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He was successful in defeating the attempt of the secretary of the treasury, who endeav- ored to weaken or abolish the Denver mint, and obtained an appropriation therefor, de- spite the heavy opposition against him. Through his skillful management, land offices were established in the mining camps, and an appropriation made for the survey of Colorado by Professor F. V. Hayden, whose published reports on the Rocky Mountain re- gion are of great historical and scientific value. He was especially active in promoting the passage of bills that assisted in the eom- pletion of the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads. Much needed surveys were also possible through his influence in obtain- ing appropriations for that purpose. From 1872 until 1876, he was a member of the ter- ritorial council (senate) and was president of that body during his first term. Mr. Chil- cott was a member of the lower house from Pueblo, in 1878, and during the session of 1878-1879, he was a prominent candidate for United States Senator, at the time of the election of N. P. Hill. In 1882, when Sen- ator Henry M. Teller resigned from the senate to become secretary of the interior in President Arthur's cabinet, Governor Pit- kin appointed Mr. Chilcott to fill the va- cancy, until the meeting of the legislature in 1883. When that body was convened, Lieutenant Governor Horace A. W. Tabor was elected to fill the remainder of the un- expired term of Senator Teller, and Judge Thomas M. Bowen was then elected for the full term of six years to sueeeed Senator Tabor.
In 1884, Senator Chilcott was elected state senator from Pueblo county for a term of four years, serving in the sessions of 1885 and 1887. During his long and honorable publie serviee in Colorado, he was a stauneh republican. He was one of the eminent men of Colorado's early history. He accumulated considerable property, and was also inter- ested in Pueblo real estate. He erected the old Fifth Avenue hotel, the first good hotel in Pueblo, also built the Chilcott block, and made other investments. It was through his influence, that the state insane asylum was established in that city.
During the last few years of his life he was much crippled by rheumatism, and it was while visiting St. Louis for the treat- ment of this ailment that he passed away.
Senator Chileott married, March 21, 1850, Miss Jennie Cox, and to them were born three sons and one daughter.
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HORACE AUSTIN WARNER TABOR
HORACE AUSTIN WARNER TABOR.
TABOR, HORACE AUSTIN WARNER, United States senator from Colorado (February 1, 1883, until March 3, 1883; lieu- tenant governor, Colorado, 1879-1883) min- ing, born at Holland, Orleans county, Ver- mont, November 26, 1830, died in Denver,
Colorado, April 10, 1899, was the son of Cor- nelius D. and Sarah (Terrin) Tabor, and was descended from prominent colonial ances- try. He came from a family of soldiers. Af- ter receiving a common school education, he learned the stone entter's trade, which he
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followed until twenty-five years of age, a part of the time residing in Massachusetts. Removing to Kansas in 1855, he engaged in farming, and became a prominent leader in the free soil party, and was active in politics during the border ruffian troubles. He was elected a member of the lower house of the Kansas legislature in 1856, which was dis- persed by Colonel Sumner, under direction of President Pierce. Remaining in Kansas until 1859, he crossed the plains to Colorado in that year, attracted by the rich discover- ies of gold that had been made in this re- gion. He earned his first wages as a gold miner in the vicinity of the present site of Idaho Springs, and spent the winter of 1859- 1860 in Auraria (now West Denver). In the spring of 1860, he went to Independence Gulch, and after unsatisfactory results in prospecting at the mouth of Cache creek, he followed the rush to California gulch, where rich gold placers had been discovered in the vicinity of what about twenty years later, became the great carbonate silver mining camp of Leadville. Here he remained, en- gaged in mining and merchandizing, the first year making from $5,000 to $8,000, and the second, about $15,000. His first mining in California Gulch was near the Discovery. In 1865, he removed to Buckskin Joe, a booming mining camp in Park county, where he opened a miner's supply store, and also served as postmaster. Returning to Califor- nia Gulch in 1868, he opened a little later a store in Oro City and was also postmaster, but removed to New Oro, when the old town, which had at one time boasted of a popula- tion of about eight thousand, became almost deserted. In the fall of 1877, he returned to what is now Leadville, continuing in busi- ness as a merchant ; and also engaged in min- ing. Through a grubstake to August Rische and George T. Hook, the Little Pittsburgh was discovered at Leadville, in May, and during the first half of July, the mine was yielding eight thousand dollars a week. This property was combined with others, and Ta- bor sold his interest for one million dollars. He then made other investments, purchasiing eight hundred and ninety shares, being near- ly half the share of the First National Bank, Denver. He bought the Matchless mine in Leadville, and other valuable properties in that camp, extending his operations into the San Juan and other parts of the state, and also into Arizona, New Mexico, and old Mex- ico. He also made large mining investments with Marshall Field of Chicago. For a time, the Matchless yielded him two thousand dol- lars a day, which with other incomes, made
him one of the leading millionaires of the west. He was public spirited in his invest- ments. The Tabor opera house at Leadville was erected by him at a cost of seventy- eighty thousand dollars. He was one of the chief promotors of the water works system for Leadville, and was one of the incorpora- tors of the Leadville Gas Company, and was liberal in his gifts to the fire department, the Tabor hose company being named in his hon- or. He was mayor of Leadville in 1878-79, and lieutenant governor of Colorado, 1879- 1883. Later, making his residence in Den- ver, he made heavy real estate investments in the latter city, being the first to erect the more costly buildings. At the corner of Sixteenth and Larimer streets, on the site of the old Broadwell house, he erected the handsome Tabor block. On the corner of Sixteenth and Curtis streets, Denver, he built the costly Tabor opera house, which at the time, was one of the handsomest in the en- tire country. He owned other valuable real estate investments in Denver, including the old family residence of Henry C. Brown, and La Veta place and on the site of the latter now stands the Denver public library. At one time he owned the corner of Sixteenth and Arapahoe, where was later erected the present postoffice.
When Senator Henry M. Teller became a member of President Arthur's cabinet in 1882, Senator George M. Chilcott was ap- pointed by Governor Pitkin to fill the vacan- cy, but when the legislature was convened. Tabor was elected to fill the remainder of the term from February 1, 1883, to March 3, 1883.
Senator Tabor also made heavy invest- ments in Honduras, obtaining a great of ev- ery alternate section of land for four hun- dred miles on the Patook river, which includ- ed extensive groves of mahogany and other valuable woods, plantations of tropical fruits and traets with deposits of gold, silver and coal, and also one hundred and fifty square miles of mineral lands in the interior of Hon- duras. He also was interested in vast tracts of land in southern Colorado and in Texas. At one time, Senator Tabor was estimated to be worth ten million dollars. Some unfor- tunate investments, together with the panic of 1893, swept away his fortune. Senator Tabor married twice. In 1898, he was ap- pointed postmaster at Denver, and was hope- ful of retrieving his lost fortune, but passed away, April 10, 1899, before he could pull to- gether his many and scattered interests, and died a poor man.
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THOMAS M. BOWEN
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THOMAS M. BOWEN.
BOWEN, THOMAS M., United States Sen- ator from Colorado (1883-1889) Brevet Brigadier General, United States Volunteers in the Civil War; Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1867-1871; Governor of Idaho Territory, 1871), was born near the present site of Burlington, Iowa, October 26, 1835, and died in 1906. He was educated in the publie schools, and received his academic education at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. At the age of eighteen, he was admitted to the bar. Removing to Wayne county, that state, he was elected to the lower braneh of the legis- lature in 1856. In 1858, he located in Kansas.
On the outbreak of the civil war, he be- came captain of a company in the First Ne- braska Volunteers. He recruited and be- came colonel of the Thirteenth Kansas Vol- unteer Infantry. The rank of brevet brig- adier general was eonferred upon him, and during the last two years of the war he eommanded a brigade, first in the army of the frontier, and then in the Seventh Army Corps. His army service extended from June, 1861, to July, 1865, in which he made a brave and gallant record. In 1864, he was a delegate from Kansas to the national re- publican convention. After the war, he located in Arkansas, and was a member and president of the constitutional conventions of 1866 and 1868 in that state, under the reeon- struction acts of Congress. He was one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Arkan- sas from 1867 to 1871. In the latter year, he was appointed governor of the Territory of Idaho, but soon resigned and returned to Arkansas. He entered the contest for elee-
tion to the United States Senate, but was defeated by Senator S. W. Dorsey.
In 1875, Judge Bowen removed to Colo- rado, loeating at Del Norte, and for four years was on the district bench. He then engaged in mining in the Summit distriet, developing rich and valuable gold properties. At the time of Senator Henry M. Teller's resignation, when he entered the cabinet as secretary of the interior, Judge Bowen was a leading candidate for the appointment to fill the vaeaney. After the selection of Sen- ator Chilcott by Governor Pitkin, Judge Bowen became a candidate for the long term, being disappointed in not receiving the ap- pointment. In the fall of 1882, he was elected a member of the house of the Colo- rado legislature, and was a member of that body when the senatorial fight was on. It was a long and spirited contest, finally re- sulting in the election of Judge Bowen to serve the full term of six years from 1883 until 1889, to succeed Senator Horaee A. W. Tabor, who had been elected to fill the un- expired term of Senator Teller.
Senator Bowen, on retiring from the senate, engaged in mining, and looking after his business interests, and during the later years of his life he and his family made their residence in Pueblo. He was for many years an historical figure in the west, having been prominent in the political history of Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Idaho, and Colorado, to- gether with his military reeord of four years in the army during the civil war. He was a republican during his entire political career.
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EDWARD OLIVER WOLCOTT
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EDWARD OLIVER WOLCOTT.
WOLCOTT, EDWARD OLIVER, United States Senator, born, Longmeadow, Massachusetts, March 26, 1848, died at the Riviera, March 1, 1905, was the son of Sam- uel (D. D.) and Harriet Amanda (Pope) Woleott, who were married in 1843. He is descended from Henry Wolcott, the original settler, from Tolland in Somersetshire, where the family had lived for generations, who sailed from Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, and was one of the company that set- tled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, but in 1636, removed to Connectieut The Wolcott family, distinguished in American history from the Colonial days to the present, num- bers among its members one signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of Washington's cabinet, three governors of Connectieut, a governor of Massachusetts, contemporaneous with Edward O. Wolcott, the only one of that name, who occupied a seat in the United States Senate; and to this list may well he added Henry Roger Wolcott (brother of the Senator) who as president pro tem. of the state senate, has served as acting governor of Colorado; and Miss Anna Louise Wolcott (his sister), who in the Colo- rado campaign of 1910, was elected regent of the State University.
While through intermarriage, Senator Wolcott traced his lineage to two of the sons and one of the daughters of the founder of the American family, the direct male line was through Simon, son of Henry Wolcott, as was that of the three Wolcotts who were governors of Connecticut and also the later Governor Roger Wolcott of Massachusetts. The shield of the Wolcott eoat-of-arms in- eludes three chess-rooks, the use of which was authorized by Henry V. to one of his ancestors, who checkmated the king in a game of chess.
The Senator's ancestor, Samuel Wolcott, served in the Revolution. He was the father of Elihu Woleott (the Senator's grand- father). The Reverend Samuel Woleott, the father, was born in South Winsdor, July 2, 1813, and died at Longmeadow in February, 1886. A graduate of Yale in 1833, and of Andover Theological Seminary in 1837, he served as missionary in Syria, and returning to the United States, filled prominent Con- gregational pastorates, wrote many hymns, including the general favorite: "Christ for the World We Sing."
Edward O. Wolcott, the son, in 1864, when but sixteen, enlisted in the One Hun- dred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteers, as a pri- vate, and served in the defenses of Wash- ington. He entered Yale in 1866, did not graduate, but was graduated from the Har- vard law school in 1871, and about Septem- ber 20, that year, came to Black Hawk, Colorado, where he taught school for eight weeks. and then entered upon the practice of the law, going to Georgetown, Christmas week, 1871, where he resided until he removed to Denver in 1879. He occasion- ally also engaged in writing newspaper articles. He was elected district attorney in 1876, and state senator in 1878; United States senator, sueceeding Thomas M. Bowen, March 4, 1889; re-elected United States senator in January, 1895, to succeed himself, thus serving twelve years in that body. Republican defeat, brought about by party defection, revolt by the silver-repub- licans, and other political complications in the west, prevented his election to the senate for a third term. It was a battle royal, and nerved by the great odds against him, Wol- eott was never more magnificent in his ora- tory than in that campaign, when bearing aloft the banner of his party and leading almost a forlorn hope, he and what is com- monly known as the "Old Republican Guard" went to their defeat.
Although the Senator achieved a national reputation, which he well sustained as a great orator, he was a modest and diffident speaker in his earlier career in Colorado. His term as state senator further developed his forensic powers. Becoming attorney and counselor for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and other large corporations, and being retained in remunerative mining litiga- tion, there came wealth and a broader field of work. The fluent speaker became the brilliant orator, and, when he entered the senate, he was fully equipped for that lead- ership which became his own. In 1901, President Mckinley appointed him a dele- gate to negotiate for international bi-metal- lism.
He was a Wolcott of the Wolcotts, and the family motto from Horace, typified the story of his life :
"Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri." "Accustomed to swear by the words of no master."
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THOMAS MACDONALD PATTERSON.
P ATTERSON, THOMAS MACDONALD, United States Senator (1901-1907), law- ver and journalist, born November 4, 1839, in County Carlow, Ireland, was the son of James and Margaret (Mountjoy) Patterson. His family was prominent in the North of Ire- land, where his grandfather, James Patter- son, a man of affairs, and a large stock dealer, reared a family of five children. One
was killed at the battle of Trafalgar. The family, consisting of his father, mother, sis- ter Kate, brother James, and the Senator, eame to the United States in 1849.
Senator Patterson attended the public schools at Astoria, Long Island, until four- teen years of age, when he became a clerk in the department store of Blackwell & Cur- tis of Astoria. His father removed to Craw-
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of his sons, James, a merchant and jeweler, first at Cavan, Ireland, and later in Liver- pool, married Margaret, daughter of Alex- ander and Margaret Mountjoy, and through the maternal line, the subject of this sketch is of French-Huguenot extraction. Senator Patterson's middle name, MacDonald, is for that of a nephew of his grandmother, who was a midshipman in the English navy, and
fordsville, Indiana, in 1853, where young Patterson learned the printer's trade, work- ing for three years on the Crawfordsville "Review." From 1857 until 1861, he as- sisted his father in the jewelry business, but in the latter year, he enlisted with his brother James, who was killed in the battle of Winchester, in the Eleventh Indiana In- fantry. In 1862-1863, he was a student at
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Asbury (now Du Pauw University), and in 1863 entered Wabash College, taking the junior year. The degree of A. M. was after- ward conferred on him by Du Pauw Uni- versity. On leaving Wabash College, he he- gan the study of law with M. D. White at Crawfordsville, and after his admission to the bar, in 1867, becoming a partner of Judge J. R. Cowan, with whom he continued the practice until he removed to Denver, in December, 1872. He had already become prominent as a lawyer in Indiana, and at once entered upon a successful and lucra- tive practice of the law in this city, in which he became associated with Charles S. Thomas. In 1873, he was elected city attorney, and was re-elected in 1874, and became one of the leaders of the democratic party, and prominent in its councils. Senator Patter- son is a born leader, and early in his career developed a genius for the control of men and events. He is an orator, and although gifted as a public speaker, yet hardly more brilliant as such, than as a writer. Fearless in the advocacy of what he believes to be right, after having reached a determination as to what course of action he should follow, he became eminent not only as a party leader, and lawyer, but an historic figure, first in this state and the west, and then exerted an influence national in its scope and magni- tude. In 1874, he was elected territorial delegate to congress, the first democrat chosen to that position in Colorado, although he had been a resident hardly more than two years. He labored energetically with both democrats and republicans, and it was largely through his efforts that Colorado was a little later admitted as a state. Senator Patterson was nominated for both the short term of the forty-fourth and the full term of the forty-fifth congresses, in both of which he served, retiring in 1878 when he resumed the practice of the law. The impetus given the mining industry by the discoveries at Leadville, Aspen, and other mining towns, was productive of extensive litigation, in which he was prominent in leading suits, and thereby built up a lucrative practice. In 1888, he was defeated for governor. Senator Patterson was a delegate to the national democratie conventions of 1876, 1880, 1888, and 1892, and member of the national demo- cratie committee, 1874-1880. He was a mem- ber of the committee on resolutions in the national democratic convention of 1892, and brought in a minority report in which no other joined, favoring a declaration for the free coinage of silver. It was voted down by a large majority, but was adopted by the
convention of 1896. He was a delegate to the national populist conventions of 1896 and 1900 (permanent chairman). In 1892, he repudiated the nomination of Mr. Cleve- land, and was instrumental in carrying Colo- rado for Mr. Weaver. He was elected presi- dential elector in 1896, and 1900. In 1890, Senator Patterson became the proprietor of the Rocky Mountain News, and later of the Denver Times, the News representing the morning and the Times the evening editions of these publications. Later, he disposed of his interest in the Times, but is still the owner and editor of the News. His editorial work represents his versatility and ability as a writer, that is only equalled by his genius as an orator, in the advocacy of the rights of the masses against corporate greed and aggrandizement. His speeches in the national conventions of the democratic and populist parties, and during his campaign tours through many states, when advocating the election of Mr. Bryan, were brilliant philippies in behalf of the people against the enslavement of the money power.
In 1901, he received the united support of the democrats, populists, and silver repub- lieans for United States Senator, all the votes of the legislature, except nine, being cast for him. During his term of six years in that body at Washington, he rendered Colo- rado most valuable services, and made a record of battles faithfully and earnestly fought in behalf of the people, and was always known as the champion of their rights and liberties. It is but natural, that a man of Senator Patterson's decided views and opinions on all publie questions, and his strenuous manner of advocating and maintaining them, should invite hostile, and not always gentle criticism, but nothing swerves him from his duty as he sees and understands it.
Senator Patterson married at Watertown, New York, in 1863, Miss Catharine A. C., daughter of Dr. Samuel H. Grafton, a grand- niece of Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Christian Church. Mrs. Patterson passed away, July 16, 1902, and is remembered for her many charitable acts, kind deeds, and high social standing, and work in the church. The loss of a beloved wife, son, and daughter, cast a gloom over the threshold, amid the successes that crowned his bril- liant career. A surviving daughter is the wife of R. C. Campbell, formerly of Wheel- ing, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Camp- bell have the following children: Thomas Patterson Campbell, Richard C. Campbell, Jr., and Katharine Grafton Campbell.
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SIMON GUGGENHEIM
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SIMON GUGGENHEIM.
G UGGENHEIM, SIMON, United States Senator, born Deeember 30, 1867, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his education in the public schools of that city ; after the completion of his school term he spent about two years traveling in Europe, in order to make a study of foreign lan- guages.
Simon Guggenheim is one of seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, who came to America from Switzerland in 1848. In 1888 the Phil- adelphia Smelting and Refining Company was organized at Pueblo, Colorado, and the subject of this sketch having been trained along practical business lines, co-operated with his brothers in the management of that company, for which purpose he located at Pueblo in the year mentioned, at the age of twenty-one. Since that time Simon Guggen- heim has made Colorado his permanent place of residence, moving to Denver from Pueblo in 1892, where he has ever since resided.
The silver republican party of Colorado nominated Simon Guggenheim for lieutenant governor in 1896, but he was under the age required by the state constitution for the oc- eupant of that office, and he withdrew from the ticket, which was elected. In 1898 he was nominated by the same party for the position of governor, and was indorsed by the convention of the peoples party, but he declined the nomination. In 1904, however, the republican party bestowed upon Mr. Guggenheim the high honor of presidential elector, and he was one of the five who cast the vote of the State of Colorado for Theo- dore Roosevelt. In 1907 he was elected to the United States senate as a republican to
succeed Thomas M. Patterson, democrat, for the full term of six years, and took his seat March 4, 1907. At the time of his election to this office Mr. Guggenheim resigned all the positions he held with the various companies with which he was identified, and disasso- ciated himself entirely from business, with the expressed intention of devoting his en- tire time to the duties of his office as United States senator, which intention he has sys- tematielly carried out.
Due to his thorough familiarity with the needs of the west, Senator Guggenheim has been able to accomplish much good for the state of Colorado, and by his untiring efforts and indefatigable energy has been instru- mental in securing the passage of consider- able beneficial legislation for that state. At this time Senator Guggenheim is a member of the following committees in the United States senate: Philippines (chairman), ag- riculture and forestry, eensus, conservation of national resources, military affairs, mines and mining, postoffices and post roads, public lands. His term of office will expire March 3, 1913.
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