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of Colorado Commandery No. 1, K. T. he is also a member of Temple Lodge No. 84, A. F. & A. M. One thing of which he may well be proud is the fact that during his eventful life, no matter what his hardships or temptations might be, he has never drank a glass of any intoxicant, nor has he contracted the use of tobacco in any form. He is a friend of all measures for the benefit of the people and strives, both through the press and by his personal influence, to promote the cause of truth and justice. In addition to his other connections he is identified with the Printers' Union, the Mining Exchange and the Denver Chamber of Commerce, and is interested in all local associations tending toward the upbuilding of the city and state.
ORITZ BARTH, well known as one of the old settlers of Colorado and successful business men of Denver, was born in Dietz Nassau, Germany, July 24, 1834. Until fourteen years of age he attended the public schools and gymnasium, after which he was employed in the surveyor general's office, intending to devote himself to mining. However, on changing his future plans by a resolve to locate in America, he learned the shoemaker's trade. In 1852 he left Havre on the sailing vessel "William Nelson," and after a voyage of fifty-four days landed in December in New Orleans, where he worked at his trade for a few months. In May, with the other members of the family, he came up the Mississippi and located at Mascoutah, St. Clair County, Ill., but in 1854 removed to Parkville, Platte County, Mo., then a populous and flourishing steamboat lauding town on the Missouri. There he engaged in business with his brother William of whom mention is made on another page.
The tide of emigration was turned toward Colorado on account of the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak. The two brothers in 1861 started westward with ox-teams, and after a month of travel they reached California Gulch, near the present site of Leadville, where they engaged at their trade. When William returned to St. Louis, Moritz went to Canon City, where he started a general store, but the prospects were poor there at that time, so he sold out and joined his brother in the manufacture of boots and shoes in St. Louis. During their sojourn in the mountains they learned the requirements for footgear suited to the place, and these they manufactured for the Pike's Peak trade. In 1862 they again made the overland trip to Colorado, this time opening a shoe store in Montgomery.
In the spring of 1863 Mr. Barth went over the Snowy Range to Gold Run, Colo., where he engaged in business, but in the fall, the gold excitement in Montana induced him to go to Virginia City, where he started in business, and after three months there he returned to the States, bought a large stock of goods and took them to Montana. Selling out in the fall of 1865, he returned to Denver, where he and his brother carried on a large shoe business. In 1868 he took charge of the branch houses established by the firm in Salt Lake City and Corinne, Utah, but later returned to Denver. The firm were the first shoe manufacturers and also the pioneers in the wholesale trade in Denver. After his return to Denver in 1870, the two continued together formally years, but finally their other interests grew so large as to require their undivided attention and they sold the shoe business.
Investing heavily in Denver real estate in early days, the property grew in value and in time brought Mr. Barth a fortune. He built the old Barth block, which was for a time occupied by the City National Bank and is located at the corner of Sixteenth and Lawrence streets. He has built up and improved much of his property in Denver and also owns ranches in different parts of the state. In mining, too, he has met with success, being interested in several companies. Upon the organization of the City National Bank he became a stockholder and director, and remained a director upon the consolidation of the institution with the American National Bank. He was for some time a director in the Denver Tramway, and the Denver Consolidated Tramway Company, but finally sold his interest. In other corporations he has been a director. He was interested in the organization of the Bank of San Juan at Del Norte, of which he was a director for years. He has contributed to religious enterprises, street car lines, and other enterprises for the upbuilding of Denver and the welfare of the people. For ten years he served as treasurer of the State School of Mines at Golden, during which time the school added to its collection until it had the
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AMUEL SCALES SMYTHE, M. D., dean of the Denver Homeopathic Medical College and professor of gynecology, was one of the active factors in the organization of this institution and has since been one of its mainsprings. He is to the college in Denver what his old preceptor, Prof. R. Ludlam, is to Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. Not only is he prominent in college work, but he also justly occupies a high place in the ranks of the homeopathic medical fraternity throughout the west. In addition to his work as an instructor, he carries on a private practice, having an office in the California building. In October, 1894, he founded the Critique, a medical journal devoted to the interests of homeopathy in the western states, and he has since been its editor, through his personal efforts increasing the number of subscribers to one thousand. Connected with the college there is a homeopathic hospital and a school for nurses, where young women are instructed in the important duties pertaining to their occupation.
Dr. Smythe was born in Galena, Ill., July 14, 1839, and is a son of Hon. Henry and Lucinda (Scales) Smythe. His father, who was born and reared in Great Barrington, Mass., came west in young manhood, making the trip via the great lakes. He located in Jo Daviess County, Ill., where he engaged in smelting lead ores. Though he started in business without means, he succeeded in gaining a competency through his industrious efforts. From Jo Daviess he removed to Carroll County, Ill., where he engaged in farming upon a large scale. Prominent in public affairs, he was chosen by his fellow-citizens to represent his district in the state legislature, and he also held a number of local offices. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention and assisted in framing the constitution. Until the disintegration of the Whig party he affiliated with it, and he became a Republican on the organization of that party. He died in Denver, aged eighty-four, while visiting his son in this city. His wife, who was born near Charleston, S. C., died on the old homestead, in Carroll County, Ill., in 1894, aged eighty-four. They were the parents of five sons: Samuel S., Garland, Franklin D. (a physician), Albert H. and John Quincy.
Concerning the lineage of the Smythe family it is known that they are of English extraction. From that country they came to Massachusetts and settled in Great Barrington. The doctor's great-grandfather, Garland Smythe, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
In the schools of Galena and Chicago the subject of this sketch received his education. In April, 1861, upon the call for seventy-five thousand men, he enlisted in a company of dragoons in Chicago and served for four months, September 20, 1861, he again enlisted in the service, becoming a member of Company F, First Illinois Light Artillery. He entered as a private, but at Springfield was made second lieutenant; became first lieutenant September 2, 1862; senior first lieutenant in 1863; and captain of Battery A, First Illinois Light Artillery, July 10, 1864. He participated in the engagements of the Army of the Tennessee and was a brave and efficient officer, esteemed alike by superiors and subordinates. In the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, he was wounded, captured and held as prisoner of war. For eight months he was confined in southern prisons, being in Macon, Ga., Charleston and Columbia, S. C. Twice he attempted to escape and once was out for five days, but when hope of rejoining the Union army seemed brightest, he one night walked into a squad of Confederate soldiers. He was finally paroled at Wilmington, N. C., March 1, 1865, and was mustered out on the 20th of March and honorably discharged from the service.
The following is an extract from the official report of Maj. Thomas D. Maurice of the campaign from May 1 to September 8, 1864, and forwarded to the father of Dr. Smythe while the latter languished in a southern prison. The surprise and joy of his parents when the final news of his parole reached them can be imagined:
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and yielded his four guns only after a sacrifice of Lieutenant Raub and thirty men killed, wounded and missing. He was captured."
"First Lieutenant Samuel S. Smythe, Battery F, First Illinois Artillery, commanding Battery A, same regiment, in the battle of July 22 before Atlanta was captured, while gallantly defending his guns in the charge, and killed, while being taken to the rear, by a stray bullet from our own line advancing to re-capture his battery. A better or braver officer never commanded the American soldier." (Signed) T. D. MAURICE, major and chief of artillery, Fifteenth Corps.
While a prisoner Lieutenant Smythe was one of six hundred Union officers who were sent to Charleston to prevent its bombardment by the Federal gunboats, but all escaped injury.
After the war our subject went to Chicago, where Prof. R. Ludlam became his medical preceptor in the Hahnemann Medical College, and he remained in that institution until his graduation in 1868. Afterward he practiced in Chicago for two years and then went to Lawrence, Kan. In 1880 he came to Denver, where he has since established a large practice. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and the state and city medical associations of homeopathists. Fraternally he is a Mason and belongs to the Dixon commandery. In politics he is a Republican.
The marriage of Dr. Smythe took place in 1870 and united him with Miss Lydia K. Ranson, daughter of Thomas Ranson, of Carroll County, Ill. She died in Denver in 1889, leaving an only daughter, Grace E.
ILLIAM M. DAILEY. Prior to 1859 little was known concerning Colorado, but the discovery of gold led thousands of men, during that year, to link their fortunes with this then sparsely populated territory. Among a party of young men who started west from Indiana was the subject of this sketch, then twenty-three years of age. The journey was a long and tedious one, but finally the mountains were reached, and he at once began to work a claim in Russell Gulch. In the fall of the same year he located in Denver and followed the carpenter's trade, which he had learned in Ohio. He erected a lumber of buildings, one of winch still stands, near the Market street bridge over Cherry Creek, and which was formerly occupied by Byers & Dailey as the office of the Rocky Mountain News.
In the spring of 1860 Mr. Dailey took up a ranch claim on the Platte River (a tract now subdivided as the Lake Archer division) and there engaged in farming until the disastrous flood of 1864 ruined his place. During the summer of 1864 he enlisted in Company A, Third Colorado Infantry, and took part in the battle of Sand Creek. On being mustered out he embarked in mining and prospecting, but in the spring of 1867 began in the live-stock business with ex-Governor John Evans, first locating in Pueblo County, but later moving to Vance's Park on Bear Creek, and from there to the Little Thompson in Larimer County, thence to the Black Hills of Wyoming. When cattle were at a very high price he sold out, thus reaping a large profit. Afterward he superintended the developing of mines on Rock Creek, Gunnison County. During his last years, as a partner of his brother, John L. Dailey, he platted Dailey's addition to the city and engaged in the transfer and sale of real estate.
Prior to coming to Colorado Mr. Dailey's life was not an eventful one. He was born near Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, April 22, 1836, and in 1848 accompanied the family to Allen County, Ind., where he and his two brothers assisted in clearing a farm out of the unbroken forest. He received public school and academic advantages, and for a time taught in order to gain funds needed to extend his educational advantages. His youth passed busily, but uneventfully, and the first stirring event was the decision to remove to Colorado and seek his fortune in a country then so little known, but of which so much was said. Nor did he ever have cause to regret his decision. While assisting in the advancement of Denver, at the same time he enhanced his own prosperity, and at the time of his death, March 29, 1890, he left his family in comfortable circumstances. He was a man of genial disposition and stirring energy, one whose industry was untiring and whose determination conquered every obstacle.
In Denver, March 10, 1880, Mr. Dailey married Miss Nellie M. Tilton, who was born in Hudson, Mich., the daughter of Albert and Hattie L.(Manley) Tilton, natives respectively of Michigan and New York. Her paternal grandfather, William Tilton, was a farmer in Michigan, and
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Mr. Barth was born in Dietz Nassau, Germany, December 8, 1829, the son of George and Mina (Grass) Barth. His father, who was a shoemaker by trade, served in the Napoleonic wars in Belgium in 1812-15; when he was an old man our subject sent the money for his passage to America and he died in Platte County, Mo. The Grass family were from Oranian, of the Netherlands, whence they fled to the Isle of Wight on account of religious persecutions, and from that isle they removed to Germany, where they became very prominent. One member of this family was a captain and two were lieutenants in the German army and all three were killed in the battle of Waterloo. Another representative of that name was a general in Napoleon's army.
When a boy our subject learned the shoemaker's trade. In 1850 he took passage at Antwerp and after sixty-eight days landed in New Orleans, spending a short time there and then going to Belleville, Ill. A year later he went to Glasgow, Mo, in search of a brother, Charles J., who had come to America two years earlier than himself; on inquiry he learned that the brother had started for California, but perished on the plains. From Glasgow our subject went to Platte County, Mo., where he and his brother Moritz started a boot and shoe business. The people of this neighborhood were strongly southern in sentiment and, at the breaking out of the war, he being a stanch Union sympathizer, found residence there was no longer congenial. For this reason he determined to leave.
June 2, 1861, in company with his brother, Mr. Barth crossed the Missouri River at Kansas City with an ox-team, which was the extent of his worldly possessions. After spending some time in California Gulch (now Leadville) he returned to St. Louis, Mo., and engaged in the manufacture of nail boots for the Pike's Peak trade. Returning to Colorado in 1862, he settled in Fairplay and his brother in Montgomery. Later he spent a short time in Breckenridge and May, 1863, located in Denver, where he engaged
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in manufacturing miners' footwear. His earnings were invested in city property, which as years advanced increased in value and brought him wealth. He was interested in contributing to the Denver Pacific Railroad, the first railroad in Denver, and later was active in the building of the Denver & South Park Railroad, and the Denver, Texas & Gulf Railroad, in each of which he was a stockholder and director. Soon after the organization of the City National Bank he began to purchase stock, in time became one of its controlling stockholders, and was made its president, continuing at the head of that institution for ten years. Since his retirement from the presidency he has given his attention to the oversight of his large interests. He is president and was the organizer of the D-T Cattle Company, which has a large ranch on the Platte River in Morgan County; is also interested in the cattle business outside of the company, owns large tracts of lands in different sections, and is interested in mining. With Messrs. Moffat and Hathaway he started the Bimetallic Bank in Cripple Creek, of which he was president until he sold his interest in the concern. He was married in Missouri to Miss Charlotte Kaempfer, of Chicago, and has one son, Charles J., of Denver. Politically he is a strong Republican, served on the board of aldermen in 1867-68 and held other local offices in early days. Fraternally he is a Mason. During the Vienna Exposition he went to Europe and spent some time traveling in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
HARLES BALDWIN LYMAN, M. D. A position among the talented young physicians of Denver is held by Dr. Lyman, who is professor in the department of fractures and dislocations in the University of Denver medical school; also visiting surgeon to St. Joseph's and Arapahoe County Hospitals, consulting surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital, surgeon for the Union Pacific Railroad and for the State Home for Dependent Children. He also carries on a private practice, and has an office in the California building.
Dr. Lyman traces his ancestry back to the days of William the Conqueror, when Sir Radulphus Lambert assisted his famous commander in winning the battle of Hastings. Fifteen generations later his descendant, Elizabeth Lambert, became the wife of Thomas Lyman during the reign of Henry II. The twenty-sixth generation in line of descent from the soldier at Hastings is represented by Dr. Lyman. The first of the name in America was Richard Lyman, Sr., who crossed the ocean in 1631 from Bristol, England, taking passage on the ship that bore to this country Martha, wife of Gov. John Winthrop, and Elliott, the celebrated apostle of the Indians of the new world. He landed in Boston November 4 and at once made settlement in Charleston, a suburban town. A Puritan himself, he was in hearty sympathy with his fellow-pioneers, and, like them, he labored for the development of New England. In 1635 he accompanied a number of Puritans to Connecticut, and the next year he was one of the original proprietors of the Hartford Colony. The fact that he had two servants and large estates indicates that he was a man of means. He had two sons, John and Richard Jr., the former born in England in 1623.
In 1654 John Lyman settled at Northampton, Mass., and there he resided until his death in 1690. During the famous fight with the Indians at Deerfield he served as lieutenant of a company. By his marriage to Dorcas, daughter of John Plumb, he had a large family, of whom the fourth son, Lieut. Benjamin Lyman, was born in Northampton August 10, 1674, and died in 1723. He was an extensive farmer, and being thrifty and energetic he became well-to-do. Among his ten children was a son, Benjamin, who was born in Northampton in 1703 and moved to Easthampton, the same county, in 1745, dying there in 1762. His son, Lemuel, was born August 17, 1735, and in 1755 joined an expedition against Crown Point, being wounded in the battle of Lake George. He was a prominent citizen of his community, and his death, in 1810, was widely mourned.
Next in line of descent was Ahira Lyman, born in 1770 and died in 1836. During his active life he engaged in the mercantile business in Easthampton. By his first wife, who was Sallie Pomeroy, he had four children: Roland, Lemuel, Ahiva and Quartos. His second wife was Lydia Baldwin, of Westfield, Mass., and they had two children, William and Jabez B. The latter was born April 18, 1819, was orphaned in infancy, but, though deprived of parental care, was given every advantage for obtaining a splendid educa-
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. tion. After graduating from Amherst College he went abroad, where he carried on his studies for a number of years. On his return he became an instructor of modern languages at Amherst. Later he accepted a position as professor of mathematics in Oglethorpe University in Georgia, where he remained until he went to Europe to study medicine. About 1850 he returned to the United States and opened an office in Chicago, but soon afterward he removed to Rockford, Ill., where he engaged in professional practice until 1879. During his residence in that city he married Miss Lucy DePue, an instructor in Rockford Seminary, and the daughter of Ephraim DePue, a pioneer wagon manufacturer of Chicago and later a railroad contractor there. In 1879 Dr. Lyman removed to Salem, Mass., and there his death occurred in May, 1893. He was a scholarly man, keen and quick, and with a depth of intelligence that rendered him an authority upon important matters. Naturally talented, his study abroad added to his native gifts, and the two qualities, talent and study, combined to make him one of the most successful physicians of his day and locality. For a time he was president of the Rockford board of education. In his family there were five children: Charles B., Mary, Maud, George and Edith.
In Rockford, Ill., Charles B. Lyman was born September 20, 1863. He was educated in the public schools of Rockford and Salem, and on the completion of his literary studies turned his attention to medicine. In 1882 he matriculated at Harvard Medical College, Boston from which he graduated four years later. A few months after graduating, in the fall of 1886, he came to Denver, the inducement to locate here being the offer of the position of surgeon for the Union Pacific Railroad, which he has since held. He is a member of the Denver and Arapahoe County Medical Society, Denver Clinical and Pathological Society, State and American Medical Associations, and the National Academy of Railroad Surgeons. In 1888 he was chosen professor of physiology in the Denver University, medical department, and after two years in that position was appointed assistant professor in the department of fractures and dislocations, from which he was promoted to the head of the department in 1893. Since 1894 he has been surgeon to St. Joseph's Hospital and Arapahoe County Hospital. Politically he is a Republican, and fraternally belongs to Oriental Lodge No. 87, A. F. & A. M. He was united in marriage in Kansas City with Mrs. Emma Arnold, daughter of Thomas Vick Roy, of Denver.
HOMAS J. THOMPSON, who was elected to the office of sheriff of Boulder County in the fall of 1897, is a gentleman who enjoys the esteem and hearty respect of all with whom he has been associated, whether in business, political circles or in society. He was nominated by the Populists to his present position; was elected by a majority of six hundred and fourteen votes, and entered upon the duties of his office on New Year's day, 1898, succeeding W. C. Dyer. In 1889 he was elected county commissioner of Boulder County, and served in that capacity for three years, being chairman of the board during the last year of his term. For years he has been very active in the interests of the People's party, and has been a delegate to county and state conventions, and a member of the local committee. For about nine years he has been engaged in general merchandising in the town of Ward, in this county, and served as an alderman of that place for one term. He has been very successful in his business ventures, and is rated high among those with whom he has commercial dealings.
The sheriffs father, Henry N. Thompson, is a native of Ohio, but settled in Woodbury, Ind., at an early day, becoming one of the pioneer farmers of Hancock County. He remained in that locality until 1869, when he turned his attention to merchandising in McCordsville, Ind. He is still a resident of that place, and is well along in years, being now fourscore and four. At one time he was a county commissioner, and held other local positions of trust and honor. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth McLaughlin, and whose birth had occurred in Ohio, died in Indiana many years ago. She was the mother of ten children, of whom three sons and two daughters survive. A brother of our subject, J. S., is a resident of Alma, Colo.
T. J. Thompson was born in Woodbury, Hancock County, Ind., in 1851, being the fifth of his parent's family. His education was obtained in the public schools of Woodbury and McCords-
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ville. When he was about twenty years of age he started out to make his own way in the world, and in 1871 came to Colorado. Since then he has been more or less actively interested in mining, and has been connected with the development of the Little Alice mine and others of equal value. For two years he carried on a general merchandising business at Gold Hill, and was the first merchant in Ward. In his various undertakings he has met with success in almost every instance, and has at all times adhered to strictly upright and praiseworthy methods. In 1892 he was initiated into the Masonic order in Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of Boulder. He also belongs to the Fraternal Union at Ward, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen at Gold Hill.
The marriage of Mr. Thompson and Miss Hettie Lamson was solemnized in Boulder April 12, 1881. She is a daughter of John W. Lamson, who removed from her birthplace in Iowa to this state in 1870, locating in Boulder County. The two children born to our subject and wife are Zelbert and Carl.
DWIN L. COATES, a successful business man of Boulder, was appointed postmaster by President Cleveland March 12, 1896, and since then the business of the office has increased fifty per cent, from $10,000 to $15,000 and more. May 1, 1898, a free delivery office was established, which greatly facilitates the work and promotes the convenience of the people. Among the Democrats of the state, Mr. Coats holds a prominent position. He is chairman of the county committee and a member of the state central committee, also a member of the executive committee of the latter.
Born in the city of New York, Mr. Coats is a son of James S. and Anna (Watts) Coats, natives respectively of Ireland and Scotland. His father was the oldest son of the family and when a young man crossed the ocean to New York, where he engaged in the wholesale coal business, being for forty years a member of the firm of Jeremiah Skidmore & Sons and their successors. He continued with that house until his death, which occurred in 1893, at the age of sixty-nine. His wife died in Boulder in 1897. Their four children are named as follows: Foster, at one time editor of the Mail and Express of New York City; Arabella, wife of Dr. I. L. Bond, of Boulder; Edwin L.; and Wellington W of Providence, R. I. The father was well versed in veterinary surgery and assisted in the organization of the Columbia Veterinary College in New York, which was the first started in time United States, and in it he served as a director.
The education of the subject of this sketch was obtained in excellent schools. He was a student in the grammar schools of New York, the University of the City of New York, and a boarding school in New York. From his father he inherited a love of veterinary surgery, and he took a course in the college, at the same time studying in the College of Pharmacy and Chemistry. After graduating he became a clerk with the United States Mortgage Company and then with the Marine Bank on Wall street. In 1885, when twenty years of age, he came to Boulder, where he was made a clerk for the Boulder National Bank at its organization, but after three months resigned and became deputy county clerk and recorder. At the close of the term he was appointed city clerk under a Republican administration, and before the expiration of his second term he was appointed under-sheriff, continuing two terms in that position. Meantime, about 1887, he started the agricultural implement business, in which he has since engaged. In addition to this and his position as postmaster he is a notary public and also represents a number of the old companies in fire insurance.
OHN S. REID, one of the Colorado pioneers, of 1860, and now a resident of Ward, Boulder County, was born in Ireland November 4, 1830, the son of James and Elizabeth (Kyle) Reid. His father, who brought the family to America, settled in Galena, Ill:, in 1845, and engaged in farming there until his death, at seventy-five years. His wife also passed away there. Three of their children are living, but our subject is the only one in Colorado. The family came to America from Derry to Quebec, via the sailing vessel ''Alex Grant'' and from Quebec journeyed to Chicago by way of the great lakes, going by wagon from Chicago to Galena. The father bought a farm within one and one-half miles of Galena, which he carried on as long as he lived. Our subject learned the
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. trades of millwright and cabinet-maker. In 1850 he went up the Mississippi to St. Paul, which then had less than one thousand people, while its neighboring city, Minneapolis, was at that time a part of the Fort Snelling reservation. With J. C. Burbank, S. H. Axtell and S. R. Randolph, he engaged in lumbering on the Platte River, which they named. For some years he went back and forth between St. Paul and Galena, following the millwright's trade. He assisted in building the Goodfrey mill, the first built on the site of St. Anthony's Falls, and the first, except a government mill, on the Minneapolis side.
When the excitement arose in regard to the discovery of gold in Pike's Peak, Mr. Reid determined to go to the mountains. He outfitted with a mule team and journeyed by way of Omaha and the Platte route. Starting April 16, he reached his destination in the latter part of May, going from Denver to Central City and Blackhawk and after a few weeks proceeding to Grass Valley Bar, or Montgomery Hill, below Idaho Springs, where he began placer mining. In the fall of that year (1860) he went up Fall River and engaged in gold and silver mining. In 1861 he was at Buckskin Joe. For several years he went back and forth between different mining camps. In 1867 he began prospecting, mining and lumbering at Georgetown, where he continued until the spring of 1876 and then came to Boulder County, investing in Magnolia district. Among the mines that he developed were Poor Man's mine, Home Stake, Washington, Caledonia, in all of which, and others, he is still interested,
He was one of the first miners at Leadville in 1878 and invested in mines, in which he is still interested. He also incorporated the Blind Tom Company, which owns twenty acres, including within its limits the Blind Tom, Frio and the Poor Old Soldier mines.
Settling in Ward in June, 1888, Mr. Reid began operating as manager for the Utica Mining Company. He continued in that capacity until he met with an unfortunate accident through ''butting the skip'' (as miners term it). His scalp and head were horribly wounded, but he retained his hold and a man on the level stopped the skip, into which he managed to crawl and was taken to the top of the shaft. The stunning blow did not cause him to lose consciousness and, such was the vigor of his constitution, he recovered in a short time. To his perseverance is largely due the success of the Utica mine. During the eight years he was with the company he operated it judiciously and advantageously. He used his influence in getting the company interested in the construction of the flume from the foot of Mount Audibon to Utica, whence it is taken to Camp Talbot; and he superintended the construction of the upper flume. He has spent some time in developing the Humbolt mine, in which he is part owner.
From the organization of the Republican party Mr. Reid has voted its tickets. In 1856 he was a member of the Republican Club in Illinois. He is identified with the Association of Colorado Pioneers and can tell many an interesting story of life in the early days in the mountain regions of Colorado. In June, 1862, he married Margaret Temple, their wedding being solemnized on Fall River, Colo., where her family resided. She died in April, 1876, at Georgetown, this state.
EUEL BARTLETT, M. D., who has engaged in the practice of medicine in Boulder since 1879, was born in Lamoine, Hancock County, Me,, April 6, 1851, a son of Hon. Hiram S. and Phoebe (Whittaker) Bartlett, natives of the same place as himself. His paternal grandfather, John Bartlett, was a descendant of English ancestors and by occupation a farmer. The maternal grandfather, Hazen Whittaker, was a native of Maine, where he owned a farm, but he devoted his attention less to agriculture than to his trade of carpentering.
Reared upon a farm, Hiram S. Bartlett chose agriculture for his occupation and continued in that vocation until his death. However, he had other important interests, both of a business nature and in connection with political affairs. Politically a Republican, he served as selectman, member of the assembly and state senate, in all of which connections he rendered efficient service in behalf of the people of his district. At the time of his death, in 1888, he was seventy-one years of age, and his wife was the same age at the time of her demise. Their five children still survive. One son, David, is an attorney in North Dakota; Henry remains on the old homestead; Hazen is in California; and the daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth (Bartlett) Small, lives in California.
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