History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 78

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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sources named. Mr. Howard was a member Steele; was given charge of the military of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of prison at Little Rock, Ark., and removed his Trade, and in 1886 a member of the directory. lle was a gentleman of the most exalted standing, commercially and socially. After a long illness he died Ang. 31. 1891, mourned by a multitude of attached friends, and regretted by all who knew him. He was a gentleman in the highest meaning of the term, a business man of remarkable ability, a citizen who en- joyed the absolute confidence and respect of his fellow men.

HARTZELL, Charles, lawyer and legisla- tor, was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1861, and after the usual course in the public schools entered the university of Michigan and in dne time was graduated from that well- known institution. He came to Colorado in 1>SI and located at Silver Cliff, where he occupied a position in a bank. In 1882 he accepted a similar position in the Fremont County Bank in Canon City, where he re- mained until 1884. All his leisure moments were devoted to the study of law, and npon his admission to the bar in 1884 he returned to Silver Cliff and associated himself with Judge A. J. Rising in the practice of his pro- fession. While in Silver Cliff, though not twenty-one years of age, he was chairman of the county central committee and a potent factor in republican success. lle has been a prominent figure in most of the conventions held in the state for the last ten years, and has at every election stumped the state in his endeavor to elect men he had helped to nominate. İle came to Denver in 1885, and. in 1893, became a member of the law firm of Thomas, Hartzell, Bryant & Lee. In 1892 he was elected to the state Senate from Arap- ahoe county. He took a prominent part in the deliberations of the upper House, and soon won for himself distinction as a ready de- bater and an eloquent speaker. lle was a hard worker, as well as a clear-headed thinker, and his record as a legislator will compare favorably with those of the oldest and most experienced members of that body. He has not only shown himself to be a popular and pleasing speaker, but a fluent writer. During the campaign of 1894 he wrote a satirical brochure, "A History of Colorado During the Reign of Davis the 1st." which created much ammsement. reflecting the spirit of one of the more exciting periods in the annals of the state under the tem- pestnous administration of the first and only populist governor, Davis II. Waite. was extremely well written and attracted wide attention.

family there. At the close of the war they moved to Lima, Livingston comity, N. Y., where George L. entered the Wesleyan sem- inary. Later he attended the Brockport State Normal school until the spring of 1874. when the family removed to Oak Park. a suburb of Chicago, Ill. In that city he took a course at the Bryant & Stratton commer- cial college. His first business experience was in winding up the receivership in the l'. S. court, of which B. T. Babbitt (the New York soap manufacturer) was the complain- ant. In 1876, while attending the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia, Pa., he married Miss Ella Van Derveer of Westville, near Cooperstown, N. Y. In the spring of 1877 he began the study of law with Hon. Hezekiah Sturgess, one of the three judges of the canal commissioners' court, at Cooperstown. N. Y .; remained there two years, then came to Colorado and located in Leadville in July, 1879. In September of that year he was ad- mitted tothe bar, and practiced law until Oct .. 1883, when he went to Chenango county, N.Y .. and with his father-in-law engaged in hop raising, dairying and mercantile pursuits; also served one term as supervisor of that county. At the expiration of his term he was tendered the nomination for the same of- fice by both the republican and democratic parties, but declined to run. In Jan., 1886. he was admitted to practice law in the courts of New York state. In June, 1887, he re- turned to Colorado, and in October formed a partnership with Mr. S. Il. Ballard in Den- ver, continuing until July, 1889, when he withdrew and associated himself with Mr. Thos. W. Lipscomb. In June, 1893, he was appointed attorney and director of the Mexico. ('nernavaca and Pacific railroad company, a road operating from the City of Mexico to the harbor of Acapulco. He is widely known as having prepared the answer of the federated board of employés of the Union Pacific sys- tem to the petition of the receivers for leave to put in operation new rules and regula- Lions governing the basis of pay. and to reduce the scale of wages in the Colorado and Wyoming jurisdiction and conducted the hearing at Omaha. Neb., in April. 1894. which resulted in the vacation of the famous Judge Dundy's order and injunction, and in the maintenance of the rules, regulations and seales of wages in force prior to the re- ceivership.

HAWKINS, Thomas Hayden, physician. was born in a small log cabin in Anderson county. Ky., July 12. 1849. Ilis parents were of English descent. born in Kentucky: Ilis father is descended from Sir. John Hawkins, once known as "the Pirate." The subject of our review was educated in an In- diana country school, excepting three years'

HODGES, George L., lawyer, was born near Rochester, N. Y., Ang. 7. 1856. The follow- ing year the family moved to Minnesota, his grandparents were residents of Virginia. where his father, one of the pioneers of that state, founded the town of Rochester, where they lived. In 1863 his father entered the army as captain of the 3rd Minn. volunteers. and later served on the staff of General tuition in De Paw university at Greencastle.

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which conferred upon him the degree of poraries that Mr. Hartwell, as the purchasing A. M. in 1890. He also received the same agent of the Pueblo Smelting company, was the first to bring to public notice the now famous Red Mountain mining district, by en- couraging and promoting the development of the Yankee Girl, Guston and several other of the principal mines, a further account of which may be found in the history of Ouray county, this volume. He also erected the first brick building in the town of Ouray in 1883. To his ambition for development and publie improvement the beautiful town of Ouray is indebted for its superb hotel, the Beaumont. an excellent system of electric lighting, ore sampling works and various other business enterprises, Mr. Hartwell has been extremely helpful in suggesting and forwarding all public improvements, and is universally regarded as one of its most valuable and progressive citizens. degree from the Baker university of Bald- win, Kan. In 1870 he began the study of medieine with Dr. T. II. Lane, then of In- diana, now of Lincoln, Neb. lIe attended lectures in the Louisville, Ky .. university; graduated from Bellevue Hospital medical college, N. Y., in 1873; practiced in New York City from 1873 to 1880; was attending sur- geon to Bellevue hospital, out door depart- ment, from 1875 to 1880; was a member of the New York pathological society and other medical societies of the same place; professor of physiology in the Columbia college of com- parative medicine and surgery from 1876 to ISSO, and served two years as "interim physi- cian" in the Forty-second Street Orthopordic hospital. He came to Denver April 6. 1880. and here engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. In 1SS1 he founded the Denver "Medical Times," of which he has been editor-in-chief to the present time. lle was the prime mover in the founding of the med- ical department of Denver university. In 1881, on account of ill health, he formed a partnership with Mr. Donald Fletcher, and the firm purchased and platted the greater part of South Capitol hill. Five months later he resumed practice, in which he has ever since been actively engaged. Ile was the founder of the Colorado Woman's hos- pital and foundling asylum; organized the Arapahoe County medical society and the Denver obstetrical and gynecologieal society, serving each one year as president. He was prominent in organizing and founding the Gross medical college, in which he is pro- fessor of gynecology and abdominal surgery. He was the pioneer worker in the field of surgical diseases of women in Colorado; is a member of the Denver and State medieal societies, and of the American medical asso- ciation; also of the Western medical society of obstetricians and gynecologists. In 1877 he married Miss Cecile Feickert of New York City.

HARTWELL, De Witt C., was born of American parentage, in the town of Lunen- bury, Mass., Sept. 6, 1838, and received his education in the public schools of Boston. Being of a roving disposition, he left his home shortly after his school days. A projected trip to California terminated abruptly at Springfield, Ill., where he found it desirable to seek employment. The close of the civil war left him in Richmond. Va. Returning to New York in 1868 he became connected with the land department of the Kansas Pacific railway, then being extended toward Denver, and thereby his attention was at- tracted to Colorado. He was an early ros- ident of Colorado Springs, and went to Ouray in the spring of 1877. where he has since resided, and been prominent in devel- oping the mining and mercantile interests of that locality. It is conceded by his contem-

HOLDEN, Edward R., metallurgist. was born in the city of New York, Sept. 27, 1856, and educated in the publie schools through the usual courses. His inclination turned to the sciences, with a decided tendency toward chemistry, metallurgy, mineralogy and kin- dred subjects; wherefore, when arrived at a suitable age, he took a special course with Pierre de Peyster Ricketts of Columbia col- lege, and afterward a more complete course with Prof. Welshire, a celebrated English metallurgist and chemist of New York. Having a natural love for these studies, and deeply interested in the laboratory and as- saying department. his receptive mind quickly absorbed knowledge, and in due time fitted him for his career among the mining fields of the great West. Thus thoroughly equipped, he acted upon a well-formed inten- tion of emigrating to a country which af- forded ample opportunities for the exercise of his talents. In 1880 he settled in Lead- ville, then the largest mining city on the con- tinent, and there began as a miner. After a time spent in that interesting but rather laborious pursuit, he purchased machinery and established sampling and ore-buying works in Leadville. For ten years there- after he was one of the larger dealers in that line. Meanwhile, he became possessed of certain valuable mines, among them the "Silent Friend," near Monarch, a large vein of silver-jead ores of great value to the smelters. In 1886 he organized a company, and in Denver built the Holden Smelting works, of which he was president and man- ager. Young and energetic, sagacions in business affairs, aspiring to leadership, he soon brought this well-ordered concern into great prominence. fu 1\\\ he sold his in- terest to the present company, which incor- porated in the name of "The Globe Smelting and Refining company," and almost im- mediately Mr. Holden, in connection with tinggenheim brothers of New York. organ- ized the Philadelphia Smelting and Refining Co., whose works were established in Pueblo.

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Mr. Hohlen becoming president and man- the district court for Fremont county by ager. They were the most extensive in the Judge Caldwell Yeaman. In May, 1886, he was appointed and confirmed U. S. marshal

state, equipped with the latest and best im- provements, and were finished and opened for the district of Colorado, with head- for business in Oct., 1888. Successful from quarters at Denver his term expiring July 1, 1890, after which he was appointed secretary the ontset. they have continuously main- tained their prestige. The company began and treasurer of the Colorado Telephone com-

with a capital of $500,000, which a short time later was increased to $1,250,000; the original six large water-jacket furnaces were increased to ten, and other facilities added. Abundantly supplied with ores from mines owned by Mr. Holden and his associates, the yield of bullion was enormous. In 1889

Mr. Holden retired from the management. and at once began erecting a complete plant of lixiviation works near Aspen. His metal- lurgical knowledge and skill was there turned to the treatment of the low grade sil- ver ores of that region. His company in- vested $250,000 in the construction of these works. Satisfactory results were obtained until the general paralysis of silver mining in 1893, and they brought into paying con- dition a number of mines which could not otherwise be operated, as the ores were not rich enough to bear the expense of trans- portation to distant markets and the higher cost of smelting. In 1891-92 he built another very large smelting plant in Leadville. Out- side of these large ventures, from which he derived a considerable fortune, he purchased on his own account, stocked with 5,000 cattle and improved ranch of 18,000 acres in Texas. These cattle he held dur- ing the depressed condition of the stock market from 1887 to 1891. In the spring of the year last named prices took a sharp ad- vance, and, by watching its rise and selling at the proper time, his profits were largely in- creased. The foregoing epitome shows that he has made extraordinary progress in Colo- rado, developing a genins for conceiving and directing formidable enterprises that re- quired great capital, scientific and executive skill for success. Each of these projects, by reason of the firmness of their foundation, stands in the first class.

HANNA, John R. See Vol. III, page 101.

HILL, Zeph Turner, bank examiner, was born April 6, 1858, at Culpeper, Va., of a distinguished southern stock. llis father, Mr. E. B. Hill, was a planter and merchant. and studiously attentive to business, uni- lle is nephew of Gen. A. P. Hill and a cousin- on the maternal side of Generals J. E. B. Stuart and Turner Ashby, all of Confederate fame. le was educated at the Virginia military institute, and subsequently at West Point. He came to Colorado in 1882 and lo- cated at Cañon City, where he was appointed commandant of cadets in the Colorado col- legiate and military institute, which position he afterwards resigned to accept the appoint- ment of principal of public schools of the same city, and subsequently was elected county superintendent of schools of Fremont county. In 1885 he was appointed clerk of

pany; later became manager of the "Cosmo- politan Magazine," New York City, and still later national bank examiner. In 1891 he was the democratie nominee for sheriff of Arapahoe county, but was defeated. At the present time he is the receiver of the German National Bank of Denver.

HARVEY, John, was born in Lanark, Lan- arkshire, Scotland, May 16, 1844. He is neither an office-holder nor a politician, neither a great nor hervie figure among men. absolutely without civil or military renown, with no ambition beyond the desire to suc- ceed in every worthy undertaking to which his talents as a strong, self-reliant business man may be turned. By the faithful pursuit of these aims, by the integrity of his charae- ter, and the serupulous fidelity with which his engagements are met, he has won an admir- able position among his fellow citizens of the "('loud City." who testify in unqualified terms to his worth and standing. For six years he was in the employ of the Caledonian railway company as agent. In 1870 he emi- grated to America, and moving west from New York found employment on the Kansas Pacific railroad at Kit Carson, then the terminus of that thoroughfare. When it was completed to Denver he went with Mr. W. W. Borst to that city and remained with him one year in the employ of the railway company just named. When Mr. Borst became super- intendent of the Denver and Rio Grande rail- road Mr. Harvey accompanied him as chief clerk, remaining several months, then en- tered the treasurer's office of the same com- pany, remaining about nine years, during the latter part in the capacity of chief clerk. In 1879 at the height of emigration to that city. he went to Leadville and entered the banking house of lunter & Trimble as book-keeper and teller, with whom he remained one year. In 1880 he established himself in the coal, hay and grain trade, with a capital of about $5.000. saved from his earnings. Prompt versally respected for his honesty and in- dustry, his trade soon grew to large propor- tions. To it he added in due course a number of teams and wagons for transport- ing ores from the mines on the hillsides to the railways and smelters in the valley, and others for the delivery of coal, hay, grain, ete., to his patrons. His traffic in those lines is perhaps the most extensive in the mountains. lle owns a stock ranch of 3.300 acres in Conejos county, San Luis valley, where large numbers of Percheron draft horses are bred and trained. It is said that he possesses the finest stable of such animals to be found

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in the state. Having made this branch a

several valuable properties; he was elected special study. he has achieved remarkable mayor of the town of Animas Forks, San success. Experience with transportation in Juan county, in 1886, and in that year he ob- the Rocky Mountains demonstrated to his tained a lease and option to purchase or bond on the Sunnyside extension lode mining adapted to heavy, wearing work in high alti- claim in Eureka mining district in that connty. Until this time the mine had not paid. I'nder his management there has mind the fact that the breed of horses best tudes was that which combined endurance with strength, hence his selection of the

judgment. Of him the business men of

Percheron-Norman. The result justitied his been produced and shipped from it values as follows: 1886, $3.965.12; 18ST, $6.717.06;

Leadville say: "Mr. Harvey is a man of his 1888, $36,910.98; 1889, $82.251.18; 1890, $75,- word to the minutest particular; when he 817.64; 1891. 879,640.94; and in four months promises to do a thing, whether to execute a contract, meet an engagement, serve a friend, assist a charitable work, or pay an obligation, it is kept to the letter. Ile is broad-minded, liberal and sturdily progress- ive, trustworthy and trusted by all who know him.' For the last five years he has been a member of the Leadville school board, and sinee 1SSS president of that body.

HANSON, Rasmus, a prominent miner, was born on the island of Fyn, in the kingdom of Denmark, March 25, 1847. His parents were farmers and land owners. Ile attended the publie schools until he was fourteen years old, when, his father having died, he sailed with a captain, a friend of the family, visiting during the year that he was ab- sent many European ports. Ile then attended college two years at Salby. Den- mark. after which he applied for and ob- tained from the government the right to study agriculture in its various branches. Three years of constant application and hard study found him in possession of the coveted diploma. He was now twenty-one years ohl and well equipped to fight the battle of life. In 1868 he came to the United States, landing at Quebec, Canada, and journeyed thence to Chicago, where he remained a short time. when he went to Cheyenne. For one and a half years he was in the employ of the U. P. and C. P. R. R. in various capacities. Ile then visited Nevada, which was the center of a mining boom; here he lost what he had and went to Denver, and, after remaining a short time, proceeded to Central City, where he ar- rlved in 1870, and at once engaged in mining and prospecting, which has been his business ever since. For two years he had but in- different success, when, with others, he ob- tained a lease of the Pease claim on the Kansas lode, in Gilpin county, and of a stamp mill in connection therewith. Two years of untiring industry and careful and intelligent management resulted in his becoming the possessor of a comfortable bank account. Then for two years he operated with varying success in Gilpin, Clear Creek and Park counties; built the first house on the north spur of Mt. Lincoln; became interested in mining claims in many different camps in the state, and in 1876 went to the San Juan country, where he has since lived. Until

of 1892, $49,354.50. In the fall of 1889 he completed, at a cost of $40,000, a stamp mill to be used in connection with the mine, and in 1891 built a tramway, costing $11,000, and connecting the mine and mill, thereby saving $1.25 per ton on the cost of delivering the ore at the mill. While owned and operated by Mr. Hanson, this mine produced nearly $350,000. In the fall of 1892 he completed his purchase of the mine and sold the property at a handsome profit to the Sunny- side Extension Mining and Milling company. organized by his efforts, and of which he is manager and a large stockholder. This is one of the best properties in San Juan county, over eighty per cent. in value of the product being gold. Mr. Hanson has made over 3,000 feet of tunnel, drift and shaft upon it. When he began he was in debt, but is now wealthy. Besides being one of the leading mining men of the state, he is an Odd Fellow. a Scottish Rite Mason and a Knight Templar.

HOBSON, George H., president of the Stock- growers' National bank of Pueblo, and for many years one of the leading live stock dealers in the West, was born in Henry county, Ind., May 29, 1841, and educated in the high schools of Savannah, Mo., whence he was graduated at the age of nineteen. Soon afterward he enlisted under the first call for loyal troops in that state (f861) and remained in that service one year. He then enlisted in the service of the United States. and was promoted to 2nd lieutenant. in which capacity he served until about six months after the close of the war. Being then mustered out, he returned to his home. and a little later accepted the tender of a position in the internal revenue department as assistant 1. S. assessor for the 7th district of Missouri, remaining something over a year. When Andrew Johnson became president and had determined upon recon- structing the Southern states upon a plan of his own, in defiance of the will of Congress. Mr. Hobson received a circular asking him in plain terms to support the Johnsonian policy. Radically opposed to the president's scheme. believing it to be a virtual surrender of the principles for the maintenance of which such enormous saerfices had been made, he answered, In unmistakable language, that he could not, and therefore tendered his rosig- 1886 he prospected, took contracts, and by nation. Soon afterward he was appointed judicious management became the owner of deputy county treasurer of Andrew county.

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Mo .. and discharged its duties until Oct., engaged in stock growing and dealing indi- 1869, when he came to Colorado and settled vidually outside the business of the firm. He belongs to the 1. O. O. F. and was a member in Pueblo, where he embarked in the Texas cattle trade, which engaged his attention of the city council of Trinidad and of the most of the time to 1886. In that year the school board. These brothers were raised and firm of Pryor & Hobson handled nearly 50,000 educated in Wisconsin. John T. has been a school director in Pueblo and at one time was president of the Board of Trade. head of live stock, the largest drove taken from Texas in any single year by one firm of

dealers. Having acquired a considerable fortune from those transactions, in 1872 he established a large clothing house in Pueblo under the firm name of Hobson & Gan, which, although he retired from it in IS7S. is still an important factor among the mer- cantile interests of that city. Having un- bounded confidence in its future, Mr. Hobson has exerted his influence and liberally dis- pensed his capital to the higher advance- ment of that vigorous and growing metrop- olis. Ile became a large stockholder in, and was elected vice-president of, the Stock- growers' National Bank, and later was made its president, which office he still retains.

HUGHES, Josiah, merchant, was born in Montgomeryshire, North Wales, March 19. 1841. In 1851 he came to the United States. Having received a good English education, at an early age he began teaching school, which he followed for some years in the states of Ohio and Missouri. He enlisted in the 135th regiment State National Guard of Ohio, for 100 days, and was placed in General Sigel's command. He served four months at Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry, a part of the time as hospital steward. During the latter part of his residence in Missouri he was engaged in the lumber trade at Clinton. lle came to Colorado in March, 1871, and settled in Pueblo, where. in partnership with his

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History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 78

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