Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 143

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

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In Jersey City, April 22, 1886, Mr. Edmondson married Miss Mary Isabella Edmondson. Two children bless their marriage: Alfred Derwent, who was born January 4, 1887; and Harold Dixon, born March 16, 1889, and died August 19, 1889. The family are connected with the Church of Eng- land, During his residence in England, in 1873,

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our subject joined the First Volunteer Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, and rising in rank step by step, he was made captain in 1877. In that capacity he continued until his resignation in 1884, upon coming to America. The Battalion is a volunteer soldiery, similar to our National Guard.

EMON A. BUMP, member of the firm of Bump & Hill, is one of the representative business men of Cripple Creek, where he is engaged in the wholesale fruit, produce and pro- vision trade. He came to this city July 20, 1896, and at once opened a commission store, having as his partner his brother-in-law, William J. Hill, who at this writing travels for the firm in this section of the state and as their representa- tive has won many friends for the company.

The first eight years of our subject's life were passed in Honesdale, Wayne County, Pa., where he was born October 11, 1865. In 1873 he was taken by his parents to Douglass, Butler County, Kan., where his education was obtained in the public schools. Coming to Colorado in 1886, he settled in the then new town of Lamar, Prowers County, where he opened a jewelry store and en- gaged in business for eighteen months. He then sold out and returned to Douglass, where he was interested in a jewelry business for one year. His next point of business was Mulvane, Kan., where he was similarly interested until his removal to Cripple Creek.

Since coming to this city Mr. Bump has built up a large trade in the provision and produce line. The genial manners of himself and partner, their unvarying courtesy, their enterprise and persever- ance, and their recognized business ability, com- bine to place them among the rising young busi- ness men of the town. He devotes himself closely to business pursuits and has little time to engage in political discussions, although he is a stanch Democrat in principle. By his marriage to Miss Florence Hill, a sister of his business partner, he has two daughters, Vera F. and Mary T.

REDERICK GALLOWAY. Of English birth and education and of Scotch descent, Mr. Galloway possesses the determination of character so noticeable among the people of one nationality, while he has the rugged honesty characteristic of the other race. Upon perma- nently settling in the United States it 1890, he formed a partnership with Harold Chalmers in

the ranching business in Park County, and with him has since engaged in the raising of hay and in the cattle and sheep business, having a one- half leased interest in the irrigated ranch of about one thousand acres, four miles north of Garo. In 1897 he qualified as a member of the bar of Colo- rado, but has not actively engaged in the practice of law.

In the city of London, England, Mr. Gallo- way was born April 5, 1858. He was one of eight children, six of whom are now living, namely: William C., an attorney's managing clerk in London, England; Arthur W., a phy- sician and surgeon, also of London; Mary E., who resides with her father at Hampstead, Lon- don; Rev. James F., vicar of Over, Cambridge- shire, England; Caroline I., who married Henry Geare, a solicitor of the supreme court of Eng- land; and Frederick. The paternal grandfather of this family, James Galloway, was a native of Glasgow and a graduate of law. Later, for many years, he was Lecturer to the Faculty, on the law of conveyancing, in Glasgow, his native city. He was one of the elders in St. Enoch's Church in his home town, and took an active part in se- curing the introduction of the organ into the Presbyterian Church, a measure that naturally aroused considerable opposition among the con- servative element of the church, who had been trained to a stubborn dislike of instruments in the churches.

The father of our subject, Rev. William Brown Galloway, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1811. He was graduated from the Glasgow Uni- versity and the university at Durham, England, where he took a high degree in mathematics and the classics, and the prize in Hebrew. During his course in the Glasgow University he was a classmate of Archbishop Tait. From an early age he showed the possession of unusual mental gifts. At twenty-one years of age he was placed in charge of the moral philosophy class. Soon after he was ordained a clergyman of the Church of England and subsequently became vicar of St. Mark's Church, of Regent's Park, England, which position he held for over forty-one years. In 1880 he retired, since which time he has de- voted his attention to literary and scientific re- search. He has published many works on science, geology and religion. Though now an aged man, he retains possession of all his faculties, and his unusual vigor of intellect finds expression in articles that have a permanent value in their sev-

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eral departments. His natural endowments, his broad education and his literary training have made him a man whose influence has been pro- longed through many useful years. When a young man he studied art, and his home in Hampstead is adorned with many portraits painted by himself.

In the North London Collegiate School and the City of London School the subject of this sketch acquired a classical education. In 1875 he was articled to the law for five years and in 1880 was admitted as a solicitor. He practiced law for one year, after which, in 1881, he came to America. For a time he remained on the ranch of Dr. Chalmers, with whose son he is now in partnership. In 1883 he returned to England for a visit, and while there suffered from severe illness, owing to which he practically abandoned the intention of returning to America, and turned his attention to the practice of law in London. In 1890, however, he again came to this country, since which time he has been a partner of Mr. Chalmers. He is a member of the Epis- copal Church and holds the bishop's license as lay reader of this district. March 27, 1890, in Ayrshire, Scotland, he married Miss Mary Gib- son, by whom he had two children, Colin R. (de- ceased) and Mary.

The ranch operated by Chalmers & Galloway is run principally as a stock ranch, and hay is raised with a view to feeding cattle and sheep for the market, almost all of the produce being fed on the place. The cattle are raised and fed with a view to their value in the general market.

SCAR LAMPMAN, a prominent and repre- sentative business man of Cripple Creek, located here in 1891, during the early days of the history of this camp. The pioneer under- taker here, he had charge of the burial of the first man who died here, and has buried two-thirds of those who have died since the camp started. O11 the corner of Masonic avenue and Third street, he built the largest frame structure in the town, and in it he conducted a very extensive business, at one time having seven carloads of furniture shipped to him. In the summer of 1892 he sold a one-half interest in the business to D. B. and C. W. Fairley, undertakers, of Colorado Springs, since which time the firm title has been Fairley Brothers & Lampman, but he has always had en- tire charge of the business. In the fire of 1896 the large stock was destroyed, causing a heavy loss,

but immediately afterward he erected a four-story building that is by far the largest and best busi- ness block in Cripple Creek, and the entire cost of which, $45,000, has been met, leaving no in- debtedness on the building.

Mr. Lampman was born in Sheboygan, Wis., December 21, 1851. His father, William Lamp- man, a native of Oneida, N. Y., was born Febru- ary 14, 1814, removed to Sheboygan when a young man, and followed the carpenter's trade there. Several years after his marriage he moved to Kansas, but in a short time returned east, settling in Winchester, Ill., where he fol- lowed his trade and farm pursuits. His wife, Mary Ann (Coyle) Lampman, who was born in London, England, and came to America at seven- teen years of age, died in Winchester when fifty- two years old, and afterward he came to Cripple Creek, joining his son in this place, where he died at eighty years of age. While in Kansas he enlisted as a private in Company F, Seventh Kansas Infantry, and served for five years and six months, during the most of which time he was with the Kansas Jay Hawkers. Politically he was a Republican. In his family there were four daughters and one son.

The greater part of the boyhood days of our subject were spent on the home farm at Winches- ter, Il1. He was educated in the schools of that place. For four years he was employed as deputy sheriff of Scott County. In the fall of 1887 he came to Colorado, and for three years clerked in a furniture store in Pueblo, also engaged in the real-estate business for two years. In December, 1891, during the great excitement caused by the discovery of gold at Cripple Creek, he came here, and until February, 1892, worked at carpenter- ing. From his former employer in Pueblo he purchased $100 worth of furniture, for which he paid cash, and $150 worth on credit, which he hauled on two wagons to .Cripple Creek, and opened up business in a tent. Soon he put up a small frame building, and for eleven months he did all the business without aid, at night de- livering the goods, which he carried on his back. By degrees he was prospered, and in time became independently wealthy, through the ex- ercise of sound judgment in his business affairs. December 1, 1898, he became interested in the opening of Shilling Mercantile Company, which is a promising business. He also owns consider- able mining property.

In political views Mr. Lampman is a Republi-

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can, and for two terms he served as an alderman. He is connected with the Elks, and is a charter member of Lodge No. 101, I. O. O. F., the first lodge organized in Cripple Creek. By his mar- riage to Miss Lizzie Winters, of Scott County, Ill., he has one daughter, Cecil.

M ILFORD E. DERBY. Nine miles above Puma, at Montaindale, stands the property which Mr. Derby owns and occupies. The land is watered by Tarryall Creek, which it bor- ders. On coming to this place in the year 1887, Mr. Derby took up one hundred and sixty acres and at once embarked in the cattle busi- ness. Since then he has bought three adjoining claims, which makes his ranch one of six hun- dred and forty acres. When the fact is con- sidered that he began for himself without money,. his present substantial position is especially note- worthy. He served for one term as road over- seer, but with that exception has given his atten- tion principally to the raising of cattle and gen- eral ranch pursuits.

A son of Harvey and Huldah L. (Aseltine) Derby, the subject of this sketch was born in Swanton, Franklin County, Vt., December 4, 1853, and was one of eleven children, eight of whom are now living. They are named as fol- lows: Ann Eliza, Mrs. Rodney Foster, of West- field, Vt .; Seldon, of Sutton, Canada; Milford E .; Wales, who lives in Broome, Canada; Sarah, Mrs. Joseph Parsons, who lives in East Farnham, Canada; Sidney, of Park County, Colo .; William, a ranchman living near Como in South Park; and Charles, of Sutton, Canada.

A native of Grand Isle County, Vt., Harvey Derby was born in 1823. He was reared on a farm. When a young man he went to Franklin and there married and settled upon a farm. About 1860 he removed to the town of Dunham, Dunham County, and eighteen months later set- tled in Sutton, Broome County, Canada, where he continued to reside until his death, in 1871. For three years before his death he served as a bailiff. His father was a pioneer of Grand Isle County and one of its prominent agriculturists.

At the age of seventeen years Mr. Derby be- gan for himself in the world. For two years he spent some time both in Canada and at farm work in Franklin County, Vt., in which latter place he then settled. For six years he worked diligently as a farm hand. At the expiration of that time he returned to Canada, where he spent one year.

In the spring of 1880 he came to Colorado, ar- riving in Colorado Springs in the early part of May. He spent six months in that locality and in Saguache County, engaged in prospecting, after which he came to Park County and secured employment on a ranch. One year later he returned to Canada, bought land and began to farm, but after conducting the place for three and one-half years, he went to Meckling, S. Dak., where he worked on a farm for a year. In the spring of 1886 he came to Colorado for the sec- ond time. Settling in Park County, he leased a ranch in partnership with his brother, but after a year took up ranching independently. Since coming here he has established domestic ties, his marriage to Miss Winifred Williams having oc- curred January 1, 1889.

C OHN WILSON. In order to attain any de- gree of success in life a man must possess industry and good judgment. It is of such a man that we write, a man who, although com- mencing for himself poor and without friends, has become prosperous and well-to-do through the exercise of these traits of character. Mr. Wilson was one of the early settlers of Colo- rado, having first come to this state in the spring of 1863. Since 1874 he has made his home one and one-quarter miles northwest of Floris- sant, in El Paso County, where he is engaged in the cattle business.

Mr. Wilson was born in Fayette County, Ohio, December 22, 1831, a son of Lewis and Nellie (Bodkin) Wilson. He was one of eight chil- dren, four of whom are living. James resides at Round Grove, Mo .; Jane is the widow of Robert Bird, of Kingspoint, Mo .; and Mary E. is the wife of William Bird, and lives at Yampa, Colo. The father, a native of North Carolina, moved to Ohio in his youth and settled on Paint Creek, in Fayette County. There he married Miss Bodkin, who was a native of Virginia. Some years later he removed to southwestern Missouri, and settled on a farm in Dade County, where he resided from 1840 until his death in 1863.

When seventeen years of age our subject re- turned to Ohio and made his home with an uncle in Clark County, attending a neighboring school. After three years he returned to his home in Missouri. April 24, 1853, he married Miss Mary J. Bates, of Dade County, a native of Tennessee. After his marriage he entered a tract of one hun- dred and twenty acres in Lawrence County and

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began clearing and cultivating his tract. In the School in Indianapolis, where he graduated in spring of 1862 he joined the state militia, in which he served for nine months.

The spring of 1863 found Mr. Wilson crossing the plains to Colorado. He reached Denver in June and soon afterward bought a small ranch at the head of Coal Creek, where he remained for three years. When coal was discovered on his land he disposed of the property to good advantage. In 1866 he returned to his former home in Missouri and there continued to till the soil for eight years. On coming again to Colorado in 1874, he settled upon the ranch property that he still owns and occupies. His Missouri farm he retained until 1895, when he returned to the state and sold the place. He and his wife became the parents of nine children, but only three are now living. Mary A. is the wife of Hank A. Watson, super- intendent of the Taylor Park Mining Company and a resident of Colorado Springs. The sons are John C., a ranchman on Four-Mile Creek, El Paso County, and George W., who remains with his parents.

R OSWELL A. CARTER, attorney-at-law and notary public at Lake City, also repre- sentative in Hinsdale County for the Spring- field Fire and Marine Insurance Company, was born in Perry County, Ind., May 24, 1869, a son of Homer H. and Wealthy (Rowley) Carter, na- tives of Indiana and Massachusetts respectively. His father has spent his life in Perry County and is an influential farmer and well-known citizen. The family consists of thirteen children, all of whom are living, and all except our subject reside in Indiana.

The seventh among the thirteen children, the subject of this sketch grew to manhood on the home farm and received such educational advan- tages as neighboring schools afforded. At eight- een years of age he left home and began in the world for himself. For three years he was em- ployed at mechanical work. Saving his wages he entered the Jasper (Ind.) College, where he took a commercial and scientific course and grad- uated in 1893. During the same year he entered the junior class in the law department of the Val- paraiso Normal School. At the close of the junior year he returned home and began to teach school in order to earn the funds necessary to complete his course. For a time he had charge of a nor- mal class in Don Juan, Ind. In the fall of 1894 he entered the senior class of the Indiana Law

May, 1895. Shortly afterward he was admitted to the Indiana supreme court and the United States district court.

At Cannelton, Perry County, Mr. Carter em- barked in the practice of his profession, but after spending eighteen months in that town in 1896 he came to Colorado. For a year he carried on a general practice at Cripple Creek, and in Janu- ary, 1897, came to his present location, Lake City. Here he is building up a good practice, and a reputation as an able and enterprising law- yer. In September, 1897, Governor Adams com- missioned him a notary public, which office he now fills. In fraternal relations he is connected with Neoga Tribe No. 57, I. O. R. M., at Lake City, in which he has filled a number of the im- portant offices.

J. HOLMQUIST, M. D., who is building up an excellent practice and at the same time gaining an enviable reputation for his skill as a physician and surgeon, is one of the rising young professional men of Park County; and, while his residence iu Como has been of comparatively brief duration, he has already be- come well known to the people of the town and county. For the successful practice of his pro- fession he is admirably qualified by his natural ability and his broad fund of acquired knowledge.

A son of E. and C. S. (Cronland) Holmquist, the subject of this sketch was born in Burlington, Iowa, March 20, 1872, and was one of three chil- dren, of whom himself and sister Nettie are the survivors. His father, who was for many years a prosperous merchant tailor of Burlington, in 1890 removed to Hot Springs, Ark., where he has since been engaged in the same line of busi- ness. Our subject acquired his early education in the grammar and high schools of Burlington. Afterward he was a student in the Augustana College, and later took the regular course of study in the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, from which institution he graduated in 1894, with the degree of A. B. His medical education was obtained in the medical department of the Den- ver University at Denver, Colo., from which he graduated in April, 1897, with an excellent rec- ord as a student. In order to have the advan- tages for professional work which a large city affords, he remained for some weeks after gradu- ation in Denver, and then came to Como, where he began the practice of his profession. Since

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coming here he has gained the confidence of the people, and is gradually, but surely, establishing a reputation as a reliable physician, whose accu- racy in diagnosis and care in treatment of disease entitles him to a high position in professional ranks. He is now occupying the position of division surgeon for the Colorado & Southern Railway.

DMOND MERCIER, a retired business man, residing at No. 631 Willow street, Trinidad, was born in Lower Canada, in 1847, and is a son of Edward and Olive Mercier, natives of Canada. His father, who was the son of a Frenchman, spent his entire life in his native province, and followed the tanner's trade. Es- tablishing a tannery at Ste. Anne des Plaines, he conducted it for thirty years. Later he was pro- prietor of a hotel in the same place, and this he carried on for some years, until he retired from active business pursuits. His death occurred in 1898, at eighty-one years of age. Three times married, by his first wife he had no children; by the second, one son and two daughters: Edmond, Mélodie and Cordelia, the latter of whom is mar- ried and lives in Butte City, Mont. By a third marriage were born six children, all living in Canada.

At sixteen years of age our subject entered the wholesale house of a prominent grocer of Mon- treal. In June, 1871, having resigned his posi- tion, he went to Chicago, and, with a partner, engaged in the manufacture of bricks for four years or more. On selling out that business he opened a grocery on the corner of Twenty- fifth and State streets, and this he conducted for three years. Coming west in 1879, he spent a few months in Denver and then settled in Trini- dad. Here he established a bottling establish- ment, and from time to time increased the busi- ness, soon removing the plant to Main street, where he carried on a large business until 1889. He then retired from the business, in which, how- ever, he retained an interest until 1892. In 1889 he erected a comfortable and commodious resi- dence, which is furnished with the elegance in- dicative of refined tastes. About 1884 he built the North Side hotel. He works for the inter- ests of the Democratic party in politics. For two years, 1893-94, he served as alderman of the third ward. Since July, 1898, he has been coun- ty commissioner.

The wife of Mr. Mercier, whom he married

December 29, 1875, was a daughter of John B. and Margaret Valliquette. Her father, who was a pioneer of Chicago, became an extensive dealer in real estate in that city, and for years resided in a house erected by himself on the corner of Thirty-seventh street and Grand boulevard, which, at the time of its erection, was one of the finest residences in the city. Mrs. Mercier was born in Chicago and received an excellent educa- tion in the convent congregation Notre Dame, of Bourbonnais Grove, Kankakee County, Il1. She was one of four children that attained mature years, the others being: Clara, wife of George Mitchell; John B., who is a traveling salesman; and Emma, who married A. A. Canavan, attor- ney-at-law, of Chicago.

DWARD H. POWELL. To the one who applies himself diligently to any line of busi- ness, a fair degree of success will almost invariably come. The life of Mr. Powell fur- nishes no exception to this rule. Beginning for himself without capital, he has, through judicious effort and persevering industry, attained a posi- tion among the successful business men of Ouray. When he came to this city in 1884 he purchased the grocery business of M. S. Corbett, and has since increased his stock of goods, until at this writing he carries the largest stock of any grocer. In addition to groceries, he handles miners' sup- plies. In 1895 he erected the business block which he has since occupied and which is a sub- stantial building, well adapted to its present use.

The father of our subject, Morton C. Powell, carried on a large tannery at Corinth, Saratoga County, N. Y., but spent the most of his life at Waterford. For some years he was active in politics. He died at Waterford in 1898, when eighty-seven years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Hall, passed away in 1894, when sixty-eight years of age. Their son, our subject, was born in Saratoga County in 1846, and received his education in local schools and Jonesville Academy. For some time, in early manhood, he was engaged in the manufacture of brushes at Waterford, N. Y. In 1878 he came west as far as Kansas, where for three years he engaged in the grocery business, and then settled in Gunnison, Colo., establishing there a grocery that he conducted until 1884, in a building that he had erected for that purpose. From Gunnison he came to Ouray, where he has since built up a large grocery trade and has also become inter-

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ested in mining. Politically he is a Republican and for two years served as city alderman. His marriage united him with Mary Van Kleeck, of New York state, and three daughters blessed their union: Grace, wife of R. W. Haskins; Blanche, who married W. C. Fulton; and Mamie, who is living at home.

YMAN I. HENRY. Although yet on the sunny side of life's prime, Mr. Henry is one of the prominent attorneys of southwestern Colorado, a region that boasts not a few legal lights. His present position has been gained by hard study and a strict adherence to an honorable course, both in professional and private life. As senior member of the firm of Henry & Sigfrid he is well known, not only in Ouray, where he re- sides, but throughout the neighboring country. During the period of his residence in Ouray he has contributed to the progress of the place, and by his professional ability and public spirit has been a potent factor in local affairs.

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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 143

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