Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 182

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

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In politics a Republican, Mr. Redding has been active in local affairs. Among the offices he has held are those of city clerk, treasurer of the school

board for six years, and in 1897 and 1898 mayor of the city, being re-elected to the latter office in 1898 without opposition; at present he is secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1895 he assisted in the organization of the Wheelmen's Club, of which he is president, an organization whose special aim is to secure good roads. Fond of music, much of his leisure time has been de- voted to this art. In 1896 he assisted in organ- izing the Montrose Choral Union, a chorus of seventy-five voices, of which he is director, and which prepares concerts and entertainments of a high class. This organization has become fa- vorably known throughout the state, and has given concerts to immeuse audiences in other cities. He is also a member of the Aeolian Male Quartet, organized in 1896, in which he sings first tenor. While in Ohio he was for five years a member of the Fourteenth Regiment band of Columbus. Fraternally he is a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias.

November 15, 1898, Mr. Redding married Mrs. Letitia Guy Crowl, the ceremony being solem- nized at the home of the bride's parents in Pu- eblo. Mrs. Redding is a graduate of the school at Newark, Ohio, and attended the Syracuse University. She possesses a liberal education, gracious hospitality and ready tact, combined with abilities as a musician, and especially as a whistler, that have brought her national promi- nence. She has assisted in concerts in nearly every city of prominence throughout the eastern states, as well as a number of cities in Europe, South America and Canada. As soloist, she re- cently assisted in concerts at the St. Louis expo- sition with Sousa's band.

ON. JOHN EVANS, territorial governor of Colorado 1862-65, was for years the leading citizen in Denver and one of the most promi- nent men in the west. He was born in Waynes- ville, Ohio, March 9, 1814, the son of David and Rachel Evans, and was educated in the public schools and Clermont (Pa.) Academy. Select- ing medicine for his profession, he carried on its study, graduating in 1838. The following year he married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Canby, M. D., of Ohio. Going then to Attica, Ind., he soon became known as a skillful physician and progressive citizen. The wretched condition of the insane wards of the state excited his sym- pathy and he bent his efforts to securing a build-

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ing for them, in which he was successful, and upon the completion of the insane asylum he was made its superintendent.

Accepting a position as professor in Rush Medical College, Dr. Evans went to Chicago in 1845 and for eleven years he held the chair of diseases of women and children in that institution. During the cholera epidemic of 1848-49 he urged congress to establish a national quarantine, demon- strating that the disease was contagious. For several years he was an editor of the Northwest- ern Medical and Surgical Journal. In 1852-53 he was chairman of the committee on public schools in the Chicago city council, during which time the first superintendent of public schools was appointed, the first high school building erected, and a number of lots bought.

While in Attica, Ind., Dr. Evans was con- verted under the preaching of Bishop Simpson and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. How much he did to advance the interests of that denomination, even its own members dimly under- stand. His work was of a permanent nature, and its value increases with the years. He was largely instrumental in the establishment of the Metliod- ist Book Concern and Northwestern Christian Ad- vocate in Chicago, and took an active part in the erection of the Methodist Church block, in the business center of Chicago. To him, perhaps more than to any other man, was due the founding of the Northwestern University. With others, he selected a tract north of Chicago for the site of the university and platted a town that was named Evanston in his honor. For the benefit of the institution he bought a lot across from the board of trade in Chicago, and this still belongs to the university, the rental received from the Illinois Savings and Trust Company being the source of a large revenue. The chairs of Latin and mental and moral philosophy he endowed with $50,000, which he afterward increased to $100,000. He was the first president of the board of trustees and occupied the position for forty-two years. In 1855 he moved his family to Evanston, building one of the first honses in that suburb.

In-the first Republican convention in the United States, held at Aurora, Ill., Dr. Evans was one of the speakers. At that convention the plat- form was adopted that gave the name to the party. He took an active part in the campaign of 1860, supporting Abraham Lincoln. The fol- lowing year he was offered the position of territo- rial governor of Washington, but declined. In

1862 he was offered the governorship of Colorado, which he accepted, at once entering upon his du- ties. When the first state organization was formed, in 1865, he was elected to the United States sen- ate, and passed the winters of 1865-66 and 1866-67 in Washington. At both these sessions the state was admitted, but both times Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill. In 1868 he was a dele- gate to the national convention that nominated U. S. Grant for president. During the same year he was chosen president of the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company. To his influence in no small degree was due the fact that the railroads were secured for Denver, thus giving it prestige as a business center. In 1869 he secured the passage of the Denver Pacific land grant bill, which was signed by President John- son. In 1872, with others, he organized the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad Com- pany, of which he was the first president.

The interest which Governor Evans took in religious affairs in the east was maintained after his removal to Colorado. On his addition to the city of Denver he erected a brown stone church, to the memory of his daughter, wife of Hon. S. H. Elbert. This building, with the four lots on which it stood, was deeded to the church by Governor Evans and was dedicated in 1878 by Bishop Simpson. In educational matters, too, he continued to take the deep interest that had characterized him in the east, and while his first attempt to establish a university failed, afterward the project was revived, and under the old charter of the Colorado Seminary, the University of Den- ver was organized.

EORGE W. RAUGH. Not only in the vicinity of his ranch in Morgan County, but in other parts of the state Mr. Raugh has become well known, especially through his con- nection with the mining industry. Undoubtedly there are few who have done more than he to- ward the early development of the mining in- dustry in Colorado. Coming to the Rocky Moun- tain region in an early day, he identified himself with its mining interests, and through his shrewd- ness and sound judgment met with encouraging success from the first. While investigating for new and valuable claims, he visited all the camps of the state, as well as sections which at that time had never been penetrated by man; and in this way he gained a thorough knowledge of the pos- sibilities of Colorado's mining sections.

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The record of the Raugh family appears in the in visiting in New York and Pennsylvania, he sketch of Samuel Raugh, presented on another . and his wife came overland to their Colorado page. George W. was born in Sullivan County, home, where they afterward experienced all the vicissitudes incident to frontier life. They are the parents of three children, viz. : May, wife of W. G. Hills, of Almina, Kan .; George E., who was born January 15, 1872, and is a machinist by trade; and Josephine, born February 11, 1887. Mrs. Raugh is a member of the Methodist Church and takes an interest in religious and charitable projects. Pa., January 10, 1833, a son of Henry and Mar- garet (Henry) Raugh. His education was ac- quired in common schools and by habits of close observation and thoughtful reading. In early manhood he served an apprenticeship to the car- penter's trade. When gold was discovered in Pike's Peak he joined the crowd of gold-seekers who crossed the plains, and he was one of the first to arrive in Denver, which place he reached May 20, 1859. This now prosperous city then contained but one house, and that a mere shanty. A day later he proceeded to the mountains, and with the aid of his axe he traveled through re- gions hitherto unseen by white men. He endured all the hardships of pioneer life, its vicissitudes and privations, but in spite of the toil, the lack of provisions and the exposure by night and by day, he maintained his rugged strength.

After spending a few weeks in Idaho Springs, Mr. Raugh went to Central City, where he re- mained for a short time. His next location was in the Black Hawk district, where he was one of the locators of this now prosperous mining town. At that time the town had not been visited by prospectors, and he was obliged to use his axe to force his way through the undergrowth. There he built the third large house erected at the camp, a building that was until recent years the largest house in the place. For twenty-eight years he devoted some portion of his time to carpentering, and during the time he became one of the most prominent mining men of that section. In 1871 he was the builder and proprietor of a stamp mill. which he operated seven years, and then sold to other parties. Afterward he purchased a half- interest in a placer claim in Clear Creek Gulch, and in ten years took out over $30,000, panning some days as much as $300. One nugget alone was valued at about $175. He was one of the locators of the Running lode mines, and also lo- cated many properties that are exceedingly valu- able to-day. In 1886 he came to the valley where he has since resided. Here he purchased a ranch one mile south of Brush, Morgan County, where he engaged in farming and the stock busi- ness.

Returning east in 1869, Mr. Rangh was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Hendy, of Goshen, N. Y., the ceremony being performed December 27 of that year, After some four months spent

The political affiliations of Mr. Raugh are with the People's party, but his business duties have been such that he has never identified himself with public affairs. He is still the owner of valu- able gold and silver mining interests in Black Hawk, among them being the Smith mine, a gold property, and the Bay State, a silver mine, both of which are valuable. As a citizen, he main- tains an interest in all enterprises for the benefit of his county, and is always to be relied upon to aid measures for the benefit of the people.

ON. CHARLES NICHOLAS CROWDER, who has been prominent in the business and political life of Aspeu and has ably repre- sented Pitkin County in the state legislature, was born in Dubuque, Iowa, September 21, 1857, a son of John and Mary (Liddle) Crowder, natives respectively of England and Pennsylvania. His father settled in Iowa in an early day and there engaged in the hotel business. During the great excitement in 1849 caused by the discovery of gold in California he went to the Pacific coast, where for some time he engaged in mining, and then returned to Iowa. He continued to live in that state until his death, which occurred April 16, 1893. Politically he was a Republican and in fraternal connections a Mason. His wife was the daughter of a wealthy farmer, who while going down the Ohio River on a boat mysteriously dis- appeared when she was a child; it has always been believed that he was killed for his money. The subject of this sketch was one of a large fam- ily, of whom five sisters live in Iowa and one, Ella, is a teacher in Colorado; J. H. is engaged in farming in Iowa, and Roy is with his brother Charles.

In Dubuque, Iowa, where his boyhood days were spent, our subject received the educational advantages afforded by the public schools. At twenty-one years of age he started out in the world for himself. Coming to Colorado in March,

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1879, he settled in Leadville, where he engaged upon the completion of his studies, he opened an in mining. His first visit to Aspen was in 1881, ' office in Greeley, Colo., but one year later re- but at that time he remained for only a few moved to Fort Morgan, where he remained for five years. Since 1892 he has been engaged in practice in Pueblo. By his marriage to Laura Arbuckle, of Madison, Ind., he has three living children, Philip, Dorcas and Robert Van Horn. months, returning to Leadville, where lie contin- ned mining until 1883. He then went to Gilpin County, where he had mining interests, and was actively engaged in prospecting at Creede, Colo., during its boom days. In 1884 he married Miss Mary McAllister, of Bangor, Me., daughter of David and Mary McAllister. Mr. McAllister was a sea captain.

For a time Mr. Crowder was connected with the Rio Grande Western Railroad in Salt Lake City. In the fall of 1885 he again came to Aspen and here he has since made his home. For two years he was proprietor of a general store. In 1889 he was elected city marshal and was again elected in 1890. Besides his other interests he has also engaged actively in mining and at this writing controls some valuable leases. An advo- cate of the silver Republican party, he has always worked to secure the establishment of silver upon a just basis. In 1896 he was elected a member of the state legislature, serving two years as a member of that' body. December 1, 1898, he was appointed state mine inspector by Governor Adams, to fill a vacancy, serving in that capacity until June 1, 1899. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Masonic orders. In his family there are three sons, Frank E. F., George A. and Charles N., Jr.

UBERT WORK, M. D. A large part of the active life of Dr. Work has been given to a study of the treatment of mental and nervous diseases, in which he has been most suc- cessful. In 1894, two years after coming to Pu- eblo, he opened Mount Pleasant Sanatorium, a private institution for the treatment of feeble- minded and insane patients, to which work much of his time has since been given, although he also has a large private practice. The sanatorium has accommodations for eighty-five patients, and is well filled the greater part of the time. As a complimentary staff, Dr. Work has ten of the lead- ing physicians of the city and state.

The subject of this sketch was born near Marion Center, Indiana County, Pa., July 3, 1860. He was educated in the normal school at Indiana, Pa., and the University of Michigan. When twenty- two years of age he entered the University of Pennsylvania, and carried on his medical studies there until graduating in 1885. Coming west

Politically a Republican, Dr. Work has been active in both local and state affairs. In 1888 Governor Cooper appointed him a member of the state board of medical examiners, and in 1895 he received appointment as a member of the state board of health, of which he is now president. Interested in every organization connected with his profession, he holds membership in the Pueblo County Medical Society, of which he has been secretary; and the Colorado State Medi- cal Society, of which he was in 1894 elec- ted president, being the youngest man who ever held that position. His administration is remembered as one of the most successful the state organization has enjoyed. For a number of years he has acted as consulting physician of the State Asylum for the Insane, located in Pu- eblo. He is also similarly connected with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's Hospital. In December, 1898, during the investigation of the State Asylum for the Insane, Governor Adams appointed him temporary superintendent of the same.

Success is largely a relative term; but, whether we consider it from the standpoint of prominence professionally, or from the standpoint of a high position in the respect and regard of others, Dr. Work may be called a successful physician. He has wisely given much of his time to the devel- opment of that line in which he is most interested, and in the treatment of nervous and mental dis- eases has few superiors among the physicians of the state.

UGH DAVIS. Since 1882 Mr. Davis has made his home one mile east of Merino, Logan County, where he has three hundred and twenty acres devoted to general ranch pur- suits and to the cattle business. He is a native of Marshall County, Miss., and was born October 22, 1848, a son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Jones) Davis. He was one of twelve children, of whom nine are living, viz .: Mrs. Sarah A. Cheairs, of Sterling; Mary E., widow of F. G. Ayres and a resident of Sterling; Hugh; Cornelia, who mar- ried R. C, Perkins, of Sterling; Edward, a farmer

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and stockman of Logan County; Margaret, wife of D. J. Armour, of Sterling; Elizabeth, who mar- ried J. W. Landrum; Anna S., wife of Alexander King; and Jacob M., all of Sterling.

A native of Elizabethtown, N. C., born in 1806, Hugh Davis, Sr., learned the trade of a carpenter in his native place; but, feeling dissatisfied with what he had learned, on reaching his majority he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and served another apprenticeship of three years at the trade. He became a skilled mechanic, thoroughly familiar with every detail of his trade. On returning south he settled in Marshall County, Miss., where he engaged in contracting and building. He was the first man to run a steam sawmill in northern Mississippi. During the years of railroad build- ing in the south he had large contracts in bridge building, and at forty years of age had acquired a competence, being the owner of extensive planta- tions and many slaves, while at the same time he was active in various business enterprises. At the outbreak of the war he was a wealthy man, but the strife between the north and the south swept his fortune from him. While he was a slave holder he was strongly against secession, and used all his influence toward healing the breach between the Confederates and the gov- ernment. After the close of the war he settled on his plantation, where he remained for five years; but in 1870 he sold the place and removed to Bolivar, Tenn., running a sawmill there for two years. However, his liberality and generous- hearted spirit led him, in times of prosperity, to place his name on many papers of security, which he was afterward forced to meet, obliging him to close out his sawmill. For some time afterward he made his home with a daughter at Collierville, Tenn. In 1878 his sons, Hugh and Edward, brought him to Colorado, and he afterward made his home with them until his death, which occurred in the winter of 1878-79.

After the close of the Civil war the south, bank- rupted and laid waste, held few inducements for an ambitious young man. For this reason our subject determined to seek a home elsewhere. In 1872 he removed to Colorado, settling in Greeley in the spring of that year. There he en- gaged in farming in partnership with Perkins & Smith, who had come from the same section of the south as himself. For two years they com- bined their efforts in raising farm produce and during the year 1873, when not working at their crops, they commenced the building of the Ster-

ling ditch. After its completion, in 1874, they removed to Logan County and took up land three miles north of Sterling, under the ditch, where they afterward engaged in ranching. In 1882 Mr. Davis sold his interest in the property and removed to his present home, where one hundred and sixty acres had been homesteaded by his mother and another tract of similar size was pur- chased later. Here he has successfully engaged in the cattle business. He is interested in the public-school system and has served as a member of the school board since 1893. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in poli- tics a Democrat and in fraternal relations con- nected with Logan Lodge No. 69, I. O. O. F.

The marriage of Mr. Davis to Miss Betty D. Isom, occurred in 1881. She is a daughter of Newton A. Isom, who came to Colorado from Mississippi in 1875 and settled at Merino (then known as Buffalo). To this marriage five chil- dren were born, viz .: Hugh N., deceased; Lizzie M., Avah C., Webster B. and Isla, deceased.

ICHARD J. GWILLIM, who owns and oc- cupies a ranch on section 3, township 11, range 66 west, six miles east of Monument, El Paso County, was born April 30, 1850, at Abernant farın, near Neath, Glamorganshire, South Wales, a son of Gwillim and Sarah (Jones) Gwillim. His boyhood days were spent on a farm and he attended the common schools and Neath Academy. Afterward he clerked in a hardware store for twelve months. In April, 1870, he arrived in New York, having spent ten days on the voyage on a steamer, Inman line, and landing in this country on the twentieth an- niversary of his birth. In New York he was met by a friend, Richard Thomas, who had settled in Murphysboro, Jackson County, Ill. Going west to that town, he secured a position as clerk for a transportation company at Mount Carbon, re- maining with them twelve months, and afterward spending a few months as clerk in the store of Frank J. Chapman, of Carbondale, Il1. The cli- mate, however, was unhealthful, and he was con- stantly troubled with ague, so decided it would be best to seek a more healthful location.

In October, 1871, Mr. Gwillim came to Colo- rado and joined his brother, who was on a farm. Soon he commenced to farm on shares, which proved quite profitable. In 1873, with others, he engaged in sheep-shearing for two and one-

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half months. In this work he was instructed by the Scotchmen with him, who were experienced hands, and he was soon able to earn good wages. In the fall of 1873 he bought one hundred and twenty acres of government land, and at once commenced its improvement. Soon afterward he returned to Wales, where, March 12, 1874, he married Miss Jeannette Cartwright, who was born in Denbigh, North Wales, and with whom he had been acquainted in Neath. With his young wife he came back to his Colorado home, where he built a log house and began farming. He now owns seventy-five acres, forty acres of which is in one body and comprises timber land, while the remainder is in the home farm and is well im- proved. In 1874 he planted $320 worth of seed in forty acres of land, but the grasshoppers almost entirely destroyed it, and he sold only two sacks of grain that fall. For three successive years he suffered from these pests. Not being able to do anything on his own farm, he hired as superin- tendent on the ranch owned by A. B. Daniels near Greenland, where he remained for seven months. Afterward, with his brother, he opened a store in Monument and also carried on a cheese factory in the same place. After continuing there for two years, on account of the scarcity of milk he sold out and returned to his farm, which he increased by the purchase of additional land. He engages in the dairy business, carries on gen- eral farm pursuitsand is also interested in mining. His wife has taken the first prize at the state fair for the best butter, while he took the first prize for the best potatoes. With others, he originated the potato bake, which was held in Monument for five consecutive years.

Mr. and Mrs. Gwillim are the parents of seven living children, and have lost two by death. Claudia and Jeannette died about the same time, one being five and the other four years of age. The surviving children are: Mary Evelyn, who was born at Greenland; Margaret Eleanor, whose birth occurred at Monument; Gwillim R., John Cartwright, Gwladys Gwalia, Gwendolin Alice and Edward Cecil Cartwright, all of whom were born on the home farm. Margaret Eleanor is now the wife of Gwillim Howell and has one child, Vivienne.

Politically Mr. Gwillim is a Republican. He has served efficiently as justice of the peace, and is proud of the fact that none of his cases was ever appealed and that all of the couples he has united in marriage have been happy and pros-

perous. In religion he is in sympathy with Presbyterian doctrines, but is not a church mem- ber. However he contributes to the support of the neighborhood church, in which his daughter, Mrs. Galley, is organist and leader of song.

EORGE W. WARNER. Since a period antedating the organization of Morgan County and the founding of the village S of Fort Morgan, Mr. Warner has been identified with the history of this part of Colorado. He came to this state in August, 1881, settling first at Greeley, and entering the employ of Abner S. Baker, the well-known contractor, for whom he remained as bookkeeper and in charge of con- struction work until 1884. Upon the incorpora- tion of the Fort Morgan Ditch Company in 1883 he was made its secretary. The following year he severed his connection with Mr. Baker and opened the first real-estate office in Fort Morgan, afterward being made the agent of the town site company. When Morgan County was organized he was appointed by District Judge Downer to the office of clerk of the district court, and was the first county official installed into office. Largely to his efforts the organization of the county was due. He labored unweariedly to secure its formation, which was rendered possible by the division of old Weld County in 1888. He was the first insurance agent in Fort Morgan and now represents ten or more insurance companies. Under President Mckinley, in December, 1897, he received appointment as receiver of the land office of the Akron district, and assumed the duties of the office in January, 1898. Upon a homestead and timber claim of three hundred and twenty acres, which he took up in 1882, and which adjoins the town, he has resided since set- tling in this county.

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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 182

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