Chaffee County, Colorado

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                                                                                    ASA ROGERS ADAIR.
Mr. Adair was born in Giles County, Va., March 20, 1846. He was reared upon a farm and received a common school education. He was in the Confederate service for the last year of the war, and was in twenty-two battles. In January, 1870, he went to Texas and went into the cattle business. He was driving cattle to Utah, Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado for five years, after which he was shipping cattle along the Kansas Pacific Railroad, till November, 1878. In April, 1879, he came to Colorado, and has been mining in Custer and Chaffee Counties since. He is the owner of the Kentucky, Stone Wall and Old Dog Tray lodes, near Hancock.
 

                                                                                   CHARLES F. ABBOTT.
The name of Charles F. Abbott is familiar to all the old miners and early settlers of Colorado. Perhaps no man in .Colorado has been through more thrilling scenes, seen more hardships, and located and handled more minus that proved valuable than the subject of this sketch. He was born in Montpelier, Vt., February 17, 1838; his father was a stone-cutter, and early in life he learned the trade of his father. At the age of fifteen years, he went to Chicago, Ill., and after one year, he and his brother carried on the stonecutting business together till 1857; he then went back home for a year, and then returned to Chicago, and built some of the best buildings there, one of which was the Michigan Central Depot. March 26, 1860, he started West, stopped in Omaha till April, 1871, and then he, in company with his brother Richard A. Abbott, and A. D. Cooper, now of Canon City, footed it all the way to Denver, Colo., having nothing to eat but Bologna sausage and crackers and tea to drink; he immediately went to Mosquito Gulch and engaged to work for $1 per day. Here he worked till he got $28, and then went to French Gulch and worked a claim on his own hook, taking out $300 in one month, after which he and his brother bought a claim, 150x12 feet; and took out $1,600 in three weeks; they then started the Fegagle Fluming Company; in the fall, they went to Mosquito Pass, and took a contract to find the lead in a mine for two tons of ore, when they found it. They did find it, by digging sixteen feet; they sold their two tons of ore for $1,600, but Mr. Abbott was severely injured while at work on this job, by a premature blast, having one arm and one leg broken, and his skull fractured. In 1864, he went to prospecting on his own account and discovered some valuable mines, but through a sickness of long duration, he lost them all. On account of poor health, he went back to Michigan, and farmed it for four years. In March, 1879, he returned* to Colorado. After spending a short time in Leadville, he came to Buena Vista, where he has been mining since, with good success. He was one of the founders of the Free Gold Mining Company, and has several good claims outside of this company.
 

                                                                                MRS. J. A. D. ADAMS. M. D.
The history of Chaffee County would be incomplete without a sketch of Mrs. Adams When the county was almost unknown, she investigated. the Cotton Wood Hot Springs, and after satisfying herself of their medical properties, set to work to get a hotel and sanitarium built, which she has accomplished, and now there is no place in Colorado which surpasses hers, as a place of resort, both for the sick and those who are in search of rest and recreation. Mrs. Adams is the daughter of Benjamin Wood, being born in Oneida County, N. Y. July 29, 1830. She was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio. In 1853, she married William P. Dunning, at Gaines, Orleans Co., N. Y. She and her husband had studied medicine together, and she assisted him very much with his practice. In 1866, the Doctor died. After his death, she attended lectures one winter, in New York City, after which she had charge of Dr. Cook's office for five months, in Buffalo, N. Y. After this she took a full course in Cleveland Homoeopathic College, Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1871, and in 1872, became a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. Immediately after graduating, she located in Corry, Penn., where she had a very successful practice, till April, 1878. She was married in Corry, to Rev. Joseph Adams, in 1875; he having come to Colorado for his health, she was induced to give up her practice there, which she did, and came here. in 1878, and, in connection with her husband, and son-in-law, G. K. Hartenstein, built, and has since conducted, the Cottonwood Hot Springs Hotel. She has full charge, everything being under her immediate supervision.
 

                                                                                       JOHN BURNETT.
A history of Chaffee County would be incomplete without a, sketch of the late John Burnett; he was born in Canada March 1, 1839; he received a good common school education, and, at twenty years of age, he went to Napoleon, Ark., to act as overseer in a large lumbering business. After a short time, he went to Iowa and engaged in farming, for one year; in 1861, he came to Colorado and located in California Gulch, working in a saw-mill, and later in mining. He was the discoverer and one of the locators of the property afterward known as the Star Mining Company property, and was one of the owners for some time. After selling out his interest in this property, he, in 1865, located a ranch, three-fourths of a mile from Poncha, Chaffee Co., and was engaged in farming, stock-raising and mining, on a large scale, till he met his unfortunate death, October 16, 1878. He went out hunting with friends and was accidentally shot by the premature discharge of his gun. He was a man highly respected, and his death cast a gloom over the entire community, He had acceptably filled the office of County Treasurer and County Commissioner at different times. He was married to Minerva Maxwell in 1868. Mrs. Burnett still runs the ranch, with her six children, and is a perfect success as a manager.
 

                                                                                           WILLIAM BALE.
Perhaps no one who went to Leadville by stage, before the days of railroads, will fail to remember Bale's ranch, and the genial proprietor of the eating-house there. He was born in Butler County, Penn., August 19, 1820; he remained at home, upon his father's farm, till he was twenty-five years of age, after which he was farming for himself, till 1855, when he went to Iowa, where he lived for several years. In 1861, he went to Missouri, and had several contracts for carrying the mails; in 1863, he emigrated to Colorado, and was engaged in mining in California Gulch, for one year. He then took up a ranch, on Cottonwood Creek, where Buena Vista now stands, and lived there two years. The grasshoppers ate up all his crops, so he ran for Sheriff of Lake County, and was elected and served two terms. He afterward bought the ranch upon which he lives, near Salida, and kept a stage station there for six years. He was married, in Butler County, in 1852, to Miss Sarah Williams. Mr. Bale is one of the best known and highly respected citizens of Chaffee County.
 

                                                                                        THOMAS I. BRISCOE.
The subject of this sketch, while nor an "old timer," in Colorado, is largely identified with its interests, and was one of the first to start the flourishing town of St. Elmo. Mr. Briscoe was born on a farm in Pike County, Ill., August 27, 1845. At the age of nine years, his parents went to Texas, but not finding that country all they expected and desired, soon returned to their native home; at the age of ten years, his father died, and he was deprived of advantages he would otherwise have enjoyed, but at the age of eighteen years, he commenced attending school, and at the age of twenty-three we find him teaching; he taught two years, and then entered the McKendree College, from which he graduated in 1873; he then taught school one year, and, in 1874, entered the University of Michigan, graduating from the law department of that institution. in the spring of 1876. In the fall of the same year, he commenced practice in Pittsfield, the county seat of Pike County, Ill. After a successful practice for one year and a half, he emigrated to Colorado, locating in the Chalk Creek Mining District, in Chaffee County, and has been interested in mining since. He was elected County Commissioner for Chaffee County in 1879; which office he still holds to the entire satisfaction of the people. In 1881, he was elected Mayor of St. Elmo.
 

                                                                                         ISAAC N. BARRETT.
Mr. Barrett was born in Delaware County, Iowa, December 30, 1851; his father died when he was five years of age; he remained at home, on the farm, until he arrived at the age of twenty-four years. He then went to California and followed lumbering three years, after which he returned to Iowa and spent one winter, and in the spring of 18'78 came to Colorado and spent the summer in the Gunnison, building the Pioneer Toll Road. In the spring of 1879, he came to Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., and has been engaged on the police force since; is now Marshal of the city. Mr. Barrett was married, February 12, 1870, to Margaret R. Prentice, of Crescent City. Iowa.
 

                                                                                      DANIEL II. BOWRING.
The subject of this sketch is now spending the evening of his days in a beautiful spot near Poncha Springs. He was born in May, 1818, in York, Penn. He was educated at the academy, under Prof. Boyer. At the age of seventeen, he came to St. Louis. thence to Hannibal. thence to Palmyra, and finally settled in Wellington, La Fayette Co., where he remained three years. Here he met his brother, Dr. Bowring, whom he had not seen for twenty years. This brother, singularly enough, was born with only one arm, and at one time was intimately associated with Dr. Buckingham, of Denver: was also a correspondent of Prof. Agassiz. With this brother, Mr. Bowring studied three years, but was employed mainly, in compounding medicines. He then removed to Clay County, where he married, at the age of twenty-one. Here he was engaged as builder and farmer for over twelve years. About this time, Mr. Bowring became a religious enthusiast, and preached a few times. Discarding all forms, he advocated a purely spiritual religion. During the fierce struggle of the rebellion, Mr. Bowring left Missouri, returned to his native State, and then shortly after came to Omaha, and, joining a party at Plattsmouth, they started across the plains, with ox teams, bound for Denver, which they reached in fifty-two days. Mr. Bowring was one of the heroes of the Sand Creek fight, serving in the artillery, under Capt. Morgan, of Company C. In the fall of 1869, he went on a ranch, near Longmont, where he remained a number of years. From thence, he removed to Poncha Springs, where he married his third wife, Mrs. Caruth, also thrice married. Mother Caruth, as she was affectionately called in California Gulch ere Leadville was known to fame; was born in Middle Tennessee. Her first husband's name was Maxwell and their settlement upon its banks gave the name to Maxwell Creek. She has seen 200 Indians encamped about the ranch in summer time, grazing their ponies and hunting. She firmly believes that they are a "treacherous, indolent, heathenish set," and that those in the East, who admire and pity them so much, would soon change their views if once exposed to their brutal conduct. Her experience of frontier life would. fill a volume. With a kind husband, a comfortable home, and surrounded by her children, she can now take life comparatively easy while passing on to the better land.
 

                                                                                             EZEKIEL B. BRAY.
Judge Bray, as he is called, was born in Somerset County, Me., May 5, 1835: his school facilities were very limited; at the age of eighteen years, he started for himself, and for the next sixteen years he was engaged in lumbering and ship-building in different parts of Maine and New Hampshire; later on, we find him farming in his native State, till 1874, when, joining the throng moving Westward, he came to Colorado and located a ranch on Cottonwood Creek, now Chaffee County, then Lake, where he has since resided. In 1877, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and has also been a member of the School Board, at different times. He was married, in 1863, to Mary A. Dodge, of Wilton, Me. Mr. Bray is a live, energetic man, highly respected by his neighbors.
 

                                                                                              FRED W. BRUSH.
Fred W. Brush was born in East Constable, Franklin Co., N. Y., January 5, 1853. He was educated in the common schools and the academy. At the age of fifteen years, he went to clerk in a store, which vocation he followed for ten years, and during this time he also acted as telegraph operator. In May, 1879, he came to Colorado. After visiting several camps, he finally located in St. Elmo, Chaffee Co., when there were only three little cabins there. He is engaged in contracting, having built most of the buildings there. In April, 1881, he was elected Town Clerk and Recorder.
 

                                                                                             JOSEPH J. BURT.
Mr. Burt was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., April 23, 1843. He remained on the farm, with his parents, till the age of twenty-one, and then started across the plains to Colorado. He located in California Gulch, and was mining there for six years. In 1873, he went to Black Hills, and remained six months. He was one of the discoverers of the 520 Mine, which was supposed to be very rich: they erected a fifteen-stamp mill. In 1874, they sold one-fourth interest for $25,000. He then came to Chaffee County, where he has since been engaged in hotel business in Granite.
 

                                                                                          ALBERT D. BUTLER.
Among the first to start and build up the town of Buena Vista is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Columbia County, N. Y. July 5, 1839. He worked on the farm and attended the common schools till fifteen years of age; he then went to Batavia, N. Y., and learned the wagon-maker's trade, and remained at the same business till the breaking-out of the war, when he enlisted in the Fourteenth New York Volunteers, and at the end of his term of service, he went to Washington and took a position in the Government repair-shops, and remained there three years, after which he went to North Carolina and held a responsible position in the Government Construction Corps, for six months later on, he was employed in a carriage-shop in St. Louis; in 1866, he came to Weld County, Colo., and engaged in farming till January, 1867; he then took charge of the wagon department of the Government Post, at Fort Sanders; was there till August of the same year. when he was transferred to Fort Russell; here he remained till 1870, and then went into the wagon-making and blacksmithing business, in Cheyenne, and remained there till 1879, when he came to Weston, then the terminus of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and started the same business there. When the road was completed into Buena Vista, he came there, where he has since resided, carrying on an extensive business, at both Buena Vista and Silver Creek; he also handles, very extensively, the Bain and Schutler wagons by the car load; also is dealer in Trinidad, Elmoro and Canon City coal. He served upon the Board of Trustees, in Cheyenne, and was elected to the same position on coming to Buena Vista.
 

                                                                               GEORGE F. BATEMAN.
This gentleman was born in New Ipswich, N. H.. October 4, 1839. At the age of twelve years, he went to learn the tinner's trade, and when twenty-two years of age, started the stove and tinware business at Mattoon, Ill., where he remained till 1873, when he came to Pueblo, Colo., and clerked for G. P. Haslip in a hardware store. In May, 1880, he started the hardware business at Salida, Chaffee Co., and has built up a flourishing and paying business. He was married, in Mattoon, Ill., in 1860, to Miss Lizzie Horn, who died June 4. 1879.
 

                                                                                CAPT. JOHN T. BLAKE.
Capt. Blake, a prominent merchant of Salida, Chaffee Co. was born in •Cumberland County, Me., March 28, 1837. He received an academic education, and when only sixteen years of age, went to Ohio and taught school one year. He then attended Milton College, Wisconsin, for one year and a half, after which he went to Missouri and taught school. Later on, he was engaged as agent for the Overland Mail Company, in New Mexico, till the war broke out. He was Captain in the Sixth Kansas Cavalry, and remained with it till the war closed, and was on detached service for six months afterward. He then went into mercantile business, in Kansas City, and was also mail contracting until 1879. His business of mail contracting had often brought him to Colorado and New Mexico, and, in 1878, he concluded to locate permanently in the general merchandising, in Salida, Chaffee Co. He is now Postmaster and member of the Republican State Central Committee. While in Kansas City, he was Assistant United States Assessor. While he is a stanch Republican and very active in politics, he has never sought office. He is very enthusiastic over the State capital, arguing it should be located at Salida, as being the most central portion of the State. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Annie L. Maxwell, daughter of Dr. Joseph L. Maxwell, of Cass County, Mo.
 

                                                                                          GEORGE H. BOON.
Mr. Boon was born in Holmes County, Ohio, July 27, 1837. His father was a farmer, and he received what education he could get at the common schools. In 1858, he went to Iowa, and, in 1859, crossed the plains to Colorado. He was ranching for two years, and then built a saw-mill, on Lake Creek. In 1863, he enlisted in the First Colorado Battery, and was in the army until the close of the war. He then went back to Ohio and remained until 1868, when he removed to Johnson County, Mo., where he was engaged in farming for six years. In 1875, he returned to Colorado, and located upon a ranch, near Poncha Springs, where he has since resided.
 

                                                                                            JOSIAH T. BRAY.
Among the "old timers" of Colorado, who was a resident of Chaffee County long before there were any towns or railroads there, is to be found Mr. Bray. He was born in Somerset County, Me., April 3, 1833. At the age of sixteen years, he bought his time from his father and ever after that took care of himself. He worked by the month until 1854, when he went to Wisconsin and worked at lumbering for one year and a half; he then went to Iowa and took up a farm upon which he lived till 1859, when he went to Missouri and worked one winter in a tie camp, near St.
Joseph. In the spring of 1860, he came to Colorado, and spent the next nine years in mining, except three years, that he was farming, near Pueblo. In 1869, he located a ranch on Cottonwood Creek, within three miles of where the flourishing town of Buena Vista now stands. At that time, there were not five families for miles around. Little did he then think, that, in so few years, he would have two railroads within three miles of him, and a market for everything he raised right at his door. But such is the case now.
 

                                                                                            NOAH BAER.
One of the first settlers in Chaffee County was Noah Baer. He was born in Rockbridge County, Va., March 15, 1820. He remained at home, upon his father's farm, till twenty-six years of age. He then went to Platte County, Mo., and was engaged in blacksmithing for three years. In 1856, he went to Iowa, and worked at his trade until 1860, when he emigrated to Colorado and was working at his trade in Fairplay till the fall of 1862, when he removed to Cache Creek. In 1868, he purchased a farm one mile from where Salida now stands. Then all was a wilderness, but now he can see the iron horse pass his door nearly every hour in the day. Mr. Baer was married, in 1877, to Miss Fran ces D. Ball.

                                                                                       MARION BOON.
Mr. Boon was born in Holmes County, Ohio, November 10, 1854. He was feared upon a farm and received a good common school education. In 1864, he came to Colorado, and, after spending one year in the cattle business, he went to prospecting and had good success. He now owns a ranch, near Maysville, Chaffee Co., and is also one of the owners of the Monarch and Gunnison and the Sage and White Pine Toll Roads. He was married, in October, 1880, to Miss Hartsell, of Park County.

                                                                                ROBERT B. CHISHOLM, JR.
This gentleman was born in Benton, Wis., May 8, 1849; his father was, a miner, being one of the owners of the Emma Mine, in Utah; he took several trips there with his father. In 1879, he came to Colorado, and located in Grizzly Gulch, in Chaffee County, and is extensively engaged in mining there. He has been very instrumental in building up the town of St Elmo; built and owns one of the best stores in the Briscoe Block. He was married, in 1875, to Miss Helen Blish, of Delaware County, N. Y. She died in February, 1878.
 

                                                                             GEORGE B. CARSTARPHEN.
This enterprising young merchant was born in Louisiana, Mo., in 1856. Mr. Carstarphen, Sr., was a banker in the same town for twenty-three years. Being desirous of giving his son a collegiate education, he sent him to a preparatory school, in New Haven, Conn., with a view to c, enterin Yale College. But the young man was bent on business, and so, at the age of sixteen, he was managing a wholesale grocery in Chattanooga, Tenn. Afterward he went to Taylor, Texas, and engaged in the lumbering business. Still unsatisfied, he came to Colorado, became Cashier of a bank, in Salida, and subsequently Cashier of the Arkansas Valley Bank, in Poncha Springs. This position he shortly resigned, in order to devote more time and energy to the hardware and lumber business, which he was managing at the same time. IVIr. Carstarphen has the true elements of success, and is destined to become one of the solid men of Poncho Springs. He is now about to buy himself a home and settle down to the comforts of domestic life.
 

                                                                                          PITT COOKE.
This genial, open-hearted gentleman resides on one of the pleasantest ranches in the Arkansas Valley. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in the year 1857. He is the third son of the late Gov. H. D. Cooke, and a nephew of Jay Cooke, famous in the financial history of the United States Government. Mr. Cooke was educated near Philadelphia, at the Cheltenham Academy. Early manifesting a fondness for machinery, he served about three years in the machine-shop at the United States Treasury, thus becoming a practical machinist and engineer. In 1875, he went to Texas, settled in McCullough County, where, for a while, he was engaged in the sheep business. This occupation proved dull and monotonousto a man of his temperament, and, in 1877, he came to Fort Garland, where he visited a brother, who is an officer in the United States army. While here, he witnessed the advent of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. In 1878, he came to Leadville, and became Chief Engineer of the Adlaide Mining Company. In the fall of 1879, he removed to Poncha Springs, and purchased the Caruth Place, which he has since named Alamocita Ranch, which appellation literally means "Little Cottonwoods." The ranch consists of 160 acres of splendid farming land, including a beautiful grove of cottonwoods near the dwelling, beside a fine stretch of timber along the South Arkansas River. Here the owner dispenses a bountiful hospitality to his friends, in summer, and, at the end of the season removes to the more desirable city of Washington, to spend the winter. Mr. Cooke is exceedingly fond of horses, of which he has some choice specimens on his ranch. In the summer of 1881, Mr. Cooke brought, from Georgetown, D. C., his newly-wedded wife, the accomplished daughter of Commodore Somerville, of the United States Navy. Under the bright skies of Colorado they have launched most auspiciously their matrimonial bark. We bespeak for them a smooth sea, favorable winds, and a safe haven at the end of the voyage.
 

                                                                                 WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL.
This gentleman was born in Fulton County, Penn., June 26, 1837. When but a few months old, his parents removed to Peoria, I11.. He received a common school education, and, when twenty-one years of age, commenced attending the academy, at Princeville, Ill., When the war broke out, he enlisted in Battery A, Second Illinois Artillery; was very soon made Captain. After his first three years had expired, he re-enlisted, and remained till the close of the war, after which he returned to Peoria and remained two years. He then moved to Topeka, Kan., and remained there, engaged in the real estate business and handling agricultural implements. until 1877, when he came to Colorado, and located at Alpine. He located a ranch on Chalk Creek, where St. Elmo now stands, and built the second house in what is now a thriving young city. He is engaged in lumbering and mining, and has been very successful. Mr. Campbell was married, in Peoria. Ill., in 1866, to Miss Anna H. Maxwell.
 

                                                                                           FRANK J. CAMPBELL.
Among the most enterprising young business men of Chaffee County is the subject of this sketch. He was born upon a farm, in Oneida County, N. Y. December 31, 1855. He attended the high school, at Lockport, N. Y., till sixteen years of age, and then clerked in a hardware store for three years. He then started a hardware store for himself, in Medina, N. Y., and did a successful business for three years; his health failing him, in 1878. he came to Colorado, and worked for Ailing & Co., Canon City, for one year, and then started a hardware store in Alpine, in connection with his brother. In 1880, they started another store, at St. Elmo, and also one at Tin Cup. Mr. Campbell was married, December 31, 1880. to Miss Ella A. Dearing, of Jackson, Mich. For strict integrity and good business principles no one stands higher in Colorado.
 

                                                                                           ADELBERT A. CRANE.
Dell Crane, as he is familiarly known, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., July 18, 1848. At the age of sixteen years, he went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and clerked in a hotel for three years, and then started the hotel business for himself. Later on, he was proprietor of the Planter's House, in Dubuque, Iowa, for one year. In 1868, he came to Denver, Colo., and was engaged in the stock business, supplying meats for the different Indian agencies. In 1878, he spent the summer in Leadville, and in 1879, came to Maysville, and was one of the founders of the city. He was elected on the first Board of Trustees, and re-elected in April, 1881. He was married, in 1874, to Miss Estella J. Morris, of Denver.
 

                                                                                      ALEXANDER M. CREE.
Mr. Cree was born in Perry County, Penn., July 28, 1842; he received a good common school education. In 1861, when the President called for three months' volunteers, he was one of the first to respond, and went out in the Seventeenth Pennsylvania. After the three months had expired, he re-enlisted in the First Pennsylvania Reserves, and served four years. In the spring of 1868, he emigrated to Colorado, locating in Gilpin County. After five years, he removed to Boulder County, where he spent two years, and afterward three years in Lake City. In 1879, he came to Chaffee County, where he started what has been known since as Cree's Camp. He was one of the founders of Maysville, and in April, 1881, was elected one of the City Trustees. He has bee interested in mining since he came to the State, and is now one of the owners of the Columbus Mine, near Maysville. He was married, in 1870, in Gilpin County, to Miss Ella Thomas, of Michigan.
 

                                                                                      THOMAS CAMERON.
Among the old pioneers of Colorado, the subject of this sketch holds a prominent position. He was born in Holmes County, Ohio, March 31, 1830. He remained at home upon the farm long after he was twenty-one. His father died in 1855, and his mother in 1856. In 1858, he sold the old homestead and moved to Van Buren County, Iowa, and in the following winter moved to Kansas. In the spring of 1860, he emigrated to Colorado; he started a hotel, and sold hay and grain, at Union Ranch, sixteen miles from where Lead-vine is now located. In 1869, he went into the Arkansas Valley, near what is now Salida, and took up a ranch, and has been farming
 

                                                                                       A. B. CHAPLINE.
This gentleman was born in Shepherdstown, W. Va., April 2, 1850. In 1855, his parents removed to Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Baylie's Commercial College in 1874. He then studied law, with Dewitt C. Cram, of Dubuque, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. In 1876, he went to the Black Hills; he was there, engaged in the practice of his profession and mining, till the fall of 1878.. In January, 1879, he went to the new town of Maysville, Chaffee Co. He was very soon appointed City Attorney, and has shown marked ability in his profession and managing the city affairs and cattle-raising since. He was married, in 1855, to Elizabeth Boon, of Holmes County, Ohio, and has family of nine children.
 

                                                                               REV. THOMAS W. DELONG.
Rev. Mr. DeLong, Pastor of the Congregational Church of Buena Vista was born February 12, 1849. His father died when he was seven years of age, and he then went to live with an uncle, near Omaha, Neb. When fifteen years of age, he commenced freighting across the plains to Fort Kearney and other points. At seventeen, he entered Tabor College, Iowa, teaching during vacations to pay his way. Et-6 graduated in 1873, after which he taught school for one year. In 1874, he went to Oberlin College, Ohio, and graduated from there in 1877. In the fall of the same year, he settled over the Congregational Church, in Sheffield, Ohio; his health failing, he resigned his charge, and came to Buena Vista, Colo., in 1879.
 

                                                                                  JARED R. DEREMER.
This gentleman was born in Luzerne County, Penn., July 2, 1844. At the age of fifteen years, he entered Kingston College, and graduated in 1861. He then enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and soon rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant. After about fourteen months, he was transferred to the Sixth United States Cavalry; he remained with this regiment fourteen months, and, being sick and wounded, he received an honorable discharge. After this, he read law with Lyman Hicks, of Wilkesbarre, Penn., for some months; his health gave out and he was unable to study for two years. He then learned telegraphy, at Easton, Penn., and ran the Western Union office there for two years; he was then agent for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad for several years. In 1876, he came to Colorado, and accepted the position of agent for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, at El Moro; was there three years; was then mining, near Silver Cliff, for a year, and in June, 1880, accepted the position of agent again on the Denver & Rio Grande road, and is now located at Buena Vista, where he has built him a nice house and proposes to make this his.home. In October, 1880, he was appointed upon the Board of Trustees, and in April, 1881, was elected to fill the same position.
 

                                                                                          HENRY DAY.
This gentleman is one of the leading farmers in Chaffee County. He was born in Lee County, Va., October 18, 1827; he started for himself, at the age of eighteen years, and worked upon a farm by the month in Van Buren County, Ark. Afterward, he went to Texas and joined the Texas Rangers, and served with them three years. He then returned to Missouri, and engaged in lumbering for seven years. In 1857, he went to Utah, as Wagonmaster for the Government; here he remained eighteen months, after which he returned to Missouri, and the following spring went to Mexico. In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate service, and was with the army one year. He then came to Colorado, locating at Fairplay; was there and at Central City for four years engaged in mining. He then worked at the salt works one year, after which he settled upon a ranch on Cottonwood Creek, Chaffee County, where he has since lived; he is extensively engaged in cattle-raising. He was married, in 1867, to Susan Warfield, formerly of Kentucky.
 

                                                                                          WILLIAM J. DEAN.
Mr. Dean was born in Ohio March 16, 1857; at the age of six years, his parents removed to Chicago, Ill. His father being crippled for life, he had to depend largely upon his own exertions for an education. After attending the public schools till the age of twelve years, he entered Dyhrenfurth College, spending four years in this institution. He then went to clerk for the hardware house of Hibbard, Spencer & Co., Chicago, and remained with them seven years, always doing his duties to the entire satisfaction of his employers, but failing health obliged him to leave their employ, and in January, 1880, he came to Colorado. After traveling over the State for some time in search of a good business point, he finally settled in the new and thriving town of Buena Vista, and built him a store and opened up the hardware business. The firm, Dean & Friedenthal, have, by their careful attention to business and honorable dealings, built up a large and paying business.
 

                                                                                       EDWARD E. ELLIOTT.
Mr. Elliott, the first Mayor of Maysville, Chaffee Co., was born in Ithaca, Yates Co., N. Y., December 23, 1827. When three years of age, his father moved to Willoughby, Ohio. Mr. Elliott has taken care of himself since thirteen years old; he worked upon a farm, for $6 per month summers, and did chores for his board and attended the district school winters. At fifteen years of age, he went to learn the printer's trade at Springfield, Ill. He was there until 1846, when he went into the Mexican war and served one year, after which he was in the milling and stock business, till December, 1849, when he went to Iowa, and in the following spring to California, and engaged in placer mining for ten years. In 1861, he received a position in the San Francisco Mint, and remained there until 1870, when he went to Carson City, and helped to establish that mint; after six months, he went to Utah, and was mining until 1876. He then went back to Illinois for two years, and in 1878 came to Colorado; he spent that. winter in Denver, and the following spring removed to Maysville, or rather, where-Maysville now is; he has been very instrumental in building up the town; he was elected first Mayor, which office he filled acceptably.
 

                                                                                            E. R. EMERSON.
E. R. Emerson, Treasurer of Chaffee County, was born in Cumberland County, Me., and educated at the public schools. In 1858, he was in charge of a party, under Col. A. W. Wildes, Chief Engineer, on the survey of the Marquette & Ontonagon Railroad in Northern Michigan. In the summer of 1859, he accepted the position of resident engineer on the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Railroad, and was stationed at Grand Rapids, Mich., but the company becoming financially embarrassed the following year, he returned to Maine and accepted a position on the Maine Central Railroad, which he held until the summer of 1861. He then accepted the position of Chief Clerk, in the office of Col. Eastman, United States Army, then in charge of the Department of Maine and New Hampshire, which position he held until February, 1866, when he came to Colorado and engaged in mining with his brother, John L. Emerson, at Central City, but in. the fall of the same year returned to Maine and occupied a position on the Portsmouth, Saco & Portland Railroad, till the spring of 1869, when he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Knox & Lincoln Railroad, from Bath to Rockland, Me., which was completed in 1872, when he accepted a position on the Maine Central Railroad, and had charge of the construction of the two important iron bridges across the Kennebec River, near Waterville, and on completion of these, the following year, took charge of the building of the Lockwood Cotton Mills at Waterville. In the spring of 1877, he returned to Colorado, and located at Granite, where he engaged in mining, with his brother, who had remained in Colorado. In the summer of 1879, he was appointed Treasurer of Chaffee County, and, at the election, in October following, was elected Treasurer, having no competitor. Mr. Emerson was married, in February, 1863, to Miss Ellen Russell, youngest daughter of Dr. Leonard W. Russell, a prominent physician and surgeon of Maine, and has one child, a daughter. Mr Emerson is a gentleman. of great personal popularity, possessing the unlimited confidence of the public. His extended acquaintance throughout the county and State, with his well-known reliability, render the history of Chaffee County in this work, which is from his pen, one of great interest and value. The publishers congratulate themselves on securing the services of Mr. Emerson in the capacity of historian for Chaffee County.
 

                                                                                        GRIFFITH EVANS.
Mr. Evans spent his life, until nineteen years of age, in Wales; he was born there October 10, 1834. In 1853, he, with his parents, emigrated to America and settled in Galena, Ill. He was farming and working in lead mines till 1872, when he removed to Dodge County, Kan. In 1874, he came to Colorado and settled in Chaffee County (then' Lake) on the Arkansas River. At that time, that portion of the State was entirely new; the mineral resources had not been discovered. He took up a ranch and went to farming. In prospecting over the country, he put down a stake where St. Elmo is now, and said this would some time make a point for business. He started a grocery at his ranch; when the mines were discovered near where St. Elmo now is, he was one of the first to help start the town, and now, in connection with his brother, has one of the largest grocery stores in that thriving town. He was married, in 1859, in La Fayette County, Wis., to Miss J. M. Havens. Mr. Evans is one of the best-known and highly respected citizens of Chaffee County.
 

                                                                                   CAPT. JOHN G. EVANS.
Capt. Evans, the Clerk of the District Court of Chaffee County, was born in Scottsville, Ky., May 15, 1844. At an early age, he removed, with his father, who was a lawyer, to Glasgow, Ky. He received the advantages of the common schools, and, at the age of fifteen years, he entered the Urania College, Glasgow, which institution he attended three years. At the breaking-out of the war, he enlisted in the Twenty-first Kentucky Volunteers, and was made Captain, in which capacity he fought for the stars and stripes three years. In 1868, he went to Cameron, Mo., and engaged in the hardware business for two years, after which he removed to Hannibal, and was engaged in the forwarding and commission business. In 1871, he came to Colorado, and was engaged in the same business, in Denver, for four years. Later on, he was engaged in different pursuits at different places in the State. In 1879, he represented Boulder County in the Legislature; after the adjournment of the Legislature, he came to Chaffee County, and was mining- in the Monarch District. In January, 1881, he was appointed District Clerk and now resides in Buena Vista. The day he was twenty-three years of aga, he was married to Miss Cornelia C. Ritter, of Woodland, Barren Co., Ky.
 

                                                                                    CORNELIUS EUBANK.
This courteous and intelligent gentleman is the present Mayor of the town of Poncha Springs. He was born near Richmond, Va. in 1832. His education was received in the schools of Richmond. In 1850, he came to St. Louis, where he was in business a year or two with his uncle. He then went to Council Bluffs, where he engaged in general merchandising for thirteen years. In 1860, he visited Denver, going across the plains with a wagon-train. In 1869, he settled in El Paso County, and engaged in the cattle business. Here he was appointed Sheriff, by Judge Halleck, which position was filled "wisely and well." He witnessed the building of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway through Colorado Springs, and wondered at that time what could give support and success to a railroad running through those barren plains. But he hits lived to see that once feeble corporation become wealthy and powerful, ever reaching forth its giant arms for new territory and increased power. Mr. Eubank believes in the possibilities of Poncha Springs and is patiently awaiting the day of her substantial growth and prosperity.
 

                                                                                          HUGH H. FULTON.
In. the summer of 1881, this gentleman was Postmaster in the growing town of Poncha Springs. • He was born in Strattonville, Clarion Co., Penn., in 1849, where he attended the public schools. Here, for a number of years, he was engaged in the furniture business. In 1879, he came to Colorado, remaining awhile at Callon City. In. October, 1879, he became Assistant Postmaster at Poncho and January 1, 1880, he received the appointment as Postmaster. Mr. Fulton married the daughter of Levi Meyers, dry goods merchant at Poncha. Though quiet and unpretentious in his manners, Mr. Fulton enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him. He shows his business enterprise by keeping in the post office a general assortment of stationery and confectionery.
 

                                                                                         ERNST FRIEDENTHAL.
Among the enterprising German citizens of Chaffee County is Mr. Friedenthal, of Buena Vista. He was born in Germany April 16, 1850; he was educated by a private teacher till the age of thirteen years, and then completed his education at Zuellichau College. At eighteen years of age, he started on a traveling tour, and for five years was traveling all over the Continent. In 1873, he came to America, and located at Pentwater, Mich., and worked in a saw-mill and pinery. Here he remained two years, after which he worked in a lumber-yard in Chicago, and traveled through the West for three years. He then went back to Germany, and after one year returned to America, and in 1879 came to Buena Vista, Colo., and started the Chicago Lumber Yard, which he still owns. In December, 1880, he bought into the hardware business with William J. Dean. Dean & Friedenthal have now an extensive store in Buena Vista, and also one at Gothic City.
 

                                                                                            WILLIAM W. FAY.
Mr. Fay was born in Skaneateles, N. Y., September 1, 1846. At the age of eleven years, he commenced to learn the printer's trade in his native town. He was afterward Superintendent of the Syracuse Daily Courier Printing Company, of Syracuse, N. Y., for nine years. Later on, he was Superintendent of the Rockford Register Printing Company of Rockford, Ill., for three years. In October, 1879, he came to Denver, Colo., and was foreman in the job department of the Times office till January 1, 1880, when he went to Buena Vista, as Cashier of the Lake House. In April following, he went into the Grand Park Hotel, as clerk, for Capt. Grey, and the following August took this hotel on his own account, which he has since conducted to the satisfaction of the traveling public. In April, 1881, he was elected one of the Trustees of Buena Vista- Mr. Fay was married, in 1867, to Annie Sanders, of Belvedere, Ill.
 

                                                                                             AMASA FEATHERS.
This gentleman was born in Rensselaer County, N. Y. June 12, 1846. He received a good education, and remained upon his father's farm summers and taught school winters till he was twenty-four years of age. He then started out selling sewing machines for a large concern in Albany, and later was engaged in the same business traveling through Ohio. In 1875, he started the same business for himself at Mitchell, Ind. After twoyears, he sold out and came to Colorado, and was in the same business at Pueblo for one year. In the spring of 1878, he moved to the South Fork of the Arkansas River, and bought the Miller Ranch for the purpose of raising stock. There were no improvements except a poor log house. The following July, mineral was discovered near there, and in August, 1876, they commenced building the city of Maysville on his ranch, and what he intended for a pasture is now covered with one of the best towns in Chaffee County. Mr. Feathers was married, in 1869, to Harriet Tabor, of Sand Lake, N. Y.
 

                                                                                          MARTIN M. FRENCH.
Prominent among the business men of the new and growing town of Salida is Martin M. French, who was born in Otsego County, N. Y., January 29, 1837. He was reared upon a farm and received a good common school education. In 1863, he went to California and was mining in the principal camps there and in Nevada for six years. In 1872, he went to Ray County, Mo., and was engaged in the drug business for four years. In 1876, he went to Deadwood, and was clerking in a grocery and clothing store. In October, 1878, he came to Colorado, and was one of the first to start business in Salida. He is now doing a very nice drug business and is highly respected as one of the solid men of the town. He was married, May 16, 1879, to Miss Belle Chamberlain, of Canada.
 

                                                                                        VOLNEY C. GUNNELL.
Prominent in the legal profession of Chaffee County is Volney C. Gunnell. He was born in Saline County, Mo., August 12, 1851. At the age of eighteen years, he went to Christian University for one term; his health failing, he went into merchandising at Bates, Mo. He remained in this business one year and a half, after which he spent one year upon his father's farm. He then read law for four years, in Pleasant Hill, Mo., and was admitted to the bar in June, 1878; here he practiced for one year, and in the fall of 1879 came to Leadville. In February, 1880, he organized the Central Colorado Prospecting and Mine Developing Company, and returned East to sell stock. In April, he came back and opened an office in Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., where he has since practiced his profession. In April, 1881, he was appointed Public Administrator for Chaffee County. Mr. Gunnell was married, to Miss Lizzie In Small, of Salina, Mo., October 2, 1872.
 

                                                                                          JOHN GRAVESTOCK.
Mr. Gravestock was born in Herefordshire, "England, June 2, 1833. He followed the pursuit of gardener until he came to America, in 1865. He came direct to Colorado, and remained in Denver until 1868, when he came to Canon City, where he has since resided, engaged in his old pursuits of gardening, for which the soil and climate of that section is peculiarly adapted. He was married, in England, in 1854. When he came to America in search of a new home, he left his family there, but, after two years, finding the New World all he had anticipated, he sent for his family, and Mrs. Gravestock, with five small children, came all that long journey alone. They have now a nice home and. are a very happy family, enjoying the fruits of their energy and enterprise.
 

                                                                                    GEORGE K. HARTENSTEIN.
This gentleman is among the wide-awake young lawyers of Chaffee County. He was born in Montgomery County, Penn., January 31„ 1852. He worked upon a farm summers and attended the public school winters until fifteen years of age. He then went to Mount Pleasant Seminary summers and teaching school winters until twenty-one years old, when he entered Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Penn., and graduated from there in 1875. He then read law and taught school to pay his way until 1876, when he went to Livingston County, Mo., and taught for five months. Three months after this he came to Denver, Colo., and was in the law office of Patterson & Campbell for nine months. He was admitted to the bar during this time. In February, 1878, he went to Leadville and commenced the practice of law there. After six months, he quit the practice and engaged in mining. He discovered and located, in connection with A. P. Hereford,the Annie lode, on Fryer Hill; they sold that the following spring for $75,000. He made money rapidly until he got interested in the Wheel of Fortune in Summit County, when he lost most of what he had made. In the spring of 1880, he came to Buena Vista, and has been here since in the practice of his profession. In the fall of 1880, he was appointed County Attorney. He owns, in connection with Mrs. Adams, whose daughter he married in 1879, the Cottonwood Hot Springs Hotel. Mr. Hartenstein has the entire confidence of the people, and, by his industry and close attention to his profession, is building up a large and lucrative practice.
 

                                                                                     WILLIAM R. HARP.
Mr. Harp was born in Canada March 15, 1847, on a farm, near the town of Aylmer. His father was owner of the Otter Mills at that place. He left home when but nine years of age, and has battled life for himself since. At the age of sixteen years, he commenced the business of buying produce and shipping to New York City. In 1868, he built the steamer Shoecroft, on Niagara River, and ran it as a pleasure steamer between Buffalo and Grand Island. In the fall of 1870, he sold out, and removed to Kansas City; he remained here but a short time, and then followed the building of the L. L. & G. R. R. to the Indian Territory. Mr. Harp was one of the founders of Coffeeville, Kan. Later on, he was in the wholesale feed business in Kansas City, till 1878, when he came to Leadville and opened a grain store there, with a branch in Callon City. In the winter of 1880, he came to Buena Vista and went into the grain and hardware business; he is quite extensively engaged now in mining.
 

                                                                                       JOHN. H. HUGHES.
Mr. Hughes was born in New York City in 1841; his parents removed, when he was quite young, to Tioga County, Penn., and when he was eight years of age they emigrated to Dodgeville, Wis. In July, 1861, he went to Montana and built the first storehouse in Helena, and was engaged in mining, freighting and restaurant business for seven years. In 1868, he removed to Macon County, Mo., and was merchandising and handling stock till 1879, when he emigrated to Colorado and located in Maysville, Chaffee Co. He and his family first had to live in a tent, as there were no houses there. He has since built the Hughes House, one of the best hotels in the county. Mr. Hughes was first married, in 1861, to Miss Susan Sampson, of Dodgeville, Wis. She died in 1867, and he was married again, to Miss Nellie Harper, in 1868.
 

                                                                                      EDWIN H. HILLER.
Among the young and active business men of Colorado, none stand higher than Edwin H. Hiller, of Buena Vista. Starting out at a very early age to educate and take care of himself, he can truly be said to be a self-made man, and few men of his age have filled as responsible positions with credit to himself and the perfect satisfaction of his employers. He was born at Sharon Springs, Schoharie Co., N. Y., February 24, 1846. At fifteen years of age, he started out for himself, and was bound to get for himself an education, and, at the age of twenty-one years, we find him Principal of Union Seminary, Belleville, N. Y., with ten assistants, all college graduates. This position he occupied two years. In 1869, he resigned this position and went to Wyoming Territory, and had charge of the post trader's business at Fort Russell for two years, after which he went to Denver, Colo., and engaged in the Colorado National Bank, occupying, during the eight years he was with this bank, nearly all the different positions of the bank. During this time, he was also Receiver of the Miners' Bank of Georgetown for two years, and also acted as Special National Bank Examiner in the State of Colorado. In 1879, he was the first to start the Gunnison excitement, and was the founder of Hillerton, a town named after himself. He started the banking house of Hiller, Hal-lock & Co., at Hillerton, in the summer of 1879. In November, 1880, he started a bank at Buena Vista, under the same name. In May, 1881, he started another at Aspen. HP is largely interested in mining and the lumber business in the Gunnison country, and in the charcoal business in Buena Vista. While in Denver, he was very prominent in church matters, being Superintendent of St. John's Episcopal Church, Junior Warden and Treasurer of the same, and was largely instrumental in securing Rev. Mr. Hart, of England, to be Pastor of the church. In 1870, Mr. Hiller was married to Miss Alice Adriance, of Oswego, N. Y., who died in 1874. Death also deprived him of his two little children, one in 1873, the other in 1875. Mr. Hiller commands the respect and esteem of the people, and is considered one of Buena Vista's most worthy citizens.
 

                                                                                      ALEXANDER HOGUE.
Alexander Rogue was born in Wayne County, Ohio, July 31, 1845. He was raised upon a farm, and received a common-school education. In 1861, when the war broke out, and his country called for volunteers, he enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served four years. In 1866, he came to Colorado, and was mining near Granite until 1878, when he located a ranch near where Maysville now stands. He is a man highly respected. He was married, in 1877, to Miss Sadie Boon.
 

                                                                                          WILLIAM HARRIS.
Mr. Harris was born in Milwaukee, Wis., June 5, 1842. His parents moved to Chicago when he was two years of age. In 1861, he enlisted in the Chicago Zouaves, under Ellsworth, and served with them three years and a half; he then took a trip to Salt Lake, and back to Atchison, Kan., where he resided till 1876. In 1876, he went to Black Hills, and in 1877 to Colorado. After spending some time in Central City, Black Hawk and Silver Cliff, he located in Maysville, Chaffee Co., when there was nothing but three log cabins there; he bought into the Columbus Mine, and afterward sold his interest for a nice sum; he owns several stores in Maysville, and has been very instrumental in . building up the town. Mr. Harris was married, in 1880, to Narmie Mason, of De Soto, Kan.
 

                                                                                         CHARLES S. HILL.
Prominent among the young business men of Chaffee County is Charles S. Hill, of Buena Vista. He was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., April 15, 1848; his father was a merchant, and did business in different places while Charles was a boy. He attended school and clerked in a commission house and telegraph office at different times till 1863, when he went back to Michigan and devoted himself to school for two years; took a thorough course in Eastman's Commercial College, Chicago. In May, 1866, he came to Colorado and located at Empire City. In 1871, he joined his father in the lumber business in Clear Creek County. In 1873, he was married to Miss Emma Shepard, daughter of Judge Shepard, of Clear Creek County. He then followed farming till the fall of 1877, when he entered the Auditor's office of the South Park Railroad at Denver, where he remained till January, 1881, when he removed to Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., and took charge of the Buena Vista Land Company, a position he has since filled to the entire satisfaction of the company.
 

                                                                                      H. PERCY HUSTON.
Mr. Huston is a member of the firm of Billin, Huston & Co., which house carries the largest stock of general merchandise in Poncha Springs. This young gentleman came to Colorado in 1879, and, by sheer grit, industry and careful management, has attained his present position and success. He belongs to that class of rising young men who, i E they cannot get the employment preferred, will labor at anything that presents itself until able to exercise a little choice in the matter. Messrs. Billin and Huston bought out J. P. True in the summer of 1880; then D. P. Cherry was added to the firm, and a very successful business followed for about six months, when, by mutual consent, Mr. Cherry dropped out, and was succeeded by George R. Elder, a prominent lawyer of Leadville. The business of this enterprising firm is continually increasing, and now amounts to $100,000 per year. Mr. Huston is but twenty-six years old, and well illustrates what ability, perseverance and industry can accomplish.
 

                                                                                MAJ. JOSEPH HUTCHINSON.
Among the men in Chaffee County well known in political life is Joseph Hutchinson, who was born in Delaware December 31, 1840; in early life, removed with his parents to Indiana; he enlisted in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, the first three years' regiment in the State, and was elected Captain of Company D; he served three years, and when mustered-out was Major of the regiment. He then came to Colorado, and was Superintendent of the Gaff Mining Company, in Lake County, for seven years; he then went into the stock business; in 1874, bought him a ranch and made him a nice home near Poncha Springs. In 1873, he represented Lake, Saguache, Park, Fremont and San Juan Counties in the Territorial Legislature. In 1876, he was a candidate for the Senate, and was beaten by Jason B. Hall by only fifty-one votes. In 1879, he was elected again to the Legislature; he was in the session that divided Lake and formed Chaffee County. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Anna Belle -McPherson, of Lake County.
 

                                                                                   WALTER H. JONES.
Prominent among the old pioneers of Colorado is the subject of this sketch. He was born in the State of Illinois, July 26, 1836; his father was a merchant, doing business in the West Indies. He received a good common-school education. In May, 1860, he came to Colorado, first locating in California Gulch, where he remained for thirteen years; he owned and worked the placer mines where now the carbonate belt crosses California Gulch; he also bought gold from the other miners, carrying on an extensive business in this line; he says he was well aware of the beds of carbonate ore in that section; they called it at that time lead ore; they first found it in the placer mines in the gulch, and afterward found a deposit of it while digging a cellar; this was in the fall of 1863; he made several assays, and found it to run from $3 to $27 per ton—not valuable enough to ship, and no means of working it at home at that time; in fact, it would cost $80 per ton to get it to the market. In the spring of 1872, he came to Granite, in what is now Chaffee County, and has been placer-mining here since; he is one of the owners and Superintendent of the Gaff Mining Company. Mr. Jones was married, in 1874, to Miss Susan Funk, of Illinois.

The winter of 1870 he spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, and took a course in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College. He was County Commissioner for Lake County for six years. No man stands higher in the estimation of the people than Walter H. Jones. He has become well off through his own hard work and exertions, and his word is considered as good as his bond.

                                                                       CAPT. WALTER B. JENNESS.
Capt. Jenness was born in Bangor, Me., May 20, 1840. His father died when Walter was six years of age, and he always had to depend largely upon himself. In May, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixth Maine Volunteer Infantry as private, and was in active service four years and three months; the last year, he was Captain of Company H, First Maine Veteran Volunteer Infantry. After the war, he went, to Chicago and engaged in the grocery business until March, 1866; he then went to Junction City, Kan., and was in the real estate and building business; he was appointed Marshal, and organized the pioneer detective force, and was appointed its Chief. In 1868, he went to New Mexico and spent the summer, and, in the fall, removed to Black Hawk, Colo., and engaged in mining till the spring of 1870; he was elected Marshal of Black Hawk, and United States Deputy Marshal for five counties; afterward, he was engaged in mining in Clear Creek and Boulder Counties till 1876, when he went to Denver and opened a mining office; he remained here till August, 1878, and then went to Silver Cliff. In July, 1879, he came to what is 'now Maysville; he became interested in the Columbus and other mines, and has been very successful.
 

                                                                                    H. A. JACKSON.
Mr. Jackson is the landlord of the Poncha Springs Hotel, and well known in all that section for his devotion to the hotel and livery business. He was born in Quincy, Ill., April 10, 1838; he resided in Bonaparte, Iowa, some fifteen years; returning to Quincy, he remained seven or eight years; here he married Miss Reeves. To energy and good sense Mr. Jackson owes no small share of his worldly success. From Quincy he removed to Lathrop and engaged in the hotel and livery business; from there he removed to Colorado, and for two years kept the Colorado House, in Boulder City; in 1879, he removed in Poncha Springs. Miss Jackson, his daughter, was the first young lady who arrived in the town; she is lively, prepossessing, and a general favorite.
 

                                                                                EDWARD S. JEFFREY.
Mr. Jeffrey was born in Canandaigua, N. Y. July 20, 1845. He was educated in the Canandaigua Academy, and later spent three years in Rochester Military School; he then served one year as boy before the mast on a merchantman on. the sea, after which he went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and remained there two years, making money and losing it, as thousands of others did; he then went to Louisiana and engaged in cotton-raising; later on, he went to Lexington, Miss.; and was appointed Postmaster under Andrew Johnson; also, Clerk of the Board of Registration under the reconstruction act; later on, he went to Canton, Miss., and engaged in merchandising; while there, was Deputy Postmaster; in October, 1869, was appointed Probate Clerk of Madison County; in July, 1870, was elected Chancery Clerk of the same county, which office he filled for three terms. In 1880, he came to Colorado and located at Junction City, where he has since been engaged in mining, and was elected one of the Trustees of the city.
 

                                                                              JAMES H. JOHNSTON.
Perhaps no man in Colorado has had a more varied experience than the subject of this sketch. He was born. in Charlottesville, Hancock Co., Ind., May 21, 1834; at seven years of age, his parents removed to Platte County, Mo.; at the age of sixteen, he went the overland route to California; in 1851, he went back home, returning to California again in 1852; he then engaged in mining for four years; he then went to Chili and Valparaiso, South America; from there to China Islands, and soon after returned to the States, being ninety-eight days on the trip; he then returned to his father's store in Missouri, and clerked for him till 1860; he then came to Colorado and located on Cache Creek; he returned home again, and in 1861 he returned to Colorado with a stock of goods, and took them to California Gulch to supply the miners; later on, he went to Montana, where he spent four years; in 1867, he returned to Missouri, and soon after back to Colorado, locating at Granite, in what is now Chaffee County, then Lake; here he has resided since; he has been Deputy County Clerk six years, Deputy County Treasurer six years, Deputy Sheriff four years, holding three different positions at the same time; in October, 1879, he was elected County Clerk and Recorder. Mr. Johnston was married, in 1858, to Lydia A. Jackston, but death took her from him in the fall or 1860; he remained a widower till August, 1880, when he married Mrs. Maggie D. Litts. Mr. Johnston is a man highly respected, and is looked upon as one of the leading citizens of Chaffee County.
 

                                                                                JOHN T. KEEGAN.
John T. Keegan was born in New Haven, Conn., September 22, 1856. He attended the public schools, and, later, St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y.; he also took a military course of instruction under Col. Russell, of New Haven; he served four years in the Connecticut State Militia. In 1876, he came to Colorado, in Chaffee County, where Maysville now stands; then it was a wilderness; he was one of the founders of the city, and served upon the first Board of Trustees; he is engaged in mining and real estate business, and is considered one of the substantial young business men of the city.
 

                                                                                JAMES F. KELLY.
James F. Kelly was born in Mount Savage, Md., in 1845. After receiving a good common-school education, he, at the age of twenty-one years, went into the grocery business at Pittsburgh, Penn. In 1864, he went to Montana, and was mining till 1869, when he re- turned to Pittsburgh, Penn., and again went into the grocery business. In 1875, he went-to the Black Hills and was among the first there. In 1877, he came to Leadville, and in 1878, he was in Silver Cliff. In 1879, he was one of the first to locate where Maysville is now; he helped to organize the town, and was the first Clerk and Recorder; he is also Town Agent, appointed by the Trustees, for the disposal of town lots; he does a general real estate and miners' broker business.
 

                                                                             STEPHEN B. KELLOGG.
Prominent among the old pioneers who emigrated to Colorado in 1859 is the name of Stephen B. Kellogg. He was born in Brookfield, Orange Co., Vt., December 16, 1816; he was educated in the common schools and the academy at Williston, Vt.; in 1835, he removed with his parents to Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of twenty-one years, he went around Cape Horn to Valparaiso, South America, returning to Cleveland in the spring of 1839. In 1841, he was married to Miss Abbie L. Pierce. In 1850, he crossed the plains to California, and remained there mining for three years, after which he returned to Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland, Ohio, and was engaged in merchandising till 1856; he then went to New York City, and for the next three years was salesman for the hardware house of Howard, Clark Co. May 12, 1859, he arrived in Denver, and spent the summer mining in Russel's Gulch. In March, 1860, he, with others, went on to Chalk Creek, in what is now Chaffee County, and commenced the first mining ever done in that section. In the fall of 1863, he moved to Denver, and was in various kinds of business there till 1867; he then went to Granite, and resided there till 1870, when he moved to Colorado City. In 1871, he took up 160 acres of land near Manitou Springs, in the Ute Pass, and built a hotel, which he kept till 1875; he then went to Lake City and engaged in mining; was also Police Justice two years; later on, he moved to Buena Vista, where he is now engaged in mining. In 1859, he was a member of the Provincial Legislature from Clear Creek County; he has held, at different times since, several official positions.
 

                                                                                        GUSTAV KRAUSE.
This gentleman was born in. Germany May 13, 1854. He received a good education. In 1873, he came to America and spent one year in Massachusetts in learning the English Language; he then went to New York City and spent two years and a half in a large importing house as clerk; from there he went back to Europe on a visit; on his return to America, he came directly to Colorado and located in the San Luis Valley; subsequently, he was engaged as book-keeper at Fort Garland and Alamosa, and, later on, he was book-keeper for Solaman Bros., in Denver. In 1879, he came to Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., and engaged in the grocery business under the firm name of Krause & Rollandet ; they first started in a tent, but they have now a nice store, and are considered the pioneer merchants of that flourishing town.
 

                                                                                                      IRA KING.
Mr. King, one of Chaffee County's successful farmers, was born in Greene County, Penn., April 2, 1830. When he was two years of age, his parents removed to Monroe County, Ohio; his father died when he was fourteen years of age, and he stayed at home on. the farm with his mother till the age of twenty-two, after which he was farming in Iowa and Missouri till 1864, when he emigrated to Colorado; he built the first house at Dayton Twin Lakes, and was engaged in mining and dairying; later on, he bought a ranch on the South Fork of the Arkansas River, near Poncha; he has a beautiful farm of 480 acres, nicely improved, and has all the comforts around him that one finds in the older States. Mr. King is highly respected, and, for honesty and integrity, no one in Chaffee County stands higher.
 

                                                                                         F. F. LANKINS.
Mr. Lankins, the genial proprietor of the Commercial Hotel at St. Elmo, was born in Canada January 24, 1834. At the age of ten years, he removed with his parents to Wisconsin; he remained at home upon the farm until twenty-one years of age, and then engaged in the saw-mill business for one year, after which he went to Freeport, Iowa, and engaged in hotel business; when the war broke out, he enlisted in the Twelfth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served during the war, after which he was engaged in the mercantile business in Nebraska for three years. In 1878, he came to Denver, Colo., and opened the Filby House, and later on was proprietor of the Lawrence House. When St. Elmo started, he went there and built the hotel, which he still runs to the perfect satisfaction of his guests. He was married, in 1857, to Caroline K Prichard, of Lansing, Iowa.
 

                                                                                COL. HENRY LOGAN.
The subject of this sketch was born in Whitehaven, England, December 20, 1824. Early in life, he was apprenticed to the carriage-making business. When sixteen years old, he was a member of the Chartist Association in England, organized for the purpose of forming a republic; he took an active part in the Chartist insurrection, and, to save himself from royal vengeance, he hastily left for the United States, and engaged in the carriage business in Lockport and Joliet, Ill. In 1852, he was married to Miss Eliza Snoad, the Principal of the school at Joliet; the fruit of the marriage was six children, two only of whom are now living. In 1854, he engaged in the book business at that place, and continued until 1857, when he was elected Justice of the Peace of the city of Joliet, Ill.; while holding this position, he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and in 1860 was elected District Attorney for the Eleventh Judicial District of Illinois, which office he held, giving great satisfaction, until the latter part of 1863, when he resigned, raised a company of 100 men, and entered the Sixty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry as Captain; was severely wounded at the battle of Dallas, Ga.; while still suffering from his wounds, was Provost Marshal of Chattanooga, Tenn., under Gen. `Meagher; although an invalid from wounds and sickness, he still persisted in re-maiming in the service until the end of the war; he was promoted Major of his regiment, and, at the request of his commanding General, was brevetted Colonel for gallant and meritorious services: In 1865, he was elected County Clerk of Will County, Ill., which office he held until 1870, when, on account of poor health, he moved to Salina, Kan. In 1872, he was elected County Judge of Saline County, Kan., which office he held until the fall of 1874, when he resigned and returned to Joliet, Ill., where he resumed the profession of law. In November, 1876, on account of failing health, he again reluctantly bade adieu to the scenes of his early manhood, and moved to Boulder, Colo., where he engaged in the practice of his profession until April, 1880, when he moved to Leadville, but, in a few months, was compelled, by failing health, to leave the Carbonate City, and in July located in Denver; in March., 1881, he followed his son, editor of the Buena Vista Herald, to Buena Vista, where he is now practicing law in partnership with Judge V. C. Gunnell; he is quite a politician, having been on the stump in six Presidential campaigns; in politics, he is a Republican, and an ardent friend of woman suffrage and kindred reforms. In April, 1881. he was appointed Assistant District Attorney for Chaffee County by the County Commissioners, which position he now holds.
 

                                                                                           W. R. LOGAN.
W. R. Logan was born January 9, 1860, in Joliet, his father, Col. H. Logan, then being one of the prominent lawyers of that place. From the early age of thirteen years, he has been more or less engaged in the newspaper business. While attending school, he learned the art typographic; at the early age of fourteen, he graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, Chicago; at the age of fifteen, he graduated from the Beloit College, Wisconsin; in 1875, he had charge of a publishing house in Illinois, superintending the publishing of six different newspapers; in 1876, he moved to Salina, Kan., and took editorial charge of the Farmer's Advocate; in 1877, he engaged at the latter place in the real estate, abstract and insurance business, where, in a few years, by a strict attention to business, he accumulated quite a snug little fortune, and. lost it all in his attempt to save a friend. In 1880, he moved to Colorado and studied law with his father in Denver. Preferring the newspaper business to that of law, in January, 1881, he became a joint-proprietor of the Chaffee County Times, but severed his connection with that paper a few months later; he is one of the founders of the Buena Vista Herald, and is now joint-proprietor of that paper; associated with him is A. R Kennedy, an old newspaper man of many years' experience; he commenced in the newspaper business when he was thirteen years old, and is familiar with it in all its branches; in politics, he is a stalwart Republican. If he would cultivate the art of oratory, he would make his mark; he has repeatedly, at college and elsewhere, taken premiums offered for best discourses, and addresses.
 

                                                                                   ALMON C. LIBBY.
Almon C. Libby was born at Brunswick Me., December 24, 1848. When sixteen years of age, he began to learn the machinist's trade, which he followed at Biddeford and Lewiston, Me., and Worcester, Mass.; he graduated at Bates College, Lewiston, Me., in 1873, and at the time of graduation, was Chief Engineer of West Amesbury Branch Railroad; was afterward one of the engineers employed in building the Lowell & Andover Railroad, and was afterward the Resident Engineer on the construction of the Lewiston Water Works, on the completion of which, in 1879, he came to Colorado, where he has since resided; was first engaged as a civil engineer on the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad, and since has followed the business of United States Deputy Mining Surveyor, with headquarters at Buena Vista.
CHARLES S. LIBBY.
Charles S. Libby, attorney at law, was born in Kittery, Me., November 2, 1854. When fifteen years of age, he became a student in Maine State Seminary and Nichols Latin School, remaining for three years, and, four years later, graduated from Bates College, Lewiston; in May, 1877, he began reading law in Lewiston, Me., and was admitted to the bar in June, 1879; he continued in the practice of his profession there until March, 1880, when he came to Colorado and located in Buena Vista, where he has since been engaged in practicing law, holding the office of City Attorney since April, 1881.
 

                                                                               PERCY A. LEONARD.
Percy Allen Leonard was born in Louisville, Ky., May 2, 1848, and received a good common-school education and excellent private tuition up to the age of twelve, when he entered Masonic College, La Grange, Ky., in the Junior class. A year later, the breaking-out of the great rebellion closed the college and scattered the class; he then went to Louisville, Ky., and remained a year in the wholesale dry goods house of James Trabue & Co. as assistant bill clerk; then, receiving an offer of a better salary, the entered the Clerk's office of the United States District Court, under A. J. Ballard, then Clerk; he afterward entered the Chancery Court Clerk's office as Chief Deputy; after remaining in. this position over a year, he was induced to go to Chicago by his father, Dr. 0. L. Leonard, who was a refugee from the South on account of his strong Union principles, who had been living in Chicago since the latter part of 1861. On arriving at Chicago, he was appointed to a position in the Chicago Post Office, in February, 1864, and commenced to read law in daytime and work in the post office at night; finding that failing health would not permit the double burden on his physical system, and his father dying within a few weeks after his arrival, he abandoned temporarily the idea of becoming a lawyer, not exactly knowing, in his youth and inexperience, the best course to pursue, being overwhelmed with grief. The family consisted, at that time, of himself and two sisters, his mother having died many years before; one of the sisters, now Mrs. Agnes Leonard Hill, was at that time engaged editorially on the Chicago limes, and the joint earnings of the two supported the family, in addition to a small income derived from the rental of some property left by Dr. Leonard at his death; as that was encumbered, and repairs, insurance and taxes accumulated, the subject of this sketch felt the necessity of remaining in Government employ to secure a regular salary, rather than follow the uncertain emoluments of a young lawyer's ambition. About this time, the railway postal system was introduced into the United States by Col. George B. Armstrong, to whom a monument has been lately erected in Chicago in recognition of his reform of the Government postal system, and Mr. Leonard enjoys the distinction of having been the first railway postal clerk appointed in the United States, being detailed from the distributing departwent of the Chien() Post Office. In September, 1864, he made the run on the Northwestern road—at that time called the Dixon Air Line—to Clinton, Iowa; he was afterward transferred to the Rock Island road, where he remained for nearly five years, and went back into the Chicago Post Office, in the money order department. About this time, he began to write for publication, being the Chicago correspondent for several outside papers, including the New Orleans Times, Davenport Gazette, and others. In September, 1869, he was married to Miss Ida Crittenden, of New York, who was living in Chicago at the time. When the great fire of October 9, 1871, devastated Chicago, he had charge of the foreign money order window of the post office, and, after remaining long enough to assist in getting matters straightened out of the confusion incident to the fire; he was induced, by failing health and a business offer, to come to Colorado in. January, 1872; he went to Golden and took charge of the commissary department of the construction company at that time building the railroad to Black Hawk, and was also time-keeper for the company. When the road was completed to a point three miles below Black Hawk, he accepted the position of assistant book-keeper in the office of E. D. Root, at that time Cashier of the company; he remained in railroad and express business for several years, and went to mining in Boulder County, in which, not having money enough to follow the uncertainties of the treacherous tellurium veins, he was unsuccessful, and began special work for the Denver newspapers, at a stated price, having been a gratuitous contributor for some years; about the same time, he was employed to assist in editorial work on the Boulder County Courier, a newspaper just started, and then owned by W. G. Shedd, now of Leadville, who had formerly conducted the Sunshine Courier, which was removed by him to Boulder, and the name changed; so great was the success of the new venture that one of the proprietors of the opposition paper, the Boulder News, sold his interest to Mr. Shedd, and the two papers were consolidated, under the name of the Boulder News and Courier, in November, 1878, when Mr. Leonard was employed as editorial writer, doing the entire mining editorial and local work on the paper from December, 1878, until October, 1879, when he went to Lead-vine, and soon after to Buena Vista, establishing, with a partner, the Chaffee County Times, in February, 1880, at that time the only paper published in the territory now comprised in Chaffee, Gunnison and Pitkin Counties; he has been very successful in getting a wide circulation for the Times, which is now recognized as a reliable mining journal, and the leading paper of the section. From July, 1880, until April, 1881, Mrs. Agnes Leonard Hill, the accomplished and talented journalist, as associate editor, gave the Times a reputation all over Colorado, and portions of the Eastern States, as a sparkling, ably edited journal. Being called back to Chicago, which is her home, by ill health, she severed active connection with the paper, though acting as editorial correspondent; she continues to contribute lively sketches of her impressions of Colorado. The chief boast of Mr. Leonard is that, in spite of great opposition from bunko men, gamblers and a lawless element which made Buena Vista their headquarters, he set a standard of decency in the Times, which a gradual improvement in the tone of public opinion fully indorses, and recognizes as a valuable ally in the rescue of the town from the domination of the bad element, and renders it a desirable residence point, where law, order and decency are held pre-eminent.
 

                                                                                 GEORGE LEONHARDY.
Among the old-timers who came to Colorado in an early day, and have been closely identified with its mining and agricultural interests since, appears the name of George Leonhardy. He was born in Switzerland March 15, 1835; he graduated from college in 1851, and in 1852 he came to America, and spent two years in school to familiarize himself with the English language, after which he was engaged in contracting, handling railroad ties, etc., till the spring of 1863, when he came to Colorado and went at once to California Gulch; there he remained two' years engaged in mining, after which he went to Twin Lakes, Lake Co., and, later on, to Granite, where he was mining for seven years; he then moved onto a ranch at Riverside, Chaffee Co., where he has since resided, carrying on farming, and also handling mining timber and burning charcoal very extensively; he is also partner in the hardware store of Ludwig & Co., Buena Vista; he was Clerk of the District Court of Lake County for six years; was Sheriff of the same county in 1864 and 1865; was United States Assessor from 1865 to 1870, and was County Commissioner in 1866 and 1867; he stands very high in Chaffee County as a man of sterling integrity.
 

                                                                                  CHARLES J. LYDON.
Mr. Lydon was born in Pennsylvania, June 3, 1844. After he was eighteen years of age, he worked in the mines and saved money to take a full course in Crittenden's Commercial College, Philadelphia; after graduating, he went into the grocery business at .Ashley, Penn.; after about one year, he sold out and went to Chicago and engaged in bottling business with James Block, under the firm name of Lydon & Block, for one year; the same firm then returned to Ashley, Penn., and was in the livery business five years; he then went to Missouri and was book-keeper for the Chicago & Alton Railroad for five months. He then came to Colorado, in April, 1879, and located at Alpine; here he engaged in mining until June, 1881, when he bought out the hardware store of Campbell & Co. He was married, in 1869, to Miss Eveline Hoyt, of Wilkesbarre, Penn.
 

                                                                                   JOSEPH E. McCLITRE.
Joseph E. McClure, the Postmaster at Al pine, Chaffee Co., was born in Missouri December 15, 1842; he received a good common-school education; at the age of nineteen, he went into the mercantile business at Laclede, Mo.; he remained in this business four years, after which he was farming for four years, and, later on, was in the mercantile business at Keokuk, Iowa, till 1875, when he came to Colorado and located on Chalk Creek, and started a general store there; he was appointed Postmaster in 18'76, and, although a Democrat, still holds the office, with the approval of all the people; he was one of the founders of the town of Alpine, and was Trustee for two years. He was married, in 1864, to Miss Jennie C. Bostwick, of Glasgow, Mo.; he has been mining for five years, and has been very successful.
 

                                                                                 CHARLES A. MONTROSS.
One of the self-made men and influential citizens of Chaffee County is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Westchester County, N. Y., January 16, 1818; his father died when he was seven years of age, and ever after he had to depend very largely upon his own efforts; at the age of fifteen, he was bound out as a tailor's apprentice for six years, but, this proving distasteful to him, at the end of three years he severed this connection, and, going to Buffalo, N. Y., clerked in clothing store for the next two years; returning to his native town, he worked at his trade for two years; after he was twenty years of age, he attended Mount Pleasant Academy for two winters, working at his trade during the summers to pay his way. In 1843, he commenced traveling for Dr. Brandreth, and continued in his employ two years. On the 31st of December, 1847, he was married to Martha F. Washburn, daughter of Oliver Washburn, of Sing Sing, N. Y. In. 1849, he engaged in mercantile business in Columbus, Ohio, and, two years later, began his career as a railroad man as conductor between Columbus and Cincinnati; in 1853, he removed with his family to Illinois, locating at Centralia, and for a number of years was employed as conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad. On the breaking-out of the rebellion, he entered the army as Sutler of the Twenty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was afterward in the employ of the Treasury Department as Assistant Special Agent, and had charge of all the abandoned goods and lands, at Vicksburg. In 1866, he located in Alton, Ill., where he was engaged in railroading and lumbering till January, 1879, when he came to Colorado and contracted along the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad, and, in June, 1879, located at Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., where he engaged in contracting, merchandising, etc. He was elected County Commissioner for Chaffee County in November,1880. Mr. Montross has always felt a deep interest in educational matters, being for several years a Director of Schools in Illinois, and in coming to Colorado he has not suffered this interest in popular education to diminish.
 

                                                                                          CHARLES A. McGILL.
Mr. McGill, the present proprietor of the Lake House, Buena Vista, was born in Palmyra, Portage Co., Ohio, in. the year 1831. Were his biography written in. detail, it would make a book of varied and interesting adventure, partaking more of the nature of romance than of real life. Mr. McGill was educated in music at a very early age, and at twelve years of age executed the most difficult violin solos in public; he was a member of the first negro minstrel company who introduced harmony in negro minstrelsy; this company was under the direction of Nelse Seymour, the composer of the old familiar song, "Ben Bolt." Mr. McGill quit the stage and devoted his attention to railroading in its various branches. At the age of twenty-eight, he married Irene, daughter of Dr. Ensign Benschoter, a prominent physician of Plymouth, Ohio. After two years' service in the late war, he turned his attention to hotel-keeping generally till 1879, when he came to Colorado and occupied the position of ticket agent for the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad, at Leadville, Malta and Buena Vista, resigning that position to assume the proprietorship of the Lake House, which he raised from a very low ebb to general favor as a first-class house. Mr. McGill is quite largely interested in Chaffee County, and takes a deep interest in the prosperity of the city of Buena Visa.

                                                                                          HENRY C. MANARY, M. D.
Dr. Manary was born in Carroll County, Ind., November 30, 1848. At the age of fifteen years, he graduated in the scientific course at Tippecanoe Institute, Indiana; for seven and a half years following this, he taught school. In 1871, he commenced reading medicine, which he continued for three years, and then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1875; he then went to Casey, Iowa, where he had a successful practice for five years. In May, 1880, he came to Colorado, locating in Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., where he has devoted his attention, since, to mining and assaying; he is also one of the drug firm of Manary & Yelton. The Doctor was married, May 30, 1878, to Josie Lowery, of Casey, Iowa.
 

                                                                                                  G. D. MOLL.
Mr. Moll was born in Holland May 4, 1857. He received a good education in his native country, and, in 1878, came to America. He spent some time in Virginia, Baltimore, Md., and New York City, and in May, 1880, he came to Colorado, locating in Salida, Chaffee Co., where he has been engaged in the wholesale and retail tobacco and cigar business since. Mr. Moll is highly respected in Salida, and has shown business energy in building up his trade in that town.
 

                                                                                  THOMAS F. McGIFF, M. D.
This gentleman was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 10, 1852. At the age of fifteen years, he went to clerk in a large wholesale tobacco house in New York City; here he remained until twenty-one years of age, after which he commenced the study of medicine, and graduated from the Long Island College Hospital in 1878. Immediately after graduating, he sought a home and practice in the Far West; he first located in Denver, but, after one year, he removed to the young and growing town of Buena Vista. His practice is keeping pace with the growth of the town ; his close attention to business and his gentlemanly deportment have won him many warm friends; he has been eminently successful with his patients, and has already built up a lucrative practice.
 

                                                                                      WILLIAM C. MORGAN.
Mr. Morgan was born July 2, 1826, on a farm in Dearborn County, Ind.; he received a good common-school education, and, at the age of eighteen years, he went to Wisconsin and engaged in the lumber business for himself; he remained at this business five years, and then sold out and returned to his former home in Indiana. He was there married to Diana Clark, of his native town. They commenced their new life upon a farm, upon which they lived for four years, and then went to Centralia, Ill., and ran a hotel and railroad eating-house for two years. At the breaking-out of the war, he was in Washington, and raised the First Regiment of District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry, and was elected its Colonel; he was in the service two years, after which he was in different kinds of business at various places till 1879, when he came to Colorado, and soon after located in Buena Vista as proprietor of the Lake House, but soon after sold out, and has since been engaged in mining.
 

                                                                                   CHARLES NACHTRIEB.
Among the names of those who crossed the plains in 1859, and who have battled with privations and frontier life since, is the one which appears at the head of this sketch. He is a German by birth, born April 29, 1833. When he was quite young, he came to America with his parents, who located in Baltimore, Md.; he received a good common-school education. In 1859, he came to Denver with a small stock of goods; after one year, he went to California Gulch and engaged in merchandising; he has carried on business there since, but, to make a good home for his family, he located a ranch in Chaffee County, five miles from Buena Vista. where he erected a saw-mill and grist-mill; the South Park Railroad now runs through his ranch. He has built an elegant hotel at Nathrop Station, where the South Park branches off to St. Elmo. Mr. Nachtrieb is a man of great energy, strictly honorable, and has been very successful in his business ventures. He was married, in 1871, to. Miss Margaret Anderson.
 

                                                                                       EDWARD R. NAYLOR.
Mr. Naylor was born in Shelby County, Mo., April 27, 1852. At the age of seventeen. he went to Iowa, and, when nineteen years of age, went to California; he engaged in farming for one year and a half, and then returned to Missouri and attended the North Missouri State Normal School, graduating in 1873; he then came to Colorado and bought a ranch in the Arkansas Valley, Chaffee County, where he has since resided; he has been elected twice to the office of School Commissioner, and one term as Justice of the Peace. He was married, in 1878, to Lydia Cameron.
 

                                                                                     JOHN W. O'CONNOR. M. D.
Dr. O'Conner was born in St. Charles, Illinois, August 22, 1849. When twelve years of age, he entered Dixon High School, in Lee County, Ill., and graduated from there four years later. He then clerked in a drug store until twenty-one years of age. He then commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Langan, of DeWitt, Iowa, and graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill., in February, 1879. On account of failing health, he came to Denver, Colo., in October, 1879, and was assistant physician in the County Hospital until April, 1880, when he eame to Maysville, Chaffee Co. He has built up a large and lucrative practice. He was one of the City Trustees in 1880, and in 1881; City Treasurer and. member of the School Board. He is also surgeon for the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, at Maysville. In politics, he is a strong Democrat. He was married, in July, 1872, to Miss S. J. Gorham, of Chicago, Ill.
 

                                                                                        A. J. OVERHOLT. M. D.
Dr. Overholt was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1840, and emigrated to Christian County, Ill., in 1852. His father died in 1854, and he lived with and assisted in the support of his mother until he had arrived at his twentieth year. In 1860, he came to Colorado and worked in the mines in California Gulch. Here he remained during the mining season of 1860, and returned to Sangamon County, Ill., where he worked on a farm, attending school winters, until he accumulated enough money to bear his expenses at the Illinois State University for three years. He then engaged in teaching for eight years, the last four of which he studied medicine. He then attended lectures at Rush Medical College of Chicago, until his course was completed, after which he settled in Loami, Sangamon Co., where he at once engaged' in the active duties of his profession. In 1880, he again came to Colorado, and located at Maysville, where he enjoys a large and lucrative practice. He is thoroughly a self-made man, having carried out his own way from comparative poverty to a well-to-do position in life. He was married, in 1875, to Mary L. Franklin, of Edinburg, Ill., and has an interesting family of four daughters.
 

                                                                                            ELIAS ORTON.
Among the successful miners of Colorado is Elias Orton, who was born in Genesee County. N. Y., April 21, 1837. When four years of age, his parents moved to Adams County, Ill. He remained at home upon the farm till the war broke out, and then enlisted in the Fiftieth Illinois Volunteers, as musician; he was in I the service three years and three months. After leaving the service, he remained upon the farm two years, and then removed to Labette County, Kan. In 1873, he came to Colorado and was engaged in mini g at Trinidad, Lake City and Cleora till 1879. He then went to the Gunnison and bought one-half interest in the Silver Queen Mine, which was then only a prospect. It has since been developed into a rich mine, and Mr. Orton has sold his interest for large money. He still owns valuable property in the Gunnison, but has bought him a ranch and built a nice residence, two miles from Poncha Springs, where he intends to make his home. He was married, in Illinois, in 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Davis.
 

                                                                                               J. S. PAINTER.
J. S. Painter, lawyer and editor of the South Arkansas Miner, was born on a farm near Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa, March 22, 1848. His father being an invalid, he was deprived of the advantages of an education until he was eighteen years of age, when he entered the high school, at Keosauqua, Iowa, and, by close application, soon fitted himself for teaching the common branches. He then taught three months in the year. and attended school nine,' until he had pushed himself through college, carrying off the honors of his class on the day of graduation. In the spring of 1870, he entered the law office of Hutchinson & Hackworth, in Ottumwa, Iowa, and began the study of the law. In the fall of that year, he was made Deputy Auditor of Wapello County, Iowa, a position which he filled with such satisfaction that the Board of Supervisors voted him $1 a day extra compensation for his services. On the 2d day of September, 1872, he was admitted to the bar in the District Court of Wapello County, and immediately engaging in the practice, soon built up a lucrative business. In December, 1873, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Iowa, and two weeks later, in the United States Circuit Court. He now holds certificates from the Supreme Courts of five different States. In April, 1874, he moved to Chicago, and engaged in the practice of his profession, also in the printing and publishing business. He was very successful in his new field of labor until the fire of July 14, 1874, swept over the city, consuming all that he had, left him almost in a penniless condition. He then went into the newspaper business, and during the next two years was in the employ of various daily and weekly journals of the Garden City, winning quite a reputation as a writer of humorous paragraphs and comic and burlesque sketches. In the spring of 18'79, he bought an office in Adel, Iowa, and started an eight-column folio, called the Dallas County Gazette. This paper he edited with such ability that it soon gained a wide circulation, and the editor became known all over the State for his pungent paragraphs and biting sarcasm. He sold this paper, in December, 1879, with the intention of taking up a residence in Kansas, but changing his mind, came to Colorado, in March, 1880, and located at Buena Vista, where he was immediately employed as editor of the Daily Clipper, then run at that place. In May, he moved to Maysville, his present home, and, in connection with Ed D. Lunt, started the South Arkansas Miner. In the latter part of July, he severed his connection with the paper and again resumed the practice of the law. About the middle of September, he bought Mr. Lunt out, and the paper was soon enlarged and otherwise improved, soon taking a prominent place among the papers of the State.
 

                                                                                         WILLIAM PARKER.
William Parker is a native of Fayette County, Penn. He was born September 5, 1830; he is of Irish descent and the eldest of seven children. At two years of age, his parents removed to Ohio; it was here his boyhood days were spent in clearing off the heavy timber, to prepare a comfortable home for his parents in their old age. At the age of twenty-two years, he went to Missouri and worked as foreman on the farm of Abe McPike & Bro., near Ashley; here he remained until the winter of 1855, and then returned to Monroe County, Ohio, and married the daughter of Bennet Coen, one of the prominent families of that county. In 1857, he returned to Missouri, and engaged in farming for two years; in 1863, as a civilian, he took charge of the transportation, in the Post Quartermaster's Department at Warrensburg and Lexington, Mo. After the war, he purchased a farm three miles from Louisiana, which he ran with success, for three years, and then went into the livery business, in Louisiana, which he ran till 1877. He filled the office of Mayor of the city for three years, to the perfect satisfaction of the people. In 1879, he came to Colorado, and is now the proprietor of Feather's Hotel, Maysville; also fills the office of Justice of the Peace and Police Justice.
 

                                                                              CHARLES AUGUSTUS PETERSON.
Mr. Peterson was born in Sweden August 31, 1826. He came to America in 1851, and was engaged for ten years farming in Illinois. He was one of the early pioneers of Colorado, coming here in 1861, locating on Cache Creek, near Twin Lakes. He was stock-raising and mining till the fall of 1865, when he located the ranch upon which he now lives, near Salida, Chaffee Co.. His was one of the first ranches located in this valley. He was married, in 1875, to Mrs. Ellen Malina Solo-mans.
 

                                                                                        H. A. R PICKARD.
The name of Mr. Pickard will be familiar to all the old pioneers of Colorado, having come here in a very early day, and been an active business man in different portions of the State since. He was born in Syracuse, N. Y., July 11, 1839. His father was a Methodist clergyman, and they were moving around to different places. In 1845, they located in Freeport, Ill. He received a good education at the district schools and Mt. Morris Seminary, Illinois. In 1860, he joined the throng moving westward, and located in Missouri Gulch, Colo., and started the first hydraulic process in that part of the country; in 1861, he went to Denver and was engaged in keeping the Planter's Hotel, in connection with James McNasser, till 1867; from there, he went to Pueblo, and took the Pueblo House, and later on, the Lindell, which he continued to run till 1875. This house, during his management, was the home of all the officials of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Mr. Pickard manufactured brick very extensively while in Pueblo. In 1875, he went to El Moro and kept hotel there for one year; in the winter of 1877, he went to Florida, and traveled through that State for pleasure; he kept the hotel at Argo in 1878; in the fall of 1878, he went to Hutchinson, Jefferson Co., and kept hotel till he came to Buena Vista in 1880; while there, he was also Postmaster, and was appointed Postmaster at Buena Vista in April, 1880, which position he still occupies. Mr. Pickard was married, in 1864, to Miss Hawkins, daughter of Samuel Hawkins.
 

                                                                               VAN BUREN PURDUM.
Mr. Purdum was born in Brown County, Ohio, January 28, 1848; his father died when he was only five years of age; at the early age of fifteen years, he enlisted in the Seventieth Ohio Infantry, and, after two years, re-enlisted in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry, and remained till the close of the war. In the spring of 1866, he emigrated to Iowa, and followed the building of the Union Pacific road. In 1877, he went back East for the winter, and in the following spring, he came to Colorado, and was mining near Georgetown till 1879, when he removed to Maysville, and organized the Continental Mining Company, and was elected its Superintendent. He was married, November, 1876, to Jennie Sarchet, of Burlington, Iowa.
 

                                                                           SAMUEL D. QUAINTANCE.
Mr. Quaintance is the upright, straightforward proprietor of the Quaintance Hotel, Poncha Springs. He lived in Crawford
County, Ohio, until twenty-one years of age, when he removed to Mercer County, Ill., where he was engaged in farming for several years. Again, he removed to Tunica County Miss., where he remained one winter. As Colorado had now become an El Dorado for adventurous young men, Mr. Quaintance joined the outfit of the Black Hawk Company, and, June 10, 1860, struck the spot on Clear Creek where Black Hawk is now located. Here he witnessed the advent of Prof. Hill, and the inception of his new enterprise, which laid the foundation for fame, fortune and a Senatorship. Several years afterward, Mr. Quaintance engaged in the feed and livery business at Black Hawk, and in 1866 united to these a hotel business, and was thus engaged about fourteen years. From thence, he removed to Golden, and ran the old Barnes Flour Mill for a year and a half. Owing to circumstances beyond his control, Mr. Quaintance here lost money. From thence, he went to Como, and kept an eating-house some four months. This experience he repeated at Weston and Buena Vista, thus following the progress of the South Park Railroad. From thence, he came to Poncha Springs and started his hotel, which promises to be a permanent and lucrative enterprise. Mr. Quaintance has had a large share of experience in prospecting and mining. In 1862, he prospected all over the Leadville country, and was one of a party that first sunk a hole in Buffalo Flat, which afterward yielded thousands of dollars to the placer miners. He has also prospected extensively in the Gunnison country and the Elk Mountain region. His career, in full, would occupy many pages.
 

                                                                                  JOHN ROLLANDET.
Mr. Rollandet was born in Holland April 23, 1848; he was educated at Leiden University, Leiden, Holland. After completing his education, he traveled for eighteen months in Austria, Germany and Belgium; in 1873, he came to America He spent the first year in the mines of Virginia, and then came to Colorado. He was in various kinds of business at Rosita, Leadville and Denver till 1879, when he came to Buena Vista and started the grocery business as one of the firm of Krause & Rollandet. They were among the first to start a business in what is now a live and prosperous town. They went through many a trying scene in the start, but have now a very flourishing business.
 

                                                                                   WILLIAM W. RIVES.
Among the highly respected citizens of Maysville, Chaffee Co., is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He was born in Franklin County. Va.. February 4, 1824; he received a good common school education and. also two years at Emory & Henry's College. Washington County, Va. At the age of twenty-one, he embarked in the tannery business, in connection with farming. When the war broke out, he was a Union man, and did everything he could to keep his State from seceding, but when she did go out, he joined the Confederate service for one year; he was then exempted from the service and was appointed Acting Sheriff for his county, which position he occupied till the close of the war.
In June, 1865, he walked across the country, to Paris, Ill., having just 25 cents when he got to the end of his journey. He got employment in a store, as clerk, and in the fall moved his family there. After about a year, he engaged to do business for a fanning mill company, at Kenosha, Wis. In 1874 and 1875, he was engaged by Beers & Warner, in getting up a history and atlas of Illinois, and later on was in the collecting business. In January, 1879, he came to Colorado and located in Leadville; the following August, he went to Maysville, Chaffee Co., and is largely interested in mining in the Monarch District, and also the Tomichi and Gunnison. In April, 1881, he was elected Mayor of the city of Maysville; in 1845, he was married, to Sarah A. Thatcher, daughter of Capt. Thomas F. Thatcher, of Bedford County, Va. He has a family of four sons and one daughter.
 

                                                                                      CALVIN O. ROGERS.
Calvin 0. Rogers was born in Lenawee County, Mich., March 8, 1841; he has taken care of himself since thirteen years of age, working on a farm by the month; at nineteen years of age, he went to Sheridan County, Mo., and was engaged in farming and sawmill for one year. In 1861, he enlisted in the Twenty-second Missouri Volunteers; after serving one year, he was discharged on account of sickness. He lived in Missouri for sixteen years. In September, 1879, he came to Colorado, and ran a saw-mill in Pueblo County for about ore year. In December, 1880, he moved to Maysville, and has been engaged in mining, railroad contracting and the grocery business; in April, 1881, he was elected one of the City Trustees. He was married, in 1861, to Miss Martha Hunt, of Sheridan County, Mo.
 

                                                                               COL. WILLIAM W. ROLLER.
Mr. Roller was born in Gowanda, Erie Co., N. Y., November 1, 1843. When the war broke out, he was one of the first to respond to the call of his country. He enlisted as private, and was mustered out, after four years and five months, as Lieutenant Colonel. After leaving the army, he attended Dartmouth College, and afterward went into -flap furniture business in Ottawa, Kan. He remained there six years. In 1875, he emigrated to Colorado, and was engaged in the furniture and stock business in Colorado Springs, until June, 1880, when he removed his furniture business to Salida, while the surveyors were still laying out the town. Here the firm of Roller & Twichell have built up a large trade. He was married, in 1871, to Miss Clara M. Hayes, of New York.
 

                                                                                         JAMES W. RULE.
Mr. Rule, one of Chaffee County's most successful stock men, was born in Clay County, Mo.. March 1, 1847. He received a good common school education, and, at the early age of sixteen years, he started out to make his fortune in the Far West. He came to Colorado, and was mining in the different camps for two years; he then returned to Kansas City and spent one year. In the fall of 1866, he again came to Colorado and was placer mining in California Gulch for two years, after which he located in the Arkansas Valley, near where Salida now stands, and has been engaged in the stock business since with the best success.


                                                                                         CHARLES E. SEITZ.
Charles E. Seitz was born in Lancaster City, Penn., September 8, 1845; his father ' was a distiller, and moved to Parkersburg, Va., when Charles was three years of age. At the age of seventeen, he went into the Confederate service, and served under Gen. Lee for three years. He then went to New Mexico; he remained but a short time, and then went to Douglas County, Colo., and went into the cattle business. In 1874, he removed to Centerville, in Lake County; in March, 1880, he came to Chaffee County, and, in connection with others, surveyed and laid out the town of St. Elmo. He was appointed the first Postmaster; also the first Town Clerk and Recorder, and in 1881 was elected one of the Trustees of the town. He is also Secretary of the St. Elmo Land Improvement Company.
 

                                                                                                ENOS SHAUL.
Mr. Shaul was born in Liverpool, Onondaga Co., N. Y., October 5, 1856; he went to the common schools and worked upon a farm until eighteen years of age, when he went to Rochelle, Ill., and clerked in a railroad office till May, 1874, when he came to Colorado and remained in Denver most of the time till May, 1878, when he removed to Granite, Lake Co. (now Chaffee), where he has since resided. He 'has occupied the position of Deputy County Clerk, Deputy Sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and is now Assessor for Chaffee County. Mr. Shaul was married, July 31, 1880, to Minnie L. Pine, of Granite.
 

                                                                                         G. H. SIMMONS, M. D.
Dr. Simmons was born in England in 1853; in 1870, he came to Canada, and in 1871 to Nebraska. He had to educate himself by his own exertions, which he did, at Tabor College, Iowa, and University of Nebraska. His medical education, he received at the Bennett Medical College, Chicago, Ill. He came to Colorado in May, 1880, and was one of the founders of St. Elmo, Chaffee Co. He was elected its first Mayor; he is also Notary Public; be is also one of the drug firm of Simmons & Helmer. He is a man highly respected, and has built up a large and lucrative practice.
 

                                                                                     AARON W. SINDLINGER.
The subject of this sketch was born in Center County, Penn., July 22, 1847; his father was a Methodist clergyman, and we find them sent around on different circuits, as all Methodist clergymen are. Aaron received a good common school education, and, at the age of twenty, he entered the Northwestern College, at Plainfield, Ill. After remaining here two years, he went to the Law School at Ann Arbor, Mich., graduating from there in 1872, and being admitted to the bar, he commenced his practice in Naperville, Ill. In 1873, he was elected Police Magistrate, which office he held four years; in 1876, he was elected State's Attorney for Du Page County, Ill., and held this office until December, 1880; he then came to Colorado and located at Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., and formed a partnership with George K. Hartenstein. The firm of Hartenstein & Sindlinger are doing a flattering and lucrative business.
 

                                                                         JUDGE SAMUEL S. SINDLINGER.
This gentleman was born October 24, 1849, in Union County, Penn. His father was a Methodist clergyman. At an early age, they removed to Freeport, Ill. At the age of fourteen, he enlisted in Company G, Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry; he was in the army until the close of the war, after which he attended the Northwestern College at Plainfield, Ill., for three years, and later on, was in the Ann Arbor Law School for one year. He entered into partnership with his brother, at Naperville, Ill., where he practiced his profession six years. In the fall of 1878, he came to Colorado, and followed prospecting at different camps till the fall of 1879, when he located in Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., and has been practicing his profession since. In the fall election, 1860, he was elected County Judge, of Chaffee Co., which office he now holds to the satisfaction of the people.
 

                                                                                        EDWARD B. STARK.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pike County, Mo., May 16, 1842; his father was one of the pioneers of that country, having moved there when the country was very new. Edward lived upon the farm until twenty-one years of age, when he started out farming for himself, and remained in Pike County till 1873. He then came to Colorado Springs, where he has been very extensively engaged in cattle raising since. He is also largely interested in mines, near St. Elmo, Chaffee Co. He was married, in 1864, to Miss Mary E. Griffith. in Pike County, Mo.
 

                                                                                      WILLIAM B. THOMAS.
Mr. Thomas, one of the leading lawyers of Chaffee County, was born in Darien, Ga., October 23, 1847. At the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the Confederate service, and remained in the army till the close of the war; after the war, he clerked in a dry goods store days, and attended Bryant & Statton's College evenings. In 1866, he went to Michigan and remained two years, after which he returned to Georgia and ran a saw-mill for awhile. In 1873, he came to Colorado, and took up a ranch near Denver: after living upon this one year, he went to Denver, and was local editor of the Denver Democrat for a time. He then returned to McVille, Telf air Co., Ga., and commenced the study of law with C. C. Smith. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1877, and commenced his practice there in McVille. In 1879, he came back to Leadville, and practiced with his brother, C. S. Thomas, till February, 1880, when he came to Buena Vista, where he has since resided practicing his profession with success.
 

                                                                                    FRED M. TOMPKINS.
This name introduces to the reader the editor of the Poncha Herald, a young gentleman who, among other qualities, possesses, to a marked degree, perseverance, courage and untiring energy. He was born in Neallsville, Clark Co., Wis., August 16, 1862, when clouds of civil war obscured the political sky. At a tender age, he went to Michigan, remaining eight years. From thence, he removed to Larned, Kan., where he enjoyed the instruction of a business college, under the tuition of Prof. F. R. Poole. Mr. Tompkins has been a printer since he was nine years of age. At the age of sixteen, he was local editor of the Larned Chronoscope. In 1878, Mr. Tompkins came to Leadville, and, for a short time, was engaged as printer in the Democrat office. Then he started the True Fissure, at Alpine, which expired with the town, about the middle of January, 1880. After this, he took the editorial charge 'of the Chaffee County Press, at Nathrop. Finally, he assumed control of the Poncha Herald, which has its mission, and will diligently and vigorously perform the same, if courage and energy are adequate to the task. May he live to herald the substantial growth of Poncha Springs until she shall rival the prosperity of other famous watering-places in Colorado.
 

                                                                                         JOHN TOMS.
Mr. Toms is a native of England, having been born there July 1, 1837; in 1851, he came to America and was engaged in bookbinding in Cincinnati, Ohio, till the breaking-out of the war. He then enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteers; when his three years had expired, he re-enlisted, and when mustered out, at the close of the war, he was Chief Quartermaster of the Freedman's Bureau, at Vicksburg; afterward was appointed Storekeeper in the Internal Revenue Department, at Chicago, Ill. After one year, he joined Sheridan in his expedition against the Indians; in 1869, he was appointed Chief Clerk in the Quartermaster's Department, at Camp Supply, L T. In 1871, he went into merchandising. in Miami County, Kan. In 1879, he came to Colorado and located at Cleora; when Junction City was started, he went there, and has resided there since, engaged in the stationery business in connection with James Martin, of Kansas City. He was married, in 1870, to Martha Ellen Blackwell. of Carlisle, Ill.

                                                                                          I. G. TRUE.
Mr. True was born in Brockport, N. Y., in February, 1838. He early came to Detroit, Mich., where he lived until the age of sixteen. In 1854, he came to Chicago, where he was employed in Laflin's paper house until the breaking-out of the war. He had formerly been a member of Ellsworth's Zouaves, and now, at his country's call, he went with that gallant regiment to the front, and remained four years. After the war, he resided at St. Louis, and was employed by the Government in settling the accounts of Missouri, relative to the State militia. In these transactions, $3,500,000 were disbursed, reflecting great credit upon Mr. True's accuracy and fidelity. After this, he served in the Auditor's department of the Kansas Pacific Railroad several years. Then he engaged in the paper business, at Chicago, but his partner having absconded to the Black Hills with $18,000, their enterprise had to be abandoned. In 1877, Mr. True came to Colorado and engaged in mining, from which he bids fair to reap success. Mr. True is an intelligent, genial man, and well liked by all who intimately know him. He is especially interested in building up the new town of Poncha Springs, which he intends to make his future home.
 

                                                                                        JAMES P. TRUE.
This gentleman is one of the proprietors of the town site of Poncha Springs, and also runs a bank of the same name. He was born at Brockport, N. Y., in 1848, and in 1850 removed to Detroit, Mich.; from there to Wisconsin in 1859, thence to St. Louis in 1863, thence to Montana in 1865, and to Colorado in 1871; he built the first house at Colorado Springs, and engaged in general merchandising under the firm name of Goodrich & True; he also built the fair grounds, which was an unsuccessful venture, financially. He removed to Poncha Springs in 1875, and laid out the town: in 1877; here he engaged in general merchandise, stock-growing and prospecting; he has acquired a handsome competence, and is greatly interested in the growth and prosperity of this new town.
 

                                                                                         JOHN F. TYLER.
Mr. Tyler was born in Cynthiana, Ky., December 12, 1846. At the age of fourteen, he entered the Naval School at Annapolis, Md., and was there three years; after this, he followed the sea for one year as midshipman, and, later on, was in the Confederate service; after leaving the army, he spent one year in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and then went to Lake Superior and was engaged in the mines for two years; from there he went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and engaged in the stock business. In 1876, he came to Colorado, and, when Maysville was started, was elected on the first Board of Trustees; he is Superintendent of the Defiance Mining Company.
 

                                                                                   H. J. VAN WETERING.
This gentleman was born in Holland June 4, 1850; he was educated in Europe as a civil engineer. In 1871, he came to America and found his way at once to the mineral fields of Colorado; he was a resident of Boulder for eight years, engaged in his profession as United States Deputy Surveyor. In 1879, he removed to Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., where he is now following his profession; he has large interests in valuable mining property in Boulder. Mr. Van Wetering is a genial, whole-souled gentleman, and makes friends wherever he goes, and is said to be one of the best civil engineers in the country.

                                                                                   WILLIAM VAN WERDEN.
This gentleman was born in Keokuk, Iowa, January 20, 1857; he received a good common-school education, and, later, attended college at Quincy, for two years, and is also a graduate of Baylie's Commercial College at Keokuk. After clerking for a time in the drug store of Wilkenson, Bartlett & Co., of Keokuk, he went to Cheyenne, W. T., where he remained one year, and then went to Leadville, Colo.; after prospecting there for several months, he went to Buena Vista and took charge of a drug store for J. D. Hawkins; in 1880, he went to Garfield and started the drug business on his own account; was one of the Trustees, and also Treasurer of the first City Council.
 

                                                                                      JOSEPH W. WARD.
Mr. Ward was born in De Kalb County, Ala., April 22, 1850; his father was a farmer and his school facilities were poor. In 1869, he learned telegraphy in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and, later on, he went to Lexington, Ky., and was in the employ of the Western Union Company until July, 1880, when he came to Buena Vista, Chaffee Co., Colo., and has been Train Dispatcher for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at that station since. Mr. Ward was married, in 1877, to Miss E. N. Middleton, of Louisville, Ky.

                                                                                  SHERMAN S. WESTFALL.
Among the substantial men of Chaffee County is numbered Sherman S. Westfall. He was born in Columbia County, N. Y., December 12, 1824; he received a good academic education, and, at the age of eighteen years, went to Albany, N. Y., to clerk in a forwarding house; here he remained four years, after which he went to Rochester, N. Y., and managed a wholesale grocery house for a year. For sixteen years after this, he was in the hotel business in Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and New York; he made a large fortune at this business, but, like many other men, had the misfortune to lose it. He then went to the Black Hills and spent two years, and, later, had charge of the river improvements for the Government. He came to Colorado for the purpose of doing contract work on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, bringing with him over two hundred men, but these he soon transferred to other parties, and has since been successfully engaged in mining in Chaffee County; he has a nice ranch three miles from Buena Vista, where he now resides.
 

                                                                                        PHILO M. WESTON.
This gentleman. one of Chaffee County's honored and respected citizens, was born in Broome County, N. Y., June 5, 1824; he remained at home, working on his father's farm summers and attending district school winters, till he was twenty-two years of age; he then went to learn the mason's trade, and, in 1850, went to Rock Island, Ill., where he worked at his trade and dealt in wood for two years; the next four years he spent in Council Bluffs, Iowa. after which he went to De Soto, Neb., where he remained working at his trade till he came to Colorado in 1850: for the next two years, he was in different camps, and in 1861 went to South Park, passing over the pass which has since borne his name (Weston Pass); here he lived till 1867, although he was prospecting at different times in various places. In 1867, he moved to Twin Lakes, Lake Co., and in 1868 he built the first house in Granite, and moved there and engaged in mining, keeping boarding-house, etc., till 1870, when he located on a ranch on Cottonwood Creek, where he has now one of the best farms in the State. In 1876, he built him an elegant stone house, and has now all the comforts of an Eastern home.
 

                                                                                         WILLIAM D. WHITE.
William D. White, one of Colorado's live and energetic business men, was born in Brooke County, Virginia, October 28, 1849. When he was three years of age, his parents removed to Illinois. At the age of fifteen years, he enlisted in the Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served one year in the war for the Union. He then came to Colorado and worked upon a ranch one year near Denver; he then went to New Mexico and was mining for a time, after which he spent three, years placer mining in California Gulch; later on, he was engaged in the cattle business in Park County; he was one of the first settlers on Currant Creek; afterward, he ran a sawmill near Garland. In the spring of 1878, he started in the lumber business on the South Arkansas River, and, !in July of the same year, bought a ranch, upon which he lives, near Maysville, and is one of the proprietors of a meat market in Maysville. He was married, in 1873, to Mary McCandless, sister of Hon. James A. McCandless, of Fremont County.
 

                                                                                    CAPT .10SE1 H H. WILLARD.
Capt. Willard, the present proprietor of the Granite Hotel, Granite, Colo., was born in Tioga County, Penn., June 10, 1841; he received a good common-school education, and also attended the academy at Welisboro, Penn. At the age of twenty years, he enlisted in the First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served his country two and a half years; enlisted as private and was promoted to Captain. In 1865, he' came to Colorado; was mining in different camps for several years. In 1877, he located in Leadville and engaged in mining, and also carried on the wholesale and retail grocery business, in connection with liquors and cigars. In March, 1881, he removed to Granite, Chaffee Co., and assumed control of the Granite Hotel. Capt. Willard was married, in 1878, to Louisa Y. Ahlquist, of Humboldt, Kan.

                                                                                      GEORGE T. WILLIAMS.
Prominent among the ranchmen of Chaffee County is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Platte County, Mo., November 14, 1840. He remained at home upon his father's farm until nineteen years of age, when he went to Texas on account of his health; he returned to his native town in the fall of 1860, and, when the war broke out, joined the Confederate army, and was at the front in all the important engagements west of the Mississippi River till 1865; he then returned to Missouri and was engaged in farming till 1874, when he emigrated to Colorado, first locating in Cañon City; in the following spring, he bought a ranch in the Arkansas Valley, near where the town of Salida is now located; he has an elegant farm of 320 acres, under good improvements. He was married, in 1866, to Sallie J. Woods, in Clay County, Mo.
 

                                                                                     JOSHUA W. WOOD.
Mr. Wood was born in Belmont County, Ohio, August 5, 1839. After receiving a good common-school education, he graduated at Duff's Commercial College, in Pittsburgh, in 1859; he then spent one year as bookkeeper in Cincinnati, Ohio; in 1861, he went into the general merchandising in Loami, and followed this business for eighteen years. In 1879, he emigrated to Colorado and located, in the drug business, in Maysville, Chaffee Co. Mr. Wood was married. in 1862, to Rebecca Jane McKee, of Illinois.
 

                                                                                    JAMES T. WILSON.
Among the substantial men of Chaffee County is James T. Wilson, of St. Elmo. He was born in Kentucky August 13, 1826; his father was a farmer, and, in 1833, moved to Pike County, Mo. He received a good education, and at the age of twenty-two years, engaged in teaching, which he followed for five years, after which he was in stock business in Illinois; from 1868 to 1872, he was in the stock-yard business in St. Louis, Mo.; he then came to Colorado and ran a livery stable in. Colorado Springs until 1876, when he returned to St. Louis and engaged in the livestock commission business. In 1879, he returned to Colorado and bought into the Chrysolite Tunnel property, in Chaffee County, and, in February, 1881, formed it into the St Elmo Mining and Smelting Company; he is President of the company, and also its Superintendent; they have a tunnel now 570 feet; they expect to cut seven distinct leads, including the Jim Wilson, Maid of the Mist, Gulnare, St. Louis, Ute, Bald Back, Fish, Maggie Anderson; these all crop out on the surface.
 

                                                                                      JOHN W. YELTON.
Mr. Yelton was born in Pendleton County, Ky., February 7, 1841. In 1853, he removed with his parents to Logan County, Ill. When he was twenty years of age, he enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry as private, and was afterward promoted to First Lieutenant; he was in the service five years, and was in active service all the time; he was in eighteen hard-fought battles; at the battle of Stone River, he successfully carried the colors all through the fight, but seven out of the ten Color Guards were killed. After the war, he removed his home from Illinois to Southwestern Missouri, and engaged in farming and merchandising. In 1877, he came to Denver, Colo., and, during the summer and fall, was foreman of a coast surveying party; the following spring, he went into the mercantile department of Best, Clark & Co., at the end of the track of the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad; he remained in their employ till February, 1881, when he went into the drug business with Dr. Manary, in Buena Vista, under the firm name of Manary & Yelton; in April, 1881, he was elected one of the Trustees of the city. Mr. Yelton was married, in 1866, to Miss Mary L. Dunlap, of Springfield, Mo.

History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado
O L Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1881 - Pages 501 - 539
Transcribed 25 January 2006 by Martha A Crosley Graham

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