Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, containing portraits and biographies of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 57

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

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While living in Platteville, Dr. Stradley was a candidate for county clerk of Weld County on the Populist's ticket, which was defeated. At the time of the election he was absent in the east, at the bedside of his dying father. He became a member of the Masonic fraternity when he was a young man, in Bloomingdale, Mich. He is a member of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias and is a Knight of the Maccabees. He was married in Wabash, Ind., in 1863 to Miss N. M. Barnhart, a native of Virginia and daugh- ter of Joel Barnhart, an early settler of Wabash. Of the four children born to the doctor and wife three are living, namely: Carl, a civil engineer and county surveyor; Maude M., Mrs. Dudley, of Longmont; and Edessa E., who is at home.

00 ANIEL N. STRADLEY, M. D., one of the well-known and highly respected physicians of Longmont, has been established in prac- tice here for the past eighteen years and has been a resident of the county for a score of years. That he is considered an authority in his special de- partment, nervous and mental diseases, is evi- denced by the fact that four different judges have appointed him as medical expert in lunacy cases. He has also served to the entire satisfaction of everyone as city physician and is medical exami- ner for several of the old standard life insurance companies. In 1892 he opened a sanitarium here for the treatment of persons afflicted with dipso- mania and nervous diseases, and has successfully attended to some eight or nine hundred patients. He has the highest testimonials from many of these, and 1111merous outsiders who know of the good work that has been accomplished under his able management in this institution.

The birth of Dr. D. N. Stradley occurred in Mount Blanchard, Ohio, July 3, 1849. His par- ents were Dr. D. W. and Elizabeth (Bell) Strad- ley, likewise of Ohio, of English descent, but rep- resentatives of patriotic American families who had dwelt in the United States for several gene- rations. Dr. Stradley, Sr., practiced his profes- sion in Ohio and Indiana, and was loved and re- spected by all who knew him. His children were ten in number, but only six lived to maturity. Four daughters married and had homes of their · own in Indiana, but one by one they were gath- ered to the silent land, and now, of the entire

family only two remain, the subject of this article and his brother, Dr. Ayres, who has been in part- nership with him for about two or three years.

The early years of Dr. Daniel N. Stradley were spent in Wabash, Ind., where he attended the public schools. Having inherited a taste for the medical profession he found an able instructor in his father, and in 1873 took a course of lectures in the Curtis Medical College in Cincinnati, com- pleting his studies in Marion, Ind., where the college had been removed after his first year in the institution. He graduated in 1875, but in the preceding year had begun practice in Marion, with Dr. Snodgrass, the dean of the college. In 1878, on account of poor health, Dr. Stradley came to Colorado, and for two years or more lived in Boulder. There he became a member of the Boulder County Medical Association and in partnership with Dr. H. W. Allen was made sur- geon for the South Park & Rio Grande Railroad, and opened a hospital at Buena Vista, Dr. Allen being secretary and himself treasurer. When the railroad was completed the hospital was aban- doned, and Dr. Stradley came to Longmont, where he has since made his home, his office being on Main Street. Formerly he was a member of the Indiana Medical Society.

In addition to being thoroughly interested in his professional work, Dr. Stradley and his brother are engaged in mining operations upon quite a large scale. They are working the Vir- ginius mine near Ward, and the Miser group of mines in the vicinity of Rowena, near Left Hand. The subject of this article was one of the incor- porators of the Great Northern Oil, Coal, Mineral Refining and Prospecting Company, which is capitalized at $100,000, and has as its president Dr. W. H. Davis, of Denver, Colo .; treasurer, Dr. Stradley; secretary, Judge H. M. Minor, of Longmont; and manager, S. L. Holaday. Prof. Arthur Lakes, late professor of geology at the State School of Mines and editor of Mines and Minerals in Denver, was employed by the company to make a thorough investigation of the strata and existing conditions of the region which they proposed to search for oil, coal and minerals, and his careful and detailed report was most encour- aging and valuable, pointing out, as it does, the facts and reasons for his belief of the existence of certain mineral and oil deposits within conven- ient distance from Longmont. With redoubled

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vigor and enterprise the company is now pushing forward the work which is certain, sooner or later, to meet with the most gratifying results.

Politically the doctor is identified with the People's party. October 1, 1898, he received the nomination of his party for representative of the northern district of Colorado. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Knights of the Maccabees. He was married in Xenia, Ohio, in 1873, toMiss Margaret Pence, daughter of Darius Pence. She was born and reared in Xenia and by her marriage with the doctor is the mother of a son, D. Pry, who is a promising young man, and is a member of Gross Medical College, class of '99.

OHN ROWLAND HANNA. Coming to Colorado in 1869 and to Denver in 1871, Mr. Hanna has witnessed much of the de- velopment of the state and has been identified with the growth of Denver since it was a place of five thousand inhabitants. Religious, charit- able and educational institutions have alike felt the impetus of his sympathy and support, and in every enterprise calculated to benefit the people he has been deeply interested. After years of active connection with the banking business of this city, he resigned his position and retired to private life.

The Hanna family is of Scotch-Irish lineage, but has had representatives in America from an early day. In their honor was named Hannas- town, Westmoreland County, Pa., which was so loyal to the cause of freedom that it declared in- dependence from Great Britain in May, 1775, soon after the battle of Lexington. After the Revolution the town was burned by the Indians. Judge Johu Hanna, grandfather of our subject, was born in Hannastown and removed to Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming, and also for a time served as county judge. He attained to advanced years.

Our subject's father, A. F. Hanna, was born in Cadiz, where he first engaged in merchandis- ing, but later was editor of the Liberty Advocate in that city. He died in 1847, when he was thirty-four years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Susanna Craig, was born in Cadiz, the youngest of six children and the only living representative of her family during her

later years. She died in Colorado in 1892, at the age of seventy-five. Her father, Rowland Craig, was born in Brownsville, Pa., and settled in Ca- diz, where he engaged in the mercantile business until his death. Our subject was one of three children that attained maturity, two of whom are living. His brother, Maj. James W. Hanna, served during the Civil war and at its close or- ganized a company and came to Colorado to fight the Indians, being stationed at Fort Collins until his honorable discharge. He now lives in Denver.

Born and reared in Cadiz, our subject attended the public schools and Franklin College in Har- rison County. At the age of eighteen he went to Mercer, Pa., where he secured work as book- keeper, and when twenty-three he started the first bank in the place. After five years he sold it to the First National Bank, of which he was cashier from 1864 to 1869, resigning in the latter year on account of illness. In the spring of that year he came to Colorado, where the salubrious air and outdoor exercise upon a farm enabled him to regain his health. In the spring of 1871 he came to Denver and at once began to plan the organization of the City National Bank, the char- ter for which he secured in Washington. His bank bought out the private bank of Warren Hussey and continued the business at the corner of Fifteenth and Market streets, but after fifteen years erected a new building and removed to Six- teenth and Lawrence streets. In 1892, after having served as cashier for twenty years, he was made president, and continued in that ca- pacity until the business was sold in 1894. He was then with its successors, the American Na- tional Bank, as vice-president until the suspen- sion of the institution.

In Penn Yan, N. Y., Mr. Hanna married Miss Ione T. Munger, who was born in New York state, the daughter of Lyman and Martha S. (Whitney) Munger, natives of Massachusetts and New York respectively. Her father, who was a druggist in Penn Yan, later engaged in the gro- cery and drug business at Galva, Ill., and still later engaged in farming. In 1891 Mr. and Mrs. Munger came to Denver, where they have since made their home with their daughter, Mrs. Hanna. The latter is a member of the Daugh- ters of the Revolution. Active in educational work, she has been president of the educational department of the Woman's Club and for one

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term of three years held the office of school di- rector, but afterward refused renomination.

With others Mr. Hanna organized the Colorado College at Colorado Springs in 1874, and from its inception he has taken an active interest in the progress of the institution. For years he was its treasurer and is now serving as a trustee. The college is now considered one of the leading edu- cational institutions in the west. Politically he is a Republican. In the organization of the Y. M. C. A. he took an active part and for more than twenty years he has been one of its trustees. He assisted in the founding and building of the People's Tabernacle Congregational Church, in which he was long a trustee. With many of the laudable enterprises for the advancement of Den- ver his name has been intimately identified and his influence has been felt in their development. It may be truly said that Denver has no citizen more loyal to its welfare than he, nor are there many who have been more important factors in its progress and advancement.

J DWARD A. THOMPSON. In the last half of the present century the lawyer has been a pre-eminent factor in all affairs of private concern and national importance. He has been depended upon to conserve the best and perma- nent interests of the whole people and is a recog- nized power in all the avenues of life. He stands as the protector of the rights and liberties of his fellow-men and is the representative of a profession whose followers, if they would gain honor, fame and success, must be men of merit and ability. Such a one is Edward A. Thomp- son, who is now serving as county attorney of Weld County.

He was born in Gravesend, England, May 27, 1845, but in November, 1847, was brought to America by his parents, Dr. William and Eliza (Hodson) Thompson, who settled in Bradford County, Pa., first at Leroy and later at Herrick, where he has been engaged in the practice of medi- cine until within the last few years. In 1896 he removed to Towanda, the same county, where he is now enjoying a well-earned rest. Eleven chil- dren constituted his family, namely: William H., · who was graduated from Princeton College and is now a leading attorney of Wyalusing, Pa .;

Alfred, a merchant of Towanda, Pa .; Edward A., of this sketch; Mary, deceased wife of Frederick Leavenworth, of Towanda; Josephine, who died in childhood; Ernest T., who died at Towanda; Ferdinand, a physician practicing at the asylum in Bradford County, Pa .; Edith A., deceased, who was a teacher in the south; Eugene A., an attorney of Towanda; John G., a carpenter and builder of Scranton, Pa .; and Ethelbert R., a business man of Towanda.

Edward A. Thompson acquired his literary education in the common schools of Herrick and the Towanda Collegiate Institute. As his father was a country physician in rather limited circum- stances and had a large family depending upon him, our subject began life for himself at the age of thirteen and made his own way through school, paying his expenses at college by teaching. In March, 1865, he enlisted in Company G, Ninety- ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and re- mained in the service until hostilities ceased. For three years thereafter he served as sergeant in Company A, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania National Guard, resigning his office on coming west. While teaching school in Pennsylvania, Mr. Thompson read law and was admitted to the bar in 1870, after which he engaged in practice at Towanda until 1882, the year of his arrival in Weld County, Colo. He was principal of the public schools of Erie for three years, and en- gaged in practice at that place until 1889, when he was elected county judge for a term of six years. He then removed to Greeley, where he opened an office, and has since successfully en- gaged in general practice, retaining a clientele of so representative a character as to alone stand in evidence of his professional ability and personal popularity. In 1898 he was appointed county attorney, and is now discharging the duties of that office to the utmost satisfaction of the court and bar of the county.

In August, 1870, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage with Miss Nellie M., daugliter of Dan- iel C. and Minerva M. Hall, of Bradford County, Pa. They have a son, William Hall, who was admitted to the bar in 1896 and is now associated with his father in practice under the firm name of Thompson & Thompson. The son was married January 19, 1894, to Miss Alice Clark, a daugh- ter of Arthur and Lula (McNutt) Clark, who now reside in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Nellie M.

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Thompson died at Towanda, Pa., in September, 1879. Our subject was again married at that place, November 29, 1880, his second union being with Miss Susan M. Bump, a daughter of Cor- nelius Bump, of Bradford County, Pa. She was a very successful teacher in that state, and while her husband was principal of the schools of Erie, Colo., she taught there.

Formerly Mr. Thompson was a Republican in politics, but now supports the men and measures of the Democracy. In 1867 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Herrick, Pa., but . since coming to this county has become identified with the Congregational denomination. He has affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1866 and now belongs to Poudre Valley Lodge No. 12. He has also been a Mason since 1867, and is a prominent member of Occidental Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., of Greeley; Greeley Commandery No. 10, K. T .; Greeley Chapter No. 13, R. A. M .; Greeley Lodge No. 31, K. of P., which hejoined in 1891; and U. S. Grant Post No. 13, G. A. R. He has filled various offices in each of these orders.

HARLES W. ENOS, M. D., who is one of the prominent homeopathic physicians of Denver, is vice-president and a director of the Denver Homeopathic Medical College and Hos- pital Association, in the organization of which he actively assisted. He was also one of the or- - ganizers of the Denver Homeopathic Club and belongs to the Colorado State Homeopathic Med- ical Society. In the college he is lecturer on materia medica, also professor of the eye, ear, nose and throat department, and successfully superintends a large clinic at the free dispensary. Since May, 1889, when he came to Denver, he has been closely identified with the homeopathic fraternity of this city. In 1880-81 he took a special course in the New York Ophthalmic Hos- pital and later he also studied in Dr. Knapp's Ophthalmic and Oral Institute, from which he re- ceived a certificate. In 1883 he took a post- graduate course in the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege of Chicago. He is very systematic in his professional work and, believing such a plan to

be helpful, he takes a complete record of every case that comes to his notice, also a record of the an- cestry.

Dr. Enos was born in Marine, Madison County, Il1., December 13, 1849, and is the son of Charles R. and Eliza Ann (Thorp) Enos. His father was educated in New York state and after his re- moval to Illinois he settled on a farm near Ma- rine, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1873, when he was fifty-nine years of age, he en- tered the Missouri Homeopathic Medical College and took the regular course of lectures, graduating as an M. D. Since then he has been engaged in active practice, and though now eighty-three years of age he still superintends his professional inter- ests successfully. For the last twenty years he has resided in Jersey County, Il1.

The marriage of Dr. C. R. Enos united him with Eliza Ann Thorp, a member of a Puritan family and the descendant of ancestors who emigrated from Holland to England, thence to America. She died in May, 1897, aged seventy-one years. Of her seven sons and three daughters, two sons are deceased, and of the survivors the five sons and one of the daughters are homeopathic physi- cians, while another daughter is a nurse. The children are named as follows: Sarah Cordelia Enos, M.D., of Jerseyville, Ill. ; George, deceased; Charles W., of this sketch; Ida Viola, wife of Theodore S. Ellison, of Emmetsburg, Iowa; Will- iam H., of Alton Ill .; Joseph W., of Jerseyville; Dudley, deceased; Lawrence, of Decatur, Ill .; Clinton, of Brighton, Colo .; and Grace, a nurse who lives in Jerseyville.

The literary studies of our subject were carried on in the Illinois State Normal School at Normal, near Bloomington, Il1., and the Illinois Industrial State University at Champaign. He studied Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri and graduated in 1874, after which he went to Jerseyville, Il1., and engaged in practice for fifteen years, coming from there to Denver in 1889. In political belief he has been a Prohibi- tionist since 1881 and in 1884 he was his party's candidate for secretary of state of Illinois. He has always been deeply interested in the temper- ance movement and gives his influence to the cause. By his marriage to Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Abner and Margaret S. Cory, he has three children, Herbert C., Grace E. and Charles R. Enos.

C. S. DESCH.

MRS. C. S. DESCH.

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ASPAR S. DESCH is prominent in the business, civic and fraternal circles of Colo- rado. He is the manager of the Corry Mining Company, at Silver Plume, and is a member of the executive committee and manager of the Silver Plume Electric Light plant. In 1881 he started the gas works in Georgetown and operated the same until the company was consolidated with the United Light and Power Company. In 1893 he placed in successful run- ning order the Georgetown electric light works and has since been connected with the company as a director. Thirty years ago he joined the Knights of Pythias and in 1889 associated him- self with the Silver Plume Lodge, of which he is past chancellor. He is now grand chancellor of the order of the state. In the Masonic order, with which he became associated in Balti- more, Md., in 1865, he also stands high. He belongs to Warren Lodge No. 51, A. F. & A. M .; Phoenix Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and Baltimore Commandery No. 2, K. T., when a resident of Baltimore, and now is identified with Washing- ton Lodge No. 12, A. F. & A. M .; Georgetown Chapter No. 4, R. A. M., and Georgetown Com- mandery No. 4, K. T., of Georgetown. Politi- cally he has always been a strong Republican, but now is a silver advocate.

The ancestors of C. S. Desch were participants in the Napoleonic wars. His father, Isaac Desch, was born and died in Hesse-Darmstadt, and his mother, Anna Elizabeth (Schutte) Desch, likewise a native of that German province, subsequently brought her children to the United States, taking up her abode in Albany, N. Y. C. S. Desch, the youngest of six children, was born near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Hesse-Darmstadt, Dec- ember 14, 1836. He was a lad of nine years when with the rest of the family he sailed from Cologne and Antwerp on the sailing vessel "Talbott." The tedious voyage lasted fifty-two days. In the public schools of Albany the education of our subject was completed. He was but fourteen when he began learning the stove- molder's trade, and three years later he went to Dedham, Mass., where he took up the business of cabinet-making. For ten or twelve years he was thus occupied, making furniture for the Cali- fornia trade. He worked by the piece, but gave to his firm several simple devices and inventions for fastenings, etc.

In April, 1861, Mr. Desch enlisted on the three months' call in Company G, Fifth Pennsyl- vania Infantry, while temporarily at Alexandria, Va. He was not summoned into the field, but remained at Camp Curtin. His time having ex- pired, he recruited a company, which he turned over to another man, while he proceeded to sell supplies to the army. He became an independ- ent sutler, having a store at Good Hope Hill. His brother John, captain of a company in a New York regiment, was cut in two by a cannon-ball during the Peninsular campaign.

In 1863 Mr. Desch was engaged in the real- estate business in Baltimore, and subsequently engaged in the grain business, his location being on South Charles street near Conway. There he built a large warehouse and from 1864 to 1889 was a member of the firm of C. S. Desch & Co. He was interested in grain, dealing quite extensively in the same, and also carried on a large commission business in tobacco and general produce. He was a member of the Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange and was very active and enterprising in his numerous and varied undertakings while there.

It was in 1874 that Mr. Desch first came to Colorado, but it was not before twelve years had elapsed that he gave up his eastern interests to locate here permanently. He is now manager for the Corry Mining Company, which owns the Diamond Tunnel group of twenty-nine lodes, covered by patents, and having four miles of underground passages. When the conditions become sufficiently favorable they are prepared to employ and keep busy a force of four hundred or more men. To the executive skill and genius of the manager is due the splendid system and progress of the work at these mines. He is a practical genius, and has invented many appli- ances which have been of great use in the develop- ment of the plant.

In Baltimore, November 1, 1864, Mr. Desch married Louisa A. Hagan, a daughter of John H. and Margaret Ann (Dell) Hagan. The great- grandfather of Mrs. Margaret Ann Hagan was George Hay, an officer in the Revolutionary war. He was of German descent, his ancestors having settled in the province of Maryland in 1700. His. wife was an English lady. The maternal grand- father of Mrs. Desch was a member of the liome gnard in the war of 1812 and was stationed at

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Wilmington, Del. Her ancestors for nearly two hundred years were residents of Baltimore and Wilmington. Her great-grandfather Dell was an English nobleman, who came to America at the time of the Revolution and settled in Wilming- ton. John H. Hagan for years was a prosperous merchant of Baltimore, of which city Mrs. Desch is a native. Will M., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Desch, is bookkeeper and cashier in the office of the Times, in Denver; Caspar S., Jr., is a member of the class of 1901, Mining University of Colo- rado; the only daughter, Emily Addie, is the wife of Harry Morganthau, a dry-goods merchant, residing at Silver Plume, Colo.

ON. REUBEN CALVIN WELLS, ex- state senator from the eighth district of Colorado, is one of the pioneers of '59, but he did not make permanent settlement in the west until 1869. He then bought the building and water power owned by the Golden Paper Mills Company and at once began to remodel the plant, introducing new machinery and water wheels, and greatly increasing the capacity of the mill. He was a pioneer in the manufacture of wrapping and news paper, of which he made a success. For several years he manufactured pa- per used by the Rocky Mountain News, Tribune and Times, until they began to purchase in the east paper manufactured from wood pulp. After- ward he continued to manufacture wrapping and building paper, his mills having a capacity of five tons per day. All the buildings but one, 40x60, were erected by himself, including a two- story mill, 80x140, and a two-story warehouse, 50X130, to which a siding runs from the Denver & Gulf Railroad. About 1872 he started the first wholesale and retail paper store ever in Den- ver, his location being Sixteenth, between Mar- ket and Larimer streets. The party to whom he sold the business later disposed of it to C. N. Knowles, the present proprietor. In 1896 he leased the mill and retired from business.

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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 57

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