Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 25

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

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With no education except such as he acquired for himself, our subject started out in the world at fifteen years of age. At that time he went to Ohio and secured work with McQuade & Powers, cattlemen, his special duty being that of drover. For this he was given $6 a month. He drove cattle from Ohio to New York City, a trip that took four months and two weeks, and every step of this distance he walked. In spite of hardships and small wages, the value of this experience was inestimable to him. He there laid the founda- tion for his future successful business life. After two years in Ohio he went to the Indian prairies and engaged in herding cattle. In 1856, with the money he had saved, he went to Iowa and bought a bunch of cattle, with which he began in the cattle business. The winters in Iowa, how- ever, were too severe, and he sold the cattle. In the summer of 1857 he went to Kansas, where he worked for the largest freighting concern ever on the plains, owned by Russell, Majors & Waddell. This firm had the government contract to carry supplies from Fort Leavenworth to the forts and Indians as far west as Salt Lake City. His special work was the oversight of their cattle.

In April, 1860, Mr. Hartsel, in company with four other men, and with a yoke of cattle, left Sumner, Kan., and on the 24th of June arrived in the Tarryall diggings, in the western part of Park County. There they secured a claim and worked at mining until their money was exhausted, when our subject began to work for Bowers & Warren, the "discoverers" of the Tarryall diggings. Until the spring of 1861 he herded cattle for that firm. Afterward he settled on property that he named the Pennsylvania ranch, on Tarryall creek, three miles from Tarryall diggings, and there engaged in ranching cattle for other parties. In the fall of 1862 he came down into South Park and loca- ted his present ranch, in the fork of the two Platte rivers, the geographical centre of the state of Colorado, where he at once began to raise cattle. In 1864 he returned east to buy cattle in Mis- souri, but the Indians were so troublesome that he was unable to get back to his mountain home at once. He remained in Kansas with his cattle, and in the summer of 1865 started across the plains. At Fort Arbury the train was attacked by the Indians and seven Mexicans were killed. On reaching Spring Bottom, on the Arkansas River, they were again compelled to go into camp. Not until the summer of 1866 did he reach his ranch with his one hundred and fifty head of cattle.

In the fall of 1868 Mr. Hartsel started one day to look for berries just east of South Park, when he was surprised and captured by a band of Indians, seventy-two in number, composed of Arapahoes, Cheyennes and Sioux. He was held a prisoner for about three hours, when he was released and permitted to return to his home. The same party afterward captured a lodge of UJte Indians, killing six and taking an Indian boy prisoner.

In January, 1871, he returned to the States and spent the winter visiting in Pennsylvania. Com- ing west in April, 1871, he stopped in McLean County, Ill., and bought twenty-three head of fine horses, which were the first American horses ever brought into Park County. He has always been an advocate of Shorthorn cattle. As early as 1862 he introduced that breed into Park County. He has done more than any other man to raise the grade of cattle in the county, and de- votes much time to the improvement of the breed. While his time has been given closely to his ranching affairs, he takes an interest in local

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matters, and consented to serve as county com- missioner and assessor of Park County, which offices he filled for a term.

April 1, 1877, in Lake County, Colo., occurred the marriage of Mr. Hartsel to Mrs. Nancy M. (Boon) Mayol, widow of Frank Mayol. Four children were born of their union, of whom all but one are living. They are: Catherine, Myrtie and Hettie, now students in Loretto Academy, in the suburbs of Denver. Mrs. Hartsel was born in Wayne County, Ohio, February 1, 1846, the daughter of James and Tamar (Truesdale) Boon. Her father was born April 28, 1799, in West- moreland, Pa., and emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1812. Her mother was born at Beaver Falls, Pa., June 11, 1810.

HARLES L. TUTT, president of the Col- orado-Philadelphia Reduction Company, of Colorado Springs, vice-president and a di- rector of the C. O. D. Gold Mining Company, president of the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Company, president of the Townsite Gold Mining Company, the Hayden Gold Mining Company, the Pennsylvania Gold Developing Company and the Annie Gold Mining Company, of Cripple Creek, has been identified intimately with the de- velopment of this famous mining region, which, in 1897, produced one-fifth of the entire output of gold in the United States and one-twentieth of that of the whole world.

1856 he graduated with honors. Soon after ward he was appointed resident physician in Blackley Hospital, Philadelphia, where he remained for eighteen months.

January 4, 1859, Dr. Tutt married Miss Re- becca, daughter of J. Fisher Leanning, a merchant of Philadelphia. During the preceding year he was elected a district physician of the Philadel- phia Dispensary, which office he filled for six years. In 1862 he was appointed visiting pliy- sician to the Satterlee United States Army Gen- eral Hospital in Philadelphia, a position which he occupied from that time until the close of the war. For some years he was demonstrator in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, and assistant to the professor of theory and practice in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, under Drs. Pepper and Stille. He was also physician to Magdalene Hospital. From 1859 he served as visiting phy- sician and librarian to Blackley Hospital, where he presided over daily clinics. In April, 1866, an epidemic of typhus fever spread through the almshouse, and he was constantly in attendance upon the sick. April 26 he retired ill, and the next day was attacked by the fever, from which his death followed May 11, 1866. His untimely death inflicted a heavy loss upon his widow and two children, upon the profession his talents had honored, and upon his personal friends. Inherit- ing much of the intelligence of his distinguished father, studious, courageous, manly, and with high principles, he was esteemed for the sterling friendship. Well grounded in professional in- formation, he yet had the courage to investigate and think for himself, and his talents were an ornament to his profession.

Mr. Tutt and his sister, Mrs. F. O. Woods, were the only children of Dr. Charles Pendleton . qualities that compelled admiration and won Tutt. The latter was born on Santa Rosa Island, Fla., November 2, 1832. His father, Col. Charles Pendleton Tutt, who was navy agent at the port of Pensacola, near which Santa Rosa Island is situated, died one month before the birth The subject of this article was born in Phil- adelphia February 14, 1864. He attended and graduated from the Ury Boarding School, after which he was a student in Ferris Institute. Choosing a business life, at seventeen years of age he became a clerk for Peter Wright & Co., and after two years accepted a place in the main office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, where he spent two years. In 1884 he came to Colorado, where he bought a ranch eighteen miles northeast of Colorado Springs, on the divide. For three years he continued in the stock business at "Thayden," then sold out his ranch and started in the real-estate business in Colorado Springs, opening a branch office in Pueblo. He was among the first to enter the Cripple Creek of his only son. A few months later the widow took her two children north in a ship, provided for that purpose by President Jackson, a personal friend of the family. After a narrow escape from shipwreck in a furious storm off Cape Hatteras, they reached the old homestead, near Leesburg, Va., and there passed his early youth. He spent two years in Burlington (Vt.) College, but after two years there was compelled to leave on account of poor health. He spent a year in the moun- tains of Virginia and so improved in health that he was able to resume his studies. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1852, and was an office student of Dr. George B. Wood, profes- sor of the theory and practice of medicine. In

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region, where he located the C. O. D., and after operating it for two years he and his associ- ates sold it for $260,000, this being the first large sale of a mine in the district. In 1894 he erected the Cripple Creek Sample and Ore Company's plant, located on the Denver & Rio Grande tracks, but it proved too small and was sold, a new sampler being built on the Midland Terminal road in Cripple Creek; this is still operated.

In 1896 the Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company was formed and the works erected in Colorado City. The officers of the company are: Charles L. Tutt, president; Spencer Penrose, secretary and treasurer; and C. M. MacNeill, vice-president and general manager. The plant has a capacity of two hundred and fifty tons per day, and employment is furnished one hundred and twenty-five hands. Some years ago Mr. Tutt organized the Totman Patent House Company, which built many houses in mining camps. He and his partner, Mr. Penrose, started the town of Gillett, El Paso County, and have also been large contributors to the development of their home town, Colorado Springs.

In February, 1899, Messrs. Tutt, Penrose & MacNeill organized the National Gold Extraction Company, located at Florence, Fremont County. The company have purchased the reduction works at Florence, formerly owned by the Kilton Com- pany; also the sampler belonging to the same company in Cripple Creek, and have enlarged the Kilton reduction plant, this work being completed in May, 1899. The new works are located on the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad. The capacity of the chlorination plant will be about one hundred tons a day, the sampler upwards of two hundred tons a day. About sixty men are employed. These works will offer shippers an outlet via Florence and the Rio Grande Railroad. The general offices of the company are at Colorado Springs, with local offices at the works. The officers are: Charles L. Tutt, president; Spencer Penrose, secretary and treasurer; and C. M. MacNeill, vice-president.

Mr. Tutt is a member of the board of govern- ors of the El Paso Club, and of the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club, and is also a non-resident member of the Denver Club. He has a country home on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon, where he has excellent sport in hunting and fishing, when his business duties permit him a well-earned vacation. Politically he is a Re- publican. His marriage took place in Phila-

delphia and united him with Josephine Thayer, who was born in that city. Her father, Hon. Russell M. Thayer, was one of the most emi- nent jurists of Philadelphia, occupying a seat upon the bench for more than twenty years, be- sides which he was honored by election as a member of congress. Mr. and Mrs. Tutt have three children: Sophy, Charles L., Jr., and William Thayer.

PENCER PENROSE, secretary and treas- urer of the Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company, treasurer of the Garfield Consoli- dated Mining Company, secretary and treasurer of the Colorado City Stamping and Ore Company, and member of other mining companies, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 2, 1865. On both paternal and maternal sides he comes of old colonial stock, dating from the days of William Penn, Lord Baltimore and the New England Puritans. He is a member of a family whose first representatives in America came from Eng- land with William Penn, and whose members, from that time to this, have been foremost in pub- lic affairs and professional life. His grand- father, Hon. Charles B. Penrose, was a distin- guished attorney of Philadelphia and a leading member of the Republican party, which elected him to the state senate and to other positions of trust. He was a man of strong character and great determination, tempered by a calm, keen 'and discriminating judgment that proved of incal- culable value to him in his professional work. His children inherited much of his talent. One of his sons, Clement, was honored by election as judge of the orphans' court of Philadelphia. Another son, Prof. R. A. F. Penrose, M. D., was born in Philadelphia, and graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Medical Department, in which he was afterward professor for some years. As a physician and surgeon he attained high rank in his native city. After years of busy profes- sional labors he retired from practice, in order that he might spend his declining years in the enjoyment of the comforts and ease which his ample means rendered possible.

The marriage of Dr. Penrose united him with Miss Sarah Boies, who was born in Maryland and died in Philadelphia. Of their six children, all but one grew to maturity. The eldest of the family and its most distinguished member is Hon. Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Penn-

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sylvania. The services which he has rendered the people of that state in public life entitle him to rank among the eminent men of our country. As a member of an honored family, connected through many generations with the history of Pennsylvania, he is adding distinction to the name he bears, and in the councils of the nation is gaining an enviable reputation as a statesman. The second son, C. B. Penrose, M. D., who is also a man of ability, is professor of gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. The third son, R. A. F. Penrose, M. D., formerly held the position in the university in which his older brother succeeded him; he is now professor of economic geology in the University of Chicago, and president of the great Commonwealth gold mine of Arizona. The youngest son, Philip Thomas, has large mining interests in New and Old Mexico.

Of these sons the fourth forms the subject of our sketch. In youth he had the advantage of pri- vate tutelage. In 1882 he entered Harvard Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1886, with the degree of A. B. Later the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him. In 1886 he went to Las- cruces, N. M., where he engaged in mining and in the cattle business. From there in 1892 he came to Colorado. Cripple Creek was at that time in the first splendor of its "boom," and he, like thousands of other prospectors, became inter- ested in its mines. In Colorado Springs he met Charles L. Tutt, whom he had known when a boy in Philadelphia. The two formed a co-part- nership and have been together since. The two in conjunction with others bought the C. O. D. mine for $20,000 and this they developed and operated, taking out $100,000 in about one year, and then selling it for $275,000. This was the first large sale made in Cripple Creek district. The firm erected the Tutt and Penrose block, the first brick building in Colorado City, and this they still own, as well as other stores and some residences. In April, 1896, they organized the Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company and erected works at Colorado City, where they also built the second sampler there. They make a specialty of high-grade ore and handle about one- fourth of the entire output of Cripple Creek, amounting to $250,000 worth of ore each month. The plant is located on the Colorado Midland Railroad and has a capacity of two hundred and fifty tons a day, being the largest plant of its kind in the United States, Mr. Tutt is president

of the company, and C. M. MacNeill, vice-presi- dent and manager.

Since 1893 Mr. Penrose has been a director in the First National Bank of Cripple Creek. He is fond of club life and belongs to the El Paso, Country and Denver Clubs, while in the season he spends considerable time in the mountains, hunting and fishing. He is less interested in politics than others of his family have been; how- ever, he is well informed concerning the issues of the present age and favors the principles of the Republican party. In disposition he is calm and deliberate, with the firmness necessary to success- ful business transactions. While he has always been surrounded by wealth and had every advant- age in youth, yet his personal energy and sound judgment enabled him to invest his means in such a manner as to bring large returns and give him standing among the successful men of the state.

HARLES M. MAC NEILL. In the busi- ness circles of Colorado Springs and the state Mr. MacNeill is, by universal consent, accorded a high place. As vice-president and general manager of the Colorado-Philadelphia Reduction Company, he is intimately connected with one of the most important industries of the mining districts of Colorado. While he is still a young man, he has been eminently successful in a financial sense, and has gained high standing as a man of sound judgment and keen discrimina- tion. Having thoroughly learned the process of ore reduction, he is well qualified to superin- tend the large plant of which he is manager and the success of which is largely due to his keen oversight.

The company has its office in Colorado Springs, and its plant in Colorado City. The president is Charles L. Tutt, and the secretary and treasurer Spencer Penrose. The firm handles between one-fifth and one-fourth of the entire amount of ore taken from the Cripple Creek mines, the daily average being from two hundred and fifty to two hundred and seventy-five tons, while employment is furnished to one hundred and thirty men. The industry is one of the most important and flourishing in the county. In addition to the Colorado City plant Mr. Mac Neill, with Mr. Tutt and Mr. Penrose, controls the reduction works at Florence, Colo., and large ore sampling works in the Cripple Creek district, of the National Gold Extraction Company.

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he is a son of J. E. MacNeill, who was born at Andover, Vt., February 2, 1837. Shortly after his marriage to Miss Mary R. Amerman, which was solemnized in Philadelphia, Pa., September 15, 1863, he removed to Chicago, Ill., where, after having served for nearly two years as pay- master in the war, he resumed mercantile pursuits. In 1871 he became interested in the Chicago Silver Smelting and Refining Company, with which he was connected for several years, and afterward he engaged in the practice of medicine. On account of ill health he came to Colorado in 1885, and here he became interested in mining. It was in this way that his son, Charles M., chanced to come to Colorado. He was born in Chicago November 25, 1867, and received his education in grammar and high schools. On coming with his father to Colorado he secured employment with the Holden and afterward with the Philadelphia Smelting & Refining Company in Denver, and later was with the Holden Smel- ters, at Leadville and Aspen, Colo., where he gained a thorough knowledge of the treatment of ore and its reduction. In the year 1893 he went to Cripple Creek in the interests of mining. One year later he built the first reduc- tion mill in the county and at the same time organized the Lawrence Gold Extraction Com- pany. The erection of necessary buildings and starting of the plant were conducted under his personal supervision, and at these works was inaugurated, for the first time in Cripple Creek, the treatment of ore by chemical process. He continued as general manager until December, 1895, when the plant was burned to the ground. Meantime he had become interested in the sam- pling works at Victor, in which he was a director. After the Lawrence works burned down he be- came associated with Charles L. Tutt and Spencer Penrose in the organization of the Colorado- Philadelphia Company for the reduction of ore. From 1893 he made his home in Cripple Creek until the spring of 1896, when he came to Colo- rado Springs.

Politically Mr. MacNeill is a Republican. He is connected with the El Paso, Cheyenne Mountain Country, Denver and Cripple Creek Clubs. He was married in this city to Miss Estella White, daughter of C. H. White, of the El Paso County Bank. Mrs. MacNeill was born in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and was educated in the east and in France. She is well known and prominent in social circles in Colorado Springs,

OSEPH MEREDITH, a well-known mining expert residing in Rico, Dolores County, was born in Herefordshire, England, in 1848. The first twenty-one years of his life were passed in his native shire. He then crossed the ocean to America and proceeded to Cleveland, Ohio. Desirous of securing a better education than he possessed he entered the university in Cleveland, where he remained a student for some months. Afterward he was employed as inspector of bridge material for E. W. Ensign & Co., of Buffalo, his special duty being the inspection of all material as it was taken from the quarries to be used in bridge and culvert work on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. Two years were spent in that position, and a similar period with McDermott Brothers, manufacturers of grindstones.

In 1874 Mr. Meredith went to Ste. Genevieve, Mo., where he became secretary and manager of the Ste. Genevieve Sandstone and Granite Com- pany, which furnished all of the material used in the construction of the Iowa state capitol. From Ste. Genevieve he came to Colorado, arriving at the then new mining camp of Rico in 1880. With Prof. J. G. Allyn as a partner he began pros- pecting and mining, and bought a number of claims. His first mine was the Eureka. In 1882 he organized the Grand Duke Mining Company, of which he was resident manager for fourteen years. When their mines were closed he became resident manager of the Swansea Gold and Silver Mining Company. In 1891 he organized the Meredith Mining and Milling Company, St. Louis parties furnishing the capital for the enterprise. He is still a stockholder and director in the Meredith and Grand Duke mines, besides which he owns a number of claims, and at one time he was the heaviest individual taxpayer in the county. He has contributed to the building up of Rico, where he owns considerable real estate.

Until 1892 Mr. Meredith was a Republican, but since then he has been identified with the People's party. For one year he held the position of alderman and for two terms was mayor of Rico, while he also served as postmaster under both administrations of President Cleveland and also under President Harrison. He has acted as chairman both of the Republican and Populist county central committees. For twelve successive years he has been a member of the board of school directors, during which time he has served as its secretary. He was married in 1884, his wife being Mrs. Emily Kellerman,

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In the local lodge of Ancient Order of United Workmen, Mr. Meredith is past master. He is also connected with the Woodmen of the World. In Masonry he is a member of Rico Lodge No. 79, A. F. & A. M .; San Juan Chapter No. 15, R'. A. M .; and Ivanhoe Commandery No. 11, K. T. Since coming to Rico he has been suc- cessful in his mining ventures, although, in common with all owners of silver mines, he has suffered the effects of the act demonetizing silver, and believes that no permanent prosperity can be attained, not only by miners, but by the entire country, until that metal be raised to its former standard.

3 AMES M. DOWNING, an able attorney of Aspen, came to this city in 1881 and has since engaged in practice here, with the ex- ception of two years spent in Denver. He has a pleasant and well-equipped office in the Cowen- hoven Mining building, where much of his time is given to the conduct of his private practice and to his duties as attorney for many of the large mitiing and tunnel companies. When somewhat at leisure from active practice he devotes himself to the study of his profession, and from his library, which is one of the largest and best in the city, he gains the information that enables him to keep abreast with every development in mining. and civil law.

The Downing family settled in Virginia in an early day. Later generations removed to Ken- tucky and New York. David R. Downing was born in Kentucky and in 1840 removed to Illi- nois,'where he was actively engaged in farm pur- suits. His last years were spent in retirement, and he died in 1897, at ninety years of age. He married Mary Gill, daughter of John Gill, who was engaged in business for some years, but, when his daughter was small, came to the United States, settling on a farm in Illinois. David R. and Mary Downing had three children, namely: John F., who is president of the New England National Bank of Kansas City; Kate, the young- est of the family, who resides in Aspen; and James M., who was born in Virginia, Il1., March 6, 1856. The last-named spent his early days on à farm in Illinois and obtained his primary educa- tion in common schools. Afterward he entered the Illinois College at Jacksonville, Ill., where he took the regular course of study, graduating in 1879.

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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 25

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