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Bishop of Sonora, in Mexico, it was necessary to visit him and communicate to him the original documents of Rome, annexing the new Territory of Arizona to the vicarate apostolic of New Mexico. This journey through Sonora gave him occasion to become acquainted, in Guaymas, with Gen. Stone, then Capt. Stone, chief of a party of American engineers, who had a contract with the Government of Mexico to make the coast survey of the State of Sonora on the Gulf of California. Capt. Stone, a zealous convert to the Catholic Church, received him with great respect and attention. He spent a week in resting and waiting for an American steamer to go to Mazatland, with the intention of crossing a range of mountains into the State of Durango, but the steamer being delayed, Capt. Stone placed at his disposal a small sail vessel, an officer and four sailors and appointed him captain of the expedition. Taking provisions for two months, they went down the gulf a distance of about one hundred miles, to the village of Santa Cruz, at the mouth of the Rio Mayo. Leaving the vessel, he and the officer, with a wealthy Mexican of the place, engaged horses and went by land a two days' journey on horseback to the Villa de Alamos, where they met the Bishop of Sonora, who, on heing presented with the documents from Rome, cheerfully resigned his jurisdiction over that part of Arizona which had belonged to Sonora, and gave hini full fac- ulties to exercise the functions of the holy ministry while on his way through Sonora on his return to Arizona. Mazatland, on the Gulf of California, being then in a state of siege, he was informed by the Bishop that he could not land, and if he did it would be unsafe to cross the mountains to go to Durango, and he accordingly abandoned his inten- tion of going further. The journey by boat down the gulf from Guaymas to the mouth of the Rio Mayo had been a very easy and pleasant one, owing to the strong favorable current produced by the flow- ing into the gulf of the waters of the Rio Colorado. For the same reason the return trip would be more difficult, and sending word to the sailors to
make their way up stream as best they could, they purchased some fine Mexican ponies and pack- mules, and made the journey to Guaymas by land, which gave him an opportunity to see the beauti- ful valleys of the Rio Mayo and the Rio Yaqui, occupied by the two Indian tribes of the same names. From Guaymas he proceeded to Tucson and after a brief rest returned to Santa Fe to re- port to Bishop Lamy the success of his first visit to Arizona and Sonora.
In 1859, he was sent back to Arizona to locate permanently and take charge of all the missions of that extensive Territory. He had remained but a short time, and had begun to repair the old churches and missions, when he received orders from Bishop Lamy to return to Santa Fe, he sup- posing it to be only on a visit. But on his arri- val he learned that Bishop Lamy had received from Rome the jurisdiction of the new country called Pike's Peak, and to-day the flourishing State of Colorado. He was appointed to come to Den- ver and take charge of the new Territory, but not wishing to come alone he remained a few months until after the ordination of Rev. Father J. B. Raverdy, and in September, 1860, they both left Santa Fe in their own private conveyances, with all vestments and sacred vessels necessary for the divine service, arriving in Denver the last of Octo- ber. The history of the building of the church and various Catholic institutions will be found in the historical portion of this work. In 1866, a National Council of all the Archbishops and Bishops in the United States was held in Balti- more, and during its session fourteen new Bishops or Vicars Apostolic were nominated, he being one of the number, and Colorado one of the vicarates apostolic. In the spring of 1868, he received from Rome his official appointment, with all the faculties and bulls, and on the 16th of August following was consecrated in the new Cathedral in Cincinnati, by Archbishop Purcell, who had brought him to the country in 1839. He returned at once to Denver, where he was received by a special deputation of prominent Catholics and other friends.
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A public reception was given him, a few evenings afterward, on a beautiful moonlight night, in the garden south of the church, attended by a large number of prominent citizens, both Catholics and Protestants, without distinction. Bishop Mach- ebeuf has been over forty years in America, con- stantly engaged in missionary work on the frontier and in the wilderness. He is the oldest resident clergyman in Denver, and his people built the first regular church, purchased the first pipe-organ and the first bell, and erected the first academy in Den- ver. He is, at the age of sixty-eight, still hale and active, with apparently many years of useful- ness before him.
WILLET C. MESEROLE.
Mr. Meserole was born near London, England, in 1845. He received a thorough education at King's College, London, from which institution he graduated in 1863. From that time until 1866 he was engaged in the grain business in London, when he sold out and came at once to the United States, remaining but a short time, when he re- turned to England and engaged in business until 1874, when he came to this country a second time, determined to make it his permanent home. He came at once to Colorado with his wife, to whom he had been married in 1868, during his first visit to this country, and attracted by the rich soil and delightful climate of Colorado, bought a farm of one hundred and forty-three acres, seven miles north of Denver, and began farming, to which he has since given bis entire attention.
AUGUSTINE MANTEY, JR.
Mr. Mantey was born in Reige, Prussia, July 29, 1849. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1853 and settled in Joliet, Iil. He attended the public schools until about ten years of age, after which he received instruction in the German Catholic school of that parish until 1863, when he accepted a clerkship in a grocery and continued in that business until 1864. Leaving Joliet, he went to Chicago and after clerking in a
grocery two years more entered the employ of the Chicago & North-Western Railway as brakeman, in which he was engaged until 1868, when he came to Colorado. His mother died in Joliet in 1854, and in 1876 his father died at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. The family consisted of three brothers and one sister; the sister died in infancy in Germany. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of the three brothers, one of whom, David Mantey, is engaged in farming in Weld County, Colo. The other, Frank Mantey, is a druggist by trade, but is at present mining in the Black Hills. Augustine arrived in Denver, January 14, 1869, and after clerking for some time entered the employ of the Denver Pacific Railway, during which time he learned telegraph- ing. He afterward spent four years in the employ of the Kansas Pacific Railway. In the fall of 1875, he embarked in the Catholic book business. Having but little capital when he began business, he owes his success to honesty and temperance. His business has grown rapidly to a profitable investment and is the only Catholic book store in the city or State. He was married in Denver, in June, 1871, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Joseph and Catharine Doyle, of Woodside, County Dub- lin, Ireland.
PETER MAGNUS.
Peter Magnus is one of the pioneer farmers of Arapahoe County, whose early settlement on the small tract of land which he had selected as his home, among the rich agricultural lands of the Platte Valley, was beset by many difficulties and deprivations. Yet through all, his increased lands attest his prosperity and the reward of his industry. He is of Swedish parentage, and was born in Eksjo, Sweden, March 12, 1824. During his life in Sweden, he was engaged in farm- ing, and was also a horse-farrier. In 1852, he emigrated to the United States, and for a short time was engaged in his practice as a horse-farrier, in Dunkirk, N. Y. He then came west to Ot- tawa, Ill., and practiced his profession in connec- tion with a hospital for the same, until his re-
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moval to Colorado. He arrived in Denver June 18, 1859, having made the journey by teams across the Plains, in company with four others. Returning East in the fall, he removed his family to Colorado in May, 1861, and located upon 160 acres of land near where the town of Petersburg is now built. He continued to prosper, raising large quantities of grain and vegetables until 1864, when his crops were almost entirely destroyed by a flood. In 1873, and the two following years, he, in common with all Colorado farmers, suffered severely from the grasshoppers. In 1875, he removed to his present residence, near Littleton. His crops yielded the largest during the years 1870-71; at that time he was awarded all the medals at the Colorado Agricultural Exhibition. He was elected County Commissioner for Arapahoe County, and served during the years 1867-68-69. He was married at Ottawa, Ill., in 1857, and has a family of four children, three daughters and one son.
DANIEL W. MAYS.
Daniel W. Mays, solicitor and collector for the Rocky Mountain News, may be classed with the old settlers of Denver, having been associated with the interests of the State and county since 1865, in which year he engaged in freighting between this city and Central, and assumed the proprietorship of the stage station at Living Spring until 1867, when he opened a grocery store in a small shanty, on the corner of Fifteenth and Lawrence streets, Denver, and two years afterward began speculation by the purchase of 1,000 sheep, which were sold to advantage. He then opened the first flour and feed store in the city, located on Larimer street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. Two years afterward, he disposed of his business and went East, trading in stock. On his return, he associated himself with the Rocky Mountain News, where he is still engaged. Mr. Mays served as Chief of Police two years, and has always been more or less active in the affairs of the city. He is a native of Marion County, Mo., where he was born in 1840. In
1864, he married Miss Susan Minter, a native of the same county and a graduate of the college at Lexington, Mo. Of their children, five are living -Richard B., Marshall M., Eva, Katie and Samuel.
CHARLES MCINTOSH.
Charles McIntosh, harness-maker and manufact- urer of whips and braided bridles, was born in Montrose, Lee Co., Iowa, March 10, 1857, and emigrated, with his parents, to this State in 1861, settling at Living Springs, where his father was, for some years, proprietor of the stage station at that place. The subject of this sketch served an apprenticeship at his trade in this city, and, in the spring of 1876, opened his present place of busi- ness, where he is conducting a profitable trade. He was married, December 21, 1879, to Miss Azamba A. Brantner.
ALFRED H. MILES.
But few of the early settlers of Colorado have been more successful in business, or contributed more to the development of the agricultural re- sources of Arapahoe County than has Alfred H. Miles. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Septem- ber 4, 1820. Having started overland for Cali- fornia, he stopped in Denver to spend the winter of 1859-60, and was so well pleased with the country that he determined to make it his perma- nent home. Leaving his family in Denver, he, with his son, went up Clear Creek Canon and located a farm about nine miles from Denver, where he farmed successfully for a number of years, devoting a great deal of attention to the raising of small fruits and vegetables. After spending about seven years on this farm, he purchased a piece of land on Cherry Creek, near Denver. Here he fol- lowed farming successfully for several years, rais- ing on this farm the largest crop of corn ever raised in the State. Of late years, Mr. Miles has resided in Denver, where, surrounded by all the luxuries which taste can suggest or wealth can purchase, he is content to enjoy the fruits of a husy, successful life.
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ROBERT MORRIS.
Robert Morris, Land Commissioner of the Den- ver Pacific Railway Company, came West to Law- rence, Kan., in March, 1872, from the city of New York, where, for a number of years, he had been engaged in mercantile pursuits, to take a posi- tion in the Land Department of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company. In 1872, when the control of the Denver Pacific Railway passed into the hands of the Kansas Pacific Company, Mr. Morris came to Denver, to take charge of the Land Department of the former company, where he has since remained. He is also a member of the present City Council of Denver, being elected a member of that body from the Third Ward, in October, 1878. He was born in Ireland in 1839, and emigrated to the United States in the fall of 1860. In 1862, he served a campaign with the Sixty-Ninth New York Regiment.
EDWARD MONTGOMERY.
One of the early settlers of Colorado is Edward Montgomery, of the village of Littleton. He was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., January 13, 1839. On the outbreak of the Pike's Peak gold fever, he left home for the Rocky Mountains. Outfitting at St. Joseph, Mo., he crossed the Plains with a mule team, the journey occupying twenty days. Arriv- ing at Denver June 8, 1860, he went at once to California Gulch, and engaged in placer mining for gold. He cut the bark for roofing his cabin from the very spot where now stands the wonderful city of Leadville, containing 25,000 inhabitants. In 1864, he engaged in freighting between Omaha and Denver. On his return from his last trip to Omaha, his party encountered a severe driving storm at Julesburg, which drove their cattle before it for about fifty miles to the south. The cold was intense, and they paid as high as 4 cents a pound for cedar wood, for heating and cooking purposes. It took them a week to find all their stock, which they gathered up, and started back to Julesburg. On their way, they could see at night the camp fires of the Indians who had escaped from the battle of Sand Creek, and were making
their way northward. Mr. Montgomery and his comrades had no sooner reached Julesburg, and started on their journey west, than the place was burned by the Indians whom they had seen. In 1865, he engaged in farming with R. S. Little, and in 1867, with Little, Lilley & Co., built the Rough and Ready Flouring Mill, and has continued as one of the firm to the present time. For several years past, he has been engaged, with H. E. Allen and John G. Lilley, in employing prospectors in the mountains, who have recently discovered some very promising lodes in Horse Shoe Gulch. Mr. Mont- gomery was married, May 1, 1876, to Miss Alice C. Herne, of Boston, Mass., and has two children. That fruit culture can be successfully carried on in Colorado, is evident from Mr. Montgomery's suc- cess. He has twenty-six thrifty young apple-trees, in bearing, in his garden, one small tree alone producing, the past season, nearly two barrels of Newtown Pippins, of the greatest beauty and the finest flavor. Of small fruits, he has an abundance, embracing several varieties of grapes, gooseberries, currants, and other fruits.
SAMUEL B. MORGAN.
Samuel B. Morgan, of the firm of Morgan, French & Co., real-estate brokers, 273 Fifteenth street, was born in Wethersfield, Conn., February 9, 1835. When twelve years of age, he went to Hartford, Conn., and attended the high school there about four years. Having a strong desire to become a sailor, he shipped as cabin boy, sailing with the same captain for ten years, and was grad- ually promoted until he held the responsible posi- tion of chief mate during the last forty-two months of his maritime life. He then became captain of the ship, but resigned that position and returned to Wethersfield, Conn., where he was married in February, 1863. He soon afterward came to Colorado, and located in Black Hawk, where he was engaged in mining. He became Superintendent of the Black Hawk Mining Com- pany, and was also engaged, to some extent, in the grain business during his residence at that place.
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In the fall of 1874, he removed to Denver and engaged in the real-estate business with S. W. French, under the firm name of Morgan, French & Co. In July, 1877, he became interested in mining at Leadville, and is one of the chief own- ers of the Catalpa and Agassiz mines at that place. During the entire time of his residence in Col- orado he has been actively engaged in mining.
JOSEPH MERRILL.
Mr. Merrill was born in Gray, Cumberland Co., Me., July 27, 1832. He remained in his native town in the pursuit of an education until 1856, when he engaged in boot and shoe manufacturing in company with Asa Cushman, at Minot, Me., continuing the same until 1863, when he dissolved partnership and conducted business alone until 1867. Removing to Portland, Me., he accepted a clerkship in a wholesale boot and shoe house, and resided there until 1877. Leaving that city, he came to Denver, arriving in May, 1878, and immediately embarked in the wholesale and retail boot and shoe business, establishing himself in a profitable busi- ness. He was married in Maine in 1865.
J. C. McBETH, M. D.
Dr. J. C. McBeth was born of Scotch parents, in County Derry, Ireland, August 22, 1824. His parents emigrated to America while he was an infant, and settled in Indiana County, Penn., where he remained in attendance at the public schools until twenty-one years of age, at which time he began the study of medicine under Dr. Stewart, and afterward continued his studies at the Jeffer- son Medical College of Philadelphia. IIe after- ward removed to Mansfield, Ohio, and practiced medicine one year, then removed to Gallion, Ohio, and continued the practice of his profession until 1854, when he entered the College of Medicine and Surgery at Cincinnati, and graduated from that institution in 1855. Returning to Gallion, Ohio, he remained in practice until 1874, with the exception of his term of service in the army. In 1863, he entered the military service as Contract
Hospital Surgeon, and served during the war. In 1874, he came to Denver, and has since that time been in the active practice of his profession. Dur- ing his residence in Ohio, he was a member of the State Medical Society, and is now a member of the Denver Medical Association, and of the Colo- rado Medical Society. He was married in the State of Pennsylvania March 5, 1849.
HON. LUCIUS P. MARSH.
Judge Marsh was born in the State of New York, and removed, while still a boy, to Ohio. His scholarly attainments are due to his own unaided efforts. Thrown at an early age upon his own resources, he obtained, by hard labor and rigid economy, a thorough education, graduating at the age of twenty-two from Denison University, at Granville, Ohio: On the completion of his college course, he began reading law, and, at the same time, was employed as Principal of the High School at Delaware, Ohio. He afterward assumed charge of the Zanesville High School, and taught with marked success until 1849, when he began the practice of law in that city. He was ten years Judge of the Common Pleas and District Court of the Eighth Ohio District, his last term expiring in 1879, after which he came to Denver, and began the practice of his profession in this city. During a period of thirty years, both as a practitioner and on the bench, Judge Marsh achieved a wide reputation for his judicial learn- ing and impartial administration of civil justice. He is now engaged in writing a work on the Construction of Wills, for which his eminent legal attainments and long experience as a lawyer and a judge especially qualify him.
WASHINGTON MCCLINTOCK.
Washington McClintock, a prominent capitalist of Denver, was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., March 4, 1845. He received his preparatory education at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and sub- sequently graduated from Yale College, New Haven, Conn. Engaging in the lumber business
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in Pittsburgh, he conducted a successful business until it was suddenly terminated by a violent attack of asthma, which precipitated a flight to Colorado, and, in 1872, to California, where, with his family, he resided but a short time, returning to Denver as the home of his adoption. In addi- tion to his interests in valuable business property in Pittsburgh, Mr. McClintock is a large owner of real estate in Denver, including the fine brown- stone structure on the corner of Larimer and Six- teenth streets, known as MeClintock's Block, or First National Bank Building, which he erected in 1875, at a point then thought to be question- ably remote from the business center of the city, but now in the very heart of Denver. Mr. McClintock was married, in October, 1878, to Miss Anna Colton, in East Hampton, Mass.
HON. VINCENT D. MARKHAM.
The above-named gentleman is a native of the State of Virginia, and a member of one of the old families of that State. He was born in Chester- field County, opposite the city of Richmond, Feb- ruary 11, 1829. His early life was passed on a farm, and in acquiring his preparatory education under the tuition of his father, who was a fine classical scholar. He made such progress that at the age of thirteen he was enabled to enter Will- iam and Mary College, from which institution he graduated in 1848. The next few years after leav- ing college he passed in the study of the law, and was admitted to practice in 1854. He practiced law in Virginia for a few years, and, in 1858, emigrated to Kansas, but did not locate per- manently until the following year, when he settled in White Cloud and entered upon the practice of his profession. He was elected to the Kansas Legislature in 1860, and was a member of that body when the war broke out. In 1862, he came to Denver, where he has since been engaged in practicing law. He was elected County Attorney of Arapahoe County in 1866, and, two years later, Prosecuting Attorney for the then First Judicial District of Colorado, performing the duties of these
offices in a highly creditable manner. Occupying a position at the head of one of the leading law firms of the State, and standing high at the bar and in social circles, Mr. Markham is a gentleman of modest demeanor, unassuming and genial in manner, while at the bar he is distinguished for his candor, earnestness, perspicuity and depth of argument.
A. A. MORRISON, D. D.
Dr. Morrison was born in Gallia County, Ohio, May 21, 1818. His father was a farmer, and Mr. Morrison had received such educational advan- tages, up to the time he was sixteen years of age, as could be derived from a few month's annual atteud- ance at a country school. At that age, he be- gan teaching school, at which he continued about four years. He attended the Ohio University at Athens, one season, and theu entexcd Marietta College, at Marietta, Ohio, at which institution he remained four years, going thence to Augusta Col- lege, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1842. Im- mediately after graduating, he was elected to the chair of Professor of Languages in the Masonic College, at La Grange, Ky., which position he filled two years, and was then employed one year as Associate Principal of the High School at Louisville. Having become a member of the Louisville Conference of the Southern Methodist Church, in the fall of 1847, he traveled through- out Kentucky in that capacity for about six years, and at the expiration of that time, was called to the pastorate of the Walnut Street Church in Louis- ville. He was married in February, 1853, to Miss Sue A. Scanland, of Lebanon, Ky. In the fall of 1853, he was elected President of the Bardstown Female Institute, one of the oldest, and at that time, one of the most prominent institutions of learning in Kentucky. He continued in charge of this institution until the fall of 1855, when ill health induced him to remove to Davenport, Iowa. His active disposition would not permit him to remain long idle, and, soon after arriving in Iowa, he received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the Methodist Church at Iowa City. Going about
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a year later to Missouri, he was a member of the St. Louis Conference until the breaking-out of the war, a part of the time stationed in St. Louis, and was two years President of Central College, at Fayette, Mo. At the beginning of the war, he returned to Kentucky, and for about two years, had charge of the Walnut Street Church, at Louis- ville. In 1869, the Board of Trustees of Emery College, at Oxford, Ga., conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and about the same time a similar honor was conferred by the Trustees of Wofferd College, Spartansburg, S. C. He re- mained in Kentucky until May, 1871, when his fast failing health rendered it necessary for him to seek some more congenial climate, and for that purpose he came to Denver. Soon after arriving here, he organized the first Southern Methodist Church in Colorado, and was chosen its Pastor. The follow- ing year, he was elected Presiding Elder of Colo- rado, which office he held two years. As an edu- cator, Dr. Morrison has filled many responsible offices, for which his scholarly attainments emi- nently qualified him. As a minister of the Gospel, he has ever been faithful in the discharge of his duties, and now, though occupying only a super- annuated relation, he takes a just pride in the growing strength of his church in Colorado.
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