Vicksburg, engaged in mer- cantile and manufacturing pursuits, and was the builder of the first cottonseed oil mill in Mississippi. Naturally and intensely ener- getie in the reconstruction period he plunged into the stormny political field, and not con- tent with talking and working. he published and edited, first the "Republican" and sub- FAHRION, George C., farmer and stock grower, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1836, and at the age of sixteen years emigrated to America and settled in Mich- igan. In Jan., 1859. he started for Pike's Peak. but upon reaching Kansas he heard discouraging reports from that region and stopped at Leavenworth, where he remained until April, 1860. During that month he again embarked for the Rocky Mountains, this time as a freighter, arriving in Denver in the summer. The following winter he passed in the vicinity of the Cache la Poudre river, and in the spring of 1961 was em- ployed by Chaffee and Smith to haul ore. In September of that year he enlisted as a soklier in the I'nion army, in company 1, Ist Colorado volunteers, and served until Nov. 2, 1564. lle was in all the engagements in which his regiment participated. In the fall of 1864 he was informed by some of the set- thers where he now lives that they had cut and stacked about fifty tons of hay, but vouhl not save it on account of the Indians. who were then committing depredations in that vicinity. le purchased the hay and subsequently pre-empted and homesteaded the land which produced it. the same now being in Elbert county. Ile has been a county judge for twenty years, being first clerted in the fall of 1872. He has also been a member of the school board for about the same length of time. lle was wounded by the Indians in 1967, and at the same time suffered a loss of his property. The In- dians made another raid in that section of the country in ISES, when Mrs. Dieterman and child were killed. Mr. Fahrion was with the party which found the bodies and he shipped them to Denver. He was present when the Butterfield stage road was sur- veyed, and furnished the men who con- structed it their forage from Denver, the starting point, to the Missourl river. In July. 1865, he married Miss Elizabeth J. sequently the "Times" of that city, both rad- ical Union papers. He was a delegate at large to the national republican convention that nominated General Grant in 18GS, and was made a member of the national execu- tive committee for the ensuing four years; was chairman of the state committee in 1869 and also a candidate for Congress in the Vicksburg distriet the same year, but failed. It is safe to assume that aetive and virile as Col. Fisk undoubtedly was in the polit- leal affairs of Mississippi during that epoch. he could not return there at this time and repeat the experience without a radical change of creed. In the spring of 1873 he moved to Denver, eschewed polities alto- gether as a candidate for office and em- barked in the powerful but not rapidly mov- ing business of real estate and mining. for it was the year of the national panie. Jan .. 1878, he was appointed clerk of the district court for Arapahoe county, serving until Sept., 1880. By that time nothing was more active than real estate and building. The city was growing at a mar- velous rate by reason of the enormous in- flow of people and capital attracted by the great new mining discoveries in the Arkan- sas valley and elsewhere. Ile was a director of the Denver Circle railroad and president of its real estate company, and as such platted all the additions that company laid ont, and has also platted nearly forty additions to Denver. To employ his lan- guage: "I believe I have platted more addi- tions, set out more shade trees, and sold more land than any other citizen of Colo- rado." lle organized the Denver Land and Improvement Co., probably the first of such organizations in Denver to do busi- ness upon that plan; also the American Trust Co. He was vice-president of the Fort Morgan National Bank of Fort Morgan, Colo., a member of the Chamber of tom- merce and Real Estate Exchange, in both of Sweena; they have six children, and still Hve 29-iv

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on the same place where he purchased the of Commerce, and in ISSa was elected sec- hay. Ilis farm now embraces 1,500 acres of retary of the Produce Exchange. In 1886 land, upon which he raises stock and he was nominated by the republican county hay. lle is the owner of the well-known convention for the office of commissioner for thoroughbred gelding, "The Judge," and is Arapahoe county, the youngest person ever selected for that position, but declined to also the owner of other high grade stock. 1Ie is one of the most popular and substan- be a candidate.

tial men of the county, and is highly re- spected as a man of integrity and great worth of character.

FORTUNE, John, superintendent of the Al- ma Placer Mining company, was born in New Brunswick. In the spring of 1884 he took charge of the mines just named and has rendered them very profitable, He employs an average of eighteen men and handles 1.200 cubic yards of ground per day. JTe uses two No. 3 "giants" and has 4,000 feet of flume and 2,600 feet of pipe. The wash- ing averages two acres each season. This is one of the most extensive and productive placer mines in the state.

FULLER, Fred H., manufacturer, was born in the city of Hartford, Conn., Aug. 2, 1868, and there attended the public schools. 1Ie was in the high school until his seventeenth year, at which time he began the trunk busi- ness in Hartford with his father. In 1889 he came to Denver with an elder brother who sought the climate of Colorado for the benefit of his health. They began business in the Jacobson builling. Soon afterwards his brother died, and he has continued the business alone from that time. lle has a factory on the North side. and atineresidence adjoining the same on Gray street. In ISSS he married Cora J. Wadsworth of Hartford. Ilis father is very wealthy and lives in one

FEAY, Oliver, farmer, was born in Penn- sylvania in 1837, and at the age of twelve of the most elegant houses in the city of years removed to lowa, where he remained Hartford.

nine years; then came to Colorado and pur-

FOX, Edward L., merchant, was born in

chased his present farm of 160 acres, located Columbus, Ohio, in 1854, and remained there on Ralston creek, ten miles from Denver. until 1873. receiving a common school educa- ITis farm is one of the best in the neighbor- tion. He came to Denver in ISTS and en- hood, and is highly improved.

FRY, J. K., farmer, was born in Pennsyl- vania. Oct. 27. 1835. When eleven years of age he started towards the great West and landed at the city of St. Louis, where he passed the following ten years. From St. Lonis he went to southwestern Missouri. where he remained until the spring of 1859. During that year he made a visit to Colorado, where he spent three days and returned to Missouri, staying there until 1862, when he located in Kansas. In 1865 he again became a resident of Missouri, and after a year and half returned to Kansas, where he re- mained tive years; then came to Colorado and located on a farm near Arvada, but after two years removed to his present place, which he has brought under a fine state of culti- ship-building and for a coast-wrecking com- vation.

FUREY, Charles L., broker, was born in New York City, Ang. 19, 1860; was educated in the public schools, and graduated from rado to Mexico. From 1879 to ISS5 he was grammar school No. 2, of Brooklyn. N. Y. a patrolman on the police force of Denver, Shortly afterward he entered a wholesale In 1887 he was appointed jailer for the county of Arapahoe, and April 11. 1893. he was made street commissioner, which posi- tion he held two years. He was married to Catharine llealy in 1560. He was an etfi- vient officer, faithful to the trusts with which he was charged. produce commission house in New York. where he remained two years. Ilis father served in the United States army forty-two years, and during much of that long period was chief ordnance officer at Fort Hamilton in New York harbor. Ile died there Nov. 4. 1576. In ISTS Charles L. came to Colo- FOODY, Martin P., was born in the county rado and engaged in mining and prospecting of Sligo, Ireland, and emigrated to America in Lake and Summit counties. In 1850 he by way of Canada when quite young. He returned to Denver and engaged in the resided for a short time in Ohio, where he wholesale produce commission trade.

In entered the employ of the Kansas Pacitie 1ssl be became a member of the Chamber railroad company as a builder and projector

gaged with H. C. Farmer & Co., with whom he continued until 1882, when he entered the wholesale hay and grain trade on the south side, under the firm name of Fox. Smith & Co .. continuing four years. In ISSO he opened business at the present lo- ration under the name of Campbell & Fox. Mr. Campbell retired in 18Sp. and the busi- ness has been continued by Mr. Fox. He was a member of the board of aldermen from 1880 to 1885: was again elected in 1891 and served until April. 1895.

FOULKES, Thomas, was born in London, England. Dec. 19, 1838. Ile followed the sea from the age of thirteen until he was twenty- In 1862 he came to America and stopped in New York, where he worked at pany a number of years. He came to Colo- rado, May 8, 1870, and engaged in the freight business through the mountains from Colo-

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Ile lived some time in Missouri, while en- Gunnison and Hinsdale counties, Its south- gaged in furnishing ties to the Atchison, ern boundary was the territory of New Mex- Topeka and Santa Fé railroad company, to ico, its western the territory of Utah, and the supply the portion of that road between To- hardest characters in the West were congre- poka and Dodge City, Kan. He became gated there. In ISST he was appointed by a citizen of Denver in 1873 and worked for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad company for twelve years in the capacity of road- master and in other ways. He is now one of the large land holders of the state.

FOSDICK, William L., dairyman, was born in Oswego, N. Y. in 1864. The earlier years of his life were passed in Cedar Rap- ids, Iowa. He removed to Colorado in 1882, and soon thereafter engaged in his present calling. In 1800 he purchased the Union dairy at Harmon, which has yielded hand- some profits.

GERRY, M. B., lawyer and jurist, was born in Hamilton county, Fla., Nov. 27, 1843. Ile was reared on a farm and enjoyed only such educational advantages as that frontier portion of Florida afforded. He entered the Confederate army early in 1861, served until 1865, and was twice promoted for gallantry on the field. His family fortune, which was large, was swept away by the war, and at its close the care of a widowed mother and three orphan sisters was cast upon him. He at once entered the lumber business and fol- lowed it with varying success for some years. In Nov., 1868, he married Hattie F. Ward, a daughter of Hon. Charles T. Ward of Macon. Ga. In 1869 he began the study of law in that city, was admitted to the bar during the following year, and at once entered npon the practice of his profession. In ISTI he was appointed by the governor of Georgia judge of the city court of Macon, and held this of- tice for the term of one year. In Jan., 1873. he removed from Macon and settled in Den- ver, where he engaged in the practice of law until the fall of ISTA, when he moved to Pueblo, opened a law office at that place, and soon obtained a large and lucrative practice. In 1877 he settled in Lake City, the county seat of Hinsdale county, associating himself with Adair Wilson and John G. Taylor in the practice of law. Each member of this tirm was well known, and it enjoyed a large prac- tice in all the counties of the San Inan. In ISTS he was chairman of the democratie state convention which met at Pueblo, The same fall he was nominated by the demo- cratie party for Senator from the 21st sena- torial distriet, but was defeated by Hon. Fred Peck, the republican nomince. In 1882 he was the democratic nominee for district judge of the 7th judicial district, and was elected by a large majority.

Governor Adams railroad commissioner for the state of Colorado, but refused to qualify under the then existing laws in relation to railroads. Sept. 13, 188, he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the state to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- nation of Judge S. H. Elbert, and the same year was nominated by the democratic party for judge of the supreme court, but was do- feated. le again settled in Pueblo, but sub- sequently removed to Washington, D. C .. where he is now engaged in the practice of law.

GALLIGAN, M. J., lawyer, was born in Washington county, Wis., Ang. 25, 1855. In 1556 his parents moved to Lawler, Iowa, where he resided until twenty years of age. Ile acquired a liberal education in the public schools and Bradford academy. While in lowa he learned telegraphy, and in 1875 ac- cepted a position on the I'nion Pacific rail- way at Fort Sidney as operator. Subse- quently be filled a like position at Cheyenne, where, in connection with other duties, he began the study of law, with the view of adopting the legal profession. In 1979 he was admitted to the bar of Wyoming and practiced until 1880, then took a full course of instruction at the Iowa State university, from which he graduated in Issh, and came direct to Colorado, settling in the mining dis- triet of Ashcroft. Ilere he practiced law for a time, then moved to Denver, where he re- sumed practice, and after about one year in that city he took up his residence in Pueblo, where he gained an enviable reputation as a practitioner for erudition and forensic ora- tory. In the spring of IssI he was elected to the city council, serving two years. In the fall of ISSI he was a candidate for the state legislature on the democratie ticket, but was not successful. In ISS6 he was elected county judge of Pueblo county and was re-elected by a largely increased major- ity in 1889. fle was interested in the devel- opment of some well-known mining proper- ties which proved remunerative, and took an active part in Pueblo real estate.

GAST, Charles E., lawyer, was born in Lan- caster. Pa .. Dec. 13, 1NES, and educated at Franklin and Marshall college in that state, whence he graduated in INGS, He studied law at Lancaster and at the Albany law school and was admitted to the bar in 1870. Ile came to Colorado in INTS, settled in Pueblo

This district Was largely republican, and his election was at- and immediately began practice in partner -- trilmited to his personal popularity and his ship with llon. Henry C. Thatcher, under the firm name of Thatcher & Gast. This asso-

well-known reputation as a lawyer. The 7th was then the largest district in the state, ciation continued until 1876, when MIr. being composed of La Plata, Dolores, San Thatcher was elected to the supreme bench Juan, San Miguel, Mesa. Delta, Montrose, of the state immediately after its admission

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into the Union. At the expiration of his adoption of measures looking to a proper term he returned to Pueblo, when the partner- representation of the resources of Colorado ship was renewed, continuing until the death in the World's Columbian Exposition than of Mr. Thatcher in ISS4. The firm was one Col. Goodell of Leadville. He was one of the of the strongest in the southern part of the leading spirits in securing the passage through state in points of ability, influenee and prac- the legislature of 1891 of the first state ap- propriation on the subject, and his appoint- ment as one of the World's Fair managers tice. It was largely instrumental in persuad- ing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- road Company to build the branch from La for the state was a fitting recognition of that Junta to Pueblo under the anspices of a service, as by it he had already demonstrated local corporation formed in that eity and known as the Pueblo & Arkansas Valley rail- road company, and were the attorneys for that company. Mr. Gast still occupies that relation. lle was also one of the original promoters of the Pueblo Gas company, and afterward of the Electric Light company; prominent likewise in organizing the Pueblo

the appropriateness of his appointment as a member of the national commission. Few men have a more extensive acquaintance with the public men of the country than he. Roswell Goodell, his father, came from Con- necticut to La Salle county, Hl., in 1834, set- tling near Buffalo Rock, where he died in 1837. The early business life of the son was Investment company and in building up the spent, first, while in his minority, as a dep- city to its present exalted standing. It is uty postmaster at Ottawa, afterward deputy

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History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 74

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