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HON. BENJAMIN H. BUTCHER.
Mr. Butcher, of the law firm of Hill & Butcher, of Kokomo, was born in Parkersburg, W. Va., Nov. 23, 1855. After attending public school until sixteen years of age, he entered the State Normal School at Fairmount, W. Va., from which he graduated in 1874. He subsequently spent one year at Marietta College, at Marietta, Ohio. From there he went to Washington, D. C., and entered the Law Department of the Columbian University, from which he graduated in 1877, and in June of that year was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of that district. He subsequently returned to Parkersburg, and began practice. In October, 1878, he was elected a member of the State Legislature for a term of two years. In May, 1880, he came to Colorado, and located in Kokomo, where he has since practiced his profession.

JOSEPH T. BAUGHER.
This gentleman was born in Tiffin, Ohio, January 1, 1844. His education was completed in the high schools of his native city. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company K. First United States Chasseurs. and the following February was transferred to the navy, and served until March 4, 1864, when he was honorably mustered out of the service. He then returned home, and served an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade. In 1868, he came to Denver, and worked at his trade until 1873. The succeeding five years he spent in traveling over California, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming Territory and British Columbia, working at his trade. In 1878, he returned to Colorado, located at Leadville, and followed his trade until the spring of 1881. Then came to Kokomo, and engaged in the tinware business under the firm name of Baugher & Co. Mr. Baugher was married. in 1879, to Miss Mary J. Barlow, of Leadville.

WALTER M. BICKFORD.
This gentleman, a member of the law firm of Bickford & Harris, was born in Newberry, Me., February 25, 1852. After completing his primary education in the public schools, he entered the Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, from which he graduated in 1870. He then went to Butler County, Penn., and began reading law under Col. George H. Bemus, and was admitted to the bar in 1878, and began practice in that county. In September, 1880, he came to Colorado, located in Robinson, Summit County, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. December 1, 1880, he. was elected City Attorney of Robinson, and reelected in April, 1881. Mr. Bickford was married, in 1878, to Miss Emma S. Woodford, of Jamestown, N. Y., and has one daughter.

HENRY BURNS.
Mr. Burns, a well-known merchant in Robinson, was born in New York City April 1, 1845. He attended school until thirteen years of age, then spent six months at sea, after which he clerked in an attorney's office until 1861. On the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion, he enlisted in the Sixty-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry for the three months' service; then reenlisted in the Second Fire Zouaves and served two years, and subsequently entered the navy, where he remained until the close of the war, when he was honorably mustered out of the service. After spending two years in Georgia, he reenlisted in the navy, and held the position of ship's writer and clerk for the Acting Paymaster until March, 1871. He then returned to Georgia, and engaged in the tea, coffee and spice business at Savannah. In 1875, he was sent to Denver by James Conner, of Pittsburgh, Penn., to erect a spice-mill--that being the first spice mill built in the State—which he ran five months. He subsequently clerked in Denver three years, and, in the fall of 1878, went to Leadville, where he continued that occupation a short time in the employ of George B. Robinson. The following year he was engaged in mining at Leadville and in the Ten Mile District. In January, 1881, he came to Robinson, and opened a general mercantile store. Mr. Burns was married, April 30, 1872, to Miss Margaret E. Harrison, of Savannah, Ga., and has a family of five children—three sons and two daughters.

JACOB BERGERMAN.
This gentleman, a member of the grocery firm of Ralph & Bergerman, of Robinson, was born in New York City July 8, 1855. He attended public school until thirteen years of age. In the spring of 1868, he came with his parents to Colorado, and located in Pueblo. In 1874, he began an apprenticeship at the printer's trade, at which he served three years. He subsequently spent some time in the southwestern part of the State, and clerked in Ouray sixteen months. In January 1879, he came to Kokomo, and was, engaged in the mercantile business eight months. He then removed his store to Robinson, and in August, 1880, formed a partnership with Frank Ralph, and has since been engaged in a general mercantile business.

CASSIUS M. COE.
Cassius M. Coe, editor of the Summit County Times, at Kokomo, and one of the proprietors, also, of the Robinson Tribune, was born in Ohio in 1855. At a very early age his parents moved to the vicinity of Des Moines, Iowa, and here on a farm he was reared. Tiring of this pursuit and longing for a more intellectual calling, he, in 1872, entered Simpson Centenary College, at Indianola, and remained three years. In 1875, he finished, the remaining two years at the University of Iowa, at Iowa City. Meantime he had done considerable newspaper work, and in the winter of 1878-79, attracted by the silver excitement in Colorado, left for that State. Here he was employed on the leading dailies of Denver for several months. Wishing to become more permanently identified with the country, he left for the famous Ten Mile Mining District late in the year, and, with a partner, established the Summit County Times, the first paper ever printed in the county. He has always been identified with any movement which would lend progress to his section, and manifests a supreme pride in the rich mines of Ten Mile, the development of which he has noted from the ordinary prospect to bonanzas. The Times endeavors, as much as possible, to advance everything of public interest, and be a reflex of the best public opinion.

THOMAS EWING.
The subject of this sketch was born in Lancaster, Ohio, November, 1837. After completing his education in the high schools of his native city, in 1857, he was one of a party who crossed the plains and journeyed through the wild mountainous regions, and across the range into California, and located in Marysville, where he was engaged in the mercantile business two years. He was subsequently engaged in that pursuit in Humboldt, Nev., three years, and in Oregon and Idaho Territories four years. In 1862, while in the mercantile business in Nevada, he began investing in and devoting considerable attention to mining enterprises. Since 1867, he has devoted his entire attention to mining and the study of mineral belts throughout the Far West, extending his researches through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. In 1869, he went to Arizona, where he was engaged in mining three years; then returned East and spent eighteen months traveling over the Eastern States. In 1874, he again went to Arizona, and continued mining operations and the study of the various mineral belts of that Territory three years. In 1877, he went to California, where he became a large stockholder and Superintendent and General Manager of the Murchie Gold and Silver Mining Company, at Nevada City, where he remained two years. In December, 1879, he came to Colorado, and after spending some time in examining the mines and in the study of the mineral deposit in the vicinity of Leadville, he traveled over the southwestern part of the State examining mines. He subsequently went to Utah, and examined and made an extended report on the Horn Silver Mine. In October, 1880, he returned to Colorado and began negotiating for the Robinson Mine in Ten Mile District, and had the papers drawn up ready for signing a few days prior to the death of George B. Robinson, the owner. On February 21, 1881, he and Mr. Wilson Wadding-ham purchased the interest of the Robinson heirs, amounting to three-fourths of the Robinson Consolidated Mining Company, which was incorporated March 13, 1880, with a capital stock of $10,000,000, with 200,000 shares at $50 each ; President, Bayton Ives, of New York City ; Vice President, L. B. Kendall, of Kalamazoo, Mich. ; Secretary, J. K. Selleck, 18 Wall Street, N. Y., of which he is General Manager. This property is one of the best paying mines in the State, and is well equipped, having four large roasting furnaces, a two-stack smelter and all the necessary buildings and machinery for economical working. The output is about one hundred tons of ore per day, with an average value of $100 per ton. The mine is well opened up and developed, and has from 25,000 to 30,000 tons of mineral in sight. Previous to the purchase of the mine by the present company, it paid two dividends amounting to $175,000, and on the 1st of June a monthly dividend of $50,000 was declared. Since March 10, the present management has remitted to the home office in New York, in cash, $100,000 ; in bullion, $150,000 ; bullion and ore in smelters and roasters. $40,000 ; 1,100 tons of ore at Argo, unsettled for, $75,000. Total cash resources, profit of less than seventy days' actual working, $350,000. In addition to this amount, a debt of $35,000 was paid and the working expenses of the mine, the cost of enlarging the tunnel and purchase of new machinery, which aggregated $75,000 more. With such a product the officers of the Company can safely promise the stockholders successive monthly dividends. The workmanlike appearance about the mine, and the advantageous manner in which everything is done speak volumes for Manager Thomas Ewing, as an able Superintendent and a practical mining engineer. The above financial report corroborates the well-earned reputation of Mr. Ewing as cne of the ablest and best mine managers in the country, and warrants the retention of public confidence in his integrity, and honest and economical management.

CHARLES W. ELLIS.
This gentleman, a successful miner, who came to Ten Mile District in the fall of 1878, and by energy and perseverance has become one of her wealthy and honored citizens, was born in Waldo, Waldo Co., Me., December 23, 1858. His education was completed in the High School of his native city. In 1876, he came to Colorado, and followed mining and prospecting at Rosita, Custer County, eighteen months. In October, 1878, he located in Ten Mile District and began prospecting. In November following, he was one of the discoverers of the Aftermath Mine, on Elk Mountain. In March, 1881, in company with Ed Lowe, he bought the Colonel Sellers group, consisting of five claims on Elk Mountain, all in pay, with good improvements, and producing, at present, about twenty-five tons of mineral per day, the ore body improving as depth is attained.

DE ROBERT EMMETT.
The above named gentleman, one of the first to locate on Ten Mile Creek, who is largely connected with the mining interests of this district, occupies a place among the real and substantial representatives of Colorado's chief industry, and since coming to this State has devoted his attention chiefly to mining operations. With an experience dating back over a period of fourteen years, his success and place in mining circles have been attained deservedly and worthily. Mr. Emmett is of French and Irish descent and was born in Gloucestershire, England, May 26. 1838. He attended private schools until twenty-one years of age ; then spent eighteen months on a pleasure trip on the northern coast of Africa and subsequently returned to London. In November, 1861, he determined to come to America and sailed for New Orleans, where he shortly afterward enlisted in the Confederate army and served until the close of the rebellion. He then went to St. Louis, Mo., and accepted the position and took charge of one of the departments in the wholesale and retail dry goods house of Barr, Duncan & Co., where he remained until the fall of 1867; then crossed the plains and spent the following winter traveling over Colorado and New Mexico. In the spring of 1868, he located in Central City, Gilpin Co., and engaged in placer mining in Russell Gulch until fall, and lead mining during the winter. The following year he spent in prospecting in the San Juan country, which then embraced the whole of Southwestern Colorado. In January, 1870, he returned to Central City, and engaged in prospecting and mining. In the spring of 1871, he came to Summit County and began prospecting, principally for placer mines ; continuing until the spring of 1875, when he determined that Clinton Gulch, on Ten Mile Creek, which he had discovered in 1869 on his way to San Juan, was the richest " placer diggings " he could find, he located here and became acquainted with Ed Lowe, who has since been his companion and partner in mining operations. They staked off about three hundred acres, just below the present site of Kokomo, since known as the Emmett & Lowe placer claims, and during the succeeding three years, were engaged in prospecting them. In 1878, he and Mr. Lowe located the Elk Mountain ledge, on Elk Mountain, and the White Quail group of mines on that ledge. In August of that year, they located the Sunset, Pleasant View and Carbonate Vault claims on Sheep Mountain, which they sold to George B. Robinson and Capt. J. W. Jacque, and are now known as the Smuggler, Checkmate and Pilot, of the Robinson Consolidation. During that year he also discovered the Idalia Mine on Sheep Mountain. The following winter he and Mr. Lowe made the first shipment of gold ore from Ten Mile District, consisting of three tons taken from the Golden Eagle and Golden Belle Mines at the head of Mayflower Gulch, by pack train to Black Hawk, Gilpin County. During 1879, he again devoted some attention to the placer mines, and in company with Ed Lowe discovered the Black Warrior, Lucky and other mines on Clinton Gulch. In January, 1880. he, in company with Dr. Neely, of Leavenworth, Kan., bought the Eagle and Raven claims on Elk Mountain, which he, as superintendent, has since been developing. He has run over 1,000 feet of tunnels and inclines, and at present has the mines in a shape that they are capable of producing thirty tons of ore per day without stopping. This season he is again devoting a large amount of attention to working the Emmett & Lowe placer mines, of which he is superintendent. He has spent about $10,000 in equipping the mine for extensive operations, having put on a No. 2 Giant, 1,000 feet of pipe, 600 feet of flume, and over a mile of ditch to supply water, which gives him hydraulic pressure of 125 feet, besides numerous other improvements.

HON. THOMAS H. GREER.
This gentleman, owner of the Greer Smelting Works at Kokomo, was born in Albany, N. Y., October 6, 1837. At the age of nineteen, he graduated from the Albany Academy. In 1860, he entered a partnership with his father, Alexander Greer, the well-known and extensive tobacco dealer, under the firm name of A. Greer & Son. In 1873, his father withdrew from the firm, which has since been known as Alexander Greer's Sons, of which Thomas H. Greer is still a member. In January, 1880, he came to Ten Mile District for the purpose of looking up a site for a smelter, and in May following began erecting his works, which are now completed and running. Mr. Greer is largely interested in the Texas Star Combination of Mines, and the Stalwart Combination, both located in this district. During the fall of 1878, he was elected a member of the State Legislature of the State of New York, which office he honorably filled one year. Mr. Greer was married September 6, 1860, to Miss Anna L. Scott, of Albany, N. Y., and has one son.

GUST GAMER.
Mr. Gamer is of German descent, and was born in Cook County, September 12, 1853. He remained on the paternal farm and attended district school until eighteen years of age, then went to Chicago and served an apprenticeship at the shoemaker's trade. After remaining there eighteen months he went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he followed his trade six years. During the spring of 1879, he came to Colorado, located in Kokomo, Ten Mile District, and opened a boot and shoe store, which he has since conducted in connection with his trade.

HON. JOHN N. HARDER.
The above named gentleman was born in Kinderhook, N. Y., April 29, 1842. At the age of sixteen he completed his education at Kinderhook Academy. He then removed with his parents to Niles, Michigan, where he remained on his father's farm three years. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served three years and four months. After being honorably mustered out of the service he returned to Michigan and clerked two years. In 1866, he came to Colorado, located at Central City, Gilpin County, and followed mining until fall, then returned to Michigan. The following spring he again came to Colorado, and during the succeeding year was engaged in the hotel business at Fall River, in Clear Creek' County. He was subsequently engaged in placer mining one year, in the hotel business at Idaho Springs four years, and in the bakery and confectionery business at Georgetown four years. In 1878, he went to Leadville and engaged in the bakery business. During the spring of 1879, he left his business in Leadville and removed to Kokomo and opened a general miners' supply and queensware store, with a bakery in connection, in which business he has since been successfully engaged. In 1879, he sold his bakery in Leadville. He has large real-estate interests in Leadville and Kokomo, and is extensively connected with the mining interests of Ten Mile District. In June, 1879, he was elected first Mayor of Kokomo, and served one year. Mr. Harder was married in 1868, to Miss Addie Stupplebeen, of Niles, Mich.

LEONARD R. HILL.
The above-named gentleman, a member of the firm of Hill & Butcher, attorneys at law, in Kokomo, was born in Spartansburg, S. C., March 6, 1852. He attended Oldfield schools until sixteen years of age. He subsequently attended Gowensville Academy ; Reedville High School ; Firman University, at Greenville ; Wofford College, in his native city, and took a thorough business course at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. During that time he clerked in his father's store two years. In 1875, he went to Washington, D. C., and entered the Law Department of the Columbian University, from which he graduated in June, 1877. He began practice at Parkersburg, W. Va., in company with Mr. Butcher, his present partner. In May, 1878, he went to Salina, Kan., and, after practicing one year there, came to Kokomo, where he has since devoted his attention to his profession. In November, 1880, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he still holds.

J. J. HENDRICKS, M. D.
Dr. Hendricks, one of the pioneers of Kokomo, was born in Grant Co., Ky., January 10, 1851. He remained on the paternal farm until ten years of age ; then went to La Grange, Mo., and entered La Grange College, from which he graduated in 1873. He then determined to adopt the medical profession, and entered the Keokuk Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa, from which he graduated and received the degree of M. D. in the spring of 1875. He subsequently practiced at Basco, Ill., three years. During the spring of 1878, he came to Colorado, located at Leadville, and opened a drug store, whichhe conducted in connection with practice. In January, 1879, he came to Kokomo, and during the first year of his residence here, followed prospecting, and is one of the discoverers of the John R. Mine ; also one of the owners of the Ida L. Mine, both located on Jack Mountain. In the spring of 1880, he opened a drug store in Kokomo, and resumed practice. He has since been successfully engaged in the drug business, in connection with the active practice of his profession. Dr. Hendricks was united in marriage, January 4, 1875, to Miss Mollie Musgrove, of Scotland County, Mo., and has one son.

LOUIS HOMAN.
Mr. Homan was born in Oswego, N. Y., April 7, 1849. He attended school until eleven years of age ; then went to California with his uncle, David Homan, and followed mining and working in smelters six years. During the year 1866, he followed mining in Arizona, then went to Utah, and accepted the position of Superintendent of a smelter, where he remained three years. Thence, in 1869, to Idaho, where he was foreman in a smelter nine months. He subsequently erected a. copper works for the Grand Gulch Copper Mining and Smelting Company. In 1873, he went to Nevada, where he was superintendent of smelters six years. In the spring of 1879. he came to Colorado, and after spending a short time at Leadville, accepted the position of Superintendent for the Pittsburg Smelting Company, at Kokomo, Ten-Mile District, of which he subsequently became a stockholder. During the spring of 1880, the company bought the White Quail group of mines on Elk Mountain, which they consolidated with the smelter, and changed the name of the company to the White Quail Mining and Smelting Company, of which Mr. Homan is Superintendent. He is also one of the members and the Superintendent of the Red Line Mining Company.

W. M. HELM. M. D.
Dr. Helm was born in Williamsport, Md., July 14, 1832. At an early age he removed with his parents to Springfield, Ill. After completing his education at the Illinois College, at Jacksonville, Ill., in his eighteenth year, he went to Oregon and followed mining there and in California five years ; then he joined William Walker's expedition to Nicaragua and remained until the close of the expedition. In 1857, he returned to Springfield, Ill., and began reading medicine under his father, who was a physician. In the fall of 1859, he entered Rush Medical College at Chicago and attended one course of lectures ; he then went to Menard County, Ill., where he practiced until the fall of 1868, when he entered the St. Louis Medical College, at St. Louis, Mo., from which he graduated and received the degree of M. D. the following spring. He subsequently practiced in Christian County eight years, and in Marysville, Mo., eighteen months. In the spring of 1879, he came to Colorado, and located in Kokomo, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession.

WILL A. HARRIS.
Mr. Harris, of Bickford & Harris, attorneys at law, was born in Dyer County, Tenn.. February 15, 1855. After completing his education at Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tenn., he began reading law under Grant & McDowell, of Memphis, and in 1874, was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1875, he went to California, and located at San -Bernardino, and began practice ; in 1877, he was elected District Attorney, which office he held two years ; in 1879, he came to Colorado and began practice at Leadville, and was soon afterward appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Lake County. In February, 1881, he removed to Robinson, Summit County, where he is at present engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Harris was married in April, 1876, to Miss Nettie Allen, of San Bernardino, Cal., and has one son.

JOHN A. HALL, JR.
This gentleman, a member of the firm of Hall & Clement, attorneys at law in Robinson, was born in Warren, Penn., December 4, 1845. At an early age he removed, with his parents, to Chautauqua County, N. Y., where his early life was spent in attending public school. He subsequently spent one year at the Oswego Normal School, then taught school two years. In 1870, he went to Albany, N. Y., and entered the law department of the Union University, from which he graduated and received the degree of L. L. B. the following year; from there he went to Jamestown, N. Y., where he practiced eight years. In the spring of 1879, he came to Colorado, located in the Ten
Mile District and devoted his attention to mining until the fall of 1880, since which time he has been devoting his attention to the practice of his profession. He received the appointment of first Postmaster of Robinson. Mr. Hall was married in 1877, to Miss Felicia H. Parker, of Frewsburg, N. Y.

ALFRED KERNS.
Mr. Kerns, a member of the legal profession of Kokomo, was born in Lancaster, Penn., November 1, 1856. At the age of 20 he completed his literary education at the State Normal School at West Chester, having devoted considerable attention to reading law during the last eighteen months of attendance at school. He subsequently read under E. H. Yundt, of his native city, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1878. and began practice. In the spring of 1880, he came to Kokomo, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession.

EDWARD LOWE.
Mr. Lowe, one of the early pioneers of Ten Mile District, whose faith in her future has never been shaken, and who has taken an • active and prominent part in all measures undertaken for her material improvement, which has made possible her brilliant achievements, was born in Jersey Co., Ill., October 11, 1845. He attended public school until thirteen years of age, then began running on the river as cabin-ay. In the fall of 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Sixty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and after serving eighteen months with that company, was transferred to Company C, Ninety-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war, when he was honorably mustered out of the service. He then returned to Jersey County, Ill., and engaged in agricultural pursuits two years. In the spring of 1867, he went to California via the overland route, located at Marysville, and followed placer mining until the fall of 1869. Then went to Nevada, and followed lead mining six months ; thence to Utah, and was there engaged in prospecting for Ely & Raymond eighteen months. During the summer of 1871, he came to Colorado, and began mining in Hall's Gulch, Park County. In the spring of 1872, he came to Ten Mile District, where he has since been engaged in mining and prospecting. In the spring of 1875, in company with Robert Emmett, he located about three hundred acres of placer claims, just below the present site of Kokomo, since known as the Emmett & Lowe placer mines, which, during the succeeding three years, they were engaged in prospecting and working. In October, 1878, he was one of the discoverers of the White Quail group of mines on Elk Mountain, and has since made various other important discoveries. In the spring of 1881, he, in company with Charles W. Ellis, bought the Colonel Sellers combination, consisting of five claims on Elk Mountain, at present all in pay, with good improvements, and yielding twenty-five tons of ore per day. Mr. Lowe is still connected with the Emmett & Lowe placer claims, which they are working very extensively this season.

FRANK R. LLOYD.
Mr. Lloyd, of the firm of Bartow & Co., dealers in hardware, queensware, etc., in Robinson, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 25, 1854. He attended public school until 14 years of age, then began an apprenticeship at the tinner's trade. In 1872, he came to Colorado, and bought a ranch in Jefferson County, seven miles northeast of Golden, where he was engaged in stock-raising three years. In 1875, he went to Rosita, Custer County, and worked at his trade two years. Then went to California, and followed mining in Sonora County nine months; thence to Globe District, Arizona, where he remained six months. He subsequently returned to Colorado, and worked at his trade in Leadville for II. N. Webb two years. In July, 1880, he, in company with his employer, established a hardware store in Robinson, of which he took charge. In November following, H. N. Webb sold his interest to J. L. Bartow & Co. In April, 1881, Mr. Lloyd was elected a member of the Town Board of Robinson.

EDWARD B. MOORE, JR.
Mr. Moore was born in Bridgeton, N. J., July 30, 1857. At an early age he removed with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended the public and high schools until fourteen years of age. He then went to Lawrence, Kan., where he clerked two years, and was subsequently engaged in the book and news business five years. In 1878, he came to
Denver, and, in the spring of 1879, located in Ten Mile District, and began mining and prospecting. He is the discoverer of the Parole Mine on Chalk Mountain, one-half mile south of Robinson, and in April, 1881, organized the Parole Consolidated Mining Company, of which he is General Manager.

D. W. McKENZIE.
This gentleman \who has, during the past thirty years, devoted his attention ''to mining and the superintending of mines in the Far West, was born in Ottawa, Canada, April 5, 1836. He acquired a limited education in the public schools of his native city. At the age of fifteen he went to California via the Isthmus route, and followed mining six years. He then began superintending mines, and during the succeeding twenty-three years continued that vocation for various companies in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Montana. During the spring of 1880, he came to Colorado, and was employed as Superintendent of the Lowland Chief Mine at Leadville three months. Then came to Ten Mile District, and took charge of the Empire mine on Sheep Mountain, where he remained until January, 1881, when he accepted the position of Superintendent of the Aftermath Mine on Elk Mountain, which, under his able management, has become a very large producer.

HERMAN D. MYERS.
This gentleman, a member of the firm of Ordean, Myers & Co., bankers in Ten Mile District, was born in Canton, Ohio, April 26, 1858. He completed his education at the age of seventeen, in the Canton Collegiate Institute. He subsequently clerked in the Canton Post Office four years. In 1879, he came to Colorado, located in Kokomo, and became a member of the banking firm since known as Ordean, Myers & Co.

WILLIAMSON G. MOORE.
Mr. Moore, a son of the late Hon. Joseph G. Moore, Consul from the United States to Cuba, and of Elizabeth T. Glover, of Alabama, was born in Columbus, Miss., April 12, 1857. He was under the instruction of a private tutor until thirteen years of age, then went to Macon, Miss., where he attended a private school two years. He then spent two years with his father in Cuba. In the fall of 1874, he came to Denver, and clerked for Daniels & Fisher two years ; he then returned to Mississippi, and clerked and traveled for Hudson, Humphreys & Hudson, of Columbus. until 1878. During that year he again came to Denver, and entered the employ of Daniels & Fisher. In September, 1880, he located in Robinson, and opened a general mercantile store, in which business he has since been engaged.

HON. JAMES A. McCUNE.
Mr. McCune is of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born near Huntsville, Ala., in August, 1851. At an early age, he removed with his parents to Philadelphia, Penn., where, at the age of fifteen, he completed his education at Academia College. He then went to Leavenworth, Kan., and during the succeeding three years followed freighting across the plains to Government forts in the Northwest. He subsequently located in Virginia City, Mont., and there followed mining until 1875. He then returned to Philadelphia, and was there engaged in mercantile business three years. During the spring of 1878, he came to Colorado, located in Leadville, and began mining operations. In June, 1880, he came to Kokomo, and has since been devoting his entire attention to mining. He is Superintendent for a Philadelphia company, who own large interests in this district, and of which John B. Stetson, of that city, is President. He is also otherwise largely interested in the mines of this district. Mr. McCune was elected Mayor of Kokomo in April, 1881, which office he still holds.

JOHN M. MAISEL
This gentleman was born in Bavaria, Germany, August 30, 1848. In 1850, he came with his parents to America. His early life was spent in Jefferson City, Mo., and Springfield, Ill. After attending public school until seventeen years of age, he served an apprenticeship at the jeweler's trade. In 1878, he went to Lincoln, and there worked at his trade, and had an interest in a news-stand, two years. In the spring of 1880, he came to Colorado, and followed his trade in Leadville until February, .1881. He then came to Kokomo, and opened a jewelry store, in which business he is still engaged.

                                                                             GEORGE O'CONNOR, M. D.
Dr. O'Connor is of Scotch-Irish descent, was born near Cobourg, Canada, December 12, 1852. He received his literary education at Victoria and Regiopolis Colleges. At the age of seventeen he attended two terms at Kingston Medical College at Kingston, Canada, and subsequently entered the medical department of Canada Victoria College, from which he graduated and received the degree of M. D., in 1874. After practicing two years in Canada, he removed to Jackson, Mich., and practiced there until 1878, when failing health compelled him to abandon practice. He subsequently spent eighteen months at Cheboygan and Mackinaw, Mich., endeavoring to regain his health. During the spring of 1880, he came to Colorado, located in Kokomo, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. In the fall of 1880, he was appointed County Physician of Summit County.

                                                                                          A. L. ORDEAN.
This gentleman, of the well known banking firm of Ordean, Myers & Co., of Ten Mile District, was born in Pennsylvania, August 22, 1856. At an early age, he removed with his parents to Wooster, Ohio, and later to Canton, same State. In 1874, he entered the banking house of Harter & Sons, of that city, as bookkeeper, and there remained until 1878. He then went to Abilene, Kan., as Cashier of the Abilene Bank. In April, 1879, he came to Colorado, and established the Summit County Bank at Kokomo. In June following, he accepted the position of Assistant Cashier of the First National Bank in Leadville, where he remained until the fail of 1880 ; then returned to Kokomo, and in February, 1881, opened a bank at Robinson, under the firm name of Ordean, Myers & Co.

                                                                                    WILLIAM F. PATRICK.
Mr. Patrick was born in St. Louis, Mo., in May, 1853. He graduated from the Washington University, of his native city, in his twenty-second year. In 1875, he went to the Black Hills, D. T., and there followed mining one year, then came to Colorado, located at Georgetown, and engaged in assaying during the succeeding two years. In the spring of 1878, he went to Leadville and followed assaying for various smelters until March, 1880. During the fall of 1878, he and J. H. Bridge, grub-staked Charles E. Ellis and Val. Jones, who discovered the Aftermath Mine on Elk Mountain, Ten Mile District, on which they began active work in June, 1880. The mine is now well developed, with a shaft 400 feet deep, and about 2,000 feet of tunnels and drifts, showing about 25,000 tons of mineral in sight, and is producing about fifty tons of ore per day, average value $50 per ton. The present owners of the mine are J. B. Bissell, of Leadville ; J. H. Bridge and S. B. Morgan, of Denver ; R. S. Grant, of New York City, and Mr. Patrick, who is general manager.

HON. GEORGE B. ROBINSON.
The history of Robinson's Camp during the first years of its existence, is so blended and interwoven with that of its founder as to be inseparable there from. Referring the reader to the historical portions of this work for a history of the town in detail, this sketch will be confined to a brief outline of the events which constitute in part the personal history of its originator, its benefactor, the prime mover in its enterprise, and the main-spring of its progress. George B. Robinson was born in the town of Gun Plains, Allegan County, Mich., January 28, 1848. When he was two years old his father removed with his family to Kalamazoo, and was engaged in business there for a number of years. After attending the public schools of Kalamazoo until he was nearly ready to graduate from the high school, young Robinson in 1863, went to Detroit and attended Bryant & Stratton's Business College. Returning to Kalamazoo in 1865, he became assistant in the office of the Register of Deeds, where he remained until 1867. Very soon after this he was employed as book-keeper by Messrs. Kendall, Mills & Co., who were engaged in the lumber business at Kendall, and was for a time interested in a lumber enterprise with Mr. L. B. Kendall. In June, 1868, he returned to Kalamazoo, as book-keeper in the Michigan National Bank, which position he held until June, 1871, when he went to Allegan, to accept the position of Cashier of the First National Bank of that place, where his careful business training and acknowledged ability and integrity brought him well merited success.

He retired from that position early in 1877, and spent that year and the following one in a visit to Europe, making quite an extensive tour of the continent. In February, 1878, Mr. Robinson entered upon that new era of his life which made him so prominent in commercial and political affairs. Little dreaming what the near future was preparing for him, he purchased a ticket for San Francisco, with the intention of going direct to the metropolis of California, but on reaching Denver he was induced to change his course and started for Leadville, then just beginning to make a stir in the world on account of its wonderful mineral richness. In going there he was lost for two days in the snow, but finally reached his destination and began operation. This was the beginning of a business career which has but few parallels. Purchasing a stock of miners' goods he opened a store in Leadville. He was successful from the start. His business grew with the wonderful camp until his house was one of the largest and most prosperous in the city. He erected a block on Chestnut Street, which, at one time brought him a rental of $7,000 a month.

Mr. Robinson had, in common with almost every one, engaged more or less in mining, but up to early in 1879, with little or no success. In the spring of that year he outfitted two prospectors, Charles Jones and John Y. Shed-don, to work in the Ten Mile District, he to have one half of the property located. In June following, these prospectors discovered the '78 and Undine lodes, and subsequently the Checkmate, Rhone, Big Giant, Little Giant and others, ten mines in all, which constitute the Robinson group. In December following, Mr. Robinson bought the interests of his partners, and in April, 1880, organized the Robinson Consolidated Mining Company, in New York, with a capital stock of $10,000,000, retaining a controlling interest in the property. The town of Robinson, located on a beautiful site around the Robinson Mines, was laid out the same year. Mr. Robinson took great interest and pride in the new town, and exerted himself in every way to stimulate its growth. He built a large hotel and other buildings, made arrangements to establish a bank, and erected a large smelter, convenient to the mines—entirely with his own capital— which should handle the Robinson ore and as much more as came and could be treated. Besides these he had mining interests in various parts of the State and some in other States and Territories. In November, 1880, Mr. Robinson was elected Lieutenant Governor of .the State, and his political career promised to be as brilliant as his business career had been. Had he lived he would have rendered the State distinguished service. The circumstances of his death are still fresh in the public mind. There had for some time been a dispute between the Robinson company and Capt. J. W. Jacque over the ownership of the Smuggler Mine. More recently a difficulty had arisen between the miners and the managers of the mine, and Mr. Robinson had gone over to adjust matters. It was rumored that Capt. Jacque was coming over to take advantage of the situation and take forcible possession, and Mr. Robinson stationed a guard in and about the mine, with orders to admit no one, and to fire upon anyone who should persist in entering the mine. On the evening of November 27, 1880, Mr. Robinson had been up on the hill near by, and hearing that the guard whom he had stationed at the mouth of the tunnel was not in his place, he went down to ascertain if that was true. Knocking at the door at the mouth of the tunnel, he was met by the inquiry "Who's there.?" With the remark that it was all right he turned to leave, when a bullet from the rifle of the guard struck him in the side. He was carried to the hotel, where he lingered till the morning of the 29th when he quietly breathed his last. In him the State lost a man of fine ability, excellent character and large experience, whose public career was one of great promise, and before whom a brilliant success was just opening. His prosperity was due entirely to his own exertions. Those who knew him best claim that he had the coolest head, the clearest thought, and was the brightest, quickest financier of his age in Colorado, and probably in the west. He was the warmest and truest of friends In his life he was upright and pure ; in his dealings with men he was always honest and honorable, always frank and fair. To those in his employ he was polite and charitable, befriending many and chiding few. Of a quiet, retiring disposition, he bore himself with a uniform courtesy, born of an innate apprehension of the rights of others, and a wide social experience at home and abroad.

J. B. ROCKWELL.
This gentleman, a member of the firm of Ellis, Rockwell & Smith, mine and real estate brokers in Robinson, Ten Mile District, is of Scotch-English descent, and was born in Seneca County, Ohio, August 11, 1833. He received a limited education in the public schools of his native county. In 1847, he removed with his parents to Allegan County, Mich. At the age of twenty he began an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, at which he continued sixteen years. In 1869, he began devoting his attention to architecture and superintending the construction of large buildings. In the spring of 1879, through the solicitation of George B. Robinson, he came to Ten Mile District, and made the drawings for, and had charge of, the building of the Summit County Smelter. After the death of Gov. Robinson, he was appointed agent for the administrators.

FRANK RALPH.
Mr. Ralph, of the firm of Ralph & Bergerman, grocers and dealers in miners' supplies, is a native of Pennsylvania and was born June 9, 1842. At an early age he removed with his parents to Philadelphia, where he attended public school until seventeen years of age, then served an apprenticeship at the wood mechanic's trade. In 1862, he went to Chicago, where he followed carpentering a short time. During the succeeding sixteen years he traveled over the West, working at his trade. In February, 1879, he came to Ten Mile District, and engaged in the mercantile business in Carbonateville in company with Jacob Bergerman, under the firm name of Ralph & Bergerman, and was appointed Postmaster of that camp. In August following they removed their goods to Robinson where they have since conducted a successful business.

LORIN A. STALEY.
Mr. Staley, of the law firm of Staley & Safley, was born in Newark, Ohio, February 12, 1854. At an early age he removed with his parents to Tama County, Iowa, where his early life was spent in attending district school. In 1865, he removed with his parents to Memphis, Tenn.; thence, in 1867, to Sedalia, Mo., and the following year to Cooper County, same State. During the latter year he entered the State University, at Columbia, Mo., from which he graduated in 1873. He then came to Denver and began the study of law; in 1876, he was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Denver three years. In February, 1879, he came to Kokomo, formed a partnership with Ben. Safley, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. In June, 1879, he was appointed City Attorney of Kokomo, which office he honorably and efficiently filled one year.

BEN SAFLEY.
This gentleman, a member of the firm of Staley & Safley, attorneys at law in Kokomo, was born in Galena, Ill., February 14, 1855. In 1863 he came with his parents to Denver, Colo., where he attended public school two years. During the fall of 1865, they returned East, and located in Burlington, N. J., where he received private school advantages two years. Thence to Rochester, N. Y., and there attended high school four years. In 1871, he went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, with his parents, and was there engaged in the jewelry business one year with his father. He subsequently entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which he graduated in 1876. Then returned to Denver, Colo., and began reading law under the law firm of Charles & Dillon, and two years later was admitted to the bar. In February, 1879, he came to Kokomo, where he has since devoted his entire attention to the practice of law.

WILL C. STAINSBY.
This gentleman, an enterprising young merchant in Kokomo, was born in Newark, N. J., May 24, 1855. He completed his education, at the age of sixteen, in the high schools of his native city. He then went to New York City and accepted the position of book-keeper in a bank, and was subsequently promoted to Assistant Cashier. In December, 1879, he came to Colorado, located in Kokomo, and in January, 1880, succeeded Lippelt & Bowman in the drug business, which he has since successfully carried on. In June, following, in company with J. F. Fort and George B. Colby, opened a hardware and stove store under the firm name of Stainsby, Fort & Colby.

JOHN C. THOMPSON.
This gentleman was born in New York City, September 22, 1853. He attended public school until seventeen years of age, then spent two years in the School of Mines at Columbia College, in that city. He was subsequently engaged in the broker business on Wall Street five years. In 1877 he went to Chihuahua, Old Mexico, and there held the position of Superintendent of the Santa Eulalia Mines and Smelter one year. He then returned home, and in April, 1880, came to Ten Mile District as Superintendent for the Trophy Mining Company, of New York, who own nine claims on Sheep Mountain, a group of six north of the Robinson Consolidation, and one of three south, with good plants of machinery on both. He is rapidly developing the properties, and at present has a two-hundred-foot shaft on the south group, with drifts, which looks very promising.

CHARLES E. VAN TRESS.
Mr. Van Tress was born in Clinton County, Ohio, September 17, 1834. His early life was spent in attending district school. At the age of seventeen he went to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where, during the succeeding ten years, he was engaged in surveying, taking contracts for railroad and bridge building and superintending public work. In 1861, on the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion he enlisted in Company C, fourth Iowa Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. After being honorably mustered out of the service he returned home. Shortly afterward he removed to Peoria, Ill., and there worked three years in the sash, door and blind factory of William Truesdale & Sons. In 1869, he came to Colorado and has since devoted his entire attention to mining and the study of the various mineral belts and deposits. In March, 1877, he went to Leadville, where he associated himself with the leading mining men and gave his attention to the study of the mineral deposit of that district. During July, 1880, he came to Ten Mile District, where he has since been engaged in examining and reporting on mines.

HENRY C. WEBER.
Mr. Weber was born in Warren County, Penn., December 13, 1846. His early life, until he was nineteen years of age, was spent on a farm and in attending school. He then went to Ogle County, Ill., where he was variously engaged four years ; thence to Storey County, Iowa, where he followed farming two years, and was engaged in the drug business in Kelley two years. In 1873, he went to Red Cloud, Neb., and during the succeeding three years was engaged in stock-raising ; he then returned to Storey County, Iowa, and resumed farming and at the same time carried on the drug business. In the spring of 1880, he came to Colorado, located in Robinson, and opened a drug store, in which business he has since been successfully engaged.

JAMES C. WIGGINTON.
Mr. Wigginton was born in Louisville, Ky., November 18, 1853. His education was completed in the high schools of his native city. In 1875, he removed to Charleston, Clark Co., Ind., where he was appointed Deputy Auditor of that county, in which capacity he served two years. He then returned to Louisville, and accepted the position of book-keeper in a wholesale liquor house. In the spring of 1879, he came to Colorado and located in Ten Mile District, Summit Co., where he has since been engaged in prospecting and mining. During the fall of 1880, he was elected Justice of the Peace of Precinct No. 5, and in April 1880 was elected Police Magistrate for the town of Robinson.

History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado
O L Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1881 - Pages 399-415
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