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recorder of La Salle county, and still later as to speak of Mr. Gast as one of the ablest law- a member of the 1st regiment Ill. volun-
yers and most eloquent advocates at the bar of Colorado. This comes to be a marked dis- tinction in a commonwealth that is favored
teers (Col. John J. Hardin's) in the Mexican war. Haring enlisted in the company of the late Judge T. Lyle Dickey, on his arrival with so many eminent lawyers and jurists of at Alton, he was appointed by Col. Hardin renown. Many of us remember the series of tremendous legal contests that arose in 1878- 79 between the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, managed by W. B. Strong, and the Denver & Rio Grande, under the presidency of Wm. J. Palmer, both railway giants in their time, Each engaged as counsel the most dis- tinguished talent that could be found, and when together in court formed an array of ability and eloquence that has never been equaled in Colorado. It was by far the most important legal contest ever brought into our courts, persistently fought and long con- tinued, as will be discovered by reference to (afterward killed at Buena Vista) as secre- tary of the regiment. The war having ended, he was elected sheriff of La Salle county in IS50, and afterward secretary of the state Senate during the session of 1853 and 1854. For seven years he was cashier of the Mer- chants' and Drovers' Bank at Joliet, III. About this period he married the daughter of Governor Matteson. During the war he was largely interested in government contracts, and after its close he went to Europe with his family, the latter remaining several years, for the purpose of giving his daughters the opportunity of finishing their education in the Volume II of our general history, wherein the schools of France and Germany. Ile was for essential particulars are set forth. Mr. Gast was a member of this illustrious force in he- half of the Santa Fe, and When the final ar- guments came to be made, delivered one of the finest of the series. He is not a poli- tician in any other sense than to advocate pure and honest government and to vote ac-
several years treasurer and in 1850 general superintendent of the Chicago & Alton rail- road; in 1874 and 1875 president of the Fourth National Bank, Chicago, and still later was marshal of the city of Chicago. During his residence in Illinois, though an active poli- tieian and leading member of the democratic cording to his convictions of right and duty: party (acting chairman of the democratic state
has never been a candidate for office ner al- lowed the use of his name in such connection. But he is a thoroughly successful lawyer and a brilliant speaker. At a time when the city of his adoption needed the full strength of its best men in its upbuilding, through the rapid advance of public and private enterprises to that end, he was one of the foremost in the cause. An earnest and intelligent student of the better literature, and a constant reader. he has acquired vast information and is capa- ble of expressing his views in a manner to command the respect of scholars and states- mnen.
GILPIN, William. See Vol. I, page 273.
central committee for the Tilden campaign), he was universally popular and few men could be said to have as many friends in all parties, In ISTS he removed to Colorado, lo- cating finally in the prosperous mining city of Leadville. Though not uniformly success- ful in his mining ventures, the service he performed in connection with works of local improvement were of great value to that city and the state. One of these was the construc- tion of a much-needed road into the beautiful valley of the Arkansas and to the base of Mt. Massive. A Colorado paper speaks of this as "the finest drive on the continent." Hle is now a resident of Denver.
GODDARD, L. M., lawyer and jurist, now one of the justices of the supreme court.
GOODELL, Roswell E. No single individual was more active or influential in securing the Possessing a thorough knowledge of his pro-
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fession, with a mind trained to the study of legal propositions and with habits of the closest application, it required no prophetie vision to foresee that Judge Goddard would speedily attain permanent success. As a hard working, diligent student of law he probably has no superior among the members of the bench and bar of his adopted state. A desire for study, therefore, supplemented by a tenacious memory and a correct under- standing of the principles which le at the very foundation of his profession. has equipped him for the high position which he now holds. Ile was born in Wayne county, N. Y., where he remained until 1554, then went to Illinois. He lived in that state six years; attended the Chicago law school, from which he was gradnated, and was admited to the bar by the Illinois supreme court in June, 1865. Leaving the state le located at Leaven- worth. Kan., where he began the practice of his profession, remaining there thirteen years. During his residence in that eity, he was for two years deputy county attorney under Judge Brewer (now one of the judges of the U. S. supreme court), filled the position of county attorney by election for two terms, and in the fall of 1871 was elected to the legislature. In IS78 he moved to Colorado, became a citizen of Leadville, and engaged in mining. His abilities as a lawyer were soon recognized. and, in Nov., 1882, he was elected judge of the district court and re-elected in 1888. Four years later he received the nomination of the populist party and was elected to the supreme court of the state by a handsome majority. The record he has made in that high judicial position, for which his talents so admirably fit bim, has won the approval of the bar and of the public.
GIRD, Christopher C., ex-city auditor, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1836. After the usual primary education in the schools in that region, he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, which he followed un- til 1856, then emigrated to the territory of Kansas, and in the city of Leavenworth he pursued it until 1860, when he came to the Rocky Mountains, arriving in May. After two years, in December, he took up a home- stead on vacant land near the city, and at the same time engaged In freighting mer- chandise between the Missourl river and Denver. Five years later he was a large and prosperous stock grower and dealer, out of which pursuit the basis of his fortune was derived. In the fall of 1869 he was elected to represent the district composed of Arapahoe and Douglas counties in the territorial legisla- ture. In 1878, two years after the admis- sion of the state, he was elected to the Second General Assembly, representing Arapahoe county in the House of Representatives. In 1872 he organized school district No. 19 In the same county, and for several years was president of Its board of trustees. In 1884 he was elected a member of the board of
county commissioners, and in 1986 was made its chairman, a position of great responsi- bility. Retiring in 1\S7, he devoted his time to the improvement of his real estate and other business interests until April, 1893. when he was elected city auditor, and proved one of the most capable officers who has ever occupied that position.
GILLULY, Joseph W., treasurer of the Denver & Rio Grande R. R. Co., was born in Shrewsbury, N. J., Feb. 13. 1851, and edu- cated in the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y .. after which he entered the wholesa'e dry-goods house of W. H. & L. C. Th r.e, New York, where he remained until July, 1572. In August fol- lowing he came to Colorado and found employ- ment as a clerk in the auditor's office of the Denver & Rio Grande R. R. Co. at Colorado Springs. In 1878 he was promoted to chief clerk. When, in 1879, Mr. 11. A. Risley was appointed receiver of that road, as the result of its mighty contest with the Atchison. To- peka & Santa Fé R. R., Mr. Gillly was ap- pointed auditor, continuing until the receiver was discharged by order of the U. S. court. and subsequently until Nov., 1850, when he was made its cashier and paymaster, and also of the Rio Grande Extension company, then engaged in constructing lines from Alamosa. south and west, and from Canon City east. In 1SSI he was cashier of the Denver & Rio Grande Western R. R. Co .. and of its con- struction company up to the time when that corporation passed into the hands of receiver Bancroft, when he was continued in his posi - tion by that officer, and afterward until the general offices were removed to Salt Lake City in ISSO. It will be understood that he still retained and discharged like duties for the Colorado lines. During the same period he was secretary of the Mexican National con- struetion company, then under the direction of General W. J. Palmer and associates, build- ing that road in Old Mexico. In ISS6 he was one of the corporators of the Grand River R. R. Co., formed to build an extension of the Den- ver & Rio Grande from Red Cliff in Eagle county to Glenwood Springs and Aspen. When in July, 1886, the D. & R. G. Co. was reorgan- ized under foreclosure and sale, the new board of directors elected him treasurer. In April, 1SAT. when Mr. Moffat was made president, Mr. Gilluly was appointed treasurer and assist- ant secretary, which positions he has bell continuously to the present time. Ile is one of the stockholders and directors of the Western National Bank of Pueblo, and in the Denver Savings Bank: a stockholder and treasurer of the Rio Grande Southern R. R., organized in October, 1589, and also In the construction company. He belongs to the class of mon who are gifted with great elearness of judgment, directness of purpose and rapidity of action. He is rigidly temperate and of Ir- reproachable character, Obliged early in life to earn his living, he took up the burden man- fully, carrying it forward with courage born
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of rectitude and faith. His rapid promotion ing. Bishop Warren's residence and the Theo- from the ranks to a position of great responsi- logical Hall at University Park, and a great many other residences and business blocks in Denver. For some years they have em- ployed an average of 500 men on their various contracts, and have risen to the headship of the contracting guild. They developed the gray granite quarries of Gunnison county and the pink granite of Platte Canon, and recently established large works for the manufacture of vitrified brick and sewer pipe. The govern- ing elements in their success are thorough knowledge of their business, prompt execu- tion of work, and fidelity to all engagements. The firm is the leading one of its line in Colo- rado. bility testifies to his devotion to duty, his in- dustry, the measure of his integrity and trust- worthiness. He is a quiet, reticent, reflective man, going about his work without noise or display, wasting no time upon trifles, dispatch- ing what may be before him swiftly but ac- curately; directing his subordinates by a few well chosen words; receiving and disbursing millions of money and presenting absolutely correct balance sheets. He is a gentleman in manner and address, of rapid intuitions, re- fined and courteous, but not a diffusive talker: possessing fine executive ability and indom- itable energy. Of medium stature, and rather slender but well-kuit frame, his face expresses decision, firmness, candor and perfect self-con- trol, In accounting for the excellent man- agement of the Denver & Rio Grande rail- road. Mr. Moffat, its president, said to the author: "lamextremely fortunate in the char- acter of my operating staff, the heads of de- partments. No railway in the country has a bettercorpsof officers than the Rio Grande." As custodian of the finances, Mr. Gilluly is one of the more important members of this highly commended staff.
GEDDIS, William, contractor and builder, was born April 18, 1850, in county Fer- managh, near Enniskillen, North Ireland, of the grand oldl Scotch-Irish stock which has furnished the Anglo-Saxon race so many of its distinguished men in modern times. llis father was a general contractor, mainly on public works, and thoroughly trained his son to the same profession. In 1870 he came to America, landing in New York June 25, after a voyage of seven weeks in a sailing vessel. He re- mained two years in the great metropolis. then went to Fall River, Mass., thence to Essex county, northern New York, thence to Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and western Kansas, After six months' travel and work in the West, he returned to New York City. About the 1st of Feb., 1880, he came to Den- ver, having been attracted hither by reading accounts of its prosperity in the Denver news- papers on file in the reading rooms of Cooper institute, where he was a regular attendant. Ilis first work here was as a journeyman on the King block. In May, 1580, he formed a partnership with William Harvey in the con- tracting business, which continued five years, during which time they executed the stone work on the Rio Grande shops, the Cheesman erected on Seventeenth above Champa. In 1890 block. Gilpin school, the Antler's hotel at he built a large and handsome business block Colorado Springs, and many other buildings, of beautiful sandstone at the corner of Fif- In 1885 he formed a partnership with Mr. teenth and Glenarm streets, known as the D. D. Soorie. They built the Railroad build-
GHOST, A. M., real estate broker, was born in Venango county, Pa., April 12. 1844, He was educated at the lowa Wesleyan univer- sity at Mount Pleasant, from which he grad- uated in 1867; studied law in that state. where he was admitted to the bar. In 1868 he commenced practice at Lincoln. Neb., be- ing one of the earlier residents of that city. Manifesting a deep interest in edneational matters, and in promoting the organization and welfare of the public schools of the state. he was elected superintendent of public in- struction, a position he filled with marked efficiency for five years. lle was the founder also of several of the now flourishing towns in the interior, having, in connection with a partner. Mr. D. N. Smith, platted and super- intended the settlement and construction of the earlier improvements in nearly all the towns along the Burlington & Missouri River R. R., between Lincoln and Kearney June- tion, including the latter, some eighteen in all, among them Crete and Harvard, with some others in southern Nebraska. Repeated destruction of crops in that section by locusts from 1874 to 1876, however, finally compelled him to abandon that field of operation, and. after making a tour of New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado in search of a more promising location, he settled in Denver and engaged in real estate in company with Col. A. C. Fisk. In 1880 the firm of A. M. Ghost & Co. was formed, his brother, Judge Wm. C. Ghost, being taken into partnership, and be- came large dealers in city and farm prop- erty. In 1885 the firm was dissolved, the senior partner continuing the business. In ISST he built the block at the corner of Seventeenth and Champa streets, the first of its class
"Ghost building." lle is a member of the ing on Larimer street, Grace and Trinity M. Psychical Research society and has given E. churches (the university of Wyoming at much study to the various branches of their Laramie City and the high school at Rawlins), investigations and some outside of their lines. the Brown Palace hotel, the state capitol. Being a large property holder, he is naturally People's National Bank, Colorado club, Che- much interested in the future welfare of the ver's Arapahoe buikling, the California build- city and state.
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GIDDINGS, E. J., real estate broker, was he possesses qualities of mind and heart and born in Trumbull county, Ohio, In 1833, was a powerful magnetism which are always fas- educated in the public schools, and finished cinating, and that indicate a prominent fu- ture. "Fitz Mac" writes: "The foundation of his mind is broad and liberal, the growth needed is toward finish. not toward expan- sion. Mr. Goudy is a very bright, a very earnest, a very ambitions and a very lovable man. His strength is with the people. not with politicians. He is a poor man. earning an honest living for his family, laying the foundation of his fortune, and earnestly pur- sning the study of his very exacting profes- sion. lle is a strapping, fresh-looking fel- low with splendid health, buoyant spirits, and a generous and nonchalant temper. He is one of the most ardent and interesting the same by taking a course in the Vienna academy. He then traveled extensively un- til 1855, when he went to Omaha, Neb. While residing there he became one of the original land speculators and town organizers of that section of country. He went to Pike county, Ill., in 1859, and engaged in the grocery business; remained there until the breaking out of the civil war, when he joined the 16th 111. infantry (volunteers) as orderly, and in 1863 was promoted to 2nd lieutenant; was also in the quartermaster's department sev- eral months. Being disabled. he resigned. le came to Colorado from Cairo, Ill .. soon after the close of the war, and engaged quite extensively in mining with J. P. Whitney and others. In 1871 business interests re- quired his presence at Denver, to which city he moved with his family in 1872, from Central City. He was, for some time after locating in Denver, the general agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance com- pany of Milwaukee, Wis., but gradually drifted into the real estate business, and was one of the first persons in the city who fol- lowed it exclusively for a livelihood.
GOUDY, Frank C., attorney for Arapahoe county, was born in Ilayesville, Ashland county, Ohio, July 25, 1852, and educated at Baldwin university and Oberlin college, that state. Inelining to the legal profession. he studied law at Marion, Iowa, and in Mich- igan university, and after passing examina- tion was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1578. In Feb., 1579, he came to Colorado and located for a time in Colorado Springs, but changed to Gunnison in 1861, where in the same year he was appointed district at- torney for the 7th judicial district; was sub- sequently elected to the same position, and served until Jan., 1883. In 1884 he was nominated and elected as presidential elector on the republican ticket. Being a fine speaker and an enthusiastic campaigner, he stumped the state for his party in 1881, and in each state campaign to the present time. In 1888 he was appointed receiver for several of the largest irrigating canal companies in Colo- rado, and is now financial agent for six of the most extensive enterprises of that nature.
public speakers in the state. Loving and admiring him as all must love and ad- mire the young, the hopeful, the ardent. the brave, I rejoice to see him growing up in- dustriously and patiently to the sphere he is in and not despising it; and I look with perfect confidence to see him yet grow up to the full measure of the state." The fore- going estimate appears to be very cordially indorsed by a large number of his acquaint- ances and friends, and accepting it as true, it forms the basis of what may be made a commanding destiny. In 1905 he was ap- pointed attorney for the great county of Ara- pahoe.
GOVE, Aaron, superintendent of public schools in East Denver, Colo .. was born in Hampton Falls, N. H., Sept. 26. 1539, son of John Francis and Sarah Jane (Wadleigh) Gove. Ilis ancestors were Puritans, who for 250 years knew only the hard lot of manual labor. Some were farmers, others black- smiths. At the age of eight Aaron moved to Boston with his family, and there attended the grammar schools, leaving the Dwight at the close of the grammar school course. For one year he was an apprentice with a jewelry manufacturer in Wrentham, Mass .; then the family settled in La Salle county, Ill., and were the first inhabitants of what has since been known as Rutland. There he taught his first school, and, excepting his service in the army, he has been almost continuously in the school room. lle also attended the state normal school, and in 1861 received his diploma. With many others of his school, at the 33rd Ills, infantry, and was almost im- mediately made 2nd lieutenant of company B. In 1862 he was promoted to adjutant of the regiment, serving as such until honorably discharged in Aug., ISGl, with the rank of 'brevet-major. Subsequently taught schools in la Salle and MeLane counties. and In ISTA resigned the superintendeney of the normal school to accept a similar posi- tion in Denver, Colo. At that time educational advantages in that city were crude and not well organized. Under hls superior man-
Ile removed to Denver in the fall of 1889. the outbreak of the civil war, he enlisted in and, in connection with Messrs. Burns and Campbell, opened a law office. Mr. James Mccarthy ("Fitz Mac"), the author of a widely read pamphlet entitled "Political Por- traits" issued in ISSS, reviews him quite thoroughly and candidly, from which suthi- clent extracts taken at random will be grouped to indicate the Impressions of a fa- miliar acquaintance. Although well entered upon what promises to be an active and use- ful career in law and In polities, for he ls an enthusiastic politleian, not so much in his own behalf as for the supremacy of his party, agement the schools have become famous as
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among the best in the nation. (See sketeh of the public schools in history of Denver, this volume.) It is not extravagant to say that the present excellence of publie educa- tion in Denver and largely that of the state. is due to the methods adopted and vigorously prosecuted by Prof. Gove. He has been president of the National Educational asso- eiation, commander of the loyal legion of Colorado, and grand commander of Knights Templar of Colorado. Ile established the public library of Denver and is one of the very few upon whom the State university of Colorado has conferred the degree of LL.D. In 1878 Dartmouth college honored him with the honorary title of A. M.
GALLUP, Francis, manufacturer and one of the pioneers of the state, was born in Norwalk, Ohio, June 12, 1824. He attended the public schools and learned the jewelers' trade. In 1841 or 1842 he moved to Peru, Ind., where he resided a few years, and where iu 1852 he married Eliza T. Church. They moved to Westport. Mo., and resided there nine years. Mr. Gallup working at his trade. During this time he became a Mason and a Knight Templar. Ile came to Denver in 1801, and pursued his original calling until he embarked in the harness and saddlery business with Mr. E. L. Gallatin, under the firm name of Gallup & Gallatin. He repre- sented the county of Arapahoe in the terri- torial council or Senate in 1872. Ile was one of the original members of the First Baptist church and held the office of deaeon for over twenty years. During the entire term of his life here he was universally esteemed as one of the most honorable and upright of our citizens. He was an invalid for five years and at the time of his death was sixty-seven years old.
GALLUP, Avery, florist and real estate operator on a large scale, was born in Cleve- land, Ohio, Jan. 29, 1847, and was given a thorough classical education at the Western Reserve college of that state. In 1869 he made a general tour of Europe, the Orient and Palestine. While in Paris the Franco- Prussian war oceurred, and he was among the last to leave that stricken capital when the fieree German siege began, Returning to his birthplace in June, 1871, he married Miss Charlotte R. Pierce, and the same year re- moved to Denver. Possessing ample means, he engaged in mereantile pursuits, and a year or two later erected a fine business block on Larimer, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, which still bears his name. About 1880 he retired from trade, and at his resi- denee on Champa street, just north of Twenty- first, established a small conservatory for floral work, to which he was admirably adapted by early training on his father's farm, In 1879 he acquired twenty aeres of land on south Broadway, and there developed the extensive plant which made his name celebrated throughout the West.
Their first dwelling was a picturesque rustic cottage, literally covered with trail- ing vines. Business flourished and eom- parative wealth ensued, not alone from the extensive florist trade, but also from the sale of the larger part of his land to settlers in that locality. Hle reserved one entire block for his own occupancy, and in the eenter built a beautiful residence in ISS1, improving the grounds with a great variety of rare trees, shrubs and flowers. No inan possessed deeper, holier love of the beautiful than he; none have given more touching expression of that love, as was seen in the splendid land- scape decoration of his lawns and other superb works of his hands. He was the orig- inator and impelling foree which created the town of South Denver (incorporated with Denver in 1893), and for six years was one of its trustees, In all that was done to beau- tify that part of the city his genius and enter- prise bore conspicuous part. He was a po- tential factor in promoting the extension of the Denver Tramway company's lines from Colfax to Alameda avenue in 1SSS. Indeed, no publie movement which had for its object the better interests of south Broadway was undertaken by the citizens of that locality without his co-operation. In 1887 he made many large purchases of real estate, which were platted, sold in lots and blocks, and were ultimately occupied by permanent resi- dents. In that year, also, he sold his green- houses and secured a ten-years' lease on fif- teen aeres of choice land in University Park, where a new and more extensive plant was founded and developed. In the spring of that year he purchased 720 acres near Littleton, subdividing one-half into traets of five and ten aeres for city residents who desired to make homes in the country. The remainder he reserved for his own use. In 1893 he pur- chased 40 acres near the small town of Peters- burg, about midway between Denver and Lit- dleton. After ISSO he twice visited Europe. made the tour of Old Mexico and the borders of Alaska, and in 1893 traveled through sev- pral of the southern states. He was always passionately fond of travel, and whenever the opportunity offered gratified his tastes in that direction. Being a close observer of peoples, their governments and institutions. he wrote many interesting descriptions of them to his friends and the press, In his home he was a delightful host and enter- tainer, and it was a joy to his large eirele of friends to meet him there. Even the shade trees of Denver bear witness to his taste and skill in planting and nurturing them. The fine elms about the court house and high school squares, and the finest of those in the eity park, and thousands surrounding the many beautiful homes, attest his handiwork. Ilis death occurred at his residence on south Broadway and Alameda avenue, Jan. 4, 1894, and his remains rest at Riverside.
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