History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 81

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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HICKS, James R., real estate broker, late head of the licks & Bailey Investment com- pany of Denver, was born in the town of Cuba. N. Y., May 4, 1841. In Nov., 1853, he removed to Freeport, Ill., and was edneated in the high school of that city. AAng. 11. 1862. just after attaining his majority, he enlisted in the 71st Illinois infantry, and on account of illness contracted while in the service, was obliged to seek the elimate of Colorado, in Ang., 1873. Here, in Denver, he engaged in merchandising-wholesale notions and cigars -from 1873 to 1883, when he entered the real estate and loaning business with Mr. Geo. W. Balley, with whom he has over since been associated in that line. It became one of the years in Denver; then went to Leadville for most prominent houses of its class in the two years, and from there to Bonanza, at that state.

time a very promising district in Sagnache county. where, with Col. W. P. Linn. ho opened the Rawley mine. In 1855 he went back to Park county as manager of the Great West mine. In Jan .. 1887. he was appointed deputy commissioner of insurance for the state, and conducted that department with such industry, skill and ability as to morit reappointment by successive administrations to 1802.

HURD, Nathan S .. pioneer, was born in Middlesbury, Vt., Nov. 15, 1837, and educated at Troy Conference academy. West Poultney, Vt. llis ancestors were among the first settlers in that state, and some of them were in the Revolutionary army. In 1856 he left Vermont and settled in Morrison, Whiteside county. Ill .. whence he, with the family. emigrated to the Rocky Mountains in 1860. and settled at the head of Spanish Bar, Clear HARDIN. George H., soldier, was born in Creek county. It was here that the author Cambridge, Mass .. Feb. 12, 131. and when first met them in their large and commodious quite young moved to Chicago with his father, Capt. S. W. Hardin. After finishing his education, having taken a collegiate course, he studied engineering, and afterward log house, where they resided some years. Nathan embarked in various mining enter- prises, and built a twelve stamp mill, one of the first operated In the county, but like the ran an engine on the Rock Island R. R. four majority did not realize his better experta- years. He came to Denver in the spring of

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1859. The following fall he went to Leaven- August he was ordered to proceed to the Re- worth, Kan., and in the spring of 1860 re- publican river to rescue some white persons who had been taken prisoners. Company G, then an artillery company, commanded by him. with small detachments from other companies (130 men), all under command of Major Wynkoop, started for the scene of the ditheulty. They were gone fifteen days, and while their comrades at the fort thought they had all been killed, they returned one morn- ing with five white prisoners, accomplishing the purpose of their frip. He remained on duty at Fort Lyon until Nov. 28, when he was mustered out of service. He, with his wife, went to Chicago, and remained East visiting friends until the spring of 1866, when they returned to Colorado and located in Cen- trat City. Ile lived there until 1867, when he went to Cheyenne, where he resided three years. Ile went to Greeley in 1870, later to Evans, and finally to a ranch on the Platte river, eighteen miles east of Greeley, where he died in 1885. The Union Pacifie R. R. Co. built a depot at his ranch in 1880, and called the station "Hardin." Dec. 24, ISGI, he mar- ried Miss Fannie D. Walthall, a cousin of Senator Walthall of Mississippi. They have one son, Arthur B., who married Miss Minnie DeWitt of Buena Vista, and lives in Denver with his mother. Lient. Hardin's wife came to Colorado in June, 1861. She is a member of a number of organizations which have been established to aid the old pioneers and sokliers, and is known and appreciated for her kindness of heart and many noble traits of character. She is now president of the Pioneer ladies' aid society of the state of Colorado, and is devoting much of her time to the welfare of that organization. In her, the old pioneers as well as the veterans of the war. have an abiding friend.

turned to Denver; resided three years in Ne- vada City, engaged in mining, and while there, in Sept., 1861, enlisted in company G, 1st regiment, Colorado volunteers. A few days thereafter he was commissioned or- derly-sergeant of his company, and in October following it was sent to Denver and stationed at Camp Weld. Two months later he was promoted to second lieutenant. In February the regiment received orders to proceed to New Mexico, and join the forces of Gen. Canby. the latter having had an engagement with the Texas Rangers at Valverde, and being re- pulsed had fallen back to Fort Craig. Feb.21. 1862, it left for Fort Union, making forced marches to its destination, where a battalion of regular infantry and artillery was joined, and all started for Santa Fó, which was in possession of the Texans. On March 27 had a fight at Glorietta, and on March 28, again met the enemy in Apache Cajon, where a brisk engagement ensued, Lieutenant Har- din, with a portion of his own company and part of company C, was assigned a position in support of Captain Ritter's battery tregular armyy, and held the same with forty men against 300 Texans. The next day he was promoted to 1st lieutenant, for gallant and meritorious conduet on the field. After the engagement the Union forces fell back six miles, where they were joined by Col. Chiv- ington, and the whole command proceeded to Peralto, where they met Gen. Canby's forces, and had another battle with the enemy. After this the Ist Colorado regiment was ordered to Fort Craig, where it camped until Septem- ber. Lientenant Hardin commanding his company was ordered to Fort Lyon, Colo., and thence to Fort Larned, Kan. le re- turned to Denver Jan. 1, 1863, and went into winter quarters at Camp Weld, thus ending a ten months' campaign. The following July the regiment, under command of Major E. W. Wynkoop, was ordered to North Park. to quiet the Indians, whom they found had taken a trail through the mountains south- ward. The wagons were abandoned and pack animals substituted, and the troops started in pursuit, lieutenant Hardin in command of his own company. While on this trip he suffered an attack of rheumatism, from which he never recovered. The command proceeded through the mountains until Georgia Gulch was reached, whence, after a short rest, they returned to Denver about the last of Septem- ber. The winter of 1863 was rather unevent- ful, the monotony being varied only by an occasional raid after unruly Indians. In Jan- mary he was ordered to proceed with his com- pany to Trinidad, to adjust matters with the Indians, thence to Cañon City for the same purpose, remaining at the latter place until June. At this time the Indians became more

HASTINGS. W. M., railway agent, was born on the Tonawanda Indian reservation. Geneseecounty, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1836. He is the son of David S.and Thankful Hastings. When he was three years old, his father moved to Richville in the same state, and about five years later to Genesee county, Mich., where he worked on a farm until he was fourteen years of age. He attended the common schools. flis mother died when he was in his thir- teenth year, and, his father marrying again, his home, with the presence of a stepmother. became so unpleasant that he went to live with an unele in Jackson, Mich., until his seventeenth year, for whom he worked to pay for his board and clothes while attending school. At the age of seventeen he taught a school near the town of Davison where his father lived. He taught three successive winters and returned to Jackson to attend school during the summer, and worked for his uncle, as before, to pay for his board. When twenty years of age, he began railroad work for the M. C. R. R. company at hostile, and. Fort Lyon calling for help, he Jackson. Starting as a laborer, he was soon was ordered to go there without delay. In promoted to a clerkship in the freight office,

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then to bill clerk, and finally was made chief clerk and cashier. After five years, the com- pany sent him to Wayne, Mich., as its agent. Here he became acquainted with Miss Jeannette Hatch, to whom he was married in Jan., 1864. Remained at Wayne about three years and then returned to Jackson, where he acted as agent of the company a year and a half longer, when his health failed, and he took a vacation of one summer on the farm of his father-in-law. The fall of that year he engaged in business at Wayne with a Mr. Carlett, and two and a half years later en- tered the employ of the Fort Wayne & Sag- inaw R. R. company, first as agent, then as chief clerk and finally as general freight agent and as an assistant to the general manager. lle was with this company about seven years, when his health again failed and he came to Colorado on a leave of ab- sence. arriving in Denver in March, 1876. In June of that year, he entered the service of the D. & R. G. R. R. company, as chief clerk in the freight department, and in August of the following year, was appointed assistant general freight agent. In 1878 the D. & R. G. road was leased to the

S. F. company, and he remained with that company until March, 1879, when he again en- tered the employ of the D. & R. G. company, acting as chief clerk under Col. D. C. Dodge, and afterwards as land and tax agent until 1SSS, when he located at Delta,where he has since acted as freight, ticket and express agent. He has two daughters; Minnie E., now the wife of W. E. Obert of Delta, and Emily Dodge Hastings, fourteen years of. His wife died in Feb .. 1594.

HENDERSON, Amos, is a native of Penn- sylvania and emigrated to Colorado in 1872. locating at Black Hawk. Ile engaged as a clerk in the Black Hawk Savings Bank for six months, and then became connected with a coal company, and at the same time was in the tie business for two years. He sub- sequently moved to Golden, and still later ran a sawmill. In 1875 he went to Lake county with 175 men, and took a contract for furnishing 300,000 ties to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad company, lle also worked for that company as "surface boss," remaining with it until 1877, when he went into the tie business. In 1878 he acted as "walking boss" on the Colorado Central railroad. He later on resumed the tie busi- ness and, in 1879. worked on the Mosquito Pass toll-road, engaged in mining, and after- ward macadamized Harrison Avenue in Leadville. In 1SSD, he was appointed super- intendent of mines for two years, and then was employed in transporting ores. He was (Jected alderman in 1854, and treasurer of Lake county in 1885. He purchased the Star ranch near Leadville, and also a ranch in Tennessee Park. Mr. Henderson is largely interested in mines, and is one of the substan- tial, energetic men of the "City above the clouds."

HARPER, J. E., lawyer, was born in l'eo- ria. IM., June 3, 1857. He remained at the place of his nativity for one year, when the family removed to Ohio where he grew to manhood receiving. in the meantime, his education in the public schools. He entered the sheriff's office of Seioto county, where he remained until 1879, when he went to Cincinnati and attended the Cincinnati law school, from which he was graduated. lle afterward practiced Jaw until 1844 in that city .. In the year named he removed to Chicago and practiced his profession one year, when his health failed. Ile then removed to Chase county, Kan., where he organized the Chase county Loan and Trust company. In 1856 he was elected county attorney and served two years. He came to Colorado in 1558 and located at Colorado City, where he remained two years, during which time he served one term as city attorney. Desiring a wider field for the practice of his profes- sion, he removed to Denver and engaged actively in practice, being subsequently made police judge of South Denver, and when that town was organized into a justice precinct he was elected justice of the peace. lle was influential in proenring the annexation of the latter town to Denver.

HARPER, T. S., was born in Fox Chase, l'a .. June 6, 1854, where he lived until twenty years of age. llis early training was ac- quired in the public schools of that state. I'pon reaching his twentieth year he came to Colorado, and located in Manitou where he remained only a few months. Hle then followed the life of a hunter upon the plains for ten years with marked success. In 1853 he went into the stock business at River Bend and has continued it up to the present time; he is also interested in mining in Eagle county. In isst and again in IsSS he was elected sheriff of his county, and in 1892 was elected a member of the House of Representatives, lle is a man of many sterling virtues and enjoys the confidence of the people, whose interests he has so faith- fully guarded both in public and private life.

HIESTAND, Newton M., ranchman, was born in Carroll county, Ind., in Sept. 1854. IJe attended school at the Battle Ground col- legiate institute, located on the famous Tip- Decanoe battle ground. In 1879 he came to Colorado and, after visiting Leadville, lived three years in Pitkin, Gunnison county. He removed to Delta county in May, 1553, took up a ranch on the north fork of the Gunnison river, and has resided there ever since. In 1559 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners of Delta county, and served three years. Mr. Hiestand is a man of good practical judgment and is highly astoomed by his friends and neighbors.

HOGUE, Alexander, farmer and miner, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, July 31. 1815. and was educated in the public schools of that state. Sept. 31. 1861, le enlisted as a

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private in company G, 16th regiment, Ohio the real estate business for two years, and. volunteers, and served with it, participating in 1890, became, by appointment, county in its numerous battles, until Sept. 31, 1864, jailer again. In the summer of 1893 he was when he was honorably discharged. In the reappointed chief of detectives, which he re- tained until the spring of 1894. spring of 1866 he came to Colorado, and has since been engaged in mining and farming. latterly as a resident of Chaffee county,

HODGSON, William, a Colorado pioneer. He settled on Bear Creek in 1859, and is said to have been the first to secure a title to land in Colorado from the government. lle con- tinued to reside on his ranch until 1865, when he removed to Denver and engaged in the grocery business, under the firm name of McKee & Hodgson. The partnership continued until 1869, when he embarked in the stock business. From 1870 to 1881 he bought and shipped horses and cattle to Colorado from the East. He was also in the hay and grain trade, and among other things in connection with David Hill organized and ran a Herdie cab line which antedated horse cars. It was subsequently sold to the Denver City rail- way company.

HOLMES, Joseph, was born March 14, 1843, at Langtoft, county of Lincoln, England, and was educated in the common schools. March 10. 1859, his father, Wm. Holmes, paid ten pounds sterling to Henry Aquila Seargood to teach his son Joseph the "arts of a grocer and draper" (which in the United States goes un- der the name of dry goods) for two and a half years, to the 27th day of Oct., 1861. After passing this course of instruction, Mr. Holmes went to London and entered the employ of Messi's. James Schoolbred & Co., of Totten- ham Court Road, one of the largest houses in the city of London. Here he remained a num- ber of years, indeed nntil compelled by failing health to leave England and settle in the United States. Ile arrived in Denver on his birthday, March 14. ISTS, and soon after en- gaged in the coal trade. He was a member of the Sons of St. George, and of the Court Pride, of Denver, No. 7053, Ancient Order of Foresters.

HOPKINS, George M., detective, was born in Cass county, Ill .. Nov. 15, 1835, and was educated in the common schools. After com- ing to Colorado, he went to Chicago creek, where he followed mining for a few months, and then enlisted in the 1st regiment of Colo- rado volunteers, serving three years. At the expiration of his term of service, he engaged in mining on Clear creek, but in the fall of that year obtained a position on the police force of Denver, which he retained until 1868. In the spring of 1869 he was elected marshal of the city of Denver and served in that ca- pacity until 1873. Refusing a renomination he embarked in the live stock trade, continu- ing until 1875. He was reappointed to the police force in 1877. remaining four years; was chief of detectives from 1881 to 1885. and in Jan., 1586, was appointed county jailer for the form of two years, then engaged in

HOYT, David, was born in Tompkins conn- ty, N. Y., where he remained until he at- tained his majority, then emigrated to Kan- sas where he lived two years, and then moved to Black Hawk. Colo., where he became a grocer. In 1862 he located in Denver and en- gaged in the stage business from Denver to different points in the state. His later years were spent in raising fine stock horses. Mir. Hoyt was a successful business man, and his death took from the scene of action one of Denver's best and most earnest citizens.

HUDSON, John W., mechanic, was born at Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire. England. July 15, 1839, and edneated in the common schools. Ile then began to learn the carriagemaker's trade. He left home in April, 1857, came to New York and resumed his trade, mastering all its details in that city and at Newark, N. J. In 1862 he entered the service of a gov- ernment engineering corps, and remained with it through the war. He was located in the vicinity of Chattanooga and Nashville, Tenn., and worked on government fortifications and at bridge building the greater portion of the time. lle returned to New York in 1865, and in Rochester took up his old employment of carriage making. In Nov., 1876. he came west to Salina, Kan., and the following year pro- verded to Sacramento, Cal. In March of that year he became a resident of Weston, Ore .. situated near the Umatilla Indian reservation. During the summer of 1878 he purchased a sawmill, which he operated until the fall of 1879, then came to Denver, arriving Novem- ber 30. Ile engaged with the E. F. Hallack Immber company and continued in its service some years. During that time he worked on some of the better buildings in the city and state; had charge of the interior finishing of the Capitol building at Santa Fe, N. M .; the Insane asylum at Pueblo; Printer's home at Colorado Springs; school houses at Greeley and ldaho Springs, and Lieut .- Governor Brush's residence at Brush, Colo. He also did the interior work on the Masonic Temple. the Tabor Grand opera house, the court house, and E. F. Hallack's residence in Denver. He has been a contractor since 1891. Oet. 2. 1867, he married Miss Martha Arthur, at Niagara Falls. They have four children living.

HEMPHILL, Silas Harrison, real estate broker, was born in Utica, N. Y., March 23, 1836, and went from there to Steuben county. same state, where he remained until twenty- one years of age, then emigrated to Illinois and later to Iowa. In 1862 he enlisted in the 22d Iowa infantry and was honorably dis- charged in 1865. After the war he returned to Iowa and lived at Sioux City until 1873, when he crossed the plains with a herd of horses

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and mules to Denver. He engaged in the aue- thusiast on the subject of Colorado and its tion and furniture business for eight years, remarkable advantages for settlement. then embarked in the real estate trade, and is now the owner of property in different parts of the city. Ile is a Mason, a member of the G. A. R. and of the P. O. S. of A. He is also a member of lowa City lodge, Iowa No. 4, and represents the benevolent society of Oscaloosa, Iowa.

HEITLER, Emanuel, merchant, was born in Bohemia, Austria, in 1845, and when very young removed to Vienna where he acquired his edneation and early training. Ile came to America in ISGS and located in Central City, Colo., but soon moved to Denver which he made his home. He started a small grocery. and, assisted by his wife, they together daily toiled and slowly but surely advanced on the upward road. He was always successful in business pursuits. He was one of the first contributors to the Jewish hospital, and gave largely to the Temple Emanuel congregation. and was otherwise an important factor in its building and maintenance. Ile died Nov. 26. 1892, and having been a member of a large number of seeret and benevolent orders, rep- resentatives from each attended the interment of his remains.

HAWTHORNE, Hugh Alexander, was born in the city of New York, Aug. 26, 1856. educated in the common schools, and was brought up on a farm in Iowa, to which state his parents moved in 1861. He was employed as a clerk in a general store in Avery, lowa. and lived in that vicinity about seven years. He came to Trinidad, Colo., April 5. 1882, and engaged with the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Co., in their engineering department. Remaining with that pompany about a year, he was afterwards employed on a stage route from Trinidad to El Moro, continuing from July. 1883. to Jan. 1, 1SSB. In 1885 he was elected constable of a city preeinet in Trinidad, but resigned in Jan., 1887, to join the engineer corps of the Denver & Rio Grande R. R. Co. Six months later he accepted the position of baggageman for the same company at one of its stations. He moved to Denver Oct. 7. 1888, was employed by Dillon & Son, and sub- sequently by J. M. Moore, hardware mer- chant. lle has been with the Wells, Fargo Express company since March, 1890. He is a K. of P., has filled all the positions of the subordinate order and is now a member of the grand lodge. March 7. 1890, he married Miss Lillian K. Stanton, of Denver.

HOULE, Richard, was born in England and there learned the tanner's trade. lle settled in Wet Mountain valley, in 1872, and is now the possessor of 450 acres of agricultural and grazing land, whereon graze 60 graded cattle. among which are a number of thoroughbred Holstein bulls, 35 horses and a full-blooded Norman stud. He has been prospered in the years he has resided there and is an en-

HOEBEL, Fred, was born in Germany in 1848. He obtained his education in the com- mon schools of that country, and afterwards learned the trade of a machinist. Ile re- mained at the place of his nativity until 1866. when he came to America and located in Cin- einnati, Ohio. Ile followed his trade in that city until 1872, when he went to California. and from there to Arizona in the spring of 1873, where he followed mining and milling until 1881, when he came to Colorado, and settled in Leadville. There he worked at his trade until 1883, when he opened business in Turner Hall, finally purchasing that building in 1886, where he has since continued his bus- iness. lle is the agent of the North German Lloyd Steamship company, and also the agent of the New York and Baltimore line, which he has represented for nine years. He was at one time consul at the port of Chicago and is now a notary. He is one of the in- fluential representative business men of Leadville.

HUTCHINSON, T. A., farmer, was born in New York in 1842, and moved to Michigan when twelve years of age. Here he attended the publie schools. In 1862 he enlisted in company 6. 17th Michigan infantry, and served in the army until 1865, when he was mustered out at Detroit. Soon afterward he moved to Missouri, remaining until 1871, and then came to Denver, where he followed various pursuits until 1876, when he entered the grocery business, but finally located on the farm, which he still ocenpies, and has since devoted his time to farming and growing small fruits.

HOWARTH, Abe, farmer, was born in Man- chester, England. April 7. 1835, educated in the public schools of that country, and re- mained there until 1856, when he came to America and settled in Illinois, where he en- gaged in farming: subsequently, removed to St. Louis, Mo., and then to Kansas City. In 1570 he came to Colorado and very soon thereafter purchased the property which he now occupies a farm of one hundred and seventy-five aeres, situated near the town of Littleton, fourteen miles from Denver.

HABLETZEL, Martin J., was born in Du- buque, lowa, June 11. 1:59, and educated in the public schools. In ists he went to Fort Pierre, where he remained two years, then moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where the following year was spent. Ho came to Den- ver in 1582, but soon after went to Central City and engaged in the meat trade, remain- ing some time, then removed to Sau anan county, resuming the same business. In 1\So he returned to Denver and engaged at the stockyards during the next three years. when he built his present place, where he is doing a prosperous and steadily increasing

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History of the State of Colorado, Volume IV, Part 81

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