Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 49

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

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In addition to his large operations in the cattle line, Mr. Temple is interested extensively in mining. He is the sole owner of the group of Emancipation mines near Sunshine (three differ- ent claims) now being worked by a force of twenty- five men, and considered one of the best-paying mines in the county. Mr. Temple is a director in the National State Bank of Boulder, and is a director in the Boulder Electric Light Company. He helped to organize and is now a director in the Boulder Milling and Elevator Company. At present he is serving for a second term as a mem- ber of the Veterinary Sanitary Board of Colorado, and is the president of the same. He was ap- pointed first by Governor McIntire and later by Fraternally he belongs to

JOSEPH W. ANDREW.

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Boulder Lodge No. 45, A. F. & A. M., Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., Mount Sinai Com- mandery No. 7, K. T., and El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine.

In 1871 Mr. Temple married Miss Nina M. Smith, of Blackhawk. She is a native of Wis- consin and a daughter of Nelson K. Smith, a pio- neer of this valley. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Temple was blessed with two sons, Elmer S. and Paul E. The former received his higher educa- tion in the university here and the younger is now a student in the preparatory department, expect- ing to enter the university later.

OSEPH W. ANDREW. Three-fourths of a mile north of the city limits of Boulder lies the improved and valuable farm owned by Mr. Andrew. In 1881 he purchased one hundred and twenty acres, but afterward sold fifty acres, leaving his present acreage seventy, upon which he has made improvements that greatly enhance its value. The success that has come to him is especially praiseworthy, when the fact is taken into consideration that he began for himself with- out capital and encountered hardships in attaining a competency.

A native of Washington County, Pa., born March 9, 1839, our subject was a son of Ira and Chloe (Axtell) Andrew, and was one of five children, of whom, besides himself, a son and daughter survive. The former, Samuel, resides in Kansas, Edgar County, Il1. The latter, Lovina, is the widow of John Allender, of Wash- ington, Washington County, Pa. The father, when a youth, learned the trade of a shoemaker, which he followed until 1850. He then pur- chased a tract of one hundred acres in Washing- ton County, which place had been previously owned by his father. From that time until his death he followed general farm pursuits. He was a son-in-law of Luther Axtell, a native of New Jersey, but for many years a resident of Wash- ington County, Pa., where he carried on a farm until his death.

The advantages which our subject had in boy- hood were exceedingly limited. At the age of twenty-one, in November, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, Capt. H. J. Vankirk commanding. Among thie engagements in which he bore a part were the

following: siege of Yorktown; Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862; Savage Station, Va., May 24, 1862; Seven Pines, Va., May 31, 1862; Jones. Fort, Va., June 28, 1862; Black Water, Va., October 28, 1862; Southwest Creek, N. C., December 13, 1863; Kinston, N. C., December 14, 1863; Whitehall, N. C., December 16, 1863; Goldsborough, N. C., December 17, 1863; siege of Morris Island; siege of Forts Wagner and Greeg; and the expedition to White Marsk Island, Ga., February 22, 1864. Following the expedi- tion last-named the regiment came north and joined Butler's division, being with him at the taking of City Point, Va., and remaining with him until Grant's army swung down there en route to Petersburg. In the battle of Malvern Hill, August 17, 1864, one hundred and four of the members of the regiment were killed or wounded, and all of the officers were either killed or missing. In this engagement our subject did not participate, as he was ill and in the hospital at the time. He rejoined the regiment Septem- ber 23, 1864, after having been an inmate of the hospital for two months, and was then camped at Fort Morton, in front of Petersburg. October 14, 1864, the regiment was sent to the rear on account of the expiration of their service, and went to Portsmouth, Va., where they were in camp for a few days. October 29 our subject, with a num- ber of others detailed from two companies, went on board the vessel "Northern Light," which proceeded to Point Lookout, Md., and took on board nine hundred rebel prisoners, expecting to make an exchange of prisoners at Atlanta, Ga., but while there, General Sherman arrived and blocked the exchange of a number of the prisoners. Proceeding to Charleston, S. C., where they arrived December 6, they made the exchange of the balance of the prisoners, and then proceeded to Annapolis, Md., arriving there December 17. On their journey north sixty of the Union prisoners died. From Annapolis they went to Norfolk, Va., and on the 19th started for Baltimore, arriving there on the 20th. From that city they went by rail to Pittsburg, where they were discharged two days later. Mr. Andrew arrived at his home December 24, 1864. During the two years following he assisted in the cultivation of the home farmn.

February 14, 1867, Mr. Andrew married Saralı Lovina Day, of Washington County, Pa. After-

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ward he removed to Edgar County, Il1., where he rented a farm. In 1871 he came to Colorado, arriving in Denver with a drove of horses the latter part of February. Coming through to Boulder, he purchased a farm of eighty acres three miles east of this city and here he began as a farmer and stock-raiser. In the spring of 1876 he sold his place and for five years farmed as a renter, after which, in 1881, he bought one hundred and twenty acres, seventy acres of which comprises his present farm. Fraternally he is a member of Centennial State Lodge No. 8, A. O. U. W., and Nathaniel Lyon Post No. 5, G. A. R. He and his wife became the parents of nine children, but have been bereaved by the loss of six, only three now living. Hilliard S., who was a student in the State University for two years, is engaged in mining in Eldora; Henry O., a graduate of the State University, is now studying law; and Ida M.is a student in the Boulder high school. The family are active in the work of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a member of the People's party.

ERMAN S. YOUTSEY, county treasurer of Larimer County, was born near Sey- mour, Jackson County, Ind., December 31, 1842, a son of Peter and Mary (Hays) Youtsey. His father, who was born near Circleville, Ohio, was a son of Peter Youtsey, a native of Pennsyl- vania, of German descent, and a pioneer of Ohio, later of Missouri, where he died. Purchasing an unimproved tract of land in Jackson County, Peter Youtsey, Jr., engaged in its cultivation until 1852, when he removed to Iowa and settled near Chari- ton, Lucas County, where he engaged in farm pursuits until his death. In the latter part of his life he spent some time in Colorado, but had no thought of permanently locating here, as his in- terests were elsewhere. In religion he was a con- sistent member of the Christian Church. His death occurred in 1888, when he was eighty-one years of age.

The mother of our subject was born near old Fort Bologna, on Driftwood Fork of the White River, in Indiana. Her father, a native of Ken- tucky, served in the war of 1812 and was killed in an Indian fight that took place near Fort Bologna in 1813. His father, who probably came from Virginia, was killed by Indians in Kentucky.

Mrs. Mary Youtsey was reared on the frontier and had few advantages, but was a well-informed woman nevertheless. She died in Kansas in 1886, near Great Bend, when almost eighty years of age. In her family there were eight children, namely: Malinda C., Mrs. Stout, who died in Iowa; Melissa, Mrs. Scott, of Kansas; Cordelia, Mrs. Goltry, of Russell, Iowa; Columbus, who died in Carthage, Mo., in 1896; Farilla, Mrs. McGill, of Great Bend, Kan .; John J., of Love- land, Colo., a retired physician; Herman S .; and Sarah, who died in Iowa when a young lady.

When about ten years of age the subject of this sketch was taken by his parents to Iowa, travel- ing through Illinois in a "prairie schooner," and crossing the Illinois River at Peoria and the Mis- sissippi at Burlington. He was reared on a farm at Chariton. His education, primarily acquired in public schools, was supplemented by an attend- ance of almost three years at Oskaloosa College. During the vacation months he engaged in teach- ing. Upon leaving college he embarked in the mercantile business, continuing thus engaged until 1871, when he came to Colorado and secured a position as teacher in the Boulder school. His brother, John J., had come to Colo- rado in 1864, and he was induced to come hither through favorable reports of the country. In 1877, after having taught for a time and engaged as deputy assessor of Boulder County for two years, he removed to the Big Thompson Valley, where he proved up a homestead, to which he added until he became the owner of two hundred and forty acres, devoted to general farming. In 1895 he sold this place, and has since given his attention entirely to official duties.

In 1881, on the Greenback ticket, Mr. Youtsey was elected county assessor and two years later he was re-elected, serving from January, 1882, to January, 1886, two terms, with office in the old courthouse. He was then continued as deputy assessor until January, 1892, and meantime, in 1888, took possession of the assessor's office in the new courthouse. In 1892 he was appointed deputy county treasurer, which he held under F. P. Stover and J. L. Thomas, two terms. In 1897, on the People's party ticket, he was elected by a good majority, being the only successful candidate on that ticket. He took the oath of office January 1, 1898, for two years. He has been connected with Larimer County offices for a

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longer period than any other officer. His record is an excellent one, showing that he is faithful to every duty and energetic in his work. He is a firm believer in silver money and thinks that those who champion the cause of silver should unite, sinking other differences regarding tariff, etc., and making the money question the sole issue.

In November, 1875, in Boulder, Mr. Youtsey married Miss Alice Stephens, who was born in Ohio, and in 1870 accompanied her father, Robert Stephens, to Colorado, joining the Union colony at Greeley, but removing in 1874 to Boulder County and settling upon a farm near Longmont. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Youtsey are Floyd S. and Otho E., nineteen and ten years of age respectively. The older son was in the draughting department of the Cambria Iron Works for two years, and is now a student in the State Agricultural College.

G EORGE A. ANDREWS is one of the hon- ored citizens of Boulder, of which place he was one of the pioneers, as he came here during the Civil war. He has been a witness of great changes in the more than thirty-five years that have elapsed since his arrival here, and has done not a little toward the development of this town. He has himself put up buildings here on land where he has seen deer and other wild game roaming, and when it was proposed to locate the state university here, he was one of the most in- fluential in securing the institution, and donated twenty acres of land for the purpose. All public improvements have always been warmly advo- cated by him, and his ballot is sure to be cast on the side of progress.

A son of Asa and Ruth (Kendrick) Andrews, -our subject was born in Saco, Me., June 6, 1832, being one of their teu children. Albert served during the Civil war in the Union army. John William, another son, served in the United States navy in the conflict between the North and South. The Andrews family is of Scotch-English extrac- tion. Asa Andrews was a native of Maine, and. was occupied in conducting a merchant tailoring establishment in the town of Saco up to 1835, when he retired and spent his last years upon his farm in that vicinity. He died in 1843, when but fifty-five years of age. His wife, likewise a native

of Maine, lived to be eighty-four years of age, her death occurring in 1878. Her father, Captain Kendrick, was master of his own vessel, which was engaged in the coasting trade in Atlantic waters, and her mother was a Miss Warren, of Massachusetts Quaker stock. She lived to be eighty-seven years old. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were identified with the Presbyterian Church and were exemplary Christians, beloved by all who knew them.

George Andrews was reared in his native town, and received his education in the higher branches of learning in the Saco Academy. When in his eighteenth year he went to Lawrence, Mass., where he served a two-years' apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade. Then he worked at his calling in New York City up to 1853, and for the following four years engaged in contracting in Massachusetts. In 1857 he turned his face west- ward, and was a resident of Galva, Il1., for the next six years. May 1, 1863, he started for Colorado, reaching here after a journey of about two months. Coming across the plains he drove two yoke of oxen and two yoke of cows, and took the route up the Platte River, by way of Platts- mouth, Neb. July 2, 1863, he arrived in Boulder County, having made good time in his long trip. With Charles Hamblin he located on a ranch ad- joining the present town on the southeast, and improved the property. The succeeding year they divided the land, Mr. Andrews becoming the owner of one hundred and twenty acres. He continued to cultivate this place and live thereon until 1869, when he changed his place of residence to the town. He rented his farm up to 1874 and then sold the place. The first flour-mill put up in Boulder was the Sternberg mill, built in 1872 on his land. In 1869 he established a general merchandise store here, but sold out two years later. He built and still owns a store at the cor- ner of Pearl and Thirteenth streets, and erected his comfortable house at Walnut and Nineteenth streets. In his numerous business ventures he has been quite successful, as he has exercised good judgment and forethought and has been fair and just in all his dealings. He possesses the respect of a large circle of acquaintances and friends, and justly deserves their esteen.

April 13, 1857, Mr. Andrews married Miss Mary A. Ellsworth, of Massachusetts. Her father, James Ellsworth, was an officer in the

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United States navy, before and during the Civil citizens. In 1874 Mr. Fonda came to Colorado, war. Of the four children born to our subject and taking up his abode in Boulder, practiced civil engineering and mineral surveying up to the time of his death, at sixty-nine years of age. He was married in Peoria, Ill., and his widow is now a resident of Denver. Of their ten children, all but one is living. and wife two are living, and all were educated in the University of Colorado. Charles died when in his thirty-third year. Mina is Mrs. Maulford Whiteley, of Boulder; Susie May married Victor Gothe, of Denver, and died September 15, 1898; Frances R. is at home with her parents.

Mr. Andrews was initiated into the Masonic order when he was a resident of Galva, Ill., and is now a demitted member. He belonged to the Odd Fellows' society when he was a young man, in Massachusetts. He is connected with the Boulder Building and Loan Association. Since the days of Fremont he has been an ardent Re- publican.

r EORGE F. FONDA, one of the most enter- prising and successful of Boulder's business men, is vice-president of the First National Bank of this place and is financially interested in many local concerns and industries which are of benefit to this community. He has been a res- ident of Boulder for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury, or his entire adult life, and his own career has been closely associated with the upbuilding and development of the town.

The Fonda family is of Holland-Dutch extrac- tion. The founder of the American branch in this country settled here in 1654, and represent- atives of the family have been prominently connected with every war in which our govern- ment has since figured, except war with Spain. The name is found in the history of the war of the Revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican war and the Civil war. Gen. John G. Fonda, after serving in the war with Mexico, became a general in the war of the Rebellion; he was a civil engineer by occupation.

G. F. Fonda was born in Augusta, Ill., and passed the first thirteen years of his life in that state. In 1874 he came to Boulder, where his brother, Ghiles H., was in the drug business, his store being situated on the land now owned by our subject, and on which he has since built a substantial two-story and basement building, modern, heated by steam and lighted by elec- tricity. Soon after his arrival here he began to work for his brother in the drug store, with a view to learning the business. He received $10 a month at first and gradually a larger salary. He was ambitious and enterprising, and when his brother determined to remove to Lead- ville in 1878, the youth, then but seventeen years old, bought the business on time. He studied pharmacy and by wisdom and judgment beyond his years gained the respect and confidence of the citizens and built up a lucrative trade. He now deals in wholesale drugs, his patrons being located in small towns of this county and ad- joining territory, and it is safe to say that he controls the largest trade in northern Colorado. He also keeps a fine line of wall-paper, paints, oils, etc. For a time he was interested in the manufacture of soda-water and was a dealer in mineral waters, but his brother is now managing that business. For some years our subject has been vice-president and a director of the Boulder Milling and Elevator Company.

Politically Mr. Fonda is a Democrat, and was elected alderman from the first ward, but resigned before the completion of his term. He is past master of Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M .; belongs to Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M. (of which he is past high priest); Mount Sinai Com- mandery No. 7, K. T., and El Jebel Temple, Mystic Shrine. He also is a member of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In the Colorado Pharmaceutical Association he has been vice-president.

The parents of our subject are Henry D. and Catherine (Farrell) Fonda, who were natives of the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., and of Pennsylvania, respectively. The father was a civil engineer, and for years in the early days of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad he was em- ployed in that capacity by the company. Later he removed to Illinois, and settled on a farm in Hancock County, near the town of Augusta. He was county surveyor there for five terms and helped drive the Mormons out of Hancock The marriage of Mr. Fonda and Miss Mary E. County when they became obnoxious to the Jones was solemnized in Boulder November 26,

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1879. Mrs. Fonda is a native of Michigan, and is a daughter of David Jones, one of the early settlers of Nederland, Boulder County. She re- ceived her higher education in the University of Colorado. To Mr. and Mrs. Fonda two daugh- ters were born, Elizabeth and Catherine.

ORNELIUS H. BOND, sheriff of Larimer County, was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, across the river from Wheeling, W. Va., October 9, 1855, a son of Joshua H. and Susan (Huffman) Bond. His father, who was born near Baltimore, was a son of Joshua Bond, Sr., also a native of Maryland, and a pioneer farmer of Ohio. Two of his brothers were sol- diers in the war of 1812. The family is of Eng- lish descent, but has been identified with Amer- can history since an early period in the settlement of Maryland.

From Guernsey County, where he engaged in farming, Joshua H. Bond removed to Harrison County, Ohio, where he still resides, being now seventy-one years of age. His wife, who was born in Virginia, died in Ohio in 1880, when forty-nine years of age. She was a daughter of John Huffman, a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church and a pioneer missionary, who traveled on horseback with saddlebags from town to town and accomplished much good among the frontiersmen. He and his wife died within fif- teen hours of each other and were buried in the same grave.

The subject of this sketch was the oldest of seven children who attained years of maturity. Of these three sons and three daughters are now living. He was educated in public schools and an academy, and at the age of twenty began to teach, in which work he was engaged for four years, being principal of a school for one year. March 7, 1879, he started for Colorado, and on reaching this state located in Loveland, where he secured employment on a ranch. Later he clerked in a store. In 1885, with a partner, he started in the grocery business in Loveland, but after two years closed out the business and resumed work as a clerk. For two years he was with Mr. Seaman in the general merchandise business as a partner, but then sold his interest and again embarked in the grocery business. On retiring from that business he represented the Deering Harvester Company.

On the Republican ticket, in 1895, Mr. Bond was elected sheriff of Larimer County. Two years later he was re-elected as the nominee of the silver Republicans, endorsed by the Demo- crats. He received a plurality of twelve hun- dred and thirty-four, which was the largest re- ceived by any of the candidates elected at that time. He held the office from January, 1896, to January, 1898, and his present term extends from January, 1898, to January, 1900. While in Love- land he was alderman for several terms. Frater- nally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, U. R., in Fort Collins, the Woodmen of the World in Loveland, the Eastern Star, and was made a Mason in Loveland Lodge No. 53, A. F. & A. M.

In Loveland, in 1888, Mr. Bond married Miss Frona Sullivan, who was born in Iowa and died February 20, 1895, leaving a daughter, Doris. The second marriage of Mr. Bond united him with Miss Alma Sanborn, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, a daughter of George W. Sanborn, of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Bond are the parents of two children, twins, Frank and Florence.

ALTER A. CHAMBERLAIN is one of the most popular and enterprising young men of Boulder. He was born near Council Bluffs, Iowa, September 23, 1859, and is the son of William G. and Frances Rogers (Alten) Cham- berlain. His father, whose history is given among the representative citizens of Denver, was for many years a resident of Peru, South America, where he was engaged in the manufacture of silk, and after returning to the states located in Colorado and established a large photograph gallery, and gave to the public the first views of Colorado scenery. He married Frances Rogers Allen, an English lady, living with her parents in Lima, Peru, and at present both reside in Denver. Six children were born to them, of whom four are living, two sons and two daughters.

The youngest of the family, our subject, was reared in Denver, and educated in the public and high schools until he reached his sixteenth year, when he entered his father's store on Larimer and Fifteenth streets and learned the business under him. He afterwards accepted a position with W. H. Jackson, in the same business, and remained with him eleven years. He there

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finished some of the finest mountain sceneries ever printed. He was the first man in the west to make prints, and is credited with making the first and largest section, or panoramic pictures. In 1892 he resigned this position to take charge of the Chamberlain sampling works in Boulder. W. J. Chamberlain & Co. have branch works in Georgetown, Blackhawk and Denver, be- sides the one in Boulder. This is a steam plant, with a capacity of thirty tons and is the oldest of the kind in Boulder. The company do crush- ing and assaying, and purchase a large quantity of ore outright.

He was married in Denver to Miss Jennie Herrick, daughter of Samuel E. Herrick, a na- tive of Indiana. Their union has been blessed with three children: Estes H., Hyla K. and Helena F. He is one of the officers of Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M .; a past officer in the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of the Maccabees. He is treasurer in the Fraternal Aid and Woodman Circle, and holds the same office in the Select Knights of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was a member of the old gov- ernment guards, state milita for three years, and joined the Archer Hose Company of Denver as a torch boy. He is now a member of the Boulder Hose Company and is serving the third term as foreman. He is a Republican, but is not an active politician.

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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 49

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