Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 47

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

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In Maine, January 14, 1872, Mr. Alford married Miss Annie E. Hobbs, who was born in Hope, that state. She was a daughter of Josiah and

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Sarah (Brown) Hobbs, natives respectively of Hope and Belfast, Me., the former a farmer, who died at sixty-nine years, and the latter deceased in 1872, at sixty-nine years. Mr. Hobbs served for twenty-five years as justice of the peace and was also town clerk for some time. In religion he was a Universalist. His father, Micah, was born in Massachusetts, but moved to Maine, where he carried on farm pursuits. The father of Mrs. Hobbs was John Brown, of Maine, who died in middle life. Mrs. Alford was next to the youngest of nine children that attained maturity, four of whom are now living. Two of her broth- ers died in California. She is the mother of four children: Fred, a graduate of the Agricultural College in 1896 and now assistant in the chemical laboratory of that institution; Lore, at home; Abbie, who is a student in the Agricultural Col- lege; and Anna, at home.

Politically a silver Republican, Mr. Alford takes an active interest in public affairs. In 1876 he was elected to represent Larimer County in the general assembly, where he served as chairman of the engrossing committee and the committee on appropriations, and as a member of various com- mittees. Through his efforts was passed what was known as "Alford's Pumpkin Bill," provid- ing the first appropriation for the building of the Agricultural College. While he was a member of the legislature he assisted in securing the elec- tion of Senators Chaffee and Teller. In 1878 he was solicited to become a candidate for the state senate, but declined to accept the candidacy. For one term he served as a councilman. He was made a Mason while in Maine, but is 110w demitted. Like other pioneers, he is actively connected with the Association of Colorado Pio- neers. He is not identified with any denomina- tion, but contributes to the Unity Church, of which his wife is an active member. She is also a silver Republican.

M AJ. SCOTT J. ANTHONY. When rumors of the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak were carried eastward, Major Anthony, then in Leavenworth, determined to come to Colorado. In the spring of 1860 he outfitted eight wagons with ox-teams and started for California Gulch (now Leadville), arriving in Denver March 8, and, reaching California Gulch the

following May, he with his partner, Frank Palmer, at once started a general store, and they also engaged in prospecting in the mountains. The firm was known as Anthony & Palmer. In the fall they sold out the goods and returned to Leavenworth, whence, in March, 1861, our subject again started for the west, with eight wagons drawn by mule-trains, himself journeying, as before, by coach. He resumed business at the old place and also prospected. In August, 1861, while crossing the mountains between Green and Grand Rivers, his pack mule carrying the provis- sions slipped and fell to the bottom, leaving his party of five destitute of provisions. He journeyed back to California Gulch, and on arriv- ing there, for the first time heard of war between the north and south. Awaiting him he found clippings from a Leavenworth newspaper stating that a colonel's commission awaited him, should he wish to return to Kansas. At the same time he found a captain's commission from Governor Gilpin of Colorado. His first impulse was to return to Leavenworth, raise a regiment and march to the seat of war, for he believed the war would not last more than a month. However, several of the men in California Gulch urged him to remain and raise a company, which he agreed to do, providing Lieut. George Buell, who had been in the regular army, would become the first lieutenant of his company, the captain having the power to appoint his under officers at that time. Mr. Buell consented, so ninety-two men enlisted, forming Company E, First Colo- rado Infautry, which in the autumn of 1862 were mounted and called the First Colorado Cavalry, he becoming the major.

Severe criticisms were made concerning Gov- ernor Gilpin's dilatoriness in sending the regiment to the seat of war, but subsequent developments proved he had reason for his action. Governor Marshall, his predecessor in office, was an ardent southerner, and after he left the office, Governor Gilpin found some letters which revealed a plan of the Confederates to raise a large command, march up the Rio Grande, taking the forts along the way to Fort Union, N. M., and from there to Colorado, which they would cut off from all communication with the east. General Sibley raised a large command of Texas rangers, com- prising about eight regiments, telling them Colorado was settled largely by people from

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Georgia and the Federals and Confederates were about equally divided; upon cutting off com- munication, it would be the plan to organize a government out of the area from Texas to British Columbia and ask foreign countries for recogni- tion. General Sibley started north, and pro- ceeded on his march. Lieutenant-Colonel Canby, with a small command, was unable to check his advance until joined by the First Colorado Regi- ment.

The first Colorado were rugged and strong, men who marched fifty-two miles the last day, in their race for Fort Union, a thing that was never done before and has never been done since. They reached Fort Union before the enemy, and there they were rearmed and equipped. Three days later they marched out and defeated the enemy at La Glorietta, though Sibley had four times as many men as they. Major Anthony captured the mountain rebel Captain West.

The Union forces pursued the enemy to Albu- querque, where a battle was fought, and there were subsequent skirmishes at Val Verda, Fort Craig and Socorro, from which place the Con- federates were chased back into Texas, and the troops were ordered to Fort Craig to await orders.

On the return of the regiment to Fort Lyon, our subject was commissioned major of the First Colorado Cavalry and was put in command of the district of Arkansas, extending from Bents old fort to Fort Larned for two and one-half years. Indians were exceedingly troublesome and scarcely a week passed without a skirmish with them. He ardently longed to go east and assist in work at the seat of war, but the con- stant outbreaks of the Indians rendered the presence of a cool, clear-headed man absolutely necessary, so he was obliged to remain and guard the country. He was then mustered out January 22, 1865, and returned to Denver. The exposure of his army life left him in poor health and he has never fully recovered. In army circles he was recognized as a brave and efficient officer, a good disciplinarian and ever ready for a fight.

Major Anthony is a New Yorker by birth, and was born in Cayuga County, January 22, 1830. He is a descendant of a Quaker family that settled in Newport, R. I., in early days; later . one brauch went to North Adams, another to Providence, and a third to Philadelphia. His

father, Elam, who was born in Newport, engaged in farming and business pursuits, and about 1817 moved to Union Springs, N. Y., where he mar- ried. He and his wife had a happy married life of sixty-two and one-half years before death came to part them, she dying at eighty-nine and he at ninety-one. She was Nancy Hunt, a native of Mount Morris, N. Y., and a daughter of Hum- phrey Hunt, who, with two sons, served in the Revolution, and a younger son served in the Mexican war. Humphrey Hunt was a brother- in-law of Colonel Moore, an officer in the Rev- olution.

The family of which Major Anthony was a member consisted of six sons and six daughters, nine of whom attained maturity: Mrs. Mary Hare, of Hillsboro, Ore .; Charles, who was in a New York regiment during the war and now resides in San Diego, Cal .; Mrs. Cynthia Hamilton, of Portland, Ore .; Scott J .; Mrs. Curry, now of Union Springs, N. Y .; Mrs. Margaret Birdsell, who died in Buffalo; Mrs. Howell, who died in Union Springs; Emmett, whose death occurred in San Francisco in 1892; and Webster, who died in Denver in June, 1896. The last-named was a man of prominence, being a speaker of the lower house of the legislature, a member of the state senate and for some time grand master of the grand lodge of Colorado.

In 1838 our subject accompanied the family to Ellicottville, N. Y., where he remained until he was twenty-one. In 1851 he passed through Chicago, then a mudhole on the banks of the lake, and without one single feature to favorably impress a stranger. He went up the lake to Portage, Wis., where he took a flatboat for Prairie du Chien, and from there went on a steamer to St. Paul, remaining there and at St. Anthony just one year and one day. From there he traveled by stage to Galena and Elgin, then back to Chicago, and from there returned to Ellicottville. On the passage of the Kansas- Nebraska bill, in the spring of 1855, he determined to go to Kansas, so again started westward. He traveled up the river from St. Louis to Kansas City, where he caught his first real glimpse of frontier life. Lines of steamers four deep were anchored on the levee, and near by were at least thirty ox-trains and twelve mule teams, destined to every point in the west. Each ox-train was composed of thirty-one wagons and six yoke of

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cattle to each wagon, while a mule train consisted of eight wagons, with four pairs of mules to each wagon.

The mingled medley caused by the braying of the mules, the lowing of the cattle and the shout- ing of the men was confusing to the "tenderfoot." He gazed around him in amazement. While he stood watching everything with curiosity, a Missouri freighter asked him where he came from, and on receiving his reply, said, "Yes, you are one of those -- Abolitionists and the quicker you get out of here, the better for you." He settled in Leavenworth and engaged in mer- chandising as a member of the firm of Bailey, Anthony & Co., and a year later was elected county clerk and recorder. He drew the laws prescribing the forms for the recording of deeds, which are still in use in Kansas and Colorado. At the second election in the city he saw the necessity for organization for the enforcement of laws. People coming across the river from Mis- souri harassed the Abolitionists and became very troublesome. He, with twenty-six others, or- ganized the Leavenworth Rangers and equipped themselves with good horses and sharp rifles, the latter of which he soon found to be much feared by the border ruffians across the river. At the next elections held in Kansas a large crowd of Missourians came over early in the morning, in- tending to take charge of the election, but he saw them, then gathered his men on the bottom and came to the esplanade, riding forward in a circuit and shouting to them that an election would be held that day for Kansas people only and anyone not a resident who attempted to vote would be taken in hand. He so frightened the men that they stampeded for honie. One of his souvenirs is a photograph album containing pictures of early residents of Kansas, among them an orig- inal photograph of John Brown, given him personally and probably the only one of the kind in existence.

From Kansas Major Anthony came to Colorado, in time to participate in the stirring events of war times here. On the close of the Rebellion he went to the mountains, but when the survey of the Union Pacific was begun he piloted the surveyors in their expeditions and also piloted the sur- veyors of the Northern Pacific through to Helena, doing the preliminary surveying. He was tlen a sub-contractor and civil engineer on

the Union Pacific. When the Deadwood ex- citement broke out, he went there and took up a large claim, but found it was not as reported, and returned to Denver. In 1877 he embarked in the real-estate business upon a large scale and has continued in it ever since. He was so familiar with the city that he knew the location and value of every lot. He laid out additions, only one of which, however, bears his name. With his brother he built blocks on the corner of Curtis and Fifteenth, and Champa and Fifteenth, and he still owns the old Wilcox block at Nos. 1629-35 Curtis. In the organization of the Denver Tramway Company he was actively in- terested and for years was a director. Still in the real-estate business, he is located in room 5, No. 1631 Curtis street. It has been his ex- perience that when he took charge of his business affairs they returned profits, but when he en- trusted them to others, he invariably lost money. He is a lover of flowers and for his own pleasure has a moneyed interest in a floral establishment. During the summer months his home at No. 1280 Logan street is bright with flowers, in the cultivation of which he passes many pleasant hours.

At the time that his brother was county clerk, Major Anthony organized Anthony's Abstract Company, the formation of which was not re- vealed for a time. Later it was consolidated with another concern under the title of Anthony, Landon & Curry. Even after the major retired from the company, his name was still continued in the firm. Like all other fifty-niners, he is a member of the Colorado Association of Pioneers; while it is true he did not reach Denver until the spring of 1860, yet from the fact that he started on his westward journey in 1859, he is entitled to a place among the men who came to the state in that most eventful year. He is a life member of the Masons, affiliates with the Sons of the Rev- olution and the Loyal Legion, and is connected with Lincoln Post, G. A. R.

The first marriage of Major Anthony united him with Lucy Stebbins, of Atchison, who died three months after they were married. His second wife was Frances Brown, who was born aud educated in Utica, N. Y., but at the time of her marriage was living in Denver. She was a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Brown, natives of Bath, England, but during most of

JAMES E. GARRIGUES.

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their lives residents of the United States. Her father died in Utica, and her mother in Denver when lacking only one month of ninety-five years.

As a pioneer of Colorado Major Anthony has always been intensely interested in its progress. He remembers the state when it was thinly populated, with little appearance of its present population and prosperity. The gradual growth of the years he has witnessed, contributing thereto not a little by his energy and abilty. While Denver has been his home for years, yet he has been a traveler and has spent considerable time in visiting other parts of the world, thereby gaining a cosmopolitan knowledge that makes him a delightful companion. He has traveled in every country and visited every city of impor- tance on the globe. He spent two and one-half years in making the tour of the world, during which time he traveled from the northernmost point of Europe to the south of New Zealand. Like all men who have traveled much, he has liberal views and maintains an interest in the progress of the entire world.

AMES E. GARRIGUES, a well-known at- torney-at-law in Greeley, Weld County, was elected in the fall of 1888 to the office of district attorney for the eighth judicial district of Colorado, and at the close of his three years' term was re-elected for a similar period. When his official term had expired for the second time he was put in nomination for the judgeship of this district, his opponent being Jay Boughton of Fort Collins, who headed the Populist ticket. That party, sweeping everything before it, came off victor in the ensuing election, Mr. Garrigues being defeated by a small majority, some sixty- five votes. He carried Weld, Larimer and Mor- gan Counties; but Boulder County, with its large Populist numbers, turned the tide. Mr. Garri- gues practices in all the local and state courts, and enjoys the esteem and respect of the bench and bar.

Born October 6, 1852, in Lawrenceburg, Dear- born County, Ind., the subject of this article is a son of James M. and H. (Tuttle) Garrigues, natives of New Jersey and Ohio respectively. The father removed to Indiana in his early man- hood (about 1830) and there engaged in farming

and teaching up to the time of his death in 1894. James E. has in his possession an old certif- icate entitling his father to teach, dated Septem- ber 28, 1840, and signed by Jesse L. Holdman, father of Hon. William Holdman, present con- gressman from Indiana. The great-grandfather of our subject, James Garrigues, and his brother John, were French Huguenots, who came to America, the land of liberty, in colonial days, and both fought in defense of that liberty, when it was endangered in the war with the mother country, at the close of the last century.

The eldest brother of James E. was Henry Garrigues, who enlisted during the Civil war in the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, and lost his life in battle in Mississippi. Amzi, the next brother, is a farmer of Dearborn County, Ind. Dr. Dayton, is a practitioner of Cedar Grove, Ind. Fannie, the elder sister, is the wife of Charles Carpenter, of Bloomington, Ind .; and Harriet is a teacher of the public schools of Greeley.

The boyhood and youth of our subject were passed on his father's farm, his education being acquired in the common schools and Moore's Hill College. When he had finished his studies he began teaching, and was principal of a school in Delaware, Ind. Subsequently he went to Tren- ton, Ill., where he had charge of a school and later read law in the office of J. G. Van Hoore- beck. For one year he held the principalship of a public school in Malvern, Iowa, and in 1887 was admitted to the bar at Glenwood, Iowa. He established an office for the practice of his chosen profession in the town of Malvern, remaining there for eight years.

May 6, 1880, Mr. Garrigues married Clara L. Boehner, daughter of Matthew Boehner, both natives of Maine. In February, 1883, our sub- ject removed to Colorado, owing to the failing health of his wife. For a time she seemed to be benefited, but March 25, 1896, she was summoned to her reward. Helen, the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Garrigues, graduated from the Greeley high school and is now a student in the Denver University. Georgia, the next child, died of scarlet fever when eight years old. The others are, Dwight, Edith, Grace and Edna. The last- mentioned, who was an infant at the time of her. mother's death, is living with her grandmother Boehner, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Fraternally Mr. Garrigues is a member of

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Occidental Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., and is past master of the same. He is also identified with the Odd Fellows' society, is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and is connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and Woodmen of the World.

ON. LOUIS H. DICKSON, an early settler of Colorado and for years a resident of Longmont and vicinity, is one of the best-

- known and most highly respected citizens of Boulder County. In the fall of 1880 he was called upon to represent his district in the third general assembly, and was re-elected in 1884, and served in the fifth session, both times being the Republican nominee. He was the first mayor of Longmont, and acted for three successive terms in that responsible position. Moreover, he has frequently officiated in minor places of trust, and has served as justice of the peace for many years. In 1894 he was appointed water commissioner of district No. 5, and upon the expiration of his term was reappointed to the office, which he ad- ministers with ability and zeal in the best inter- ests of the people, whose welfare has always been uppermost in his mind.

The paternal grandfather of our subject was a native of Pennsylvania, and an energetic, suc- cessful farmer. His son, Hiram, father of Louis H., was likewise born in the Keystone state, and when a young man he settled in Franklin Coun- ty, Ohio. There he married Elizabeth Hayward, and carried on a farm. In 1846 he removed to Dane County, Wis., and there departed this life in 1856. Of his six children four are now liv- ing, namely: Mrs. Phoebe E. Allen, a widow re- siding in Evanston, Ill .; Joel, a well-to-do farmer of the state of Washington; Hannah M., wife of Joseph C. Cannon, a prosperous farmer of Wis- consin; and Louis H.

Hon. L. H. Dickson was born in Franklin County, Ohio, January 18, 1834. He was reared to mature years upon his father's farm and when he started out to fight the battle of life he chose the vocation of his ancestors. For three years he rented land in Wisconsin, after which he went into the pineries of that state and engaged in lumbering for a year or more. In 1858, accom- panied by his brother Joel, he went to Kansas. After wintering at Fort Riley they started for

Colorado, their entire equipment being a wagon, three yoke of oxen and a pony. They proceeded by the Smoky Hill route, and after a forty-four days' journey arrived in Denver. Three days were spent there and then they went on to Boul- der, reaching that point May 27, 1859. From there they went direct to Gold Run, and engaged in placer mining for a month. On July 3, with a company of about a dozen men, they crossed the mountains to Middle Park, where they pros- pected for the precious yellow metal. Then they drifted to Nevada Gulch, and continued to mine in that vicinity until November, when our sub- ject and his brother started for Wisconsin for their families. Saddling two mules, and leading another as a pack or baggage-carrier, they wend- ed their lonely way across the plains. Arriving at Nebraska City they left their animals and walked to St. Joseph, nearly one hundred miles. From that city, then the westernmost railroad station on the continent, they took the train for home. After passing the winter there they re- turned to Colorado with their families. Arriving in Denver June 12, 1860, they went to Nevada Gulch, and, in a short time, to California Gulch. That fall they returned to Boulder, and the fol- lowing spring our subject took up a claim of a quarter-section of land four miles east of Long- mont, on the St. Vrain River, while his brother settled on Left Hand.

The next few years passed rapidly, as Mr. Dickson toiled to provide well for his little house- hold and to improve his farm. He raised large crops of hay and was successful in his handling of live stock, in addition to which he was occu- pied in general farming. Then came on the In- dian troubles of 1864, and he left his ranch to enlist in Company D, Third Colorado Cavalry, commanded by Capt. D. H. Nichols. Going with them to the seat of warfare, he took part in the celebrated battle of Sand Creek, and when the redskins were quelled he was mustered out of the service. He continued to live on his farm up to 1869, when he decided to go to Oregon. He and his family started with a wagon on the long western journey, and safely arrived at their destination, Oregon City. There Mr. Dickson purchased a farm and settled down to its improve- ment. In 1873 he rented his homestead there and returned to his old Colorado home. Since 1880 he has lived in Longmont. Two years be-

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fore he had acquired an extensive interest in what was known as the Grange Mill, two miles east of Longmont, and in 1885 became its sole proprietor. This property claimed his attention until 1892, when he sold it.

November 1, 1854, Mr. Dickson married Miss Emily A. Sharp, who was born in Franklin County, Ohio, and was the daughter of Stephen Sharp, a wealthy farmer of that section. For the past three years Mr. Dickson has been adju- tant of McPherson Post No. 6, G. A. R. He also belongs to Longmont Lodge No. 29, I. O. O. F., and is a member of Columbus Encamp- ment No. 18. In the Masonic order he is iden- tified with St. Vrain Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. M .; Longmont Chapter No. 8, R. A. M., and Long's Peak Commandery No. 12, K. T. Col- umbine Chapter No. 32, Order of the Eastern Star, also claims him as one of its members. With the exception of the last named and the encampment, he has held about all the offices in the several lodges.

ILLIAM JOHN ROTHWELL, M. D. The principal ambition in the life of Dr. Rothwell has been the acquirement of pro- fessional knowledge and the acquisition of the classical culture that always marks the man of intellect and broad attainments. Fond of the classics, he has devoted many of his leisure hours to the study of Latin, French and Ger- man, and has become so conversant with these languages that he often reads in the orig- inal important medical treatises written by men of these several nationalities. During the long trips he has been obliged occasionally to make into Idaho and other states he has one of the classics as a companion, and by thus utilizing his time he has been enabled to acquire a fund of in- formation that few possess.

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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 47

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