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A. WINSLOW WATERS.
The above-named gentleman was born in Orange County, Vt., August 11, 1849, and removed with his parents to Wisconsin when he was about six years of age. He was educated in the public schools, and, upon reaching the age of seventeen years, went to Portage, Wis., where he embarked in the drug business, in company with Dr. Water- house, under the firm name of Waterhouse & Waters. He applied himself industriously in this, his first business undertaking, with successful results ; but, at the end of three years, believing a different branch of business would be more adapted to his tastes, removed to Chicago, and, in the spring of 1871, embarked in the lumber business under the firm name of Waldo, Waters & Co. The success and profitable results accruing to the firm during three years of business in that city proved sat- isfactory ; although Mr. Waters sustained some loss individually in the great Chicago fire in the fall of 1871. He then turned his steps westward for the purpose of selecting a good business loca- tion, in search of which he went to California, and, after traveling over the Territories, decided to set-
tle in Denver, whither he removed in the spring of 1875. He then purchased an interest in the commission house of E. H. Tobey & Co., and, six months later, Mr. O. L. Haskell entered the firm as successor to Mr. Tobey, changing the firm name to Haskell & Waters. The firm has, since that time, by energetic application to busi- ness, obtained an extensive patronage, and is doing a very large business in a wholesale way in fruits and produce, and may be regarded as the leading firm in the general commission business in Denver, both in financial strength and the volume of busi- ness transacted annually.
MILO ADAMS WILSON, M. D.
The following brief sketch of the life and varied medical experience of Dr. M. A. Wilson will prove of interest. Owing to ill health, he was compelled, in the fall of 1879, to leave New York City, where he had practiced for nine years, and come to Colorado. Concluding to remain permanently in Denver, this city has one more valuable acqui- sition to her many prominent citizens. He was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., in 1845, of American parents, was educated at the Academy of Beaver Court House, Pennsylvania, and began the study of medicine with Dr. George McCook, of Pittsburgh, in 1863. After reading about one year, he at- tended lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medi- cal College, session of 1864-65. During the year, from the spring of 1865-66, he was Senior Resident Physician of the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1866. From that time until 1868, he was employed as Quarantine Officer at Fort Caswell, Wilmington, N. C., dur- ing the cholera epidemic of 1866, and, for several voyages, as ship surgeon between New York and Liverpool. Continuing his medical studies in Paris, Heidelberg, Vienna and London, he ac- quired a fair knowledge of the German language. After traveling extensively throughout Europe, he returned to Cincinnati in 1868, where he was appointed surgeon to the city workhouse,
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physician to out-door poor, Sceretary to Academy of Medicine, etc. His oldest brother, Oregon Wil- son, who had accompanied bim in Europe, was then residing in New York City, and prevailed upon the Doctor to remove to that city in the fall of 1870, where he remained until 1879. During his residence there, he was at different times one of the attending physicians to nearly all of the numerous dispensaries, in their various depart- ments; assistant clinical professor to several of the "chairs" in Bellevue Medical College; one of the attending physicians to the New York Found- ling Asylum ; on the corps of Health Inspectors; Assistant Surgeon of the Seventh Regiment New York National Guards, besides having a large prac- tice. Dr. Wilson has received a thorough classical, medical and musical education, for he is also a fine violinist and musician, and is the author of several very able medical articles and translations. His varied and extensive experience in the past, his diligence in study, skillfulness, courteous and affable manners, will be, and are being, rapidly appreciated in Denver. His oldest brother was a " natural-born artist," well known throughout the East and South, and, had he not died at the early age of thirty, would have been one of America's most celebrated portrait and figure painters. His largest and finest painting, "Woman's Devotion," 6x8 feet, a true incident of the battle of Win- chester, Va., is now in the Corcoran Art Gallery, in Washington, D. C., having recently been placed there by Gen. W. T. Sherman, who has had it at the United States Army headquarters since the close of the Centennial Exhibition in 1876.
JASON T. YOUNKER.
Prominent among the few men who endured the trials and hardships of life in Colorado in the year 1858, and who have been intimately connected with the upbuilding of Arapahoe County from its first settlement in that year to the present time, is Jason T. Younker. He was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, August 28, 1833. Reared on a farm, he served out his minority in assisting to
clear up and cultivate a farm in the Red Brush Hills of Ohio, with occasional short intervals al- lowed in the winter months for gaining an educa- tion at the district log schoolhouse. On becoming of age, he commenced life for himself by school teaching. Next, he engaged in telegraphing, which occupation he followed for two years, being employed on various lines in Ohio and Illinois, and lastly at Dubuque, Iowa. Thence he emigrated, in the summer of 1856, to Lawrence, Kan. The border warfare then raging in that Territory, Mr. Younker found himself compelled to take sides, which he did by choosing the Free State cause, and the second night after his arrival there found him marching in the ranks of the Free State army, in pursuit of the enemy, the so-called border ruffians. On returning from the battle of Hickory Point, the Free State forces, consisting of 101 meu, includ- ing the subject of this sketch, were overtaken and captured by United States troops, turned over to the opposing party, and held as prisoners of war for ten weeks, and then relcased. He then returned to Lawrence; and, the troubles between the factions being settled, he engaged in civil pursuits until the following winter, when he sustained a loss by fire of his entire earnings. He then made a visit to his native home in Ohio, and the following spring returned to Lawrence, and, with about fifty others, fitted out with ox teams; and, on the 16th day of May, the party started for Pike's Peak to test the truth of the rumor-chiefly among the Delaware Indians-of gold deposits in that vieinity. Arriv- ing on the Fountaine qui Boille, near Pike's Peak, on the 4th of July, 1858-on the journey across the Plains the stock of the party was stolen sev- eral times by Indians, but recovered each time- no serious accident occurred during the six weeks' journey. At Cow Creek, the party decided to lay in a supply of buffalo meat, and a general hunt was inaugurated for the purpose, during which Mr. Younker beeame separated from the party and was lost four days; and, being without food or sufficient raiment, and the weather being rainy and cold, he suffered greatly. After six weeks spent in fruit-
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less prospecting in the vicinity of Pike's Peak, the entire party went to Old Fort Massachusetts, in New Mexico, to replenish their store of provisions, prospeeting en route. They had been there but a short time when news of gold discoveries at Cherry Creek and South Platte reached them, and they at once started on their return, arriving near the present site of Denver in October. The following winter was spent in prospecting, killing game to subsist upon, and in locating the town of Montana, the first town site located in the Territory. The summer of 1859 was spent in prospecting in the mountains. without success on the part of Mr. Younker or his party; and, on his return to the valley in the fall. he loeated a ranche on the Platte five miles from Denver, where he has lived and been engaged in farming and stock-raising until May, 1879. He then sold his ranche, and has since made his home in Denver. where he sustains a reputation for unblemished character, against which no word of censure has ever been uttered. Mr. Younker was married in his native State and county, in 1867, to Miss Annie R. Thompson, to which union four children have been born, three of whom are now living.
WILLIAM J. YOUNG.
Mr. Young was born in Hendricks County, Ind., January 22, 1838. When he was four years of age, his parents removed to Putnam County, of the same State, and remained until 1853, going from there to Iowa. Mr. Young worked at the carpen- ter trade in Iowa, and when he was nineteen years of age went back to Putnam County, Ind. He remained there two years, during which time he was married to Miss Ellen Scott, who died in Iowa in 1862. He was married a second time, in 1863, soon after which event he eame to Colorado, locat- ing at Central. After changing his residence from Colorado to Iowa twice, and as many times return- ing to this State, he finally located twelve miles north of Denver, where he engaged in stock-rais- ing. He has recently purchased a farın near the Platte, in the north part of the county, where he
is preparing to engage in the raising of small fruit. Besides farming, he indulges in stock-raising, in which he has been quite successful.
PHILIP ZANG.
The subject of this sketch has been identified with the brewing interests of Colorado, as propri- etor of the Rocky Mountain Brewery, since July, 1871, having come to Denver in September, 1869, and up to the time he became proprietor was em- ployed as manager for John Good, the former owner. At that time, the present large and impos- ing brewery was a small building, with a capacity of three or four hundred barrels per annum. In 1875, it was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt in its present condition, with the latest and best machin- ery, and an annual capacity of about twelve thou- sand barrels. Mr. Zang was born in Bavaria, Germany, February 15, 1826. At fourteen, he was apprenticed to learn the cooper's trade, and, at sixteen, began learning the brewing business. In 1853, he came to this country, arriving in Phila- delphia on the 26th of June. The following Jan- uary he. went to Louisville, Ky., where he was prominently engaged in the brewery business for many years. Mr. Zang has served one term in the City Council of Denver. The Rocky Mountain Brewery was the first establishment of its kind in Denver, and now has a trade extending throughout Colorado and a part of the adjacent Territory of Wyoming.
J. FRED ZELL.
Mr. Zell was born in Philadelphia, Penn., July 26, 1841. His early education was directed by a Quakeress, and later in the public schools. In 1858, he moved with his parents to La Porte, Ind., and here continued his education in a private school. Hle enlisted in the late war as a private soldier of the Seventy-third Regiment Indiana Volunteers. The last year of the war, he served as Adjutant of the Recruiting Service for the Ninth Congressional District of Indiana, after which he engaged in the mercantile business in La Porte, Ind., until 1870, when he settled in Denver,
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Colo., in the hat and cap business. He was mar- ried, in 1874, at Georgetown, Colo. He was em- ployed in the United States Mint from January 1, 1876, till June, 1878, when he resigned his ; -; tion, upon receiving from Collector J. C. Wilson
the appointment of Deputy United States Internal Revenue Collector for the District of Colorado, and was re-appointed by Collector J. S. Wolfe, Fe' tary 1. 1879, in which office he still con- mes.
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