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man, and received his education from the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the University of Cincinnati, graduating from the Hebrew College with the degree of
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Rabbi, and from the University of Cincinnati with the degree of B. A., in 1889.
The brilliancy of his intellectual attain- ments and oratorical ability was early rec- ognized, and caused him to be called to aet as pastor of Temple Emanuel at Denver, one of the leading Jewish Synagogues in the country. And we might state, in passing, that Rabbi Friedman's ability and efforts were appreciated to the extent, that in 1909 he was elected to this office for life.
He is acknowledged by all to be one of the most eloquent, forceful and enterprising preachers in the Rocky Mountain region, a leader in all enterprises inaugurated for the betterment of the state and humanity.
Rabbi Friedman is one of the most lib- eral pastors in his views upon religions sub- jects, never hesitating to join with other pastors of different denominations in any and every movement tending to the upbuild- ing of the churches and the people. His life work seems to be devoted to the betterment of mankind ; he is the founder and a member of the executive council of the National Jew- ish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver, the first free tuberculosis hospital ever started in America. The liberality of his views and his great fund of human kindness was dem- onstrated by his making the institution non- sectarian.
In 1901, he became a member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, serving as president from 1905 to 1909. He became a member of the Denver Public Library Com- mission in 1906, and was chosen vice-presi- dent of this body in 1910. Soon after his arrival in Denver he became vice-president of the Charity Organization Society of Den- ver, an organization that has done more to relieve the needy and those in distress than any other society in the city. This society maintains offices which are open to hear and relieve all needy eases of distress at all times, and its work in caring for unfortunates who become stranded in Denver, after coming from the east and other points, seeking re- lief from consumption and other ailments, is only one feature of its beneficent work. Numerous are the widows, orphans, and old, indigent men and women who are daily fed, housed and elothed by this worthy society.
Still engaged in good work, and gaining experience in the necessary work of prae- tical, useful charity, he realized that some organization having for its objeet the eare
of indigent sick people, who could not be taken care of by the county hospitals, was a necessity ; so he became one of the founders and the vice-president of the Saturday and Sunday Hospital Association in 1905. This society instituted what has become known as "Tag Day," in which some of the most prominent men and women volunteer their services on stated Saturdays and Sundays to sell tags in publie places, the money thus derived going into the fund handled by this association, and being used to pay the ex- penses of these indigent people in various pay hospitals.
The relief of the persecuted Jews in Rus- sia was another field for his energy, and in 1905 he assisted in organizing and became the president of the Central Committee of the Rocky Mountain Region for the relief of these people.
Just how much Rabbi Friedman is reeog- nized as a leader of his people in this eoun- try is shown by the fact that he has re- ceived calls from Chicago, Boston, Portland, Oregon, and other cities.
His scholarly attainments won him recog- nition by the University of Colorado, and in 1902 he accepted the chair of professor of Hebrew in this university, which he still holds, and in 1906, it conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him.
He has, since 1908, been one of the exec- ntive committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and chairman of the committee on church and state. The latter committee is to prevent sectarianism in our publie schools, and also to prevent the ridi- eule of the Jew on the stage, in the press and on the forum, and keep unsullied the name of the Jew. It also takes interest, nationally and internationally, in the wel- fare of the Jew.
As a lecturer on religious, economie, pa- triotic and philanthropie subjects he has few equals, combining as he does his extensive knowledge upon these subjects with a fluent and pleasing delivery and magnetie person- ality, he is much sought after to deliver ad- dresses upon all public occasions.
Rabbi Friedman married at New Or- leans, Louisiana, April 29, 1903, Juliet Freyhan, the danghter of Julius Freyhan, of that city. They have two children, J. Frey- han Friedman, born January 30, 1904, and Pauline Alma Friedman, born August 2, 1910.
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ARTHUR CORNFORTH
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ARTHUR CORNFORTH.
C ORNFORTH, ARTHUR, lawyer, born February 21, 1861, in Smethport, Mc- Kean county, Pennsylvania, is the son of the Rev. Columbus and Clara Eliza (Med- bury) Cornforth. His ancestors came to this country in the colonial period, and were pa- triots in the American Revolution. In the maternal line, he is a grandson of Nelson and Louisa (Taylor) Medbury ; great grand- son of James Taylor, who married a Miss Niles; great, great grandson of Robert and Sally (Bailey) Taylor; and, great, great, great grandson of Asa Bailey, who was a soldier in Colonel Huntington's Regiment, in the Revolution. At one time when a bat- tle was being fought near Groton, Connecti- cut, where Asa Bailey then lived, he rushed into the house and said, "Mother, we are almost out of bullets." Without hesitation she went to her pantry, took down her beautiful pewter dinner set, which she moulded into bullets with her own hands.
His father, the Rev. Columbus Cornforth, D. D., was a baptist clergyman, and made a gallant record in the civil war. He was born in 1831 and died February 11, 1883. He enlisted as a private in the Forty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, commonly known as the "Bucktail" Regiment. Reduced in numbers by hard fighting in some of the fiercest battles of the civil war, the remnant of the Forty-second was combined with the One Hundred and Fiftieth Pennsylvania, in which he served as chaplain.
Arthur Cornforth, his son, was educated in the high school, in Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania, and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. from the University of Kansas in 1882. He was admitted to the bar and at once began the practice of the law at Clyde, Cloud county, Kansas, where he remained five years. He was city attorney, at Clyde, in 1883, and was also deputy prosecuting at- torney; was also postmaster there 1883- 1885, having been appointed by President Arthur, but resigned under the Cleveland
administration. Coming to Denver in Octo- her. 1887, and after looking over the state, he located at Durango, in February, 1888, where he was express agent for the Denver & Rio Grande Railway until August, 1889, when he went to Salt Lake City, where he was variously employed until 1892. Return- ing to Durango, he resumed the practice of the law, continuing there four years, and was county attorney of La Plata county in 1895. Removing to Colorado Springs, Janu- ary 1, 1896, he has since made that city his residence, and has built up a large and suc- cessful business in the general practice of the law.
He is a Republican in politics, and has been one of the party leaders in Colorado. He was state senator, Twenty-eighth district, 1902-06, and was re-elected state senator from the same district in 1910 for another term of four years. Senator Cornforth has also served as Lieutenant-Governor of Colo- rado. He was elected president pro tem. of the state senate in the Fifteenth General Assembly. When Jesse F. McDonald, the Lieutenant-Governor, became Governor, by virtue of his position as president pro tem. of the senate, he became the successor to that honor. Senator Cornforth has also been prominently mentioned for Congress, and other positions of honor and trust. In public and private life, and in the practice of his profession, he has made a worthy and envi- able record in Colorado. As a member of the state senate, he has exerted his influence in the enactment of those laws, most beneficial for the general good. He has proved him- self to be an expert parliamentarian and a fluent speaker.
Senator Cornforth is a Mason, a member of the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America, is a past exalted ruler of the B. P. O. E., and a member also of the Colorado Springs Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution.
In December, 1882, he married Miss Fan- nie Fulke, in Lawrence, Kansas.
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SAMUEL FREDERICK DUTTON
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SAMUEL FREDERICK DUTTON.
DUTTON, SAMUAL FREDERICK, hotel
proprietor, born February 16, 1870, in Sherman, New York, was the son of Fred. priek L. (born 1835) and Mary A. (Sixbey) Dutton. ITis father, now retired from busi- ness and residing at Denver, was, for many years, a leader in politics in the western part of that state. Mr. Dutton is descended from patriots of the American Revolution, in Connectient and Rhode Island. He was educated in Sherman Academy, in his native town. As a boy, he was fascinated with the scenes of the hotel lobby, and, obtaining the consent of his father, became a bell boy in one of the hotels of his home town. The hotel business and life appealed to his youth- ful ambition, and he then decided to shape his future along that line. He has never attempted any other avocation, profession or business. From the position of bell boy to that of proprietor, he knows all about the work and management of a hotel, and has been most successful in the several enter- prises attempted by him.
For several years, he was steward at the Clifton hotel, Chicago, and, then going to Peoria, Illinois, he became manager of the National hotel at that place.
Mr. Dutton, later, was appointed super- intendent of railroad eating houses and din- ing ears of the Santa Fe, before he came to Colorado, and associated with Fred Harvey, co-operated in perfecting the system to a high condition of efficiency. While con- nected with this railroad service, Mr. Dutton was afforded an excellent opportunity to study the west, and then made up his mind, that he would sometime, make it his per- manent home. In 1894, he came to Denver, and was made the store-keeper for the Albany hotel. Later, he became steward, manager, partner, and finally the sole pro- prietor of the Albany hotel.
Regardless of the cost and expense in- curred, many improvements have been made, and few hotels are superior in service and appointments to the Albany, which is widely known as one of the best equipped hotels in the country. The building has been en- larged from time to time, entailing a large outlay of money, and all the modern con- veniences are afforded the general public.
Mr. Dutton, with commendable pride, has built up one of the finest hostelries of the west and now (1911) he is preparing to tear all of this away and replace it with a hotel second to none in America.
Mr. Dutton is not only known as a hotel proprietor, but as one of the prominent eit- izens of the state. He is always at the front in any enterprise that aids in the building up of Denver, Colorado, and the west. Lib- eral, generous, publie spirited, and affable, he is popular as a man of business and of affairs. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, he has taken a prominent part in its work, in pushing to the front the in- terests of this city. As director of the Den- ver Convention League, and prominently connected with its work, he has given valu- able aid and assistance in securing for this city the national meetings and gatherings of the leading associations and societies of this country. Probably bnt few men in this city have a more extended acquaintance than Mr. Dutton. hence the valuable services he is always able and willing to give, when these publie matters come up for consider- ation.
Mr. Dutton has also been prominently identified with the several associations thai have been organized by hotel men. For three years, 1896-1897-1898, he was president of the Rocky Mountain Hotel Men's Associ. ation ; in 1907-1908, president of the Denver Hotel Association; and, in 1909, president of the Western Hotel Men's Protective Asso- ciation.
In 1910. Mr. Dutton was one of the or- ganizers of the American Hotel Protective Association, of which he was president, 1910- 1911. This Association has offices in Chicago, New York, Denver, San Francisco, and At- lanta, Georgia. The object of this associ- ation is to warn hotels against dead-beats and crooks and to apprehend and conviet such crooks and it has already accomplished effective work, in protecting the leading hotels of the country against those who would "beat" their bills or otherwise de- frand the hostelry.
He married Miss Jessie Breese of Chi- cago. Their children are: Eva Alice and Winifred Wilson Dutton.
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JAMES NEVILLE CALDWELL
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JAMES NEVILLE CALDWELL.
C ALDWELL, JAMES NEVILLE, mining, born in Laramie, Wyoming, November 18, 1876, was the son of Isaac Philip and Sarah Margaret (Frame) Caldwell. His father was one of the pioneers of Wyoming, settling there in early territorial days, and was one of the founders of that now rap- idly growing state. He was a banker and an attorney in Laramie City. He organized and was president of the Albany County National Bank of Laramie. Together with Hon. C. D. Clark, now of the United States Senate, and Mr. William W. Cor- lett of Cheyenne, he was appointed by the president to draft the original laws that were adopted by the legislature. His father was for several terms a member of the Wyo- ming legislature, also one of its presiding officers, and has also served as mayor of Laramie. In the financial, political and in- dustrial history of Wyoming, his name was a prominent factor. His wife, who was Miss Sarah Margaret Frame, was of the well known Catlett family. She was born in Cat- lettsburg, Kentucky, and her father was a large plantation owner.
James N. Caldwell, the son, and subject of this sketch, after receiving his earlier edu- cation in the public schools, then attended the University of Wyoming. He did not com- plete his studies at the university. After
his third year at that institution, the fam- ily removed to Denver, and he did not again resume his studies.
Mr. Caldwell now became interested in mining, and began prospecting and looking about for himself. In this way, he obtained a mining property at Central City, in Gilpin county, which he has developed and oper- ated with marked success. With offices and residence in Denver, he organized this prop- erty into the Gilpin-Eureka Mining Com- pany, of which he became the treasurer and general manager. This mining interest is a gold, silver and lead proposition, that has netted handsome returns. The company has been operating this mining interest three or four years, with an extensive milling plant and is well equipped with machinery. The mine occupies a unique position, in that one- half of the property is within the townsite of Central City. The company employs about twenty-five men. He has also been engaged in stock raising in Wyoming, and other enterprises.
Mr. Caldwell married in Kansas City, May 27, 1908, Miss Ada Laura McAtee.
Both in Wyoming and Colorado, he and his father have materially aided in the build- ing up of two of the great states of the Rocky Mountain region.
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HENRY JOSEPH STEPHENS
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HENRY JOSEPH STEPHENS.
S TEPHENS, HENRY JOSEPH, financier and real estate, son of Henry J., Sr., and Ann M. (Morrison) Stephens, was born No- vember 10, 1848, in Somerset, Pennsylvania. His father, born January, 1824, died June 16, 1884, was, prior to the civil war in 1861, a member of the banking house of Wall, Stephens & Company, Washington, D. C., and Richmond, Virginia. His mother was the daughter of William H. and Jane Mor- rison.
His ancestors were distinguished in the colonial era of the south and during the period of the states. William Stephens, his American progenitor, born in the Isle of Wight, 1671, and lieutenant-governor of the island, settled in Charleston, South Caro- lina, in 1730. The Stephenses were one of the old and established families of the Isle of Wight and distinguished in its history. The branch founded by William Stephens in the southern colonies also became illustrious in American history. William Stephens, the first American ancestor, removed from Charleston to Georgia, of which he was pro- vincial governor from 1743 to 1750. Alex- ander H. Stephens, of this same family, was a member of congress from Georgia for twenty years and viee-president of the Southern Confederacy from 1861 to 1865.
Henry J. Stephens, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the high school, Dixon, Illinois, and Dixon University, but did not graduate, as he started out early in life to make his own way in the world. He first engaged in business at Dixon, Illinois, in 1870, continuing there until 1880. In March, the latter year, he removed to Colo- rado, locating at Alma, this state. In 1881 he entered upon his successful business ca-
reer in Denver, in real estate and invest- ments, and became connected with large and affiliated interests. His activities in real es- tate, loans, investments, commercial and banking interests opened a field adapted to his genius and skill as a promotor and or- ganizer. Within a short time he became one of the prominent business men of the city. Mr. Stephens was president of the Denver Loan & Trust Company from 1888 to 1891. From 1898 to the present time he has been president of the Denver Abstract & Title Company ; and from 1892 has also been president of the Stephens Investment & Trust Company, investment bankers, and still holds that position. Mr. Stephens in- corporated his present business in 1892, with a capital of $200,000, and now (1911), with the capital fully paid, the company has $450,000 in surplus and undivided profits. These figures speak for themselves of the successful administration of the affairs of the Stephens Investment & Trust Company ; and the other interests with which Mr. Stephens is affiliated show a similar growth and prosperous condition. This investment and trust company deals in real estate, in- vestments, bonds, general securities and first mortgage loans. Mr. Stephens has also been identified with the mining industry, more es- pecially in Park county, and also at Central City. He has accomplished all that makes the successful business man. He is a Master Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner.
Mr. Stephens married, first, in June, 1881, at Port Bryon, Illinois, Hattie, daugh- ter of Nathaniel P. Darrance. She died in November, 1883. He married, second, Sep- tember 24, 1888, Alice S. Roberts. He has two children: Clarenee E. and Harold H. Stephens.
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LUTHER M. GODDARD
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LUTHER M. GODDARD.
G ODDARD, LUTHER M., lawyer and jur- ist (late justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado), born in Palmyra, Wayne coun- ty, New York, son of Edwin P. (farmer and miller), and Mariah (Filmore) Goddard, a second cousin of the renowned statesman, Millard Filmore. Removing to Abingdon, Illinois, in 1854, Edwin P. Goddard engaged in the humber business and, later, at Leaven- worth, Kansas, where he died in 1866.
Luther M. Goddard received his early education in the common schools of Pal- myra. Afterward and for six years he at- tended the Hedding College at Abingdon. He commenced the sudy of law at Leaven- worth, Kansas, in 1862; entered the Chi- cago Law School in 1864, graduating with the honor of valedictorian of his class in 1865; admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois in June of the same year; returned to Leavenworth and entered upon the practice of his profession. At an early day he began his unusual career of official preferment, both in politics and within the province of his profession. For two years, at Leavenworth, he was deputy county at- torney, under Judge Brewer, late of the United States Supreme Court, and for two successive terms Jndge Goddard served as county attorney, by election. In the fall of 1871 he was elected a member of the Kan- sas legislature, where he introduced the bill and was among the earliest advocates of equal suffrage. In 1878 he came to Colo- rado, first locating at Leadville, where he engaged in mining, in addition to his legal practice. In 1882 he was elected judge of the district court and re-elected in 1888. In 1892 he received the nomination of the Pop- ulist and Democratic parties and was elected Justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado. He remained upon the bench until the expi- ration of his term in 1901, in the meantime permanently establishing his residence in Denver.
In 1905, when the Supreme Court was reorganized, Judge Goddard was returned to the Supreme Court by appointment from Governor Peabody. During the latter part of his first term on the Supreme bench, Jus- tice Goddard concurred in the decision writ-
ten by Judge Campbell declaring the eight- hour law, enacted at the preceding session of the legislature, to be unconstitutional. A short time after his appointment by Gover- nor Peabody a dynamite bomb was planted at the gate of Judge Goddard's residence. This bomb failed to explode, which fact saved the life of the Justice. It was di- vulged by the Orchard confession that this bomb was one of two aimed at the life of the two distinguished members of the Su- preme Court (Goddard and Gabbert) as a retaliation for their concurrence in the eight-hour decision. Having filled out the unexpired term on the Supreme bench, Judge Goddard again returned to the gen- eral practice of the law, and is esteemed as one of the eminent members of the bar in Denver, while he is equally honored all over the state. Judge Goddard served in that high judicial position with the most credit- able ability and his opinions and decisions were uniformly acceptable to the profession and the people. In all matters under his consideration, his duties on the bench were discharged with the acumen and decisive- ness of an able jurist, inspired by a keen sense of justice and a wide comprehension of the law.
Among his fellow members of bench and bar and in the walks of social life, he is a man of great purity of character and in- tegrity of purpose-of genial, kindly nature and attractive personality-a man of deep sympathies and a friend of the people. He has the good will and friendship of the multitude in return. In 1880, while living in Leadville, Judge Goddard was elected a member of the School Board and served as president of that body three years. He is a member of the order of Elks, a Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mys- tic Shrine. On Dec. 4, 1911, Judge Goddard was elected president of the Denver Bar As- sociation.
Judge Goddard married twice, and has four children living: Frank M. Goddard, a lawyer; Irene, the wife of Walter C. Boy- ington of the Detroit Free Press; Lucile and George, the latter engaged in mining.
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PETER J. FRIEDERICH
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PETER J. FRIEDERICH.
F RIEDERICH, PETER J., brewer and financier, son of Peter J. and Mary (Kaiser) Friederich, was born July 25, 1863, at Mascoutah, Illinois, and died in Denver, Colorado, May 13, 1911. His pa- rents came from Germany. His father was an officer in the German army and came to America and established a brewery at Mas- coutah, Illinois.
Mr. Friederich's birthplace was just across the river from St. Louis, and there he spent the first nineteen years of his life. He received a liberal education, attending school in the winter months, but during the summers worked on a farm. He then came west, locating in Denver in 1881. He ob- tained employment for a time as clerk with the Cornforth Commission Company. Later he began to work for Zang's brewery as a collector. Industry, honesty, pleasing ad- dress, together with a social and frank na- ture, were elements, all contributing to his rapid rise in the business life of this large brewing company, and his appointment as assistant general manger in 1889. He con- tinued with the company after the purchase by the English syndicate, and at the time of his death was the city manager for the Ph. Zang Brewing Company. Although not a seeker after public office, yet he was prom- inently identified with city polities, in which he wielded an extensive influence. He was popular in business circles, and his large personal acquaintance made him a potent factor in local polities.
Mr. Friederich was thrifty as well as in- dustrious and enterprising, and, predicting the future growth of Denver and the state, invested in real estate, and engaged in other ventures that proved most profitable. His
holdings and investments represented the accumulation of a comfortable fortune, an example of what a young man of good busi- ness capacity may accomplish in the west. Not only in real estate did he acquire valu- able property, but he also became interested in banking and high class securities.
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