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As there were no troops in the Territory, the people, under the authority the President, raised a regi- ment of cavalry, of which Mr. Browne was elected Colonel, and took command January 17, 1865. They spent the rest of the winter on the Plains, opened communication with the States, and kept it open until the cessation of hostilities. They were mustered out of the service April 30, 1865. By permission of the President, Col. Browne took command of this regiment and held the office of Attorney General at the same time, by deputy. Since October, 1865, he has been engaged in the active practice of his profession in Denver.
ROBERT BANDHAUER.
The name of Robert Bandhauer is familiar to the people of Denver as a splendid mechanic, and a useful and popular citizen. Born in Prussia in 1851, and coming to the United States with his parents when he was only four years old, he has grown up under the shadow of American institutions, developing fertility of resources, and expanding the natural quickness and ingenuity of his mind to such an extent that there can be no doubt but that he is a thorough American in head and heart. Although his educational advantages were limited in his boyhood and youth, he has supplied that deficiency by practical observation and self instruction. He has worked upon farms, has been employed at Canton, Mo., in a cigar factory, and having acquired, untaught, a knowl- edge of machinery, was at one time an engineer of a steamboat plying on the White River, Ar- kansas. But the occupation by which he is best known, and the pursuit of which has secured for him both a competency and an honorable position in the world, is that of a blacksmith and mechanic. He served an apprenticeship of three years in Canton, Mo., in the trade and afterward worked in many of the Southern States, notably in Jeffer- son, Tex., but formed no permanent connection until he came to Colorado in 1871, and filled, for several years, the position of forcman in the shops of W. J. Kinsey, in Denver. In 1877, he started
a shop of his own, and from that time to the pres- ent, has had uninterrupted success. His present establishment on Fifteenth street, between Wazee and Wynkoop streets, is pushed to its limit in order to keep up with the demands of business. There are six hands now constantly employed, and the work carried on embraces blacksmithing, wagon and carriage making, and the manufacture of tools, as well as repair work of every description. Mr. Bandhauer is not only a good mechanic but an ingenious one, and may refer, with pardonable pride, to an invention of his own which has been patented and very generally adopted by the trade. It is called the Improved Combined Tire Up-setter, Shears and Punch, designed to simplify and facili- tate what have been hitherto slow and tedious operations. Mr. Bandhauer is a married man, owner of real estate in Denver, and has some valuable mining interests in Gunnison County. He is deservedly popular among all classes of citizens in Denver, and in the election for city officers in 1879, was chosen by nearly a unanimous vote to represent the Sixth Ward in the Board of Aldermen. His own brains and his own toil have raised him in the scale of wealth and respectability, and have foreshadowed a career which will no doubt prove both useful and honorable among his fellow-citizens, and a subject of proper pride to his family and himself.
MORITZ BARTH.
Moritz Barth, of the firm of Wm. Barth & Bro., wholesale and retail dealers in boots and shoes, was born in Dietz Nassau, Germany, July 24, 1834. He attended school up to the age of fourteen years, and was then employed in the Surveyor General's Office, intending to devote himself to mining, but, deciding to come to America, he learned the shoe- maker's trade. Landing in New Orleans with a portion of his father's family, in December, 1852, he found employment at his trade. In May fol- lowing, the family proceeded up the Mississippi to Belleville, Ill., where they joined his brother Will- iam. Thence, in 1854, he removed to Platte Co.,
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Mo., where they were engaged in business till 1861, when they both came to Colorado, locating in California Gulch, he remained till fall, and when William went to St. Louis, he went to Cañon City, to open the business there, but find- ing the prospect poor, joined his brother in St. Louis. In 1862, on their return to Colorado, he located in Montgomery, in the shoe business. In the spring of 1863, he went over the range to Gold Run, and opened a general store. In Septem- ber of the same year, the gold excitement break- ing out in Montana, he went to that Territory, returning in December to the States, where he purchased a large stock of goods and took them to Montana. He did business there until the fall of 1865. In 1868, he established branch houses of Barth Bros., in Salt Lake City, and Corinne, and in 1870, returned to Denver, where he has since been located. Mr. Barth has traveled ex- tensively in this country, visiting all the large cities of the Union, and going several times to the Pacific coast. He is a director and stockholder in the City National Bank, of Denver, and the Bank of San Juan, at Del Norte. He has been President of the Denver Maennerchor, a musical society, numbering among its members many of the best musicians in the city. Although fre- quently solicited to run for office, he has invaria- bly declined, not having time to spare from his business.
HON. ALFRED BUTTERS.
Among the prominent citizens of Denver, who have taken up their residence in the city during the last decade, is the Hon. Alfred Butters, who was born in Exeter, Penobscot Co., Me., May 27, 1836. He was educated in the public schools, and in the Bucksport Seminary, and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at Kent's Hill, Me. At the age of twenty, he began teaching, and in 1858, emigrated to Kansas, and continued teaching in that State and Missouri until 1860. He then came to Colorado and settled on a ranche on Cherry Creek, in Douglas County, about twenty miles from Denver. In 1868, he engaged in stock -
growing, purchasing a small herd of 162 head of cattle, which he has increased to over 2,000. Here- moved to Denver in 1871, and in 1874 was elected to the Lower House of the Territorial Legisla- ture, and among other legislative measures, was the author of a bill for regulating the fees and salaries of the officers of Arapahoe County. He was again elected in 1876, and was chosen Speaker of the House. At the close of the session, the members of the House, in testimony of their high appre- ciation of his services as Speaker, presented him with an elegant silver tea-service, while the Dem- ocrats gave him a fine gold-headed cane, which, considering the fact that Mr. Butters was, and is, a stanch Republican, was a testimony to his fair- ness and impartiality as Speaker. In October, 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly of the new State, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Ways, and Means, and the Committee on Stock. He was also a member of the Committee on Rules. He introduced, and secured the passage of an act, amendatory to an act, providing for the branding, herding and care of stock, which provided for the establishing of a State Board of Commissioners, and Round-up Commissioners in each round-up district in the State. This law has given great satisfaction, and has met the approval of the cattle men of the State. He also drafted a bill revising the revenue laws of the State, but finding by the Constitution of the United States that all revenue bills must first be introduced in the House, he turned it over to a member of the House for that purpose. He was an influential member of the Senate, and the author of many salutary measures. He is now on his second term as President of the Colorado Cattle Grower's Association. Mr. But- ters was married, November 10, 1870, to Miss Minerva E. Bonnifield, of Douglas County, Colo.
HON. HIRAM J. BRENDLINGER.
Among the first to become a permanent resident of Denver, was the above-named gentleman, locat- ing here in 1859. Mr. Brendlinger was born in
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Montgomery County, Penn., April 15, 1825. When six years old, he removed with his parents to Phil- adelphia, and there attended school till the age of fourteen years, when he entered a store and clerked until 1850. In May, of that year, he started for California, via the Isthmus, which he crossed in bungos, and with mules. After visiting the mines in the southern part of the State, he returned to San Francisco, and entered into partnership with another Philadelphia gentleman, John Kurtz, in the tobacco business, soon building up a good wholesale trade, in which he continued until the fall of 1857, when he closed up his business, and returned to the East. While on a visit to his old home, he was attracted by the reports of the dis- covery of gold in the Pike's Peak country, and on the 24th of February, 1859, he left Philadelphia for the mountains. At Leavenworth, he outfitted with a wagon and two yoke of oxen, and taking a small stock of cigars, he left Leavenworth on the 22d of April, arriving at Denver on the 30th of May. As soon as he could secure a location, he opened business temporarily on Ferry street, in West Denver, until he could obtain a permanent location. After about three weeks, he removed to Denver, and opened on Blake street, near Cherry Creek. In June, 1859, he purchased the lot on the corner of Blake and Fifteenth streets, which was then occupied by a small log cabin. Some months later, he changed this into a small store, into which he moved his business. In the spring of 1861, he tore down the cabin, and put up a two- story frame building, and enlarged his business. This building was burned down in the great fire of April 19, 1863. Six months before this, he had erected a brick warehouse, in which he saved the most of his stock, and in which he re-commenced business the day after the fire. He then started a branch house in Central City, which he sold out shortly after building his present brick store, in the fall of 1863. In 1864, he established a branch house in Virginia City, Montana, which was conducted by Ferdinand S. Stone, one of his former clerks, to whom he gave an interest.
In 1866, he sold his interest to Mr. Stone, and the following year started another branch store in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which he closed out a year or two later. In 1877, he went to the Black Hills, and established a branch house in Deadwood, which he still continues, in connection with his wholesale and retail business in Denver. He was elected a member of the City Council of Denver in April, 1861, serving until the spring of 1863. In the spring of 1864, he was chosen Mayor of the city, and discharged the duties of that office in an efficient and creditable manner. The same year, he was elected to the Lower House of the Territorial Legislature, on what was known as the Anti-State ticket. Since then he has applied him- self to the prosecution of his business affairs.
WILLIAM BARTH.
Mr. Barth was born in Dietz Nassau, Germany, Dec. 8, 1829, and came to the United States in 1850, landing in New Orleans with but a picayune in his pocket. He went to work at his trade of a shoemaker, but owing to the change of climate, he was taken ill and was obliged to go to the hospital for a month, after which he went up the river to St. Louis, and thence to Belleville, Ill. After living there a year, he went to Glasgow, Mo., in search of an elder brother, who had come to America two years earlier than himself, but found that in 1850 he had gone to California, whence he never returned. From Glasgow he went to Platte Co., Mo., where he engaged in business with his brother, Moritz, doing quite an extensive boot and shoe business. On the break- ing-out of the rebellion, having been quite active in the Union cause, and finding themselves obnox- ious to the sentiment of the vicinity, they, on the 2d of June, 1861, crossed the river with an ox- team, and started across the Plains for the moun- tains. They first located in California Gulch, now Leadville, and in the fall he returned to St. Louis, and engaged in manufacturing nail boots, for the Pike's Peak trade, where soon afterward he was joined by his brother. In 1862, they crossed the
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Plains again, this time with two wagons, William settling in Fairplay, while Moritz went to Mont- gomery. He spent the following winter in Illi- nois, returning and settling in Denver, in May, 1863, a few days after the great fire of that year. Obtaining a small place between two buildings, on Blake street, so narrow that he could reach from wall to wall, he roofed it over, and carried on busi- ness there until fall, when they removed to their present location, No. 232 Fifteenth street, where they have done a very successful business. They are among the heaviest tax-payers in the county. Mr. William Barth is a large stockholder and Vice President of the City National Bank, a stockholder and director in the San Juan Bank, at Del Norte, and a director and heavy stockholder in the Denver & South Park Railroad Company. He served on the Board of Aldermen in 1867-68. The year of the Vienna Exposition, he took his family to Europe, and spent some time in travel- ing in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. He has been a hard worker for the good of the com- munity, and has done much for the up-building of the city and developing the resources of the State. He was first married in Parkeville, Mo., in May, 1858, to Miss Anna Nell, who died after their removal to Denver, leaving two daughters, one of whom is now living. He was again married in October, 1867, to Miss Charlotte Kaempfer, of Chicago, and has one son.
SAMUEL W. BROWN.
S. W. Brown was born near Baltimore, Md., December 23, 1829; removed to New York City at the age of fifteen, and served an apprenticeship of four years to the cabinet-maker's trade. Soon afterward, war having been declared with Mexico, he entered the army and served till the close of the war. He then turned his steps westward, seeking a home upon the Pacific Slope. After spending five years in California, in mining and mercantile pursuits, he returned to the States and located in Chicago, where he engaged in the res- tanrant business three years, then concluded to try States Express business at that place. In August,
his fortune in Central America during Gen. Walker's expedition in that country, engaging in a general mercantile husiness and furnishing supplies for the army. After remaining there one year, he returned to the United States, and was engaged in locating and pre-empting land in Benton County, Iowa, one year, and then settled at Olathe, John- son County, in the occupation of farming, and was there married to the daughter of John Perry. In the spring of 1859, he came to Denver, and pre- empted a homestead, a few miles from Denver, in the Platte Valley, to which he has bought addi- tional lands, being the owner at present of a fine farm of 500 acres. Since this time he has been engaged in farming, gardening and stock-raising, and is one of the most substantial citizens of the Platte Valley.
WILLIAM N. BABCOCK
Among the younger men of enterprise and ability, who have held important positions in con- nection with the railway system of Colorado, dur- ing the last few years, is William N. Bahcock, who was born in Canandaigua County, N. Y., Febru- ary 5, 1847. His parents removed to New York City when he was two years old. In 1859, he re- moved with his parents to Mobile, Ala., remaining there until the opening of the rebellion, when the family removed North, and located in Springfield, Ill. In the fall of 1861, he entered the Univer- sity of Notre Dame, at South Bend, Ind., and continued his studies until 1863. He then learned telegraphing, and in the spring of 1864, was appointed telegraph and ticket agent of the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis, and the Toledo, Wa- bash & Western Railroads, at Springfield Junction, Ill., but in the fall of the same year, he removed to Mound City, Ill., and took charge of the tele- graph office in the navy yard at that place, re- maining there until 1876, with the exception of one and a half years' residence in Crawfordsville, Ind., during which he was engaged in the mercan- tile business, and also had charge of the United
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1876, he came to Denver, and in October was placed in charge of the Colorado Central Rail- road, during its construction from Cheyenne, until its completion in November. He was then appointed General Freight and Passenger Agent of that road, which position he held until May, 1879, when the Colorado Central passed under the management of the Union Pacific Railroad. He was then appointed General Western Agent of the Northern Pool Line, which consisted of the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Colorado Central Rail- roads, which position he has filled in an acceptable and creditable manner to the present time.
JAMES H. BAKER.
James H. Baker, Principal of the Denver High School, was born in Harmony, Me., October 13, 1848. Until the age of fourteen, he spent his summers on his father's farm, receiving in the winter the usual instruction at the district school. After spending several terms at Hartland Acad- emy, he, at the age of seventeen, entered Nichols' Latin School, in Lewiston, Me., and graduated therefrom in 1869, and at once entered Bates College, in the same city.
In 1870, Lewiston became the home of his par- ents. In 1873, he graduated from Bates College, taking next to the highest rank in a large class, notwithstanding much unavoidable absence. Be- ginning at the age of seventeen, he taught several terms of district school, and one term of grammar school, and was also for some time instructor in the Topsham Family School for Boys, an institu- tion of high standing in the East. In 1870, he was Principal of Anson Academy, and, in 1872, of East Lebanon Academy, Maine. For two years after graduating from college, he taught with marked success as Principal of the Yarmouth High School, which position he left to take charge of the Den- ver High School, in 1875. Prof. Baker's reputa- tion in Maine was that of a close student, and a thorough, efficient teacher, and that reputation has been fully maintained by his work in Colo- rado. The upbuilding of the Denver High Schools,
almost from the beginning, is mainly due to his constant and unwearied efforts. He is a gentle- man of ripe scholarship and varied experience in school work ; he is a constant student and an en- thusiastic teacher, earnestly devoted to his profes- sion. Thorough, conscientious and methodical himself, he insists upon the same painstaking care on the part of his pupils. He has labored to maintain a standard of school work fully equal to that of the best similar institutions in the Eastern cities. How well he has succeeded, the present flourishing condition of the Denver High School will show.
SAMUEL BRANTNER.
Mr. Brantner, one of the earliest settlers and most extensive farmers of Arapahoe Co., was born in Washington County, Md., August 13, 1820. His father having died, his mother removed to Ohio, where Mr. Brantner remained until 1852, working on a farm and at the cooper trade. In 1852, he went to California and remained six years, most of the time engaged in farming. Returning to Ohio, he remained about one year, and then started westward. He was married in Shelby County, Mo., in 1859, and the following May, started with his family for Pike's Peak, where he arrived in August. The first year after arriving in Colorado was spent in farming on Cherry Creek, four miles from Denver. In June, 1860, he bought the farm where he now lives, fifteen miles below Denver, on the Platte. Mr. Brantner has been quite success- ful in farming and stock-raising, and is one of the leading farmers of the county. His daughter, who was married in December, 1879, was the first white girl born in Colorado.
CHARLES BOHM.
This gentleman was born at Hanau-on-the-Main, near Frankfort, Germany, in 1846. He came to the U. S. when but three years old, and lived for sev- eral years in Newark, N. J. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a New York designer and engraver. He started in business first for himself at No. 25 John street, then at 43 Maiden
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Lane, and was afterward employed by the great diamond firm of Durant & Company, of Newark, N. J. In the spring of 1866, he made his first trip to Denver, crossing the Plains with a team. After arriving in Denver, he started in business as a designer and engraver, and also made illus- trations for several New York magazines. He returned to New York in the summer of 1868, and carried on business at No. 73 Nassau street, where he did designing on wood and copper plate for the general trade. In the fall of 1869, he was one of those who organized the famous Palette Art Club, of New York City. In the spring of 1872, he returned to Denver, and again started in business as a designer and engraver; also produc- ing crayon, India ink and water-color portraits. In the fall of 1872, he established a business with Mr. Charles Perry, of lithographing, engraving and photographic portraiture. The lithographic business not meeting their expectations, they abandoned it, and Mr. Bohm, having purchased Mr. Perry's interest, has since that time carried on the photographic business in his own name, and what he has accomplished, his work will show.
MAJ. J. M. BAGLEY.
In his work as an artist in this city, Mr. Bag- ley has gained a reputation second to none in his profession. The superiority of his work as a de- signer and engraver on wood has commended him to public favor and secured a large patronage. The fine view of the city of Denver and surroundings which appears in this work was engraved from his drawing. He was born in the State of Maine July 19, 1837, but spent most of his life in Virginia until 1852, when he removed to St. Louis, Mo., and afterward to Alton, Ill. In 1859, he went to New York and commenced en- graving on wood, at Frank Leslie's, serving there until 1862, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-third New York Volunteer Infantry, and served during the war. He was with Gen. Banks in Louisiana, and afterward with Gen. Sheridan in Virginia. He entered the service
as a private, and received promotions as Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant and Captain. He was afterward awarded a commission as Brevet Major by Gov. Fenton, of New York. After the war, he carried on the business of designing and engraving on wood in St. Louis from 1865 to 1872, when he removed to Denver, and has followed his profession since that time, obtaining a lucrative business.
CHARLES H. BAGLEY, D. D. S.
The same diligence in study which characterized him during his early life, while preparing for his pro- fessional duties, has followed Dr. Bagley through his whole career and fitted him for the first place in his profession. It has won for him a lucrative prac- tice, which his ability and skill so well deserve. He was born in Meadville, Penn., September 17, 1842, and, after fitting himself for college in the public schools, was admitted to Harvard Univer- sity in July, 1859, and graduated in July, 1863. He then entered the Union army, enlisting in Com- pany F, Fifty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Militia, and served in the campaign which resulted in the capture of John Morgan, in Ohio, and was discharged with the regiment in Septem- ber of the same year. In 1865, he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. C. Mid- hard, in Philadelphia, and attended one course of lectures in the Medical Department of the Univer- ity of Pennsylvania, after which he entered the dental office of Dr. A. B. Robbins, a practitioner of many years' experience in his native town of Meadville. He remained there, studying and prac- ticing, until the fall of 1869, when he was matric- ulated at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Sur- gery, in Philadelphia. The course of lectures he attended several years previous was considered equivalent to one course at the Dental College, and accordingly he graduated with high honors the following year (1870), and immediately resumed practice in Meadville, where an excellent business was soon obtained. In the summer of 1871, he removed to Colorado and engaged in smelting and
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reduction of ores at Golden. This undertaking proved a losing venture, and, in 1874, he resumed the practice of dentistry-but soon afterward went East, and, after spending a year in Massachusetts, returned to Denver and entered into partnership with Dr. A. J. McGarrey, then practicing in this city at 355 Larimer street, but in June, 1876, Dr. McGarrey died, and since that time Dr. Bag- ley has practiced alone in the same office.
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