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At the time of his death, in addition to his connection with the Zang brewery he also held the following positions in compa- nies with which he had large interests . vice- president of the Zang Realty and Invest- ment Company ; vice-president of the Wel- ton Street Investment Company : vice-presi- dent of the St. James Investment Company ; vice-president of the German-American Trust Company, and vice-president of the Lakeside Realty and Amusement Company. He was thus identified with many and varied interests and was one of the leaders in the business and commercial life of Denver.
In the fraternal orders and kindred so- cieties he was prominent and popular, being a member of the following: Shriners, Scot- tish Rite Masons, Elks, Eagles, East Denver Turnverein and other German societies.
During a long career of thirty years he was connected with the Zang brewery and ably assisted in making that plant one of the largest institutions of the kind in the west. In the many and diversified interests with which his name was associated he was ever found to be a man of sterling integrity, broad business capacity and worthy of the confidence and trust confided to him in many enterprises.
Mr. Friederich married, in Denver, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Zang. She died December 7th, 1894, and left surviving one child, a son, named Philip.
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WILLIAM WALLACE ROLLER
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WILLIAM WALLACE ROLLER.
R OLLER, WILLIAM WALLACE, civil war veteran, merchant, real estate man and one of the upbuilders of Salida, Colo- rado, was born in Lodi, now known as Go- wanda, Erie county, New York, November 1, 1841. He comes of sound German stock. His father, John Philip Roller, was a mer- chant before him and was born June 18, 1819, and died August 26, 1891. His mother, Eliza Matilda (Seafley) Roller, was born No- vember 23, 1821, and died October 29, 1902. The first member of the Roller family to set- tle in America was John Roller, who came to Erie county, New York, from Grombach, Black Forest, Frunten Stadt, Germany, in 1807. When the war between the states broke out, young Roller, just out of his 'teens, joined the Army of the Union and fought three years and two months in the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. He enlisted in the Sixty-fourth Infantry, New York Volunteers, September 7, 1861, and rose from the ranks to a captaincy. He par- tieipated in more than fifty engagements, in- eluding some of the principal battles of the war, and was twice wounded, once at Fair Oaks and again at Chancellorsville, Va.
At the close of the war, Captain Roller resumed his studies preparatory to entering college and attended Dartmouth College, at Hanover, New. Hampshire, for two years. He was a member of the class of '70, but left college at the close of his sophomore year. He then entered business, dealing in furni- ture, in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1868, remaining there until the spring of 1874, when he came to this state, resuming the furniture business in Colorado Springs. He resided later for a brief period at Canon City, but since 1880 his home has been in Salida, where he en- gaged for a while in the furniture business and then devoted himself to the real estate business, in which he is engaged at the pres- ent time. Captain Roller has been instru- mental in the development of Salida and is a representative citizen in every respect,
identifying himself with every movement for the betterment of the bustling Colorado town.
Captain Roller is one of the most prom . inent and devoted members of the Masonic fraternity in the State of Colorado. He was made a Mason in Phoenix Lodge, No. 262. New York, in 1865. In 1866 he was made a Royal Arch Mason, in Fornsville Chapter, No. 136, Perrysburg, New York; he was cre- ated a Knight Templar in Canon City Com- mandery, No. 9, Canon City, and a Scottish Rite Mason, Thirty-second degree, Colorado Consistory, in Denver, January 29, 1889. On December 10, of the same year, he entered the Shrine, El Jebel Temple, of Denver. Captain Roller has served as master of Sa- lida Lodge, No. 57, for one year and for two years as High Priest of Salida Chapter, No. 17. He has also been honored with the office of Eminent Commander, Salida Command- ery, No. 17; Grand High Priest of the Royal Arch Chapter; and Grand Junior Deacon of the Grand Lodge of the State of Colorado. He has also been Grand Representative in the Grand Chapter for the state of Missouri and in the Grand Lodge for the state of Washington. No member of the order in Colorado is better versed in all that apper- tains to Masonry or has worked harder for its success in all departments of the fra- ternity than Captain Roller.
Captain Roller has been twice married. His first wife was Claramond M. Hayes, daughter of William Hayes of Ottawa, Kan- sas. He was married February 27, 1871, at Ottawa, and his wife died at Salida, Junc 17, 1883. He has one child by this union living, Arthur Hayes Roller of Idaho Springs. His second marriage was to Nellie H. Arnold, September 24, 1884, at Salida. He has three children by this marriage: Douglas A. Roller, a prominent young at- torney of Denver; Nellie E. Meyer, wife of Joseph Meyer, Jr., of Idaho Springs, and Winfield I. Roller. Captain Roller resides in Salida.
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WOLFE LONDONER
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WOLFE LONDONER.
L ONDONER, WOLFE, Denver grocer, pioneer of Colorado, was born July 4, 1848, in New York City, the son of Herman and Rachel Londoner, who came to this country from Germany in 1840. He was educated in the public schools and in the old Mechanics' Institute, in New York, then opposite the city hall.
When barely in his 'teens, young Lon- doned crossed the plains in an immigrant train and landed in Denver in 1859, one of the first of the hardy pioneers who, by their own efforts, were to carve out an empire in the Rocky Mountain region.
In those days mere boys were called upon to do a man's work, and young Lon- doner was no exception. Responsibilities were thrust upon him and as time pro- gressed his field of operations constantly ex- tended. He had gone into the employ of Hanauer, Dold & Company, government con- tractors and was stationed first at their Den- ver store. In 1860, he was sent to Canon City, where he built the first stone ware- house in that section of Colorado. From that place he went to California Gulch, upon the site of which later sprang the magic city of Leadville. Here he remained three years. He was then sixteen years of age. A St. Louis merchant who had watched the mental growth of the youth backed his confidence in the young pioneer's honesty and ability by staking him to a trainload of goods, and in 1864 he accompanied the train across the plains and opened his store in Denver.
From the very first he was successful and the store of Wolfe Londoner became known throughout the state for square dealing and honest values. When Leadville sprang into being he was quick to see the possibilities in the new camp, and established a branch of his Denver house. The Leadville store was maintained during the years of the Cloud City's greatest activities.
In 1884, Mr. Londoner built the block on
Arapahoe street, which bears his name, and moved his business into the new location, where it has been established ever since.
While giving the strictest attention to the details of his private business, Mr. Lon- doner showed himself at all times to be a public-spirited citizen, keenly alive to the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. He has been honored many times with positions of trust and to these was ever faithful.
While still a boy under the legal age, he was made the first treasurer of Fremont county. When he arrived at California Gulch and the prospectors and miners of that district resolved upon a form of government, they selected him for the position of clerk and recorder. Later, he was made chair- man of the board of county commissioners.
He has served the citizens of Denver in several public offices. He was a member of the board of county commissioners when the court house was built, and all the moneys for construction of that edifice passed through his hands. It is his proud and justi- fiable boast that in an age of graft there was not a dollar stolen or misspent on this work. The citizens of Arapahoe county got value received for every dollar of expendi- ture.
The reputation he made for himself through these years of public and private life prompted the people of Denver to call him to the mayoralty, and he served as exec- utive head of the city government during 1889, 1890 and 1891. He had been elected alderman in 1868.
Mr. Londoner is prominent in Masonic circles, and was one of the organizers of the Festival of Mountain and Plain.
He married in 1878 Fannie B. Anthony of Denver. One son, Herman, and three daughters, Fannie B., wife of E. R. Corning, engineer of the Boston Subway, Ruth Frances and Dorothy Jane, were born to them.
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GEORGE W. BOWEN.
ROWEN, GEORGE W., capitalist, born in Centerville, Iowa, April 8, 1866, was the son of Charles Willard (born March 6, 1838, died July 18, 1902) and Anna W. (Boyles) Bowen. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and then started out to make his own way in the world. He is a self made man, rising to prominence in business through his own energy and enter- prise, until now he is at the head of many of the leading industries of the state. He came to Colorado in 1887, and became connected with the Colorado Supply Company at Rouse, in 1889. He remained in its employ, being a subsidiary company of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, until 1895. From 1895, until 1903, he was in the service of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and some of its sub- sidiary corporations. Since 1903, he has been connected with the Victor-American Fuel Company and its predecessors.
Step by step from one field of enterprise to another, he has risen in the Colorado busi-
ness world, until now he is president of the following companies:
The Victor-American Fuel Company.
The Colorado & Southeastern Railroad Company.
The Western Stores Company.
The American Fuel Company.
The Mountain Telegraph Company.
The Victor-American Power Company.
The Redstone Marble Company.
The Minnequa Town Company.
The Wallace Mining Company.
The Victor Fuel Company.
He married, Nov. 24, 1903, in New York City, Helen, daughter of William Hicks, Brooklyn, N. Y. They have one child, Willard Osgood Bowen.
At one time Mr. Bowen resided in Pueblo, Colorado, but now makes Denver his home. He is a member of the Denver Club, Denver Country Club, Traffic Club, and the Rocky Mountain Club, New York City.
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WILLIAM JOHN ROTHWELL, M. D.
R OTHWELL, WILLIAM JOHN, M. D., born in Gloucester Township, near Ot- tawa, Canada, was the son of Thomas, farmer (1808-1896), and Catherine (Tomp- kins) Rothwell. The Rothwell family is of English origin, but removed to Ireland, where his grandfather, Benjamin Rothwell, engaged in farming, in the county of Wex- ford, and in 1800 immigrated to Canada. Locating with his family, near Ottawa, On- tario, he resumed his occupation as a farmer. Benjamin Rothwell also held some govern- ment position in the building of the Rideau Canal, and both he and his son, Thomas, participated in the suppression of MeKen- zie's rebellion, in 1837. Catherine, wife of Thomas Rothwell, and daughter of Peter and Nancy (Carter) Tompkins, was born near the Vale of Avoca, Ireland. Her father was a farmer, but removed with his family to Canada in an early day. Six sons and three daughters comprised the family of Thomas and Catherine Rothwell, and of which Dr. William J. was one. Two brothers, E. J. and P. D. (q. v.), both graduates of the medical department of the University of Michigan, became practicing physicians in Denver; Benjamin, an educator in Canada, and two other brothers, Samuel and Thomas, farmers, there.
Dr. William J. Rothwell, at the age of thirteen, accompanied the family to Listo- well, County Perth, Ontario, where he at- tended the common schools, and later pre- pared for college at Rockwood, Canada. In 1869, he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, but was com-
pelled, for lack of funds, to discontinue his studies there, at the end of the year. In 1870, he went to Idaho, and was appointed principal of the Idaho City school, continu- ing in same for two years, also studying medicine, as time would permit. He entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1872, from which he was gradnated in 1873, with the degree of M. D., and took a post- graduate course at Bellevue Medical College, New York. While in Boise county, Idaho, he was superintendent of education from 1881 to 1887.
He began the practice of medicine with Dr. Pease, at Menominee, Wisconsin. In 1887, he came to Denver, and also became as- sociated with the Gross Medical College, in which he was professor of chemistry and, later, of neurology, then of medicine in the Denver-Gross Medical College, and is now professor of medicine in the medical depart- ment of the University of Colorado.
Dr. Rothwell is a contributor to medical journals; is a member of the American Med- ical Association, and the Denver Medical Society, of which he was president in 1904, and is a prominent Mason.
He married, at Idaho City, Idaho, Octo- ber 8, 1874, Miss Clara Galbraith, born in Shasta, California, daughter of Stephen Gal- braith, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, and a '49er in California. They have four sons, all living: William Herbert, M. D., Salt Lake City; Matthew Thomas, M. D., Tellu- ride; Walter Peter, and Stephen Gainsford. A daughter, Anna, died in infancy.
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PETER D. ROTHWELL, M. D.
R OTHWELL, PETER D., M. D., born in Gloucester Township, Ontario, near Ottawa, Canada, March 5, 1849, is the son of Thomas, born March 10, 1809, died Janu- ary 19, 1896, and Catherine (Tompkins) Rothwell. He is of Anglo-Irish descent. His grandfather, Benjamin Rothwell, came from County Wexford, Ireland, to Ottawa, Can- ada. Dr. Rothwell's father and grand- father made the first brick in Ottawa. They were prominent in assisting to suppress the MeKenzie rebellion.
When Dr. Rothwell was five years of age, his father's family moved to what was then known as "Queen's Bush," a term that was applied to that part of Ontario, comprised in the County of Perth, and those adjoin- ing. There his father established a new home. Having obtained a good English edu- cation, he began teaching when but little more than fifteen, in the fall of 1864. After teaching two or three years, he entered the Normal School in Toronto, from which he was graduated in 1867. Then, after resum- ing the profession of a teacher for nearly five years in Canada, he was engaged by Bishop Tuttle of Salt Lake City, to take charge of the St. Michael Parish school, at Boise, Idaho, which he opened September 4, 1871. He was at the head of this school four years, his vacations being occupied in surveying. Having become thrifty and saving, he loaned his spare earnings to one who became a bankrupt. Thus, at the very time that he was intending to begin the study of medicine, he was compelled to re- sume his work as a teacher, obtaining a posi- tion at Baker City, Oregon. His vacations were spent in mining. Returning from Baker City, and while teaching in Idaho, he stud- ied medicine with his brother, Dr. W. J. Rothwell, now of Denver, but then a resi- dent of Placerville, Idaho. In 1879, he entered the University of Michigan, from
which he received his degree of M. D. in 1881, being the historian of his class, which num- bered ninety-nine. During his college course, he spent his vacations in the study of medi- eine with his brother, Dr. E. J. Rothwell, of Ithaca, New York. While residing in Can- ada, he had also served as a volunteer and a private in Ontario, in the Twenty-eighth battalion.
Dr. Rothwell came to Denver in 1881. He makes a specialty of diseases of the kid- neys. Unsolicited, there came to him the appointment by President Cleveland, as pen- sion examiner. He was one of the organ- izers of the Gross Medical College. Dr. Rothwell wrote a pamphlet on the Colorado climate, correcting errors prevalent in the east, as to the effect of this climate on cer- tain diseases. He also wrote a pamphlet on "Oxygen as Therapeutic Agent;" also in- vented a valuable apparatus now employed in its manufacture and use.
In 1871, he joined the Independent Order Odd Fellows, of which he is Past Grand and Veteran. In 1891, he became a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of which he is Past Master Workman. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, American Medical Association, Colorado State Medical Society, and the city and county societies, and is a vestryman of St. Peter's church.
Dr. Rothwell, after passing through the many vicissitudes and hardships from Can- ada to Nome, Alaska, and the Rocky Moun- tain region of the United States, has become one of the self-made men of the west, and has attained a high position in the practice of his profession.
Dr. Rothwell married in Denver, Colo- rado, in Octoher, 1885, Mrs. Bishop, nee Miss Rosalie King, who died in February, 1906. In January, 1907, he married Mrs. Houghton, nee Miss Carie V. Wier.
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Acknowledgments
In the preparation of this volume reference was made to, and acknowledgement is hereby made and credit given the following publications:
HISTORY OF COLORADO, By General Frank Hall.
HISTORY OF COLORADO, By William N. Byers. HISTORY OF DENVER, By Jerome C. Smiley.
HISTORICAL WORKS OF H. H. Bancroft.
THE MAKING OF COLORADO. By Eugene Parsons.
DENVER AND VICINITY.
HISTORY OF DENVER.
HISTORY OF CLEAR CREEK AND BOULDER VALLEYS, COLORADO.
HISTORY OF THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, COLO- RADO.
THE PROVINCE AND THE STATES.
MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY.
NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA OF AMERICAN BI- OGRAPHY.
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.
WHO'S WHO IN FINANCE.
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF NORTH AMER- ICAN INDIANS, By Samuel G. Drake.
COLONIAL RECORDS.
FAMILY GENEALOGIES.
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.
NEWSPAPER FILES.
Photographs by- Barton J. Holyer, The Kirkland Studio, B. S. Hopkins.
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INDEX TO BIOGRAPHIES
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Adams, Alva
76
Eaton, Benjamin Harrison
74
Alexander, Hugh John ..
212
Eicholtz, Leonard Henry 264
Argall, Philip
234
Elbert, Samuel Hitt. 66
Ashley, Eli Melville.
244
Elliott, Ezra Taylor 394
58
Bartels, Gustave Charles.
364
Barth, William
180
Field, Edward Bell. 326
Beaman, David Crichton 272
Fisher, William Garrett. 124
Bennett, Horace Wilson
224
Flower, John Sebastian 316
Berger, William B.
228
Foster, John M'Ewen, M. D. 336
Best, John David.
174
Franklin, Charles Wesley 242
Blackmer, Henry Myron
186
Friederich, Peter J. 408
Blayney, William Nassau Walker
306
Friedman, William Sterne (Rabhi) 396
Blood, James Herbert
382
Boettcher, Charles
150
Gaylord, Paul B. 378
Bowen, George W.
414
Gilluly, Joseph William
270
Bowen, Thomas M.
106
Gilmore, Rodelphus Howard 296
56
Briggs, Frank Newton 252
Goddard, Luther M.
406
Brown, Henry Cordes. 176
Goldsborough, Winder Elwell.
196
Brown, James Henry
330
Good, John
236
Brown, James Joseph
262
Goodell, Roswell Eaton
268
Brown, James Sidney 222
Grant, James Benton
72
Brown, Junius Flagg
168
Guggenheim, Meyer 172
Brunton, David William
220
Guggenheim, Simon 112
Buchtel, Henry Augustus 92
Guiterman, Franklin 164
Byers, William Newton 368
Gunter, Julius Caldeen 250
Caldwell, James Neville. 402
Hall, Josiah Newhall, M. D. 332
Campion, John Francis.
156
Hallack, Charles 136
Carlin, Patrick Vincent, M.D. 388
Hallack, Erastus F. 190
Cass, Alfred Curtis 130
Hallett, Moses 120
Cass, Oscar David, M. D.
218
Harrison, William B. 294
Cass, Oscar David, Jr.
322
Hayt, Charles Denison 118
Chaffee, Jerome B.
98
Helm, Joseph Church. 116
Chappell, Delos Allen
146
Hill, Crawford 280
Cheesman, Walter Scott
134
Hill, Nathaniel Peter 100
Chilcott, George M. 102
Hodges, William V. 312
Childs, Samuel Beresford, M. D. 342
Hughes, Charles James, Jr. 114
Cooper, Job Adams
78
Humphreys, Albert Edmund 292
Coors, Adolph Herman Joseph. 258
Hunt, Alexander Cameron. 62
Cornforth, Arthur 398
Crehbin, Alfred 338
lliff, John Wesley. 282
Cummings, Alexander
60
Curtis, Leonard Eager
246
Curtis, Rodney 188
Cuthbert, Lucius Montrose 194
Downing, Warwick Miller
334
Dutton, Samuel Frederick
400
Joslin, John Jay
James, Harry C. 344
James, William Henry 202
Johnson, Charles Alfred. 266
Johnson, Charles Scott. 139
208
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Irby, John St. John 380
Bridaham, Lester Burbank.
348
Gilpin, William
Evans, John
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Kassler, Edward Stebbins. 374
Ravenscroft, William Thornburg 354
Kassler, George W. 284
Roller, William Wallace. 410
Kilpatrick, James G. 288
Rothwell, Peter D., M. D. 416
Kountze, Charles Brewer
152
Rothwell, William John, M. D. 415
Routt, John Long 68
Schenck, Charles Meigs 248
Leonard, William Henry
356
Lewis, Aaron Dennison
290
Seerie, David Duff 254
Londoner, Wolfe 412
Shafroth, John Franklin
94
Loveland, Francis William
390
Sheedy, Dennis
126
Smith, Milton
340
Lyman, Charles Baldwin, M. D.
310
Speer, Robert Walter.
362
Springer, John Wallace
358
Maxwell, John Mills 200
McCook, Edward Moody 64
Mccullough, George 392
Steele, Robert W.
54
McDermott, George Lawrence, M. D 298
Steele, Robert Wilbur.
286
McDonald, Jesse Fuller 90
82
Swallow, George Ransom 302
Symes, George Gifford. 370
McNeil, John Lloyd. 184
Mears, Otto 232
Tabor, Horace Austin Warner 104
Meek, Channing Frank.
214
Teller, Henry Moore.
96
Minium, Abram Emerson 300
Thatcher, Joseph Addison. 122
Mitchell, John Clark. 352
Thomas, Charles Spalding.
84
Moffat, David Halliday. 128
Moffat, Frederick Gowie 304
Morey, Chester Stephen 132
Morgan, Edward Broadbent
372
Morgan, Samnel B. 314
Mullen, James Kernan
154
Neef, Frederick Fredolin
260
Newton, Whitney
170
Warren, Henry White (Bishop) 274
Waterman, Charles W. 166
Orahood, Harper M.
210
Welborn, Jesse Floyd. 179
Orman, James Bradley
86
Welch, Charles Clark
148
Osgood, John Cleveland
227
Welch, Charles Clark, Jr. 318
350
Wight, Frederick Dearborn 324
Parker, Alexis du Pont. 140
Wilkins, James Herbert. 360
Patterson, Thomas MacDonald 110
Williams, Edward Wynne 216
Peabody, James Hamilton. 88
Wilson, Andrew Duncan 320
Penrose, Spencer 204
Wolcott, Edward Oliver 108
Phipps, Lawrence Cowle. 142
Pitkin, Frederick Walter. 70
386
Porter, Henry M. 366
Yeaman, Caldwell 192
Potter, Thomas Hale. 230
Young, Francis Crissey 384
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Vaille, Frederick Ozni 198
Waite, Davis Hansen. 80
Walsh, Thomas F.
328
Nicholson, Samuel Danforth. 240
Owen, William Roland. 162
Whitted, Elmer Ellsworth
Wolcott, Henry Roger. 158
Wood, Samnel Newell 160
Pitkin, Robert James.
Knner, Maximilian 256
Knykendall, John Montgomery 308
Schirmer, Godfrey
238
Loveland, William Austin Hamilton 278
Springer, William Melville 376
Stearns, Thomas Beale
346
Stephens, Henry Joseph 404
McIntire, Albert Washington
McKinnie, James Renwick 206
Toll, Charles Hansen 182
Tritch, George 276
Vaile, Joel Frederick 144
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