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Soon after his arrival in Denver, Mr. Gaylord engaged in the insurance business, and during his long career in this line of ac- tivity, has brought to himself a large and influential clientele. He has only repre- sented first-class insurance interests, and thus was given the business of the best com- mercial and professional men in the Rocky Mountain region.
Upon the organization of the Continental
Trust Company, Mr. Gaylord was elected vice-president, a position which he still holds, and was also made the manager of the insurance department of this large and in- fluential company. His long and successful business career in Denver, characterized by fair and upright dealing, together with his fitness for the position, has made his name one of the strong and potent influences back of the Continental Trust Company. His brother, Hal Gaylord, for several years iden- tified with the Denver newspapers, and es- pecially with the Denver Tribune during the old Gene Field days, has for a number of years been at the head of the Kansas City Journal. The two brothers have, from earli- est childhood, been devotedly attached to each other, and both made high marks in the history of the west in two of its most progressive cities.
Mr. Gaylord is a member of the Denver Club, Denver Athletic Club, Denver Country Club, and also the following societies and organizations : Masons, Knights Templar and Shriners; Sons of Colorado and Colorado Pioneers.
He married in Denver, October 30, 1889, Miss Kate Gordon, daughter of Colonel J. F. Seymour. They have two children, Paul Lindley and Ellen Seymour.
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JOHN ST. JOHN IRBY
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JOHN ST. JOHN IRBY.
TRBY, JOHN ST. JOHN, journalism, Colo- rado state senator, son of Meade Adams and Amanda Tanner (James) Irby, was born August 9, 1868, at Vernon Hill, Halifax county, Virginia. Mr. Irby is descended from a family, distinguished in the history of his native state, from the colonial period to the present time. Some of his forbears have become prominent in other states, in both public and private life. His American progenitor in the paternal line, was Dr. Wil- liam Irby of Charles City county, Virginia. His mother, Amanda Tanner, daughter of Colonel Robert and Polly (Tanner) James, is also related to illustrious Virginia families. His father, Meade Adams Irby, was a planter, and a prominent citizen of the state, serving in the civil war, retiring with rank of cap- tain.
John St. John Irby, their son, spent his early life on his father's plantation, and was educated at Lexington (North Carolina) Academy, and Richmond (Virginia) College, later taking a special course in law. In 1887, when but nineteen years of age, he began his first newspaper work, as a reporter on the Richmond (Virginia ) Times, and here established an enviable reputation as a news gatherer and as a writer, rising through the various stages to the managing editorship of this paper. On May 1, 1899, he came to Den- ver on account of ill health and resumed his work in the field of journalism. For a time, he was a reporter on the Denver Post, then became telegraph editor of the Denver Times. his record on both papers being noted for efficiency and alertness. A wider and broader field of work lay before him in a higher posi- tion, when he became president of the Cripple Creek Times, in 1903. Mr. Irby successfully filled the several important editorial posi- tions connected with general newspaper work and with the Cripple Creek Times he was also prominently connected with the business department. There is not an important phase of newspaper life, with which he is not familiar.
Mr. Irby is a staunch democrat, and an ardent supporter of its principles. Both in temperament and ability, he is well equipped for the political field. A gifted and grace- ful speaker, a pleasing and affable manner, and forcible writer, are the attributes with which nature and education have fitted him for public life.
Since 1904, he has been the secretary of Mayor Speer, a position he has filled with marked ability. Method, executive ability,
ready discernment, alertness to perceive and decide, are all elements essential to fill this office in the able and satisfactory manner with which Mr. Irby has occupied this try- ing position.
During his several years of service as secretary to the mayor, in which he had the friendship and esteem of the leaders of his own party, he has become popular with many of opposite political faith. He was nominated for the state senate in 1908, and elected by a large majority, leading his ticket, for the four years' term.
During the regular sessions of 1909 and 1911, and the special session of 1910, he was one of the democratic leaders of that body. His staunch democracy, honesty of purpose, and forensic ability and eloquence, made Senator Irby a prominent figure in the delib- erations of that body, and especially during the discussion of the more important and intricate questions. Senator Irby was a member of the more prominent committees.
During the regular session of 1911, he was a recognized leader of those democrats who favored the election of Mayor Robert W. Speer to the United States Senate, to succeed the late Charles J. Hughes, Jr. Although there was no election, yet that fact did not detract from the honorable and heroic fight he made in the legislature for the election of Mayor Speer. The ability with which he has served as state senator, has already caused his name to be mentioned in the lists of those upon whom greater political honors may be bestowed.
Senator Irby is a member of the Denver Press Club, of which he was president for one year. He is also a member of the Southern Society and the Democratic Club. During his public career, Senator Irby has often been called upon to deliver addresses before large conventions and public gatherings. His eloquent speeches filled with rich humor have made him one of the popular orators of the state.
Senator Irby married in Denver, October 12, 1902, Miss Harriet, daughter of Judge C. T. Ryland of San Jose, California, and grand-daughter of Governor Peter H. Bur- nett of San Francisco, California, both '49ers in California and leaders in the official life of the state. On her paternal side, Mrs. Irby is the grand-daughter of Judge John Fer- guson Ryland, who for seventeen years was a member of the supreme bench of Missouri. Senator and Mrs. Irby are both prominent in the social life of Denver.
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JAMES HERBERT BLOOD
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JAMES HERBERT BLOOD.
B LOOD, JAMES HERBERT, lawyer, born November 6, 1857, in Great Falls, New Hampshire, is the son of James Monroe (born November 7, 1829, died July 25, 1878) and Eliza K. (Evans) Blood. His father was a cotton miller, but, owing to the depres- sion in that trade during the war, he en- gaged in the jewelry business, for a time, in Philadelphia. His mother was a daughter of Daniel and Susan Bean Evans of Maine, her father, Daniel, being a consin of Gov- ernor John Evans (q. v.) of Colorado. The colonial ancestor of the family was James Blood of Cheshire, England, who came, about 1638, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts.
James H. Blood attended the public schools of Philadelphia and Denver, and the University of Michigan, graduating from the latter with the degree of LL. B. in 1879. He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi.
Mr. Blood entered upon the practice of his profession in Denver in 1879, and in 1880, with his school-mate and class-mate, G. C. Bartels (q. v.), under the firm name of Bartels & Blood. Later Frank N. Bancroft was added to the firm, the name now being Bartels, Blood & Bancroft. It is one of the old and well established legal firms of Den-
ver. For twenty-five years they have repre- sented the Colorado National Bank and af- filiated interests; and, for fifteen years, the Northern Coal and Coke Company.
Mr. Blood came to Denver in 1873, and his former places of residence were Great Falls, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachu- setts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the Masonic fraternity, he is a Shriner, Knight Templar, Scottish Rite and Thirty- second Degree. He is a member of the Den- ver Club, University Club, Denver Country Club, Colorado Traffic Club, of Denver, and the Denver Chamber of Commerce.
He married Miss Lina E. Bartels of Den- ver, September 20, 1883. She was the daugh- ter of Louis F. Bartels (born January 10, 1826, near Goettingen, Germany, and died, Denver, August 27, 1874), who came to Colo- rado in 1861.
Mr. and Mrs. Blood have the following children : Herbert T. Blood, A. B., Leland Stanford, Jr., University, and now with the Colorado National Bank; Walter W. Blood, LL. B., also of Stanford; Miss Alma Louise Blood, A. B., Vassar; and Miss Caroline Helen Blood, graduate of the Miss Wolcott School, Denver.
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FRANCIS CRISSEY YOUNG
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FRANCIS CRISSEY YOUNG.
Y OUNG, FRANCIS CRISSEY, bond dealer, born January 28, 1844, in New York City, was the son of James (1813-1895, manufacturer, New York City) and Adaline daughter of Jesse and Abia (Swift) Cris- sey] Young. His ancestors were distin- guished leaders in the early period of New England history. He is descended from Thomas Mayhew, Colonial Governor and "proprietor" of Martha's Vineyard, Nan- tucket and the Elizabeth Isles, from South- ampton, England, to Watertown, Massachu- setts, in 1631; thence to the Islands, which were afterward consolidated with the Colony of Massachusetts, and for thirty-three years was engaged in missionary work with these Island Indians.
Another ancestor was William Swift, who came with "the great Boston immigra- tion" of 1631, to Watertown, from Bocking, Essex, England, and in 1637 to Cape Cod, where he, with others, founded the town of Sandwich, from which he was Deputy to the General Court for many years.
His great-grandfather, Surgeon Isaac Swift (1753-1802) of Cornwall, Connecticut, was one of the patriots of the American Revolution. He was surgeon's mate on the staff of Colonel Charles Webb, Seventh Con- neetieut Regiment, raised in 1775; ordered to Boston Camps, September 14, and as- signed to General Sullivan's Brigade, on Winter Hill, and remained until December, 1775; regiment organized under Colonel Webb for service in 1776; surgeon in Colo- nel HIeman Swift's Seventh Regiment, Con- necticut line. Resigned May 1, 1778. This regiment went into field, 1777, in New York, and in September was ordered to join Wash- ington's army in Pennsylvania, where it fought at Germantown in 1777, and wintered at Valley Forge, 1777-1778.
Francis (more commonly known in Colo- rado as "Frank") C. Young was educated in the public schools of New York City, and served an apprenticeship of five years in John F. Trow's printing office in that city. Then for more than a year he was in the employ of the Adams Express Company,
until 1865. In the spring of that year he started from New York with a party of six young men, crossing the plains afoot with a wagon train from Atchison, Kansas. He was employed for a time by the Downieville Mining Company, at Mill City, now Dumont, Colorado, and became interested in the orig- inal and active gold district, the Gregory Diggings of the Territory. He then became associated with O. J. Hollister and Frank Hall in the "Black Hawk Journal," then the leading paper in Colorado.
In June, 1866, he was appointed teller and general accountant of the bank of War- ren Hussey & Company, at Central City. When this bank was succeeded by (J. A.) Thatcher, Standley and Company, Mr. Young was retained as cashier by the new firm, and still later in the same position (1874), when it was merged into the First National Bank of Central City. Resigning as cashier in 1880, he came to Denver, and for many years was associated with Edward W. Rollins, under the firm name of Rollins & Young, dealers in bonds and securities. Mr. Young now holds joint interests with him in the Denver Hotel & Theatre Com- pany, owner of the Metropole Hotel and Broadway Theatre. His regular personal business is that of dealer in bonds and secur- ities, and is interested in a number of invest- ments.
Mr. Young is the author of the following publications: "Echoes from Arcadia-the Story of Central City," (1903) ; "Across the Plains in '65," (1905) ; "Fifty Years of Gilpin County," etc. The first two are in the various public town libraries in the state.
Mr. Young is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, a member and former gov- ernor of the Colorado Society of the Colo- nial Wars, and of the State Historical So- ciety.
He married, in 1873, at Beloit, Wisconsin, Miss Carrie E., daughter of Chauncey F. and Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sims. They have two daughters, Eleanor Frances and Eliza- beth Stoddard.
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ROBERT JAMES PITKIN
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ROBERT JAMES PITKIN.
PITKIN, ROBERT JAMES, lawyer, born May 30, 1864, is the son of Frederick W. (q. v.) and Fidelia M. (James) Pitkin. His father was governor of Colorado from 1878 to 1882, and was descended from a New England colonial family, including a gov- ernor and prominent statesman, identified with the early history of that period.
Robert J. Pitkin was graduated from the East Denver High School in 1881. He re- ceived the degree of A. B. from Yale in 1885; that of I.I. B. from the Yale Law School in 1888. He is a member of the Psi Upsilon and the Seroll and Key (Yale).
Mr. Pitkin entered upon the practice of of the law in Denver in 1888, forming a part- nership with Mr. Earl M. Cranston, and the firm was increased by the addition of Mr. William A. Moore, in 1893. Mr. Pitkin has
made a most worthy record, stands high in his profession, and his firm is recognized as one of the strongest in the west. In addition to his practice, he is also an instructor in the Law School of the University of Denver.
Mr. Pitkin is a member of the University Club, Denver ; also a member of the Colorado Bar Association, and the Denver Bar Asso- ciation.
He married, June 20, 1895, Miss Amy Moore, the daughter of Bishop David H. Moore, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her father was formerly the chancellor of the University of Denver, and chosen a Blaine elector from Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. Pitkin have three children, Amy, born July 20, 1897; Julia, born May 12, 1899; and Marion, born September 2, 1906.
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PATRICK VINCENT CARLIN, M. D.
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PATRICK VINCENT CARLIN, M. D.
C ARLIN, PATRICK VINCENT, M. D., born in Ireland, May 8, 1854, is the son of Thomas and Mary (O'Neill) Carlin. When about a year old, he came to this coun- try with his parents, in March, 1855, who settled in Caledonia, Livingston county, New York. His father there engaged in farming, until accidentally killed in 1867. His mother brought up her family on the farm, but later came to Colorado to reside with her son, the subject of this sketch. She had two other sons, John and James, who engaged in farm- ing and mining, the former in California. A younger son, T. H. Carlin, became a physi- cian in Denver, and an only daughter, Mary A., was for several years, a teacher in the public schools of this city.
Dr. P. V. Carlin attended the public schools in Caledonia, New York, and later, by teaching, earned money with which to enter the State Normal School at Genesco, that state. Beginning the study of medicine in 1878, under Professor E. M. Moore, in Rochester, New York, he entered, a year later, the medical department of the Univer- sity of the City of New York. After a course of lectures there, he came to Colorado, lo- cating at Denver, in 1881. Entering the med- ical department of the University of Denver, he was one of five of the first graduating class, and is now the oldest physician in Denver who is a graduate of a medical col- lege located in that city. In 1907, the Uni- versity of Denver conferred upon him an honorary A. B. After his graduation in
1882, he was appointed resident physician at the county hospital, Denver, but resigning at the end of three months, he formed a part- nership with Dr. Charles Denison, continuing for two years. He then opened an office for himself.
For two years he was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical department of the University of Denver, after which, adjunct lecturer of anatomy and lecturer of obstet- rics in that institution. He was formerly consulting physician for the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf, and Leadville and Gunni- son railroads. He is now consulting surgeon of the Colorado and Southern Railroad, and a member of the staff of St. Joseph's Hos- pital.
Dr. Carlin is a member of the American Medical Association, Colorado State Medical Society, the city and county medical societies and the Denver Athletic Club.
Dr. Carlin has not only attained a most worthy position in the practice of his pro- fession, but has been also especially identi- fied with the educational interests of Den- ver. Since 1904, he has been a member of the Board of Education, and has recently been elected for a third term, and to him is due much of the credit for efficiency and high standing of the Denver public school system.
Dr. Carlin married at Geneseo, New York, in 1885, Miss B. A., daughter of T. Delehanty, of that city. They have one child, Vineent, eight years of age.
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FRANCIS WILLIAM LOVELAND
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FRANCIS WILLIAM LOVELAND.
LOVELAND, FRANCIS WILLIAM, law- ver, capitalist, son of William Austin Hamilton (q. v.) and Miranda Ann (Mont- gomery) Loveland, was horn at Brighton, Illinois, July 24, 1859. His ancestors were among the early settlers of New England, and representative of prominent families in the colonies. His American progenitor was Thomas Loveland, who came from Norwich, England, and settled in Boston, about 1630. Through this line, the descent is from Thomas Loveland, the original settler, through Robert, Lot, Joel, Timothy, Leonard, and William Austin Hamilton Loveland, to Francis William Loveland, the subject of this sketch.
Francis W. Loveland came with his par- ents to Colorado in 1860, and received his primary and early education in the public schools at Golden. Later, he entered the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1880, with the degree of B. A. He then studied law at the University of Denver, graduated from there with the de- gree of B. L., and was admitted to the bar in 1894. For several years, he was associated with his distinguished father, in some of the large and extensive business enterprises and operations, in which the former was en- gaged. For several years he was secretary and treasurer of the Rocky Mountain News Printing Company, which published the Rocky Mountain Daily News. Mr. Loveland was also secretary and treasurer of the Den- ver Circle Railroad for six years; also filled the same positions for the Denver Circle Real
Estate Company for six years. During the financial difficulties of the Grand River Ditch Company at Grand Junction, Colorado, he was the receiver for the company, for about two years. He was secretary of the Handy Ditch Company, Berthoud, Colorado, for ten years, and for fifteen years was a director and treasurer of the Denver, Lake- wood and Golden Railway Company, also serving as chairman of the reorganization committee. From 1893 to the present, he has been the general manager, secretary and treasurer of the Louisville Coal Mining Com- pany, which, at an early date, controlled about one-third of the lignite coal of Colo- rado.
Quiet and unassuming, yet Mr. Loveland is recognized as one of the prominent finan- ciers of the state, and has the management and control of large real estate and business interests. He is a member of the Colorado Bar Association, also the University Club and the Denver Country Club.
Mr. Loveland married, at Denver, Decem- ber 19, 1883, Miss Adele, daughter of Morti- mer W. and Sarah B. Beebe, and the family is prominent in the social life of the city. Mrs. Loveland is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, her ancestor, Captain John Kidney of New Jersey, having been one of the American patriots in that war. To Mr. and Mrs. Loveland were born in Denver the following children: Francis Percy Loveland, born June 11, 1885 ; Harold Montgomery Loveland, born April 7, 1888, died November 2, 1894.
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GEORGE MCCULLOUGH
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GEORGE MCCULLOUGH.
McC ULLOUGH, GEORGE, real estate, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Decem- ber 18, 1843, is the son of George (1801- 1881) and Hetty (Simpson, died 1880) MeCul- lough. His father, George Mccullough, born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, removed to Ohio in 1813, when his father settled in Harrison county, that state, then a wilderness region. When 21 years of age, Mr. Mccullough, father of the subject of this sketch, left the farm, and removing to Cadiz, the county seat, entered the employ of the clerk of the court, continuing in that office about five years, holding the position most of the time as deputy clerk, assessing and collecting the taxes. On Jan. 29, 1829, he married Miss Hetty Simpson of Cadiz, and then engaged in the dry goods business about six years. His wife was related to the Tingley family, of Morristown, New York, one of whom was on Washington's staff. After farming four years in Columbiana county, Ohio; seventeen years as a wholesale grocer in Cincinnati; five years in real estate business, Iowa City, Iowa; he then removed to Chicago. Residing there two years, he was given a position in the custom house in Baltimore, remaining there
until the close of the war. He next organized a company to bore for oil at Cambridge, Ohio, which enterprise not proving successful, he removed to Quincy, Ill. and then to Denver in 1872, engaging in real estate business, and laid out McCullough's addition, now one of the most desirable locations of Denver.
George Mccullough, his son, attended the University of Iowa, and was graduated from the Columbian Law School, Washington, D. C. in 1869, with the degree of LL. B. He practiced law for a short time, then engaged in the broker and oil business, and real es- tate. Mr. Mccullough came to Denver Oct. 5, 1872, and assisted his father to plat and lay out Mccullough's addition. He now has large real estate holdings, and has been the promoter of many enterprises that have materially aided in building up this city and state. Mr. Mccullough is a member of the Denver and Lotus clubs, and is a Scottish Rite Mason. His first marriage was in 1871, in Washington, D. C., his wife dying in 1889. In 1895, at Denver, he married Alice R. Jones. They have two daughters, Mary and Alice, now attending Miss Wolcott's School.
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EZRA TAYLOR ELLIOTT
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EZRA TAYLOR ELLIOTT.
E LLIOTT, Ezra Taylor, attorney and jur- ist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on No- vember 15, 1845. His father, Ezra Elliott, a wholesale merchant, was born on Novem- ber 3, 1802, and died January 28, 1881. His mother was Asenath Varney Elliott. Judge Elliott's ancestors came from Elliott clan, Scotland, and were among the first settlers of Maryland.
He received his first education in the public schools of Cincinnati, after which he attended Hughes High School and then studied under private tutor international law and political economy. He first engaged in business in Cincinnati, and then removed to Shawneetown, Illinois, as a coal operator, where he remained until 1871, when he came to Denver, Colorado. Judge Elliott arrived in Colorado upon the completion of the Kan- sas Pacific Railroad, with a serious case of tuberculosis. The climate routed the dis- ease and he completely recovered his health. He then decided to make the state his per- manent home.
The panic of 1873 left Denver in a pre- carious condition. It was to all intents and purposes dead and without resources, while Del Norte bade fair to become the principal city of the state, being
the distributing point for the whole San Juan country. There was $10 in circulation in Del Norte to every dollar in Denver, and its close proximity to the great mines of the state, and its climate and other attractions, caused Judge Elliott to remove to that city, where he has since resided. He engaged in mining and stock raising, and later in the practice of his profession, in all of which he was successful. Judge Elliott has always taken a citizen's interest in the welfare of the state, both financially and politically, and has attended all the conventions of his party, but never sought political office for himself. He has frequently been called upon, however, to serve the people and was chosen county judge of Rio Grande county, and has also represented the people as mayor of Del Norte. He was appointed referee in bankruptcy of the Federal court, which po- sition he held until the Fifth Division of the state was discontinued. Judge Elliott is a Mason and belongs to the Sons of Colorado and the Ohio Society of Colorado and San Juan Pioneers.
Judge Elliott and Victoria Weeden, daughter of Wanton Weeden, of Fairfield, New York, were married in Del Norte on September 15, 1885. They have no children.
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WILLIAM STERNE FRIEDMAN
WILLIAM STERNE FRIEDMAN.
FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM STERNE, rabbi, orator and lecturer, was born in Chi- cage, Illinois, October 24, 1869. He is the son of Nathan and Bertha (Sternberg) Fried-
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