Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 53

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

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ROF. L. G. CARPENTER, professor of civil and irrigation engineering in the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, was born near Orion, Oakland County, Mich., and is a descendant of a family that came from England to Massachusetts, thence spreading out, through different branches, into Connecticut, Rhode Is- land and Long Island. The first of the name in this country came in 1636 to Plymouth and one of the family became the wife of Governor Brad- ford. Daniel P. Carpenter, the professor's grand- father, was born in Queens County, N. Y., and became a pioneer of New York, one of his daugh- ters being the first white child born at Hornells- ville, that state. In 1836 he took his family to Michigan and settled near Orion, where he en- gaged in farming until his death. He was suc- ceeded in the ownership of the homestead by his son, C. K., a native of Steuben County, N. Y., but during most of his life a resident of Michigan, where he was a very prominent man. In many enterprises he took an active part, all of them of a responsible nature. He was instrumental in the organization of the Farmers' (or Monitor) Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he remained president until his death and which be- came remarkably successful. Prior to the Civil war he was a Democrat, and was elected to the state

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legislature on his party's ticket. During the war he was a stanch Union man, and called the first Union mass meeting in Oakland County, irrespective of party lines. Largely through his efforts was built the Detroit and Bay City Rail- road, the right of way for which he secured, as well as raising a large part of the money required. He was vice-president and a director of the road until his death. In the Grange he served as a state officer. A stanch friend of the Prohibition movement, and by principle a total abstainer, he finally identified himself with the Prohibition party, and upon that ticket was nominated for gov- ernor of Michigan. At one time he was also the Greenback nominee for governor, but refused to accept the nomination, having never acted with that party. He died in 1884, at the age of fifty- eight years.

The mother of Professor Carpenter was born in Livingston County, N. Y., and was Jennette, daughter of George Coryell, a native of New York, but from 1843 a farmer in Lapeer County, Mich. The Coryells are of French-Huguenot extraction, and he inherited the courage and determination of character so noticeable in people of that descent. In early days he went to New Orleans on a flatboat and from that city crossed the country into Texas, where a brother-in-law was surveyor-general. He remained for two years and one of the counties of the state was named in his honor. Mrs. Carpenter is still liv- ing iu Orion. Of her eight children all but two are living. Prof. R. C., the eldest of the six, is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Agricultural College, and is now professor of ex- perimental engineering at Cornell. Judge W. L., the second son, is an attorney of Detroit and a jurist of Wayne County, Mich. Blanche is the wife of C. H. Seeley, of Aberdeen, S. Dak .; Mary L. is the wife of N. S. Mayo, a professor in the Agricultural College of Connecticut; and Jennette, a member of the class of '98, Agricult- ural College of Michigan.

In Orion, where he was born March 28, 1861, the subject of this sketch gained the rudiments of his education. From 1876 to 1879 he attended the Michigan Agricultural College, from which he graduated with the degree of B. S. Afterward he engaged in teaching French in the college. In 1881 he was made assistant professor of mathe- matics and engineering, which he held until

resigning to accept his present position. He was practically the organizer of the department of irrigation engineering in the Agricultural College of Colorado, the former professor having resigned the position six weeks after he opened the department. He spent the winters of 1881-82 and 1883-84 in graduate work in the University of Michigan, making a specialty of mathematics and physics. In the winters of 1885-86 and 1887-88 he engaged in post-graduate work in Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, where he had all the privileges of a Fellow and made a specialty of mathematics, physics and astronomy. In June, 1888, he accepted the position with the Colorado State Agricultural College, and in Sep- tember took up the professorship, beginning ex- perimental work in one room, then branching out to the main building. In 1893 he took posses- sion of the engineering building, which had been remodeled for this department, with a main class room upstairs, an office and drafting room on the first floor, and a laboratory in the basement. At first he had but four classes, now he has nearly thirty, some of them in two and three divisions. An engineering course, which is complete, has been introduced. He also has charge of the meteorology and irrigation engineering section of the United States Agricultural Experiment sta- tion, the line of experiments stretching out over a large part of the state. A number of years ago he was appointed an United States artesian well investigator, having charge of Colorado and New Mexico.

In Jackson, Mich,, Professor Carpenter mar- ried Miss Mary J. Merrill, who was born in Canada and was reared in Michigan, graduating from the Michigan Agricultural College in 1881 with the degree of B. S., and later receiving the degree of M. S. They have two children, Charles Louis and Jennette.

Some years ago Professor Carpenter was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he is a member. He is also a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and attended the meeting of the society at Montreal in 1884. He was one of the incorporators of the Michigan Engineering Society and is an active member of the Denver Engineering Society, of which he has served as vice-president. In 1891 he assisted in the organization, at Salt Lake City,

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of the American Society of Irrigation Engineers, of which he held the office of president for two years and which has members from many of the countries of the world. He takes an active in- terest in the work of the American Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and serves as a member of its board of directors. In 1895 the French government conferred on him the order, Chevalier du Merite Agricole, in rec- ognition of important services rendered in the department of agriculture. He is probably the only American on whom this honor has been bestowed.

In 1892 he visited Europe, and spent some time in investigating the irrigation methods and enterprises of France, Italy and Algeria. The work of this department has been generally recog- nized by the different countries in their leading papers, viz .: Germany, France, Russia, India, Australia and England, also throughout the United States. This recognition of his work is naturally quite gratifying to him. It is solely due to his personal efforts that his department is fore- most among all in the entire country, while he has without doubt the best and most complete library on irrigation in existence. He is fre- quently called upon to deliver lectures along the line of his specialties. In 1898 he gave the state address for the League of American Wheelmen at Rocky Mountain Chautauqua, Glen Park. In 1884 he received the degree of M. S. from his alma mater. In religion he is connected with the Presbyterian Church.

A LFRED A. FALKENBURG, head consul Pacific jurisdiction of Woodmen of the World, was born in southern Indiana, Jan- uary 31, 1857, and is a son of Rev. S. B. and A. Jane (Gardiner) Falkenburg, the father a minis- ter in the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Fred A. (he is known by this name)' was ednca- ted primarily in the public schools of Indiana, and afterward entered the preparatory department of Moore's Hill College, where he remained a stu- dent for six years. At the end of the junior year he entered Bryant & Stratton's Business Col- lege in Indianapolis, where he took a business and law course. He engaged in law practice in Indiana from 1876 to 1881. In the latter year he became auditor for the Toledo, Cincinnati &

St. Louis Railroad, then in process of construc- tion, also auditor for the construction company in charge of the building of the road.

The next position secured by Mr. Falkenburg was with the Royal Fire Insurance Company of Chicago, where he had charge of sub-agency ac- counts for thirteen northwestern states. After- ward he became secretary and treasurer of a large publishing firm in Chicago, and later, going to Lincoln, Neb., he entered the wholesale book and stationery business. It was while in that city he became interested in Woodcraft, and there he held the position of presiding officer of the local camp, Modern Woodmen of America. In May, 1889, he moved to Colorado, at which time Will- iam Jennings Bryant succeeded him in the posi- tion of presidingofficer at Lincoln. June 6, 1890, with Joseph Cullen Root, he organized the Wood- men of the World, which had a membership, May 1, 1898, of one hundred and twenty-eight thou- sand, and has paid over $3,000,000 in benefits to widows and orphans. At the convention where the Woodmen of the World was organized he served as secretary and now holds benefit certificate No. I, in that order. At this writing he is sovereign adviser of the eastern jurisdiction and head con- sul, or chief executive, of the Pacific jurisdiction, in which are thirty-five thousand members and in which $1,000,000 has been paid to beneficiaries.

Outside of his executive duties and the man- agement of a correspondence that averages three thousand letters per month, Mr. Falkenburg has been engaged considerably in platform work, and during the past year (1897) delivered two hun- dred and forty-seven addresses, traveling over thirty thousand miles. He is serving his fourth biennial term as head consul in the Woodmen of the World. Three times he has been selected as a representative of the order to the National Fra- ternal Congress. On the breaking out of the war with Spain in 1898 he was the first supreme offi- cer of any fraternal order who officially requested all of the local organizations to keep all soldier Woodmen in good standing during. their term of service under the stars and stripes; also to provide a large hospital fund for wounded and sick mem- bers of the order. His request was unanimously adopted by the camps of the nine states under his supervision.

The marriage of Mr. Falkenburg took place in Indianapolis in 1879 and united him with Miss

HON. HIRAM R. BROWN.

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Ida May. Baty. Three children were born of ing village. After a number of years he removed their union, but only one survives, Jessie May, who was born in Chicago.

While in Indianapolis, Mr. Falkenburg took an active part in politics, favoring the Republican party. He is not an office-seeker and has de- clined many opportunities to become a candidate for office. His membership is in the Cameron Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, which he serves as a trustee. Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Ancient Order of United Workmen, besides the Woodmen of the World and Fraternal Union of America, already alluded to.

ON. HIRAM R. BROWN. In 1874 Mr. Brown settled upon his present farm, two and one-quarter miles northeast of Arvada, Jefferson County, where he had purchased one hundred and sixty acres of railroad land some two years before. Here he has since resided, having in the meantime added to his landed pos- sessions until his farm now comprises two hun- dred and thirty-five acres. As a Republican he has been closely identified with public affairs of his county. In1 1889 he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature; two years later he was elected to the state senate and served in the eighth, ninth and tenth general assemblies. During his term in the senate the Australian bal- lot system was introduced, the police system of Denver was enacted and the woman suffrage was carried.

In Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind., the subject of this sketch was born December 13, 1836. He was one of nine children, five of whom are still living: Caroline P., widow of Elisha McMillan, and residing in Berkeley, Arapahoe County; William B., also of Berkeley; Hiram R .; Richard T., who lives in Lincoln, Neb .; and Sarah E., wife of T. W. H. Miller, a retired farmer living in Tecumseh, Neb. The father of this family was John Brown, a native of Virginia, but reared in Kentucky, and after his marriage to Mathilda Board he moved to Indiana, settling in Bedford, where he secured employment as clerk in a bank. After filling this position for twenty-two years he removed to Lee County, Iowa, where he purchased an extensive tract of land and laid out the town of Franklin, now a flourish-

to Mount Pleasant and there died. In political life he was prominent and served for one term as a member of the legislature. He was a member of the committee chosen to locate the state capitol when it was changed from Iowa City to Des Moines. He was a stanch advocate of Republican principles and contributed largely to his party's success in his locality. He was well situated financially, being the owner of large tracts of land. By observation and reading he became the possessor of a broad education that made him an entertaining companion.

After having completed the studies of the com- mon schools, our subject entered the Iowa Uni- versity at Mount Pleasant, and there completed his education. Afterward he taught one term of school in Pike County, Mo., and two terms in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. In 1862 he came to Colo- rado, making the journey down the river in com- pany with another man, and landing at Louisiana, where he took a steamer up the Missouri to Leavenworth. There he hired out to some parties to drive ox-teams across the plains. On the 4th of July he arrived in Denver, with fifty cents in his pocket. With a desire to mine, he went to Tarryall Gulch, South Park, where he worked in the mines, and from there he went to Mont- gomery and worked in a lead mine. In the fall of the same year he went to Colorado City, where he was appointed deputy county clerk and deputy postmaster. While there he organized the Colo- rado Town Company and secured from the gov- ernment the title for the town site. During this time the Indian troubles came up and a company was organized for service, but the government refused to permit them to act as an independent regiment, and they were mustered in as United States troops, our subject being quartermaster- sergeant of Company F, Third Colorado Cavalry. When the quartermaster-sergeant of the regiment was taken ill shortly afterward, Mr. Brown was detailed to fill his position, in which he afterward served. He took part in the battle of Sand Creek.

Shortly after his return from the Indian fights, Mr. Brown was appointed provost-marshal and assigned to Park County, where he served for nine months. In 1866 he came to Denver, where . he engaged in the mercantile business with a brother-in-law for two years. When the Union Pacific Railroad was in process of construction to

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Cheyenne, he decided to go to the latter city, and during the building boom there he found employ- ment at large wages. After eighteen months he came back to Denver and with a Mr. McCune engaged in the painting business, having large and important contracts. After four years of suc- cessful business, in 1874 he came to his present farm, where he has since engaged in farming. He is a member of the Clear Creek Valley Grange and the Grand Armyof the Republic and is junior vice of the post. In the fall of 1863 he married Miss Mary A. Boyd, and four children were born to them, viz .: Edgar A., deceased; Maud J., who is a student at Wolfe Hall; Hiram A., who is attend- ing the Agricultural College at Fort Collins; and Carrie B., who graduated from the East Denver high school in June, 1898.

ARRY NEIL HAYNES. In the early set- tlement of the New England states the Puritans who landed on these shores had much to do with giving that section of the coun- try the reputation for sagacity and piety that it has since enjoyed. From such stock the subject of this sketch descends. One of his ancestors came over with Governor Winthrop, and, though he is many generations removed, he inherits many traits of character that were dominant in the lives of those pioneers. However, he is in- debted, not only to his ancestors for his success, but as well to his native ability and the attention given to all cases entrusted to his charge as attor- ney. Among the members of the bar of Weld County he stands high, ranking with the ablest in Greeley.

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Haynes, Col. E. H. Neil, of Skowhegan, Me., was one of the prominent citizens of that state, and stood high in the respect of all. He was engaged in mercan- tile pursuits, and also held many positions of trust. About 1820 he was colonel of the militia of his locality. By his marriage to Mary Fletcher four children were born, who attained maturity. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Francis F. Haynes, of East Farmington, Me .; one of his daughters married Timothy O. Howe, who was a member of the United States senate for eighteen years, and who died while serving as postmaster-general.

Silas B. A. Haynes, the father of our subject,

was a man of prominence. He was educated in Maine, and read law under one of the most prominent attorneys there, Mr. Abbott, after- ward a leader of the Boston bar. At the out- break of the Civil war, in 1861, he was appointed paymaster with the rank of major, and served until the close of the war, when he was honor- ably discharged with the brevet commission of lieutenant-colonel. For many years afterward he was clerk of the United States senate committee on claims. In 1872 he came to Colorado, where his ability was soon recognized. He served as county judge of Weld County, and was state senator in the first and second general assem- blies. By his marriage to Harriet C. Neil five children were born, of whom the oldest living son is Harry Neil.

Born at Green Bay, Wis., November 29, 1855, the subject of this sketch, when in his teens, went to Skowhegan, Me., and made his home with his grandfather during his father's sojourn in Wash- ington. In 1872 he graduated from the high school, and the next year entered Colby Uni- versity at Waterville, Me., where, as a junior, he received the first prize for composition and de- livery, and in 1877 graduated as an A. B.with hon- ors. In the catalogue he was given special men- tion for general work outside of the regular course, and received special honors for scholar- ship. His interest in college societies he has maintained, having held the highest office in Chi Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, from which he was a delegate to the Grand Chapter in Phila- delphia in 1876. Since his graduation he has joined the noted alumni society, to which only graduates of high scholarship are admitted, the Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to entering college he had read law with Hon. Stephen Coburn, of Skowhegan, who was a member of congress in 1859-60. After graduating he came to Greeley, where he read with Haynes & Dunning, later with Symes & Decker in Denver.

Immediately after his admission to the bar in May, 1879, Mr. Haynes located at Fort Collins, where he resided for four years. In 1880 he en- tered his father's firm, the name of which was changed to Haynes, Dunning & Haynes, with offices in Fort Collins and Greeley. From Judge Elliott he received appointment as referee for irri- gation district No. 3, the oldest and most thor- ough irrigation district in the state. His atten-

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tion to that trust was generally commended. In 1882 he removed to Greeley, and upon the retire- ment of his father in 1883, the firm took in Frank J. Annis, and was afterward known as Haynes, Dunning & Annis. Since 1887, when this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Haynes has practiced alone. The success attendant upon his conduct of many important cases has given him the prestige that assures him of all the business he can attend to. While engaged in general practice he has also given much attention to irri- gation matters, and has the reputation of being one of the foremost attorneys in the state in this important branch of law. He has been connected with the majority of the prominent irrigation cases, and his judgment is much sought in these matters. He has had cases reported in all of the reports from the Fifth Colorado down. One of his most important cases not connected with irri- gation was that of Allen vs. Glenn, in the thir- teenth judicial district, in which he was counsel for Judge Allen in the supreme court. His serv- ices are in demand, not only in Weld County, but also in Arapahoe, Larimer, Boulder, Logan and Morgan Counties, as well as in the court of appeals and the supreme court. He has served as county attorney of Weld County and attorney for the city of Greeley.

Fraternally Mr. Haynes is connected with the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. At the Pueblo session of the Woodmen in 1892 he was elected one of the head managers of the head camp of the Pa- cific jurisdiction, and has been twice re-elected, at Portland, Ore., in 1894, and at Helena, Mont., in 1896. During this time the order rapidly in- creased from three thousand to thirty-five thou- sand. He was a member of the board having. control of the finances, which distributed $35,000 per month. He is also legal counsel for the head camp. He declined to be candidate for re-elec- tion as head manager at San Francisco, in 1898.

A member of the State Bar Association, Mr. Haynes is a member of its committee on legal edu- cation. He is interested in educational matters, and a member of the school board of Greeley. Polit- ically he has always been a Republican, but not a politician in the ordinary usage of that word. His name was prominently mentioned for judge of the court of appeals, and in 1896 he was the nominee of the Republicans for state senator,

and ran two hundred ahead of his ticket. He is a member of the University Club of Denver, and the Denver Chess, Checker and Whist Club. An admirer of chess, he is one of the best players of that game in the state. He attends the Congre- gational and Unitarian churches and contributes to both.

June 3, 1882, he married Anna E., daughter of Ovid and Anna (Miles) Plumb, of Greeley, a niece of ex-Congressman Frederick Miles, of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes are the parents of two sons and three daughters, namely: Florence I., who is a student in the Greeley high school; Rhoda N., Rollin Fletcher, Doro- thy Plumb and Harold Douglas.

ESSE S. GALE, president of the Union Bank of Greeley, is one of the leading busi- ness men of northern Colorado, and occupiesa foremost position among the prominent financiers of the state. Genuine success is not likely to be the result of mere chance or fortune, but is some- thing to be labored for and sought ont with con- secutive effort. Ours is a utilitarian age and the life of every successful man bears its lessons and as told in contemporary narration perhaps is pro- ductive of the greatest good. Mr. Gale has not only made a wide reputation as a most capable fi- nancier, but occupies a position of no little promi- nence in connection with the political affairs of the county, although he has never songht or desired political preferment. His life demonstrates what may be accomplished through energy, careful management, keen foresight and the utilization of the powers with which nature has endowed one, and the opportunities with which the times surround him.

Mr. Gale was born in Heath, Franklin County, Mass., September 16, 1845, and traces his ances- try back to three brothers who came from Eng- land in the seventeenth century and located in that state. His parents were Otis and Martha (Henry) Gale. The father, who was born in Massachusetts, in 1806, was a drover by occupa- tion, selling his stock principally in Boston and Springfield before railroads had been built, and also owned and operated a farm. In religious faith he was a Unitarian and in political senti- ment a Whig. He died at comparatively an early age, when our subject was ten years old.

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His father, Luther Gale, spent his entire life in Massachusetts, and being one of the most promi- nent and influential agriculturists of his commu- nity, he was called upon to represent his district in the state legislature. His death occurred in Heath, Mass.

Our subject is the ninth in order of birth in a family of ten children, the others being: Edward H., deceased, who came to Colorado and was ex- tensively engaged in the cattle business with our subject; Catherine, who died at the age of fifteen years; James, who was formerly interested in the cattle business in Colorado, but is now living retired in National City, Cal .; Martha, wife of Charles Coburn, of Hartford, Conn .; Prudence, who died in early life; Hanson, who died at the age of eleven; David H., who was formerly presi- dent of the Farm and Investment Company, and Savings Bank of Greeley, and died here Sep- tember 6, 1894; Emma L., wife of Albert Bowen, proprietor of the Bowen Hotel of Boulder, Colo .; and Mary, who died in early womanhood.

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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 53

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