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embark in business life, trusting to industry and perseverance to supply the lack of experience, will find in Nelson G. Hurd a subject worthy of their generous praise and indorsement.
ABNER HUFF.
Among the soldiers of the Union army in the late civil war who have found a home in Colorado, and are successfully engaged in mercantile pur- suits, a brief sketch is here given of Abner Huff, a merchant of Denver. He was born in 1828, in Washington County, Me., and obtained such educational advantages as the ample means of his parents could bestow. He was first engaged in business as a contractor at the age of twenty-three, in Washington County, but soon relinquished that occupation to follow the stream of travel that had commenced in the year preceding-1849-to flow into the golden State of California. The voyage " round the Horn" was safely made, and, in 1850, he landed in California, with but little capital save brains and energy to assist him in that far-off land of golden promise and bitter disappointment. He spent six years there, and then returned to the States, having been quite successful during his voluntary exile from home and civilization. In 1856, he settled in Minnesota and devoted him- self to agricultural pursuits near Minneapolis, until the breaking-out of the civil war. Follow- ing the patriotic impulses of his heart, he enlisted as a private in the Third Minnesota Regiment, and participated with his comrades in the priva- tions and perils of the camp and battle-field till the close of the war. His regiment was assigned to Buell's army in the Department of the Tennes- see. At the battle of Murfreesboro, Abner Huff was made prisoner and afterward paroled. Dur- ing the Sioux troubles, his regiment was with- drawn from the theater of war and sent to the northern part of Minnesota to guard the settlers of that region. He was tendered the post of Captain of one of the companies, but declined the honor, and joined in a petition to the Government for a restoration of the old officers to their
commands. He was honorably mustered out of the service with the rank of Sergeant in 1864, and, from that time to the year 1871, when he came to Colorado, employed himself in various business enterprises, but formed no permanent connections worthy of record. Mr. Huff is now conducting a retail grocery business which he started several years ago, and has been very suc- cessful in building up an extensive trade in the city and neighboring country. Besides his com- mercial interests, he has some valuable mining claims in this State and is interested in farming lands in Minnesota. Mr. Huff is an avowed Republican, and holds liberal views in matters of religion.
S. B. HARDY.
S. B. Hardy, of the extensive book and station- ery house of Chain & Hardy, has resided in Den- ver since the fall of 1871, and, during this time, has been one of the most active and popular mer- chants of the city. The firm of which he is a member, stands at the head of the book houses of the Rocky Mountain region. Its career has been one of steady growth and well-merited success. In extent and variety of stock, and quality of goods, this house is not excelled by any similar establishment between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Coast, and that the people of Colorado are not surpassed in intelligence and literary tastes by those of any other State, is proved by the ex- traordinary demand for the highest class of stand- ard works, as well as the lighter forms of litera- ture, and the numerous miscellaneous articles of taste and refinement always found in an extensive establishment like this. The latest and best pro- ducts of the literary world find their way at once to their counters, and their elegant and commodi- ous salesroom is the resort of the literati of the city: S. B. Hardy was born in Eastham, Mass., April 28, 1842, and was taken by his parents at an early age to Jacksonville, Ill., and received his education in the schools of that cultivated and beautiful city. At eighteen, he entered the drug store of Robert Hockenhull, whose partner he be-
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came after completing his apprenticeship and with whom he remained as apprentice and partner for eleven years. In 1871, he removed to Denver, and became the partner of J. A. Chain, in their present business. Mr. Hardy was married, May 3, 1866, to Miss Ellen E. Bailey, of Jacksonville, Ill., and has three children living.
EDWIN P. HARMAN.
Mr. Harman was born in Lexington District, S.C .. November 27, 1834. At the age of ten years, he removed with his parents to Central Mississippi, and in 1858, graduated with second honor in a class of thirty-niue, at the University of Mississippi, being chosen annual orator of the Literary Societies of the University the following year. At the break- ing-out of the war, he enlisted and was appointed Adjutant of the Thirteenth Regiment of Missis- sippi Infantry, with which regiment he served throughout the rebellion. His regiment took part in some of the hardest-fought battles of the war, and Mr. Harman was three times wounded, first at the battle of Malvern Hill, then at Chickamauga, and again at Knoxville. In February, 1866, he commenced the practice of law at Friar's Point, Miss., with Hon. James L. Alcorn. He was Al- umni orator of the University of Mississippi in 1868, and was married to Miss J. L. Glover, of Greene Co., Ala., May 26, 1869. In May, 1870, Mr. Harman was appointed Chancellor for four years of the Fifteenth Chancery District of Mis- sissippi, but resigned in March, 1872, and immedi- ately came to Denver to engage in the practice of law, to which profession he has since given his entire attention, and by his diligence, energy and persistent application to the interests of his' clients, has gained for himself the reputation of a safe and careful counselor and an able lawyer.
DR. JOSHUA HIGHWARDEN.
Dr. Highwarden was born in the little town of Ai, Portugal, March I, 1842. He left home at the age of thirteen and went to London, where, for eight years, he was office-boy for the famous Sir Astley
Cooper, through whose influence he was then ap- pointed a steward in the Guy Hospital of London. He began the study of medicine at the Royal Medi- cal College of Physicians, in London, and after gradu- ating there entered the Royal College of Surgeons at Brighton, graduating at that institution at the age of twenty-seven, when he came to the United States and practiced for a time in Boston, and then took a course of lectures in the University of Med- icine and Surgery at Philadelphia. In 1861, he returned to his home in Portugal, remaining three years, and then a second time came to the United States, and after practicing a number of years in Michigan and Ohio, removed to San Francisco, in which place he lived until September, 1879, when he came to Denver to engage in the practice of his profession. He was married, in 1876, to Miss Susan B. Turner, of St. Louis. He practices the Eclectic system of medicine, aud is building up a lucrative practice.
B. E. HAWKINS.
This gentleman is so well known in Denver through his views of the mountain and railroad scenery of Colorado, that more than a brief sketch of him in this volume would be superfluous. There is scarcely a lake or river in Colorado that his camera has not been brought to bear upon, and copies of his views have found their way to all parts of the world. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, he came to Colorado in 1873, and engaged in the photographic business; but, on the breaking out of the Black Hills gold excitement, he went there and remained a short time. Returning to Denver, he resumed business at 377 Larimer street, in which place he is still located.
MONROE L. HORR.
Mr. Horr was born near Niagara Falls, N. Y., in February, 1845, and came to Denver ahout twelve years ago, from Dubuque, Iowa, where his immedi- ate relatives now reside. He had read law before coming West, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Colorado at Denver in 1869. Having had
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considerable of his own private business to engage his attention, and which he has found to be more profitahle for him to look after than ordinary legal business, and wishing to give his time and efforts more particularly to his private affairs, Mr. Horr has thus far declined to receive much legal bus- iness outside of an office prac ice, to which he has principally confined himself, and of which he has all that he cares to attend to. He has the reputa- tion of being a good lawyer and an able and very safe counselor.
S. A. HERRICK.
S. A. Herrick, the assi tant ca hier of the City National Bank of Denver, is a native of Utica, N. Y., and has been a resident of Denver for the past six years. He was formerly cashier of the First National Bank of Terre Haute, Ind., hold- ing that position several years, until warned hy failing strength to seek some more salubrious climate. Mr. Herrick is now iu his forty-sixth year, enjoying improved health, and has become a permanent citizen of Denver. Possessing the confidence and respect of those who have had business or social dealings with him, he will be classed among the useful and cherished citizens of his adopted State.
CHARLES S. HOWARD.
C. S. Howard spent the first ten years of his life in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was born there in February, 1844. He removed to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1855, remaining there until 1862. At that time, he entered the army as a volunteer in Company F, Twenty-first Iowa Infantry, being at that time but eighteen years of age, and remained at his post during the war, faithfully discharging the duties of a true soldier. In the spring of 1866, he went to Chicago and engaged in the lumber business with the firm of Palmer, Fuller & Co. He remained with that firm thirteen years, and, while there, in December, 1870, was married. In December, 1876, he dissolved his connection with Palmer, Fuller & Co., and, on the Ist of Janu- ary, 1877, came to Denver, Colo., and became a
member of the firm of Hallack & Howard, whose extensive business has been built up and main- tained through their excellent facilities in all the departments of their business.
CHARLES HALLACK.
This gentleman was born in Bethany, Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1829, spending twenty-eight years of his early life in his native county. His father was a farmer. In 1857, he removed to Mendon, St. Joseph Co., Mich., and formed a partnership with Mr. Lyman in the mercantile business. He remained there in that business eight years. In 1864, he removed to Highland, Doniphan Co., Kan., and engaged in the stock business two years. In the spring of 1867, he re- moved to Denver, Colo., having been interested for a year previous with his brother, Erastus F. Hal- lack, in the lumber business. He continued in the lumber business with his brother until 1877, when Charles Howard and brother entered the firm under the firm name of Hallack & Howard. The firm represent one of the largest business interests in that branch of industry in the city.
ERASTUS F. HALLACK.
Mr. Hallack was born in Bethany, Genesee Co., N. Y., May 30, 1832, where he remained until twenty-one years of age. He then turned his steps westward, and located in St. Charles, Kane Co., Ill., where he engaged in the car- riage manufacturing business in company with Ste- phen March, which he continued successfully for ten years. In 1863, he removed to Highland, Doniphan Co., Kan., and established himself in the same business. In 1867, he closed out his business and came to Denver to join his brother, Charles Hallack, in the lumber business, with whom he had formed a partnership. Having built a planing-mill, they gradually increased their busi- ness and the facilities for meeting the wants of trade of the rapidly growing city. In 1877, Charles Howard and brother became members of the firm, and since that time the business has continued
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prosperously under the firm name of Hallack & Howard.
GEORGE W. HAZZARD.
Mr. G. W. Hazzard was born in Elk Grove, Wis., December 7, 1837. Until he was twenty- one years of age, he was employed in clerking for his father, who had removed to Galena, Ill., and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1859, Mr. Hazzard determined to come to Colorado, and arrived here early in the same year. From Denver he went to Boulder, where for a short time he en- gaged in mining, with but poor success. From there he went to the Gregory lode, near where Black Hawk now is, and afterward, with his brother, went to Missouri Flats, where they were more suc- cessful, taking out about six hundred dollars apiece in a few months. In the latter part of 1859, he pre-empted a piece of land on the Platte, sixteen miles from Denver, where he spent the winter, but early in the following spring, went over to where Breckenridge now is, and tried placer mining that summer, without success. He was married July 28, 1863, to Miss Mary Blundell, since which time he has lived on his farm, engaged in farming and stock-raising.
DANIEL HOFFER.
This gentleman was born in Buffalo, N. Y., April 10, 1845, and spent his early life there until May, 1861, when he went to New York City and soon after enlisted in Company D, Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers. At the end of his two years' service, he was mustered out, and returned to Buffalo, where he began butchering, and contin- ued the same until January, 1868, when he came to Denver, and soon afterward engaged in butcher- ing and selling meat along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad. In June, 1869, he returned to Denver, and, in company with his brother, engaged in the meat business, to which he added soap man- ufacturing two years later, continuing both until 1876, when he discontinued the soap business, and since that time has devoted his entire attention to the meat business, in which he has met with good success.
JOHN G. HOFFER.
Mr. J. G. Hoffer was born in Buffalo, N. Y., January 18, 1841. At the age of fifteen, he went to California and engaged in butchering in San Francisco, and afterward at Sacramento. In the spring of 1865, he returned to Buffalo, N. Y., and the following year went to California again by water, where he remained two years in the pursuit of his trade. In 1867, he came to Denver, and en- gaged in the meat business with his brother on the corner of Larimer and Fifteenth streets, in which he has continned successfully to the present time, establishing one of the largest trades in the city.
DANIEL HURD.
Daniel Hnrd was born at Zanesville, Ohio, Octo- ber 31, 1815, two years after the State of Ohio was admitted into the Union, while it was little else than an unbroken wilderness, with a popnla- tion of one to two hundred thousand. Mr. Hurd was brought up on a farm, receiving such limited education as the then imperfect sebools and small libraries afforded. At such intervals as he could spare from his laborions duties on the farm, he fitted himself for surveying and civil engineering, and, in the winter of 1836, along with John Sher- man, entered the service of the State as a civil engineer. For two years, he was engaged upon the public works of the State, mainly upon the slack- water navigation of the Muskingnm River. In 1838, he was elected County Surveyor of his native connty. He was married in Zanesville, June 22, 1841, to the daughter of Elijah Ross, a pioneer of the State of Ohio. IIe cast his first vote in November, 1836, for Gen. W. H. Harri- son, for President, and took an active part in the memorable political campaign of 1840. From the year 1839 to 1855, he was engaged in mer- cantile pursuits, milling, steamboating, and the forwarding and commission business. In 1848, he was one of a party of engineers who made the first survey on the Central Ohio Railroad from Zanesville to Newark. In the fall of 1855, he removed to Cairo, Ill., and engaged in the wholesale
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grocery and produce business, and banking in connection with the transfer business for the Illi- nois Central Railroad, which branches of business he successfully prosecuted until the breaking-out of the war in 1861, after which he confined himself to the wholesale grocery and produce, and ship chandlery business. In 1862, he was elected Cashier, and in 1866, President of the First Na- tional Bank of Cairo, the sixty fifth national bank established under the national bank act. He remained President of this bank up to the time of his leaving the State. In 1866, he was elected a Director of the Cairo & Vincennes Railroad, and took an active part in inaugurating the means which resulted in the completion of the road. In 1868, he was chosen a Director of the Cairo & St. Louis Narrow Gauge Railroad, and aided in securing the means which resulted in the completion of the work. He was also Secretary of the Company. In 1867, he was appointed by the Governor one of a Board of Commissioners to locate and construct the Southern Illinois Normal University, which is now in successful operation at Carbondale, Ill. During the last ten years of his residence at Cairo, he filled the position of President of the Board of Education, during which time the schools of that city attained a degree of excellence second to none in the State. He was also chosen a member of the City Council several times, and for several years was President of the Southwestern Insurance Company. Dur- ing the war, he took an active part in the establish- ment of an Orphan Asylum, and organizing socie- ties for the relief of refugees and freedmen from the South. In the establishment of this institu- tion his wife heartily participated, not only aiding in this special work for the relief of the unfortu- nates, but was interested in and earnestly engaged in all charitable work. In the summer of 1873, he removed to Denver with his family-three sons and three daughters, two of the latter and one of the former married-numbering in all eighteen persons, bringing all their goods and means. He then engaged in the wholesale grocery business ex-
tensively at 417 Blake street, under the firm name of D. Hurd & Son. In 1875, he erected a new store at 371 Holladay street, to which he removed in August of that year. In the spring of 1874, Mr. Hurd was elected a member of the Board of Education, and chosen its President. In the summer of 1875, he was chosen a member of the Convention which framed our State Constitution, was made chairman in that body of the Committee on Education, and a member of several other im- portant committees. In 1877, he was elected President of the Denver Board of Trade. While he has not been a politician or an office-seeker, he has been a firm and active supporter of the Whig and Republican parties from 1836 to the present time, voting for Presidential candidates as follows : For Gen. Harrison, in 1836 and 1840 ; for Henry Clay, in 1844; for Gen. Taylor, in 1848; for Gen. Scott, in 1852; for Fremont, in 1856 ; for Lincoln, in 1860 and 1864; for Gen. Grant, in 1868 and 1872; for Hayes, in 1876.
OTIS HARDENBERGH.
Otis Hardenbergh was born in Ulster County, N. Y., October 3, 1828. His early life was passed on the farm. In January, 1857, he went West, and after spending a few months in Illinois, located in Cass County, Iowa, where he spent the first two years in working at the carpenter's trade, after which he engaged in farming. In 1865, he came to Colorado, and spent ten months in looking over the ground. Returning to Iowa, he left with his family the following May, to become a permanent citizen of the Territory. At that time, the Indians were very troublesome, and on their journey of seven weeks across the Plains they could see their camp fires, and for many a night did not dare to even make a fire lest they should attract the atten- tion of the savages, nor sleep, lest they should be surprised and massacred by them. Mr. Harden- bergh at once settled on his present farm, pur- chasing forty acres of land, to which he snbse- quently added a hundred and twenty acres. His specialty has been dairying, keeping from twenty-
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five to thirty cows. He has taken great interest in the public schools, has been President or Secretary of the School Board of his district every year since he came to Colorado, till a year ago, and as- sisted in building several of the schoolhouses in his neighborhood. Mr. Hardenbergh was married January 25, 1860, to Miss Margaret H. Hopley, a na- tive of Cheshire, Chester County, England, and has two children living of a family of three.
CHARLES E. HICKS.
Although recently established in Denver, Charles E. Hicks brings with him from other cities a repu- tation for business integrity which will entitle him to the confidence of the community. He was born in Chester County, Penn., in 1856, received a good commercial education in his youth, and at the age of eighteen commenced to learn his present business of upholsterer in the house of Craig, Mile & Co., of Philadelphia. He acquired a knowledge of this industry in a short time, and held the confidence of his employers to such an extent, that he was placed in charge of a branch house, and conducted its affairs in a satisfactory manner. In 1876, he went to Texas, and engaged in the business of buy- ing and shipping stock, conducting extensive and successful operations during his two years' resi- dence in that State. In 1879, he came to Denver, and established his present business, in connection with E. B. Riley, at No. 325 Fifteenth street, as dealers in general upholstery, window shades, moldings, etc. Mr. Hicks is unmarried, a mem- ber of the Quaker denomination by birth, and in- dependent in the exercise of his political franchises. He has become a permanent resident of Denver, and will certainly achieve that success to which the thorough knowledge of his business and honorable record may lead him to aspire.
HERMANN H. HEISER.
Mr. Heiser was born in Germany June 29. 1836. He was educated in the national schools, after which he worked in a book-bindery until 1854. Coming to the United States, he began his
apprenticeship to the harness-maker's trade, in Platteville, Wis. In 1856, he removed to Madi- son, Wis .; but, after working at his trade there for a short time, he went to Dubuque, Iowa, remain- ing one year. He then returned to Wisconsin, and, in June, 1858, began the saddlery and harness business, in his own name, at Highland, Wis., continuing the same until the fall of 1863. He then procured an outfit, and traveled across the Plains, arriving in Denver December 22, 1863. Having sold his teams, he went into the mountains, but returned in March to Black Hawk and embarked in the harness business. In 1866, he started a shop in Central City, still continuing business at Black Hawk, where he resided until 1870. He then sold out and removed to Central City, where he remained until 1874. Having sold out there, he spent several months in the East, then returned to Denver, and, on the 20th of May, purchased the harness-shop of William Mer- chant, on Blake street, where he has since remained, increasing his stock and establishing an extensive business. He is one of the charter members in Odd Fellowship, of Union Lodge, No. 1, of this city; also of the Grand Lodge. He was married in Denver October 20, 1877.
DR. JOSEPH HIRSCH.
Dr. Joseph Hirsch was born in France in 1841, and came to America with his parents when he was nine years old. The family settled in Canada West, and there his early youth was passed, until reaching his sixteenth year, when he was sent back to France to commence a course of studies in his present profession, under the im- mediate instruction of his uncle, who was then Pro- fessor of the "Veterinary College" of Strasbourg. Eight years were devoted to study in this celebrated institution, varied by occasional travels through Europe, and visits to his parents in Canada. Hav- ing acquired a thorough knowledge of his profes- sion, he returned home and immediately began to practice, engaging at the same time in an extensive business of dealing in horses-shipping to the New
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York and Boston markets. While thus occupied a cloud of misfortune gathered over his prospects, and he realized one day that his generous indorse- ment and assistance to one whom he had implicitly trusted had wrecked his business and swept away the accumulations of years. Paying his debts, and collecting what little means the storm had failed to carry off, he removed to Lexington, Ky., and began the struggle of life anew. He suc- eeeded in building up a large practice in his pro- fession, and won for himself the good will and esteem of the community where he resided. Even there misfortune followed him. While absent from home, his stable, containing some valuable horses, was entirely consumed by fire, with all its contents, without any insurance to cover up any portion of his heavy loss. Dr. Hirsch came to Denver in July, 1878, and has since become a permanent resident of the city. He erected the spacious building, 544 Holladay street, where he receives his dumb patients, and devotes to them the expe- rience and skill which has distinguished his treat- ment in other cities. The practice he has acquired in Denver, especially with valuable stock, is very extensive. Not only has he proved himself suc- eessful in the treatment of horses, but administers with equal success in all cases affecting every spe- eies. Dr. Hirsch was married, in Cincinnati, to Miss Mary Hastings, formerly of Canada, in the year 1876. Ile is a Roman Catholic in religion, but not identified with any political party.
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