Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 105

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1530

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When ten years of age our subject accompanied his parents from Illinois to Missouri and settled in Caldwell County. He was educated in the high schools of Hamilton, Mo., and Rising Sun, Ind. When twenty-one years of age, in 1876, he

came to Colorado and engaged in the freighting business in the employ of Street & Small. Two years later he went to Leadville, where he not only operated in freighting, but also became interested in mining and prospecting. In 1885 he came to Garfield County and settled on the South Cation coal belt, where he worked in the interests of the New York Coal Syndicate, of which E. E. Pray was general manager. From there, in 1887, he went to what is now known as the Vulcan coal mine, owned by the Vulcan Coal Company. It was there that the great mine disaster of February, 1896, occurred. He opened the Vulcan, which he operated for some years in partnership with Dr. Henry. Paul and Paul Tooney, but in 1892 they sold the mine to J. J. Hagerman. At the same time Mr. Adams embarked in the hardware business at Newcastle, Garfield County, and con- tinued there until he was elected sheriff in Janu- ary, 1898. As an officer, he is true to every trust reposed in him. He possesses the courage and inflexible determination so necessary to one who would successfully fill the office of sheriff. His administration has been in every respect satis- factory to the people who elected him. He and his wife (formerly Miss Mary E. Carroll) have established their home in Glenwood Springs, coming here from Newcastle after his election to office. He is stanch in his allegiance to the Re- publican party, whose tickets he always supports and whose principles he believes to be for the best good of our country. Fraternally he is connected with the Newcastle Lodge of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.

AMES W. ROSS, receiver of the United States land office at Glenwood Springs, was born in Warren County, N. Y., March 29, 1839, a son of John I. and Betsy A. (Galusha) Ross, also natives of New York state. His father devoted his entire life to farming and milling, and was a man of upright and energetic character; he was a son of Hiram Ross, who, with his two brothers, served in the war of 1812. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Renben Galusha, son of a Revolutionary soldier and himself a life- long agriculturist. Patriotism is a leading char- acteristic of the family. Not only our subject, but also his two brothers, served in the Civil war. One brother, Nelson S., was killed in the second battle of Bull Run; the other, Jacob W., was wounded at Antietam, and a few days after died near the battle ground; both were members

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of the Twenty-second New York Infantry. O the sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Holley lives in Glens Falls, N. Y .; Mary is married and lives in New York City; and Pamelia S. is the wife of George A. Crandale, of Des Moines, Iowa.

At twenty-two years of age our subject enlisted, November 30, 1861, in the Ninety-third New York Infantry, in which he served until June 22, 1864. He was wounded at Petersburg, the wound resulting in the total loss of the use of his left arm. He took part also in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Gettys- burg, Williamsburg, and many other engage- ments, and was engaged as a guard at head- quarters until General Grant took command. After returning home from the war, he was for two years employed as deputy in the office of the clerk of Warren County. In 1867 he came to Colorado, making the trip on the first Union Pacific train that made the trip west to Cheyenne, from which point he traveled by stage to Denver He was employed in the office of the county clerk as deputy until 1875, when he left Denver and went to Del Norte. Afterward he was county clerk of Rio Grande County for two terms and county treasurer for a similar period. In 1884 he was appointed by President Arthur receiver of the land office at Glenwood Springs, with J. L. Hodges as register. He came here during that year and continued until August, 1887, when he was retired by President Cleveland. In February, 1898, he was again appointed to the office by President Mckinley. He is a member of the Grand Army and takes an interest in everything pertaining to the history of those days of hard- ship and peril when he was serving his country on many a hard-fought battlefield. The Repub- lican party has in him an ardent supporter and warm friend, and its principles he always up- holds. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons. He was married, in 1886, to Miss Myra A. Sawyer, a native of Massachusetts.

M ARSHALL H. DEAN, M. D., came to Colorado in 1886 and settled at Carbondale before the railroad had been built through Garfield County. From there, in 1893, he came to Glenwood Springs, which is thirteen miles from Carbondale. Here he has built up a valu- able general practice, at the same time retaining the patronage of many of his old friends in the southeastern part of the county. Besides his private practice he has acted as county physician

and has also been surgeon for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at this point ever since he came here.

The Dean family was founded in America by John Dean, who emigrated from Ireland and set- tled in Maryland in 1745. He married an Eng- lish lady. Of their sons, David and Joshua en- listed in the Revolutionary war and left home, never to return. Jacob moved to Harrington, N. J .; Zachariah, the doctor's grandfather, re- moved to Harlansburg, Pa., in 1818 settling in the western part of that state. Enoch, our sub- ject's father, spent his entire life in Pennsylvania, where he was a merchant. He married Harriet Marshall, whose mother descended from the same stock as Chief Justice Harlan.

The only child of his parents, Dr. Dean spent his early life in Pennsylvania, where he was born, near Newcastle, Lawrence County, April 20, 1857. After completing his literary studies he began to study medicine, and in March, 1878, graduated from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, after which he engaged in practice in Pennsylvania until he came to Colo- rado in 1886. He is a diligent student of his profession, in which he has met with more than ordinary success. He is a member of the Colo- rado State Medical Society, and takes an interest in everything pertaining to his profession. He is identified with the Masonic Order, having at- tained the thirty-second degree. In politics he is independent. In 1878 he married Miss Mollie I. Cox, of Newcastle, Pa., a descendant, in the fourth generation, of a provincial governor of New Jersey. They have an only son, Paul Marshall.

ILLIAM W. FAY, county clerk and re- corder of Chaffee County, residing at Buena Vista, was born in Skaneateles, N. Y., September 1, 1846. When only ten years of age he secured employment in a printing office and learned the trade of a type-setter. After two years he left home and for some time was employed at his trade in various towns of New York. From 1866 to 1868 he was in Rockford, Ill., as superintendent of the Register Printing Company. Returning east, he became general superintendent of the Courier Printing Com- pany, and continued in that position for ten years.

In 1879 Mr. Fay came to Colorado, and for a short time was employed as superintendent of the job department of the Times. In the fall of 1879

WILLIAM A. WATSON.

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he came to Buena Vista, Chaffee County, and opened the Lake house, the first hotel in the town. This he conducted for several years. He was also in the Grand Park hotel for a time. In 1893 he was elected county clerk and recorder, and has since been twice re-elected. Politically he was formerly a Democrat, but since 1892 has voted with the People's party.

In fraternal connections Mr. Fay is a member of Mount Princeton Lodge No. 49, A. F. & A. M., of Buena Vista; Salida Commandery No. 15, K. T .; Buena Vista Lodge No. 42, I. O. O. F., and Mizpah Encampment; and Buena Vista Lodge No. 88, K. P. For a period of ten years he has been treasurer of the city fire department. He is connected with the International Typographi- cal Union, but has not followed the printer's trade for years. He is interested in the Whitehorn, Turrett, Chalk Creek and Cottonwood mining districts in Chaffee County.

ILLIAM A. WATSON, who is an exten- sive stock-raiser and farmer of Custer County, took up one hundred and sixty acres of land in July, 1869. The land was wholly unimproved; the surroundings were wild; fre- quently he saw companies of Indians, a mile in extent of territory covered, passing through the country. In spite, however, of the scarcity of white people, and the unfavorable outlook, he had the firmest faith in the future of this locality. The results have proved that his judgment did not err. The village of Wetmore has been built on his original acreage, and many improvements have been made in all of this country. He now owns eleven hundred acres of land, four hundred under cultivation, and in connection with his sons has leased a pasture of forty thousand acres.

The Watson family is of Scotch descent. The first of the name in this country came from Edin- burgh about two hundred and fifty years ago, and settled in Virginia, where succeeding generations lived upon plantations. James Watson, our sub- ject's grandfather, was a son of James Watson, Jr., and served in the Florida war. Following the trade that had been in the family for genera- tions, he worked as a mechanic, gunsmith and general workman in iron. However, late in life, he removed to Arkansas and there he engaged in farming until his death, about 1867. By his marriage to Nancy Fairchilds, of Virginia, he had three sons and three daughters.

The eldest of these children was John T. Wat- son, who was educated in public and subscrip- tion schools, and acquired what for those times was a good education. Learning the trade of a mechanic in iron, he followed the occupation in Virginia. About 1835 he went to Hawkins County, Tenn., where he remained until 1856, and afterward was similarly engaged in Jackson County, Mo. At the opening of the Civil war he was working in Texas, and was pressed into the Confederate service as a member of the Sev- enth Texas Cavalry. However, being over the age limit, he was discharged at Corinth, Miss. He then started back to Missouri, but on the way was captured and taken to Jefferson Barracks. In the capture he was wounded and it was some time before he was restored to health. As soon as he was able he enlisted in the Union army in a battery under command of Major McDonald, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. At the close of the war he was mustered out in St. Louis. Owing to injury to his eyes received in the service, he was unable to resume work at his trade; accordingly, he turned his attention to farming.

In 1867 John T. Watson came to Colorado, where he did contract work, getting out timber for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. As yet there were no railroads in the state, and when he came west he had to ride by stage from Kit Car- son to Denver. He came to Custer County (then a part of Fremont) and acquired considerable land here. He was a member of the Baptist Church and in politics a Democrat. His wife, who was Martha Ann Harris, was born on the James River, forty miles from Richmond, Va., and was a member of one of the oldest families of this country. She went from Virginia with her father to East Tennessee, and settled with him on the well-known Solitude plantation, which is an island on the Holston River, in Hawkins County. Mr. and Mrs. Watson became the par- ents of three sons and two daughters, namely: William A., who was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., September 18, 1841; John S., of Paris, Tex .; Phoebe E., first the wife of Theodore Sharp, afterward the wife of James A. Christy, but now deceased; Thomas R., who was killed during the war; and Sarah E., who first married H. H. Melrose and later became the wife of H. R. Bowling, of Pagosa Springs, Colo.

In schools in East Tennessee and Missouri the subject of this sketch received his education. He

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engaged in farming in Missouri for some years, but in 1859 joined the throng of emigrants west- ward bound, and spent some months in and near Salt Lake. He then returned to Missouri. In 1862 he accompanied a sutler's outfit from Kan- sas City to Fort Craig, N. M., returning in the fall. In the spring of 1863 he settled perma- nently in Colorado. His first location was on the Arkansas River five miles east of Pueblo, but owing to the trouble caused by the Indians on the plains he decided to come further up the river and join some friends. He selected for his location one hundred and sixty acres where Florence now stands. In July, 1865, the land was sectionized by the government and when he went to Denver to record his property he found it was school land. Thereupon he sold the im- provements and removed to the vicinity of Car- lisle Springs, but in July, 1869, settled on the present site of Wetmore. In connection with his father he built a blacksmith's shop, which was the first shop built on Hardscrabble Creek. He assisted in building the Cascade ditch. From general farming he gradually drifted into the cattle business, and now gives his time wholly to the raising of stock, carrying on his farm for the purpose of supplying feed. He has had as many as two thousand head of cattle at a time. While his time is spent mostly on his ranch, since 1888 his family have resided in Canon City, in order that the children might have better educational advantages than were possible in the country. He built a fine brick residence at the corner of the park and this has since been his home. Among his other interests are those in Cripple Creek, where he was one of the locators of the Gold Dollar and Lillian mines, is now interested in Bonanza Chief, and owns Junott, near Copper Mountain. He is also a member of the hardware firm of Watson & Bancroft in Canon City.

In political matters Mr. Watson affiliates with the Democrats, and has been active in his party, attending all of the primaries and local conven- tions. He has been deputy sheriff of Custer County, and in 1885 was elected county commis- sioner, which position he held for three years. As school director he was for fifteen years inti- mately connected with the welfare of the schools of his district. He is public-spirited and inter- ested in all measures for the public good. Living just over the line from Fremont County, he has made many acquaintances there as well as in Custer County, and by all of his large circle of ac-

quaintances he is highly respected as a man of honor and a worthy pioneer. March 15, 1866, he married Mary E. Crouch, of Illinois, by whom he had nine children: Thomas R., Joseph E., Edward C., George W., Willis A., John E. (de- ceased), Mary E., Lester A. and Leon A. (twins.)

ILL S. PARKISON. A resident of Glen- wood Springs since 1886, Mr. Parkison has been actively engaged in the drug business, and though starting on a very small scale, has by energy and judicious management built up what is one of the finest and most com- plete pharmacies in western Colorado. Capable and energetic, the success which he has attained is due to his own perseverance and determination, and not to outside aid or inherited capital. He takes an interest in everything calculated to pro- mote the prosperity of his city, and in politics votes the silver Republican ticket. For three years he has held the office of town treasurer, and, if he desired, would be elected to other offices, but his preference is for business pursuits.

Members of the Parkison family took part in the Revolution and in the war of 1812. The pa- ternal grandfather of our subject was born in Kentucky, a member of an old family of that state. When he died his son John was only five years of age. The latter remained for many years in Ohio, where he was born, and there engaged in merchandising, but in 1877 he settled in Denver, Colo. He is now living at Victor, this state, where he and one of his sons erected a business block and are now proprietors of a store. He married Eliza Sanders, a native of Ohio, whose parents died in her childhood, and who is a direct descendant of a family that crossed in the "May- flower." Of her children, John Elmer is con- nected with mines at Victor, where he has held the office of town treasurer and other local posi- tions; Ed H. is engaged in the mercantile busi- ness at Independence, this state; Park W. is en- gaged in mining at Lake City; Webb H. is an assayer at Victor; and Edith has charge of the postoffice at Collbran, this state.

Born in Union County, Ohio, January 17,1863, our subject was educated in the public schools of Ohio and Pennsylvania. For seven years he made his home in the oil regions of Pennsylva- nia, after which he went to Fort Worth, Tex., at fifteen years of age, and became an employe in a wholesale and retail drug store. Three years

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were spent in that position and he then came to Central City, Colo., in 1880, clerking in a drug store in that place for five years. At the age of twenty-three, in 1886, he came to Glenwood Springs, where he has since built up a large busi- ness in his special line. Fraternally he is a mem- ber of the Masonic Order. However, his atten- tion is given less to fraternal and political than to business affairs; and, indeed, he could not have secured his present success had it been oth- erwise. At Central City, Colo., in 1887, he mar- ried Maude E. Bertenshaw, who was born in Boston, Mass., but at a very early age was brought by her parents to Colorado, her father, Silas Bertenshaw, first settling in Golden, but afterward becoming the owner of a large foundry and machine shop and mining interests in Gilpin County. Mr. and Mrs. Parkison are the parents of two sons, Walter G. and Harold A.

G EORGE D. DULIN, M. D., of Las Animas, is one of the prominent physicians and sur- geons of Bent County. For two years he held the office of city physician, for three years served as county physician and for two years officiated as coroner of the county. Besides these positions, which were in direct line with his pro- fessional work, he has filled offices of a local political nature and has shown a deep interest in everything pertaining to the advancement of his town and county.

Dr. Dulin was born in Scott County, Iowa, December 13, 1864, a son of Samuel G. and Mary E. (Sanders) Dulin. His father, who was a native of Leesburg, Va., removed from there to Missouri in early manhood, and there met Miss Sanders, who was born near Moberly. He be- came a Union soldier and was serving as scout at the time his son, George, was born. The father died in Missouri in 1870, after which the widowed mother lived on a farm in Monroe County.

After completing the studies of the district schools, our subject entered William Jewell Col- lege in Liberty, Mo., where he studied for one year, and afterward taught school for several years. After one year in the Missouri State Uni- versity at Columbia he entered Beaumont Medi- cal College at St. Louis, from which he graduated in 1892 with the degree of M. D. All of the money necessary for his tuition and board while in college was earned my his own labor. On re- ceiving his degree he came to Colorado, where for one year he engaged in practice at Monument,

and in 1893 came to Las Animas. Here he has built up a good practice and has established a reputation as a painstaking, reliable and skillful practitioner. In politics he supports the Repub- lican party. In 1889 he became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Ash, Mo., and is now connected with Elder Lodge No. 11, in which he is noble grand. At Las Animas, Colo., January 31, 1894, he married Miss Alice E. Duffey, who was born in Wisconsin and re- ceived a good education there. He is one of the leading men of his town, and is an active, ener- getic man, a reliable physician, and in business dealings, honorable and upright, striving to do equal justice to all.

DWIN W. HIVELY, a resident of Salida since 1882, has been closely identified with the growth of this beautiful mountain town and an unceasing contributor to its material de- velopment. When he came to this place he found a little village but two years old, whose every building and business interest was indicative of crudeness. He has watched with interest the growth of the town and the expansion ofits trade. A man of sterling integrity, he has the high re- gard of the people among whom his busy life is being passed.

A son of Peter and Margaret (Musser) Hively, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania respectively, the subject of this sketch was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1854, and was next to the oldest among three sons and two daughters comprising the parental family. He grew to manhood near Youngstown, Ohio, where his father engaged in the pottery business. When seventeen years of age he learned the tinner's trade, which he fol- lowed for a number of years. In 1879 he came to Colorado, and settled at Monarch, Chaffee County, where he engaged in mining and also conducted a grocery business. Next he went to Canon City, where he was employed in a hard- ware store and then came to Salida, opening a hardware store in this place. As a member of the firm of Hively & Young, he spent four years in the hardware business here, building up a good trade. Interested in real-estate improve- ments, he erected the brick block in which he now has his office, also the brick block on First street, now occupied by Haight & Churcher. For a year he carried on a limestone business, then, after two years of mercantile life, he opened an office for the conducting of real estate and in-

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surance, in which he continues engaged. He rep- resents fourteen of the most reliable insurance companies and has an important agency.

As above intimated, Mr. Hively has been deeply interested in the development of local enterprises. In the promotion of the opera house and the erec- tion of the building he was very active. Healso assisted in the erection of the St. Clair hotel, and is a stockholder in the creamery, allof these being enterprises that have been most helpful to the town. In politics he affiliates with the Republi- can party. Since 1892 he has acted as town treas- urer. February 19, 1896, he was appointed no- tary public, which office he still holds. Frater- nally he is connected with Salida Lodge No. 57, A. F. & A. M .; Camp No. 17, Woodmen of the World, and Southard Arkansas Lodge No. 15, A. O. U. W. In 1890 he was united in marriage with Emma Beeler, of San Antonio, Tex., by whom he has two children, Camille and Edwin.

AMES FULLERTON, a pioneer of 1859, for years led the adventurous and exciting life of a frontiersman in Colorado, but since 1894 has been conducting a hardware business in Saguache, where he makes his home. A native of Missouri, born October 9, 1837, he was a grand- son of Thomas Fullerton, who came to America in early childhood, and after attaining mature years engaged in farming in Tennessee. Of the children of Thomas Fullerton, William B., the eldest, was educated in subscription schools, be- came a land owner in Arkansas, and was engaged in running sawmills in Missouri. By his mar- riage to Christiana Ritter he had ten children, five of whom are living, viz .: Robert, living in Texas; Thomas, who is in the Indian Territory; Jackson and Sarah, in Texas; and James.

When twenty-two years of age the subject of this sketch left Missouri and came to Colorado, following the trend of emigration westward to the mining regions. For a short time he engaged in prospecting around Black Hawk. In 1860 he went to California Gulch (Leadville), and from there in the fall proceeded to Barker's Park (now Silverton). There he was bothered to some ex- tent by the Navajo Indians. In the spring of 1861 he went to Fort Garland, where he was ell- gaged by the government. In 1862 he began to work for a company having charge of a train across the plains. After six years he moved up into the valley and entered land five miles up the river from Saguache, where he engaged in raising

stock. In 1894 he moved into town and embarked in the mercantile business, which he has since conducted.

Being reared among Indians in Missouri, Mr. Fullerton understood their habits and peculiari- ties thoroughly and became familiar with their language. While on the plains he witnessed many evidences of their cruelty, but was never molested by them personally, although he was among them while they were on the war-path. He was always prepared for them, but was never molested, as he did not molest them. While in charge of the trains he had twenty-three teams of six yoke of cattle to each wagon, matching the blacks, browns, etc., each by themselves, and as five teams were solid black, his train was known as the black train, and it was a common expres- sion among the Comanche and Kiowa Indians that the " black train never slept."

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Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 105

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, pub Publication date: 1899 Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1530

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1530