Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 18

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

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they reposed in the casket. He now has in his possession a cord of crepe and silver that was on the hearse used to convey the body to its resting- place. After having taken part in the grand re- view he was munstered out, June 29, 1865.

While Mr. Robinson had been in the army his parents had removed to Madison, Jefferson Coun- ty, Ind., and he joined them there. For a few years he engaged in farming on his father's land. June 13, 1867, he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Austin, of Jefferson County. The following year he removed to Decatur County, Iowa, where he cultivated a farm for a year and afterward engaged in the shoe and harness busi- ness for some time. In 1873 he was appointed postmaster at Decatur, which office he held for five years, and in the meantime he closed out his shoe and harness business. After resigning as postmaster he became interested in an implement and machinery business in Decatur, remaining there until his removal to Colorado in 1889. While in Decatur he was made a Mason and is low worshipful master of the blue lodge at Gran- ada, which position he has also filled in Iowa. He has been representative of the Granada lodge in the grand lodge and has taken an active part in its work.

Eight children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Robinson. They are named as follows: Walter W., a farmer; Lillie E., Mrs. J. H. Koen, who resides five miles west of Lamar and has one child; Ira M., a farmer; Laura A., who married D. H. Dickason, of Granada, and has one child; George D., who is employed as a clerk in a store in Lamar; C. May, à school teacher in Prowers County; E. Verne and Lulu.

RANCIS THEODORE FREELAND, a prominent and successful mine manager and mining engineer of Aspen, was born in Philadelphia in 1859, a son of Thomas Miller and Mary Elizabeth (Mapes) Freeland, natives respectively of Philadelphia, Pa., and Orange County, N. Y .; the latter of English descent, the former of Dutch extraction. The family name was originally Vreeland, and ancestors of that name were among the first settlers of Manhattan. His uncle, Theodore H. Freeland, is treasurer of the American Bank Note Company, of New York City; his grandfather, David Niles Freeland, was a well-known manufacturer in New York and . Philadelphia, and also his father, Thomas Miller Freeland.

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Mr. Freeland's boyhood was passed in Phila- delphia, where he was born in 1859. He re- ceived his technical education at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated, with the highest honors and as valedictorian of his class, in 1879, from the department of engineer- ing. In 1880 and 1881 he took a post-graduate course in mining engineering, and at the same time held the position of assistant professor in the engineering department and librarian of Rogers engineering library. Later he was em- ployed as calculator on the United States coast survey, and with the William Sellers & Co. machine tool works, Philadelphia.

In the fall of 1881 Mr. Freeland came to Colo- rado, where he was employed as mining engineer to the American Mining and Smelting Company, of Leadville. From 1882 to 1885 he held a similar position with the Iron Silver Mining Company of Leadville; in 1885 he was made su- perintendent of this company, which position he held for two years. From 1887 his time was largely given to consulting mining and mechani- cal engineering, and the erection of mining and smelting machinery and buildings. He was also frequently called as expert witness in many im- portant law suits, where his testimony was esteemed of value. He reported concerning many mines, not only in the west, but also in British Columbia and Mexico. From 1893 to 1897 he acted as manager of the Isabella Gold Mining Company of Cripple Creek, also the Zenobia Gold Mining Company, and was con- sulting engineer to the Ingham Consolidated Mining Company and the Work Mining and Milling Company. Since 1893 he has been manager* of the Durant Mining Company at Aspen, the Compromise Mining Company and the Late Acquisition Consolidated Mining Com- pany, and also has charge of the Mineral Farm Consolidated Mining Company, the Aspen Con- tact Mining Company, the Bimetallic Mining and Milling Company and the Buckhorn Mining Company. He is interested in various mining enterprises. He has his offices in the Bank build- ing in Aspen.

Mr. Freeland is identified with the Denver University Club, the Denver Athletic Club, and the Elk Club of Leadville. His close attention to business affairs leaves little leisure for society. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Colorado Scien-

tific Society. His engineering library is one of the most complete in the west. He is a frequent contributor to the technical press and transactions of engineering societies on subjects connected with mining. Personally he is dignified and somewhat reserved, but genial among his friends. His reputation for probity and discretion in con- fidential employment is of the best. Many a young engineer will remember with pleasure his interesting and suggestive talks over new and odd mines, mills or machinery and methods of working. His success is largely due to his own unaided efforts.

EORGE K. HARTENSTEIN, county at- torney of Chaffee County, residing in Buena Vista, was born in Sanatoga, Montgomery County, Pa., January 31, 1852. His boyhood days were spent on a farm. After completing the usual public-school studies he entered the Franklin and Marshall College, of Lancaster, Pa., where he remained until his graduation, in July, 1875. While attending college he devoted his evenings to the study of law, and still continued to read law while teaching school in a seminary in Dauphin County, Pa., where he remained for a year.

In the spring of 1877 he came to Denver, Colo., and for ten months read law in the office of Hon. T. M. Patterson. In the fall of the same year he was admitted to the bar, and in February, 1878, went to Leadville, then in the height of its mining boom. He opened an office and engaged in practice. In connection with his practice he became interested in mining. From Leadville, in 1881, he removed to Buena Vista, where he has since made his home. Besides his practice he has continued to be connected with mines, and, like most investors in mining stocks, has made and lost considerable money. He was the locater of the mine Amie, which produced well. He also engaged in mining in the Ten-Mile district in Summit County, and at this writing has inter- ests in a number of mining properties.

September 3, 1879, Mr. Hartenstein married Miss Minnie Dunning, of Leadville, by whom he had one son, Harry. By his marriage to Miss Ella Marquis, an estimable lady, born in Ohio, he has a daughter, Helen. In politics he was affili- ated with the Democratic party until 1893, when the financial panic and depression, resulting, as he believed, from an injudicious policy regarding the currency question, led him to ally himself

JUDGE CHARLES A. PIKE.

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with the People's party. For fifteen or more years he has served as city and county attorney, and has been active, both in politics and profes- sional circles. In religion he is a Lutheran. Fraternally he belongs to Buena Vista Lodge No. 42, I. O. O. F., and Buena Vista Lodge No. 88, K. P.

In 1879 Mr. Hartenstein purchased the Cotton- wood Hot Springs, situated five miles west of Buena Vista. There he erected a hotel, but it burned down in 1886, and he sold the springs. However, the amount of selling price did not re- imburse him for his investment, as the springs are back in the mountains and therefore not very accessible. When the town of Buena Vista was started in 1880, it was a very rough place and for two years was full of thugs, gamblers and des- peradoes. These he was employed to prosecute by the better class of citizens and he did his work well, although it brought him in peril of his life many times, the lawless element frequently threatening to shoot him for his efforts to get rid of the town's undesirable class of residents.

HARLES A. PIKE, who came to Durango in 1889, has since been identified with many of the important interests of La Plata Coun- ty. He opened an office here and began the practice of his profession-that of the law. In this he has since continued, although much of his time has been given to the duties of offices to which he has been elected. In 1889 he was chosen to serve as superintendent of schools of the county, which office, by re-election, he filled for four years. The Republican party received his allegiance until the issues of 1896 arose, when he cast his influence on the side of the silver cause. In the year 1898 he was the candidate on the fusion ticket for county judge and was elected to the office. For two years he served as chair- man of the silver Republican county central coni- mittee, during which time he contributed to the success of that party in his locality.

A son of Charles W. and Susan Pike, who spent their entire married lives upon a farm in York County, Me., the subject of this sketch was born on the family homestead in 1852. His edu- cation, commenced in public schools, was com- pleted in Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated in 1874. Afterward he read law in the office of Ayres & Clifford at Cornish, Me., and in 1876 was admitted to practice at the bar. He remained in York County for little more than

a year, when, in 1878, he removed to Atchison County, Mo., and for a time taught school there in addition to engaging in law practice. In 1882 he came to Colorado and took up his residence at Animas, La Plata County, where he remained until 1889, meantime engaging in mining in the San Juan country. Upon his election as county superintendent of schools he came to Durango, where he has since been intimately connected with local affairs. For five years he was secre- tary of the board of directors of the city schools, and his influence in educational matters has been of great benefit to the schools here. Besides his property in Durango he still owns real estate in Animas. By his marriage, in 1878, to Elizabeth C. Cobb, he has a daughter, Charlie K.

Mr. Pike is actively connected with Durango Lodge No. 46, A. F. & A. M., of which he was formerly senior warden and is now master. For two years he was clerk of Aztec Camp No. 30, Woodmen of the World. He is also a member of Sitting Bull Tribe No. 48, I. O. R. M. As a citizen he is highly respected, as an official has proved himself to be faithful to every trust, and as a friend he has ever been accommodating and helpful.

EE KAHN, M. D., was one of the most prominent and successful physicians of Lead- ville, where he engaged in practice from 1889. At the time of his death he was secretary of the Lake County Medical Association, a member of the Colorado State Medical Society, the Amer- ican Medical Society, the Alumni of Rush Medical College, and the American Public Health Associa- tion. In 1893 he served as chairman of the board of health of Leadville, and from 1894 uutil his death he was secretary of the United States board of pension examiners of this city. During 1895 and 1896 he served as vice-president of the Colo- rado State Medical Society. In 1898 he was a delegate to the convention of the American Medical Society at Denver, and received appoint- ment as secretary of the section of physiology for this society in 1899. He published a num- ber of papers bearing upon important diseases and the best remedial agencies to be employed, all of which attracted thoughtful attention on the part of the medical fraternity. He was the in- ventor of the Lee Kahn applicator and injector, manufactured by Tiemann & Co., of New York .. .

The Kahn family is of German origin. Isaac Kahn, the doctor's father, was born near Frank-

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fort, Germany, and in early life came to the United States. After having for some time en- gaged in merchandising in New York, he re- moved to Morrison, Ill., where the subject of this sketch was born in 1867. Thence he came to Colorado about 1880 and settled in Leadville, where he has since had mercantile and mining interests. In politics he is a Democrat, and fra- ternally is a Mason and Odd Fellow. By his marriage to Mina Guthman, a native of Germany, he had four sons: Lee; Jacob, deceased; Maurice G., a graduate of the medical department of Har- vard University and now a practicing physician of Leadville; Colo; and Herman E., a student.

The education of Dr. Kahn was obtained in public schools and under private tutorship. In youth he was given excellent advantages, includ- ing study in Europe, where he spent six months, traveling with his mother. For fourteen months he studied pharmacy, after which he took up the study of medicine under Drs. John Law and S. A. Bosanko. In 1882 he matriculated in Rush Medical College, Chicago, but learning that he would not be permitted to graduate at the close of three years, on account of being under age, he left college at the close of his first year, and for one year studied in St. Luke's Hos- pital in Leadville. He then returned to Chicago, where he completed the course, graduating in 1889, after which he engaged in practice in Lead- ville. In1 1894 he received the honorary degree of A. M. from the college at Ewing, Il1. May 17, 1890, he was united in marriage with Ruth Ward, a well-known poet and writer residing in Ann Arbor, Mich. They had one child, Milo Ward Kahn.

The death of Dr. Kahn occurred February 26, 1899, and was a loss, not alone to his family and friends, but also to the profession in which he had won merited distinction.

logical Society, also of the Western Ophthal- motological, Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, a member of the American Medical Association, the American Climato- logical Association, the Rocky Mountain Inter- State Medical Society, the Colorado State Medi- cal Society, the Pueblo County and Otero Conn- ty (Colo.) Medical Societies, the Northern Medi- cal Society of Philadelphia, and was formerly an active member of the Philadelphia County Medi- cal Society.

The Bulette family is of English and Scotch extraction, and was early established in Pennsyl- vania. Emanuel, son of Emanuel Bulette, Sr., was born upon his father's farm in York County, Pa., and in time became the owner of the old homestead, but resided upon an adjoining farm. In religion he is connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. During the war he volun- teered for service, but was rejected. He married Martha Helen Blake, a direct descendant of Gen- eral Blake, of the English army. She was born in Lancaster County and was a daughter of As- bury Blake, a farmer and manufacturer of Lan- caster County. She is still living, as are six of her nine children. The four surviving sons are: Lorenzo D., an attorney in Philadelphia; Wilbur W .; Clarence E., a graduate of Gross Medical College of Denver and a practicing physician in that city; and Harry L., who is with his parents. The two daughters are Elma L. and Helen Maud. Our subject was born at Constitution, York County, Pa., August 17, 1862. In boyhood he was a student in the public schools and Fawn Grove Academy, after which he attended the York Collegiate Institute in York. From boy- hood it was his ambition to become a physician, and his studies were directed with that end in view. In 1888 he graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of M. D., and afterward, by suc-

W ILBUR W. BULETTE, M. D., ophthalmo- · cessful competitive examinations, he became as- tologist, otologist, laryngologist and rhin- sistant visiting physician to the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity, which position he held until 1894. Meantime he carried on a general practice in Philadelphia from 1888 to 1891, and was also assistant in the throat and ear dispensaries of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and of the ear department of the Philadelphia Polyclinic. In 1891 he stopped dispensary and hospital work and gave his attention to the practice of his specialties, at first studying only the ear, nose and throat, but after 1891 making a specialty ologist, of Pueblo, and a prominent prac- titioner of this city since May, 1894, is one of the most successful specialists in the state. In addition to his private practice he holds the posi- tion of ophthalmotologist and laryngologist to the State Asylum for Insane at Pueblo, Work's Sani- torium for Nervous and Mental Diseases, the Pueblo Children's Home, also for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. He is a fellow of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Oto-

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also of diseases of the eye, which he made his special study for a few years at Wills Eye Hos- pital, Philadelphia. In May, 1894, he opened an office in Pueblo, where he has since established an enviable reputation for skill and ability. Prior to leaving Pennsylvania he had charge, for five years, of the medical department of J. B. Lippin- cott Company, of Philadelphia. After settling in the west he assumed charge of the throat and ear department of the Medical Herald of St. Joseph, Mo., and the department of diseases of the chest in the Medical Fortnightly, of St. Louis, Mo. He has also been a contributor to other medical journals in the east. He has his office in Central block, Pueblo.

Dr. Bulette is a stanch Republican. He is a member of the Christian Church and in fraternal relations holds membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In Denver, Colo., in February, 1893, he was united in marriage with Miss Henrie May Patrick, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., her father, Hon. William Patrick, having been an early settler and a lumber mer- chant of that city, treasurer of St. Louis County and member of the state legislature. The doc- tor and his wife have two children, Frances McCall and Helen May.

RANK D. GREEN, M. D., a resident of Pueblo since 1892, is a prominent and suc- cessful specialist in the treatment of diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, and has his of- fice in the Central building. In addition to his private practice, which is of an important char- acter, various professional associations, Pueblo County, Colorado State, American and Missis- sippi Valley Medical Societies, number him among their active members, and in them, as in every organization bearing upon his profession, he maintains an active interest.

Referring to the history of the Green family, we find that they originated in England and were represented with the Calverts at the time of the settlement of Baltimore, Md. The original spelling of the name was Greene, but the final "e" was dropped by the doctor's grandfather, Zachariah. From the eastern shore of Maryland Levin Greene removed to Kentucky, at a period so early in the history of the state that it had only three counties, Jefferson, Fayette and Wash- ington, and Daniel Boone had been in the prime- val forests of that section but a short time. Reared in the Catholic faith (the religion of his

ancestors), after his removal to Kentucky he married Mary Ellis, a Protestant, and through her influence identified himself with the Method- ist Episcopal Church. His death occurred in Washington County when he was more than sev- enty years of age.

Zachariah, son of Levin Greene, was born in what is now Nelson County, Ky., and in early life participated in many Indian fights. His life occupation was farming, though for a time he also engaged in the distilling business. At the time of his death he was forty-five years of age. His son, Thomas D. Green, was born in Nelson County, where he became an extensive stock- dealer and farmer. He died in that county at fifty-four years of age. In religion he was con- nected with the Baptist Church. His wife was Elizabeth Berkeley, a native of Nelson County, and daughter of Jeptha Berkeley, who settled in Nelson County in 1814 and engaged in farming . there; also taking a prominent part in public af- fairs, and served as sheriff of the county for sev- eral terms. His father, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, was a member of the family to which Governor Berkeley belonged, and was himself a man of prominence in Virginia. Mrs. Elizabeth Green died in Kentucky. Of her eight children five sons and one daughter are now liv- ing, the doctor being next to the youngest of these. Two of his brothers are farmers in Ken- tucky and two are ministers in the Christian Church, Rev. P. W. Green being pastor of a church in Florida, while Joseph B. has a pas- torate in Kentucky.

In Nelson County, Ky., where he was born December 6, 1865, the subject of this sketch at- tended the public schools and Nelson Normal School, graduating from the latter. Afterward he took the classical course in the University of Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1885, with the degree of A. B. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him in 1890. In 1885 he took up the study of medicine in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, where he took the regular course of lectures, graduating in 1888, with the degree of M. D. For two years he practiced in Louisville, after which he took a post-graduate course in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital in New York City, where for a year he made a special study of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, receiving a diploma in recognition . of excellent work in these departments. Returning to Louisville he remained there until the spring

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of 1892, when the failure of his health caused him to remove to Colorado. He is known as one of the skillful specialists of Pueblo, and has attained high rank among the professional men of the state. During his residence in Kentucky he married Miss Virginia L. Moore, who was born there and is a member of the Christian Church. In politics he is a Jeffersonian Democrat.

RANK A. HASSENPLUG, M. D. Saga- cious judgment, enterprise and skill have all been marked elements in the character of - Dr. Hassenplug, and it is due to these that he has attained a high position in the medical fraternity of Cripple Creek. The prominence he has at- tained among his professional co-workers is evi- deut from the fact that they chose him to occupy the position of president of the Cripple Creek District Medical Society, which office he now holds. He makes a specialty of treating diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and is a thorough student of these departments of the medical sci- ence. A very busy man professionally, he has few leisure moments, but such as he has he de- votes, in part, to hunting and fishing, for he is fond of the rod and the gun. He also has many relics that he collected in this country and Eu- rope.

Near Philadelphia, Pa., Dr. Hassenplug was born August 26, 1866, and there his boyhood days were passed. He attended the public schools and an academy in Philadelphia and after- ward entered that famous institution, Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in April, 1889. After his graduation he spent fifteen months in the Wilson Wills Eye Hospital and the eye and ear department of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Wishing to gain a more thorough knowledge of specialties than could be obtained in this country, he went abroad and studied in Vienna and London, devoting his attention prin- cipally to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Nine months were spent in London and a year in the hospital department of the University of Austria, Vienna.

Prior to his study in Europe Dr. Hassenplug had engaged in practice in Denver, Colo., for a short time. On his return to the United States he again came to Colorado, this time settling in Cripple Creek, where he engaged in an office practice of his specialties. He has been a resident of this city since 1894 and in the meantime has gained a reputation for his skill, accuracy and

careful judgment. His advice is regarded as authoritative and his opinion sought in all cases where superior skill and wise judgment are necessary. In fraternal connections he is identi- fied with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Woodmen of the World, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Degree of Honor and Sons of Veterans.

ASHINGTON I. EDGERTON, county judge of Hinsdale County and a prominent business man of Lake City, was born near Hillsdale, Mich., September 21, 1846, a son of Volney and Martha (Sheriff) Edgerton, natives respectively of Connecticut and Maryland. His father, who was a farmer by occupation, spent the greater part of his life in Ontario County, N. Y., where he was prominent in politics and represented his district in the legislature. Much of his time during the closing years of his life was spent in the settlement of estates of which he was executor. He died in 1893, when seventy- seven years of age. Of his four children all but one are still living. The eldest, Mary J., mar- ried Albert Vroman, of Ontario County, and is now deceased. Frank P. resides on the old home- stead, as does also Ruth A. Our subject was third in order of birth among the children. He was reared on the old homestead and received a common-school education.

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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 18

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