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PATTERSON, T. M. See Vol. 111, page 64.
PORTER, Henry M., prominent among the pioneers and substantial business men of Colorado, was born in Lancaster. Pa .. Nov. 2. 1\10. The family moved to Jefferson City. Mo., the same year, where they resided six years, then moved onto a farm 12 miles south- west from Jefferson City, and remained there for eight years, thence to a farm in Adair county. Mo. fleury M. worked on the farm and attended the county schools until elghteen years of age, then became engaged in building the Missouri Telegraph company's anatomy and surgery, finishing there at the line from St. Louis, up the river to Omaha. Neb .. and thence west to Julesburg, Colo. In 1561 he built the government lines from St. Louis to Fort Smith, Ark,, and down the position on the resident staff at the Phila-
PARKHILL, Clayton, surgeon, was born of Scotch Irish ancestry, April IS. 1860, near Vanderbilt. Pa .. where he received a rudi- mentary education. His ancestors on both sides fought in the American revolution. At the age of sixteen years he entered the South Western state normal college, in California, Pa .. from whence he was graduated in 1879. During the succeeding two years he taught school in Fayette county, and was a student in Wooster university, at Wooster, Ohio, where he did speclal work in languages and natural science. Deciding to enter the medi- cal profession, he accordingly, in the fall of isso, began the preliminary study. and in the fall of Isst entered Jefferson medical college. in Philadelphia, becoming at the same time a private student of the eminent anatomist and surgeon, Dr. Mcclelland, of that city. He also took the course at the Pennsylvania school of same time he completed the Jefferson college course. Three weeks after graduating he entered the competitive examination for a
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delphia hospital, and stood third in a class of uated in 1873, with the degree of B. A. forty-eight applicants. He remained there During his college course he won the highest honors in mathematics and metaphysics, also winning a number of class prizes. On leav- one year as house surgeon. On leaving the hospital he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy and operative surgery at the Penn- ing college, he began the study of law in the sylvania school of anatomy and surgery; also office of Hon. Geo. D. Dickson, who at that appointed physician for one of the city dis- time was Queen's counsel, and was admitted triets, whereupon he opeued an office with Dr. to the bar in 1876, whereupon he formed a McClelland. In the spring of 1885 he became copartnership with his preceptor, Mr. Dick- ill from overwork, and came to Colorado to son. Being troubled with asthma he was ad- recuperate, but, liking the climate, did not re- vised to try a change of climate, therefore, in turn. In 1886 he was appointed demonstra- 1881, he came to Colorado and located in tor of anatomy in the medical school of the Denver, taking office with Jno. W. Horner, university of Denver, which position he held for one year. Being one of the founders of the Gross medical college, in 1887, he was pro- fessor of anatomy and clinical surgery in that where he remained four years, but in 1885 opened an office for himself, building up a large practice. In Dec., 18SS, he was ap- pointed justice of the peace, to succeed Jno. institution until 1892, when he resigned to S. Dormer, and in 1889 was elected to suc- accept the professorship of the principles and ceed himself, serving the full term. In 1894 practice of surgery and clinical surgery in the he was elected judge of the district court university of Colorado, which he holds at the on the republican ticket, taking his seat Jan. present time: also is surgeon at the Arapahoe 8, 1895. Mr. Palmer has reached his high county and St. Luke hospitals; assistant sur- position by his own ability, not having the influential assistance that is usually accorded men who have attained the bench, and from boyhood has had to depend upon his own resources, thus making his success and geon of the Missouri Pacific railway; consult- ing surgeon of the Denver, Leadville & Gun- nison railway, and surgeon-general of the Colorado National Guard. Ile is a member of the Arapahoe county medical society; the achievements more satisfactory to him. In clinical and pathological society of Denver; 1877 he married Miss Anna Osborn of Belle- Colorado state medical society, Association of military surgeons of the United States, Asso- ciation of American anatomists and Colorado
ville, Ontario, and has been favored with two children, a son and daughter. Mr. Palmer is a prominent and active member of the state board of medical examiners, being presi- Masonic order, also of the United workmen. In 1801 he was grand master of the latter order for Colorado. New Mexico and Arizona.
dent one term. Dr. Parkhill has contributed largely to medical literature, particularly on surgery, and has also devised a number of PIERCE, Gen. John. See Vol. III, page 193. original operations, among which are a new method of muco-periosteal uranoplasty; a PARKS, Daniel E., lawyer, was born April 29, 1840, at Sandy Hill, Washington county, N. Y., where he remained, except as elsewhere set forth, until his thirty-third year. Ilis earlier years were passed in the usual form of mental training in the public schools. When prepared for such advancement he took a classical course at the Fort Edward new method of amputation; a new method for correcting deformities of the ear; a new method of closing laryngeal fistula. He has also devised a number of new instruments, among which are a new hemorrhoidal clamp; an instrument for uniting fractured bones; an instrument for marking the skull, so as to conform to the measurements upon the scalp, collegiate institute, where he finished in 1858. in brain operations: an instrument for steril- Hle began studying law in Dec., 1860, and May 4, 1865, was admitted to the bar in New York. izing flasks; an instrument for fracture of the jaw; and an instrument for maintaining pa- after an examination before the supreme tients in proper position for operations upon court of that state. Up to the 1st of Jan .. the kidneys. When he first came to Colorado, 1873 he practiced law in his native town: then moved to Washington, D. C., where he had previously been admitted to practice before the United States supreme court, and on the
Dr. Parkhill did general practice, but for sev- eral years has confined himself exclusively to surgery, and it is through such investigat- ing, progressive and scientific minds of the 14th following, was admitted to the bar of the past quarter century that successful opera- District of Columbia. In May 1873, he came to tive surgery stands foremost in science to- Colorado and opened an office in Golden, where day. Dr. Parkhill married Miss S. Effie he practiced until Jan. 1. 1878, removing to Brown of Redstone, Pa., and they have been blessed with two boys.
PALMER, Frank. See Vol. III, page 187.
Georgetown, Clear Creek county, and thence -April 1 following-to Leadville. He was admitted to practice before the United States circuit and district courts of Colo- rado, Jan. 24, 1879. In addition to his took an active part in local and state polities, in connection with the republican or-
PALMER, Peter L., lawyer and jurist, was born at Belleville, Ontario, Canada. in 1851. prominence as an attorney in Leadville he His education was received in the public schools, supplemented by a full course at the Albert university. from which he was grad- ganization; was a delegate from that section
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to the various state conventions, generally they have had a salutary influence upon the as one of the leaders and speakers of the whole state. Judge Dillon, in his work on Lake county delegation, and as one of the municipal corporations, practically concedes. politicians of the epoch between 1879 and in his reviews of the Lake county debt cases. that the result has really changed the course of decision of the courts that had pre- viously obtained for fifty years, and with ap- parent reluctance concedes the soundness of the law thus established. In common with most of the more active men in Leadville during its palmy days, he became interested in mining property, both in the development of mineral deposits, and in negotiating sales and transfers of mines. He was the original locator of the Union Emma mine, on Fryer hill, and various other properties; and he is still a mine owner. In 1887 he acted as ehair- man of the sub-committee appointed by a large meeting of the people of Colorado, con- vened at Denver, which inaugurated a move- ment on the question of reservoir storage of water for irrigation, having with him on the committee Gov. Adams, Judge Marsh, State Engineer Nettleton, Henri Foster and other well-known men of thought and action. His committee planned and called together the Reservoir convention, which subsequently met at the Chamber of Commerce in Denver and successfully dealt with the question. re- sulting in constraining Congress to lay hold of, and appropriate money to, the subjeet. He was the first who took the determined stand that Congress had and should exercise the power to appropriate money out of the National treasury to construct highland res- ervoirs, and was assigned to the duty of pre- paring a paper on the subject, which was re- ceived by the convention with applause. It may be found among the archives of the state, in the report of the state horticultural society of 1887-SS. He continued to reside in Lake county until having realized his mis- sion in defending the county, Jan. 1, 1890, when he resigned his position to enter the service of the Rollins Investment company of Denver, as its attorney and counselor. his success and experience in municipal affairs having commended him to their employment on account of their extensive dealings in municipal securities. 1889 bore a conspicuous part in shaping the nominations. In Jan., 1879, he, with Adair Wilson and R. B. Carpenter, was appointed by the citizens of Lake county as a committee to procure the passage, by the state legisla- ture of that year, of a bill dividing the old county of Lake, and constituting the present county, with Leadville as its seat; succeed- ing in his mission, he returned home and was appointed county attorney to aid in or- ganizing the business of the new county, in which position he served until April 15. 1880, when he resigned, his career being cordially indorsed by the resolutions of the board of county commissioners. July 15, 1882, he was appointed city solicitor of Lead- ville, and served until the election of a new council. Ilis service in that position was dur- ing a period of some turbulence in city af- fairs, but he succeeded in vindicating the dignity of the council and municipality against the invasion of municipal rights, in the supreme court of the state, and in put- ting the finances of the city on a solid basis, where they now remain. He boasts of the possession of the only treasurer's receipts for money paid into the city treasury held by a city solicitor of that town. April 23, 1883. he was solicited by the board of county com- missioners of Lake county to undertake the disentanglement of that county from its com- plicated financial situation, and, responding to the call, accepted the appointment of connty attorney. Ilis able and faithful man- agement of the affairs of Lake county, and contention for her interests, in the state and national courts, and before the state legisla- ture, is the source of his largest and most enduring reputation as an advocate. He con- ceived and brought forth, and against the combined opposition of the ablest lawyers of the state actually carried and executed an original governmental policy, which, finding Lake county bankrupt under the weight of an appalling debt of $1,250,000, left her re- habilitated and practically out of debt, with her warrants at par. During this latter PERKY, John S., real estate and loan agent, was born on his father's farm in Holmes county, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1853, and educated in the public schools; remained there until 12 years old, then moved to Cleveland where he had the advantages of better schools. HIe afterward attended Savannah academy in Ashland county on the Western Reserve for two years. He contracted asthina at an early age, and suffered greatly therefrom. In the hope of obtaining relief, in 1869, he went to Omaha. Neb., where, some benefit accruing. he resided ten years, a part of the time en- service he marked out in advance of decis- ions of courts and laws of the General As- sembly the administrative path which he designed his client should tread, and through the path thus chosen the anticipated goal was successfully reached, not one misstep having been made. In this service he saved the tax payers of Lake county the sum of $1,000,000. By it he attracted the attention of the entire state to article eleven of the Con- stitution, limiting the powers of municipal corporations and those of the state itself in the contraction of debts under that article, gaged in the study of law with his brother A new departure in municipal and state II. D. Perky, a prominent attorney of that city. During the years of 1874-75-76 he and his brother II. D. edited and published the "In- financial administration resulted from his efforts in behalf of Lake county, and thus
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dependent." a weekly paper largely devoted engaged in the brokerage business, continn- to railway interests at Wahoo. Neb. Mr. ing until 187 when he came to Denver and Perky and his brother were also among the entered upon the purchase and sale of real promoters of the omaha & Republican Valley estate, achieving considerable success. Ile railroad. He came to Colorado in Nov .. 1879. subsequently became manager of the Colorado but shortly afterward removed to Fort Collins Carlsbad Mineral Water company, in which he was part owner. Disposing of his interests in that enterprise he was appointed by Post- master Jordan to a position in the money or- der department of the Denver post office in for sanitary considerations. To pay expenses he compiled and there published the history of Larimer county in pamphlet form. In Ang., 18 1. he returned to Denver and engaged with the Denver Circle railway company as 1893, which he held until promoted to assistant trustee for their real estate interests. postmaster in 1895. He is a member of lodge 41. Knights of Pythias; is married and has one chikl. a son. was also secretary of the Circle railway con- struction company, of which his brother H. D. was general manager, serving in that PORTER, I. B. See Vol. III, page 214. capacity until the spring of 1883. On or about the 1st of April, 1\$2. he formed a partnership with Mr. Alexander Lathan in the real estate business under the name of Lathan & Perky. It was dissolved in the spring of 15 4. since which time Mr. Perky has conducted the busi- noss alone. In the early part of 1584 he aided in organizing the Arkansas River, Land. Town and Canal company, now known as the T. C. Henry canal, and was a director in the com- pany for two years. In the summer of 1SSS. with Mr. S. Il. Baker and H. G. Wolff. he organized the Highland Street Railway com- pany. now a part of the Denver tramway sys- tem, and under his superintendency of con- strmetion on that division it was completed in December of that year. The greater part of his time. however, since he became a resident of Denver has been devoted to the negotiation of loans and the purchase and sale of real estate, mining and other enterprises. Ile be- came a member of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade soon after its organization in 1884, and has been to the pres- ent time.
PORTER, William W., real estate opera- tor. was born in Monroe county. Mo., and re- ceived a public school education at Huntsville. in his native state. Subsequently. he entered Mt. Pleasant college, from whence he was graduated in 1871: then went to Moberly, Mo .. and embarked in the real estate business. In 18-2 he came to Denver. Colo., and with Mr. Raymond entered into partnership under the firm name of Porter, Raymond & Co .. which continued for ten years, during which time the firm placed on the market some of the largest and most valable additions to the city of Denver involving millions of dollars of real estate. among which were Wyman's addition. Platt's Park. Rohling's. Porter & Raymond's and Montelair. In 1592 the firm of Porter, Raymond & Co. was dissolved and Mr. Porter organized the W. W. Porter Investment com- pany. which he is now conducting.
PUCKETT, William J., superintendent of the Denver Branch Mint. was born in Noxn- bee county, Miss., July 25. 1>46. In 1852 his mother. having lost her husband, located in Todd county. Ky., where he was raised and educated. Tle engaged in agricultural pur- suits, and in 1867 removed to Ballard county, in the same state, where he continued his occupation as a farmer. While thus employed he studied law, and in 1875 began the practice of his profession in the town of Blandville. Being an earnest, enthusiastic democrat. and his ability and usefulness being recognized by his friends in that party. he was nominated and elected to the legislature in Aug .. 1883. and served one term of two years. Of his career while a member of that body Hon. W. . I. Stone, member of Congress from Ken- tueky. says: "I found Mr. Puckett to be a young man of fine ability. candid. fearless, honest. full of energy and possessing just such traits of character as make the useful man and public official. He was one of the most popular members of the legislature, a man of broad views upon all publie questions and al- ways at the front in matters of general im- portance. I have known him in every rela- tion of life and have seen him put to the most severe tests, and can truthfully say that I have never known a truer friend, a more upright gentleman, or a man more worthy of the con- fidence of the people than William J. Puckett." Senator Blackburn of Kentucky adds his testi- monial in the following language: "Hon. Will- iam J. Puckett was recognized as a leader in the legislature and was prominently identified with the important measures of that body. Among all the representatives of the lower House he was one of the best. the truest, and the most loyal." Mr. Puckett was appointed timber inspector for the district of Colorado in Oct., 1885, and served in that eapacity until 1589. Ile then embarked in business as a rail- road contractor and pursued it until Nov., 1893, when he received the appointment of assayer in charge of T. N. Branch Mint at Denver under President Cleveland's second adminis- tration. In Sept., 1868, he married Miss Jos-
PORTER. Thomas W .. assistant postmaster of Denver, was born in Fredricksburg. Va .. Jan. 25. 1:51. When he was six years of age the family removed to Richmond. the capital ephine Reeves, second daughter of Hon. W. H. city. He remained there until the close of the Reeves, a prominent tobacconist of Paducah, civil war. then settled in Angusta, Ga .. and Ky. Ten children have been born to them,
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eight of whom are now living. They are W. H. with which he transacts a general loan and (who is the law partner of Hon. James A. real estate business.
Hawley, at Boise d'ity, Idaho), Maude Penel- ope, Mary, Georgia. Thomas, Lola, Clinton and Josephine. In his present position he is giving eminent satisfaction. The people of Denver, irrespective of party, recognize the fact that the government committed no mis- take when it made him assayer in charge of the mint. Although forty-eight years of age his tall, erect form and elastic step indicate that his manhood's prime has scarce been reached.
PITKIN, F. W. See Vol. II. page 485.
PALMER, Gen. Wm. J. Ser Vol. III, page 104.
PHILLIPS, John F., mine manager, was born in the town of Marey, Oneida county, N. Y., March 26, 1834, and most of his early life was passed on a farm. In 1446 the family moved to Niagara county. Ilis educa- tion was obtained in the public schools. In May, 1855, he moved west to Michigan, and a year later to Chicago. Dec. 22, 1858, ho mar- ried Miss Carrie E. Grant. April 30, 1860, tak- ing the gold foyer, he started for Pike's Peak, arrived in Denver June 26 following, passed up to Nevada district in Gilpin county and en- gaged in mining. In Aug., 1864, he recruited company L for the 3rd regiment Colorado cavalry, and commanded the same in the In- dian wars of that epoch until mustered out 100 days afterward. He then returned to Nevada district and resumed mining, continu- ing there until 175, when he removed to Georgetown, Clear Creek county. In Isst he was appointed undersheriff, and in 1\\9 was «lected sheriff of the county, faithfully and effectively serving in that capacity until Jan., IS92. Capt. Phillips is not only an experi- «need miner and manager of mining proper- ties, but a man of sterling integrity, bound- less generosity to his friends, and possessing, withal, the esteem of those who know him. In the service he was a brave soldier; in every walk of life he shares the friendship of his intimates, the respect of all with whom he may be associated.
PAINTER, Charles Fremont, was born near the village of Paintersville, Pa .. June 22, 1856, of Quaker parentage. In 1557 his father moved West and located on a farm near Ein- poria. Kan., and it was in the publie and state normal schools of that place his son Charles was educated. In 1870 they moved to Kansas ('ity, Mo., and engaged in the live stock com- mission business. Prior to that time, how- ever, Charles had been, during the session of 1867-68, a page in the lower House of the Kan- sas legislature, being a protogó of the late Senator Pumb, who at that time was a mem- ber from Lyon county. From Isto to 1880 MIr. Painter was engaged in the business men- tioned above at the Kansas City stockyards, in partnership with his father, under the firm name of D. A. Painter & Son. In Jan., 1850, he came to Colorado, and early in June set- tled at the point now called Telluride-then known as Columbia-in the valley of the San Miguel. In the spring of ISSI he was elected mayor of the town, and during that year en- PIM, Thomas F., came West in 1543. leav- ing St. Louis at that date, with Sibille, Adams & Co., fur traders. Their destination was Fort John, at the junction of the Platte and Laramie rivers, one mile from old Fort Laramie. then owned by the American Fur company. After his arrival he was employed by the com- pany as a clerk, and remained with it several years, often going to St. Louis to pur- chase goods. The name of the company was afterward changed to Pratt, Cabanie & Co .. and for which he continued to work one sea- son. Ile then entered the employ of the North Platte Bridge company. While engaged at Iron Mountain balancing the company's books, the Pike's Peak gold excitement broke out, and Mr. Pim, in company with a friend, pur- chased a stock of goods and came to Denver. arriving here in June, 1859. He was in the city when it was visited by its first fire. in 1863, and was also here when a large portion tered the town site in the U. S. land office. the patent therefor being issued in his name as trustee for the inhabitants. May 2. 1882, he married Elise C. Rohwer, then a resident of Telluride, to whom at this writing three chil- dren have been born. In Feb., 1853, the county of San Miguel was created, and by a mass meeting of citizens Mr. Painter was recommended to Governor James B. Grant for appointment to the office of clerk and re- corder. He was, therefore, chosen and duly commissioned. He assumed his duties April 1, 1853, and discharged them so satisfactorily he was twice elected thereto by the people. his last term expiring Jan. 1. ISSS. In the order of Free Masons he has been an earnest and useful member, and for three years served Telluride lodge No. 56 as secretary, one year as senior warden, and finally as master of the same. During the past twelve years he has been actively employed in business, much of of the town was inundated from the food the time in mining pursuits. Since Oct. 25. in Cherry creek. He went to Georgetown in 1884, with the exception of two years and two 1865, and later to the Brown reduction works, months, he has been president and general built a house and named the place Browns- ville, after William Brown. He remained there until IST0, when he took his wife. on account of her rheumatic affection, to Ojo, manager of the Telluride "Journal," the oldest newspaper in San Miguel county. In addi- tion, he owns the only set of abstract hooks in the county. and has the principal fire, life Caliente Springs, New Mexico, He afterward and accident insurance agoney, in connection lived at Pueblo until 1st, and finally settled
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