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1896-97, was commander of the department of Colorado and Wyoming, G. A. R., was also an aide on the staff of the commander of the National Encampment, General Lawler. In religion he is an Episcopalian. Politically he is a Republican. At this writing he is president of the Boulder County Medical Association. He was a charter member of the State Medical Society, and held the position of president of that body in 1876. He is also connected with the American Medical Association, American Climatological Association, and a member of the Alumni Association of Chicago Medical College, now the medical department of the Northwestern University.
ENRY BEAN NEWLON, who came to Colorado in December, 1863, and for some time engaged in mining, but is now proprietor of a farm and fruit ranch near LaPorte, Larimer County, was born in Martinsville, Clark County, Ill., October 8, 1845, and traces his lineage to one of the P. F. V's. His father, James Newlon, was born in Culpeper County, Va., and was an own cousin of President James Madison, their mothers being Misses Bean, sisters. When a young man he came as far west as Illinois, where he embarked in the mercantile business at Tuscola, Douglas County. Later he removed to Texas and died at Gainesville in 1882. His wife, Ruth (Downs) Newlon, was born in Culpeper County, of an old Virginian family, and died in Clark County, Ill., when her youngest child, our subject, was only two years of age. She left, besides this son, two daughters and a son, namely: Mrs. Cynthia Grant, who died in Illinois; Champion, who was killed in Illinois by being thrown from a horse; and Mattie, of Texas.
In the public schools of Clark and Douglas Counties, Ill., our subject received his education. In 1862 he went to Cairo and for a year worked on the Illinois Central Railroad. In 1863 he came to Colorado, outfitting at St. Joseph, Mo., and traveling along the Platte, his journey lasting from October 1 to December 18, when he arrived at Denver. He proceeded to Gilpin County and engaged in mining and milling at Nevadaville for a time, after which he prospected and mined under lease. He was there in 1871, at the time of the striking of the Caribou mine, the extension of which he developed, also operated the None-Such mine successfully. At the time he went to that camp, there was but one cabin at the camp, and indications of future prosperity were meagre. In 1881 he came to LaPorte and bought eighty acres of unimproved land. Here he has since planted twelve acres to apples and plums, six acres to cherries, and ten acres to blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries and currants, the place is one of the finest fruit farms in the country, and appropriately bears the name of "None-Such," after the mine Mr. Newlon once operated
In Caribou, on New Year's day of 1878, Mr. Newlon married Miss Hilda L. Hoel, who was born in Madison, Wis., a daughter of John and Susan (Nelson) Hoel, natives of Christiana, Norway. Her father, who was a carpenter and architect, settled in Madison, Wis., and while there planned and built the capitol, courthouse, hospital and the university buildings. On account of ill health he removed to Nevada, Iowa, and there he died in 1882. His wife, who is living in Nevada, Iowa, is identified with the Lutheran Church. She is the mother of three children, namely: Mrs. Inger Wells, who lives in the same town as her mother; Hilda Lillian; and Henry W., a successful architect and builder, of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Newlon was reared in Madison, Wis., until fifteen years of age, after which she resided in Iowa, and from there in 1876 came to Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Newlon have an adopted daughter, Bertha May, who was graduated from the high school of Fort Collins in 1898, and is now a student at the State Agricultural College, at Fort Collins
Politically our subject is a Democrat, while Mrs. Newlon is a Republican. While in Blackhawk he was made a Mason, and now belongs to Collins Lodge No. 19, A. F. & A. M. Both Mr. and Mrs. Newlon are members of the Presbyterian Church.
ZRA T. CARR is one of the most successful fruit-growers of Boulder County and is treasurer and manager of the Boulder Fruit Growers' Association, which organization he was very influential in founding. When a resident of Gilpin County he served for six years as county commissioner, and for two years of that period was chairman of the board. He was elected first in 1880, re-elected in 1883 and vacated the office in 1887, with a record of which he has just cause
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The parents of the above-named gentleman were Josiah S. and Lucinda (Tracy) Carr, both natives of New York state, where they lived till death closed their labors. The father was a merchant at West Dresden for many years, and he lived to the ripe age of eighty-three years. His wife died when in her fifty-third year. Seven of their fourteen children grew to maturity, and of this large family Mr. Carr of this sketch is now the only survivor
The birth of our subject took place in the town of West Dresden, N. Y., December 23, 1838. He was educated in the public schools of his native place, and learned the mercantile business with his father. In 1856 he went to Minnesota, arriving in Minneapolis when the place comprised but five hundred inhabitants. He taught school the first winter, after which he engaged in farming nine miles from the city. In August, 1862, he volunteered in Company B, Ninth United States Infantry, for service in the Civil war. Soon afterward he was sent on the frontier against the Indians, who had taken the occasion to rise in force because the country was already engaged in civil war. Mr. Carr was mustered into the service as first sergeant of Company B, at Fort Snelling, Minn., and was honorably discharged in June, 1863, at St. Peter's. He participated in a fierce fight with the Indians, when he was one of a little band of sixty against three hundred redskins. Three of his comrades were killed and twenty-one were injured himself being one of the number. His right arm was badly shattered by a bullet, and he was taken to the hospital for treatment, the young lady who shortly afterward became his wife was most kind and tender in nursing the injured soldiers and though our hero had escaped being captured by the Indians, he found a more formidable foe within the bare hospital walls, and capitulated at once.
Up to 1868 Mr. Carr operated a farm situated about two miles from Hutchinson, Minn., but in that year sold out and located in Iowa, near Des Moines. The following year he came to Colorado, by way of Cheyenne, making the trip by rail and stage to Central City, and in July commenced mining in Russell Gulch. Among the mines which he opened during the next few years are the Grizzly and Specie Payment and others, which have produced precious metal in paying quantities. Since 1885 he has lived in Boulder; but built his residence here two years after coming here, planted fruit trees and greatly improved his property. He purchased a block of land in Garden City Addition to Boulder. In 1893 the Fruit Growers' Association, for shipping and handling fruit, was organized, and it has proved of material benefit to local producers. In 1897 Mr. Carr was very active in getting started the Boulder Fruit Juice and Preserving Company, of which he is the president. At one time he was a member and senior commander of Ellsworth Post No. 20, G. A. R., in Central City, and was honorably discharged from the same by request. He was also formerly identified with the Masonic order and is of high standing in the Odd Fellows' society. He is past grand in the order, was grand marshal of the grand lodge of Colorado, and is a member of the encampment. He was captain of Canton, Boulder No. 16, and major of the fourth battalion. At the request of the Boulder Canton the Decoration of Chivalry was conferred upon Mr. Carr, April 26, 1898
As previously mentioned there was a very pretty little romance attending the meeting of Mr. Carr and the lady who has been his faithful helpmate since their marriage, October 7, 1863. She was Miss Ludie Tucker, a native of the vicinity of Fort Smith, Ark., and daughter of Rev. Eber and Martha (Cox) Tucker, both of New York state. The father, who was a minister of the Baptist Church, went to Fort Smith in early days and was a missionary of his denomination there-abouts for some thirteen years. Thence he removed to Knox County, Mo., where his death occurred when he was in his sixtieth year. In 1861 the mother, with her son Hiram and daughter Ludie, went to Minnesota. Mrs. Tucker departed this life in Russell Gulch, at the age of seventy-five years. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Carr, Eben Tucker, Sr., was a native of
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Germany, and was a farmer in New York after his arrival in this country. The seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Carr are: Lois G., now Mrs. John L. Hazleton, of Boulder; Lillian M., Mrs. Harry Werry, also of this city; Mary E., wife of Nathaniel Lewis, of Russell Gulch; Edna J., wife of Walter Booth, of Boulder; Olive, wife of C. L. Purmort, of Boulder; Ezra B. and Lucy M. The two eldest daughters are graduates of the schools of Central City, and Mary B. graduated from the University of Colorado in the class of '92.
ILLIAM K. BURCHINELL, president of several Colorado mining companies and sheriff of Arapahoe County 1892-96, is a representative of one of Maryland's oldest families, his ancestors having come to this country with Lord Baltimore. It is said that some of the name are still to be found in Normandy, but the branch to which our subject belongs was established in England at the time of William the Conqueror and subsequent generations were identified with the history of Great Britain. After coming to America they transferred their allegiance to the colonies and during the Revolution William Burchinell, a planter of Kent County, Md., served valiantly in the cause of independence
Thomas, a son of this Revolutionary patriot, was born in Chestertown, Md., and grew to manhood upon the eastern shore, receiving his education in William and Mary College, of which he was a graduate. He became an architect and builder in Baltimore, but later removed to Huntingdon and was employed as master builder in the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He died in Huntingdon when sixty-six years of age. His wife was Anna M. Wilson, who was born in Huntingdon, Pa., of Scotch descent, and was a daughter of Matthew Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania, but for some years a merchant in Baltimore. There were three sons and three daughters in the family of Thomas Burchinell, and all the sons came to Colorado. Thomas W. died while acting as receiver of the United States land office at Leadville; and John B. resides in Denver
The second of the sons, William K., was born in Huntingdon, Pa., October 12, 1846. While a student in the Hollidaysburg Academy, he enlisted as a member of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, in which he served from July, 1862, until the close of the war, being assigned to the Army of the Cumberland under General Rosecrans and General Thomas. Among the important engagements in which he participated were those of Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, the march to Atlanta and then back to Nashville under General Thomas. On being mustered out in 1865, he returned to Huntingdon and embarked in the planing mill business. In the fall of 1873 he was elected, on the Republican ticket, to represent the district in the legislature, and while a member of the session of 1874 served on various committees and as chairman of the military and judiciary committees. In 1874 he was appointed by President Grant to the receivership of the United States land office at Fairplay, Colo., and assumed the duties of the position in February, 1875. Four years later President Hayes re-appointed him to the office, which was removed to Leadville, and he served there until 1883. Meantime he had become interested in mining in the Leadville district. Though on the expiration of his term of office he removed to Denver, he still continued to operate in the Leadville region, and is now interested in the Welton, Nubian and Superior Consolidated mines there, besides being interested in scores of mines elsewhere. He is president of the Golden Ocean Mining Company, which operates at Victor; president of LaPlatte Placer Mining Company; president of the Grouse Mountain Gold Mining and Tunnel Company, operating in the Cripple Creek district; and president of the Mineral Hill Gold Mining Company in Park County
In Huntingdon, Pa., Mr. Burchinell married Miss Mant Cunningham, daughter of Josiah Cunningham, who was a merchant and farmer there. They have one child, Annie C. Politically Mr. Burchinell is a silver Republican, and he has been active upon committees, in conventions and as a member of the state Republican committee. His party, in 1891, elected him sheriff of Arapahoe County and two years later he was re-elected, holding the office from January, 1892, to January, 1896. At the second election he won by a plurality of eleven hundred and eighty votes, in spite of the fact that he was opposed by the "machine" political element and
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R. AVRES STRADLEY has been associated with his brother in Longmont for about two years, both in the practice of medicine and surgery and in mining enterprises. Previously he was located at Platteville, Colo., for thirteen years, gaining an enviable reputation for skill in his profession during that period. He has made a specialty of nervous diseases and is in partnership with his brother, D. N., in the management of a sanitarium for the cure of the liquor habit. At present he is the city physician of Longmont, and is examiner for numerous leading life insurance companies here
The parents of the doctor were Dr. D. W. and Elizabeth (Bell) Stradley, natives of Zanesville and Circleville, Ohio, respectively. They became residents of Wabash, Ind., in 1849 and thenceforth made their home in that city, the father dying there in November, 1895, aged fourscore years, and the mother many years before, when fifty-four years of age. Dr. D. W. Stradley was much esteemed by his professional brethren and took a leading part in public enterprises and educational work. He acted as a director and was deeply interested in the development and improvement of the system of educating the young. His father, Ayres Stradley, was born in Baltimore, Md., married Rhoda Wilkins, of the same city, and followed farming and building as occupations. He lived in Hancock County, Ohio, for several years and spent his last days in Wabash, Ind., dying in his eighty-third year. His good wife also died in Wabash, in November, 1882, having attained the extreme age of ninety-six years
The father of Ayres Stradley was a native of England, who, upon his arrival in the United States, located permanently in Baltimore
Mrs. Elizabeth (Bell) Stradley was a daughter of Abner Bell, originally of Pennsylvania, but later of Hancock County, Ohio, and Winterset, Iowa. To the last-named place he removed in 1851, and, after living in the town for twenty-one years, he passed to his reward, in 1872, aged about eighty-six years. He was a hero of the war of 1812, and his wife was the daughter of Rev. John Smith, a soldier of the Revolution and also of the war of 1812. He was a noble minister of the gospel, for years was connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio, and received his summons to the better land while he was occupying his pulpit, then past eighty years of age. His wife died in Winterset, Iowa, in 1881, at the advanced age of ninety-five years. Both Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Stradley were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had ten children, four of whom died in childhood. Their four married daughters died in Indiana: Rhoda, Mrs. Baker; Margaret A., Mrs. Litsenberger, and Sarah E., Mrs. Comstock, all in Wabash; and Charlotte E., Mrs. Steele, in South Bend. Their two surviving sons are Ayres and Daniel N., who are represented in this volume. (See sketch of Dr. D. N. Stradley.)
Dr. Ayres Stradley was born in Mount Blanchard, Hancock County, Ohio, October 11, 1840, and was nine years old when the family went to Wabash, Ind. He received a good education in the common and high schools and then took up the study of medicine with his father. In April, 1861, he was among the first to respond to the president's call for troops but was rejected. In 1863 he entered the University of Michigan and took a course of lectures, after which he opened an office in Wabash and commenced practice. In 1866 he went to Bloomingdale, Mich., and remained there for ten years, giving his earnest attention to the duties of his profession. Then returning to Wabash, he continued his practice in that city up to 1883, when he came to Colorado, and for over thirteen years practiced in Platteville. His well-established reputation for ability preceded him to this place and in the brief period of his stay here he has won the respect and best wishes of all who know him, whether in a business or social way.
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While living in Platteville, Dr. Stradley was a candidate for county clerk of Weld County on the Populist's ticket, which was defeated. At the time of the election he was absent in the east, at the bedside of his dying father. He became a member of the Masonic fraternity when he was a young man, in Bloomingdale, Mich. He is a member of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias and is a Knight of the Maccabees. He was married in Wabash, Ind., in 1863 to Miss N. M. Barnhart, a native of Virginia and daughter of Joel Barnhart, an early settler of Wabash. Of the four children born to the doctor and wife three are living, namely; Carl, a civil engineer and county surveyor; Maude M., Mrs. Dudley, of Longmont; and Edessa E., who is at home.
The birth of Dr. B. N. Stradley occurred in Mount Blanchard, Ohio, July 3, 1849. His parents were Dr. D. W. and Elizabeth (Bell) Stradley, likewise of Ohio, of English descent, but representatives of patriotic American families who had dwelt in the United States for several generations. Dr. Stradley, Sr., practiced his profession in Ohio and Indiana, and was loved and respected by all who knew him. His children were ten in number, but only six lived to maturity. Four daughters married and had homes of their own in Indiana, but one by one they were gathered to the silent land, and now, of the entire family only two remain, the subject of this article and his brother, Dr. Ayres, who has been in partnership with him for about two or three years
The early years of Dr. Daniel N. Stradley were spent in Wabash, Ind., where he attended the public schools. Having inherited a taste for the medical profession he found an able instructor in his father, and in 1873 took a course of lectures in the Curtis Medical College in Cincinnati, completing his studies in Marion, Ind., where the college had been removed after his first year in the institution. He graduated in 1875, but in the preceding year had begun practice in Marion, with Dr. Snodgrass, the dean of the college. In 1878, on account of poor health, Dr. Stradley came to Colorado, and for two years or more lived in Boulder. There he became a member of the Boulder County Medical Association and in partnership with Dr. H. W. Allen was made surgeon for the South Park & Rio Grande Railroad, and opened a hospital at Buena Vista, Dr. Allen being secretary and himself treasurer. When the railroad was completed the hospital was abandoned, and Dr. Stradley came to Longmont, where he has since made his home, his office being on Main Street. Formerly he was a member of the Indiana Medical Society
In addition to being thoroughly interested in his professional work, Dr. Stradley and his brother are engaged in mining operations upon quite a large scale. They are working the Virginius mine near Ward, and the Miser group of mines in the vicinity of Rowena, near Left Hand. The subject of this article was one of the incorporators of the Great Northern Oil, Coal, Mineral Refining and Prospecting Company, which is capitalized at $100,000, and has as its president Dr. W. H. Davis, of Denver, Colo.; treasurer, Dr. Stradley; secretary, Judge H. M. Minor, of Longmont; and manager, S. L. Holaday. Prof. Arthur Lakes, late professor of geology at the State School of Mines and editor of Mines and Minerals in Denver, was employed by the company to make a thorough investigation of the strata and existing conditions of the region which they proposed to search for oil, coal and minerals, and his careful and detailed report was most encouraging and valuable, pointing out, as it does, the facts and reasons for his belief of the existence of certain mineral and oil deposits within convenient distance from Longmont. With redoubled
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Politically the doctor is identified with the People's party. October 1, 1898, he received the nomination of his party for representative of the northern district of Colorado. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Knights of the Maccabees. He was married in Xenia, Ohio, in 1873, to Miss Margaret Pence, daughter of Darius Pence. She was born and reared in Xenia and by her marriage with the doctor is the mother of a son, D. Pry, who is a promising young man, and is a member of Gross Medical College, class of '99.
OHN ROWLAND HANNA. Coming to Colorado in 1869 and to Denver in 1871, Mr. Hanna has witnessed much of the development of the state and has been identified with the growth of Denver since it was a place of five thousand inhabitants. Religions, charitable and educational institutions have alike felt the impetus of his sympathy and support, and in every enterprise calculated to benefit the people he has been deeply interested. After years of active connection with the banking business of this city, he resigned his position and retired to private life
The Hanna family is of Scotch-Irish lineage, but has had representatives in America from an early day. In their honor was named Hannastown, Westmoreland County, Pa., which was so loyal to the cause of freedom that it declared independence from Great Britain in May, 1775, soon after the battle of Lexington. After the Revolution the town was burned by the Indians. Judge John Hanna, grandfather of our subject, was born in Hannastown and removed to Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming, and also for a time served as county judge. He attained to advanced years
Our subject's father, A. F. Hanna, was born in Cadiz, where he first engaged in merchandising, but later was editor of the Liberty Advocate in that city. He died in 1847, when he was thirty-four years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Susanna Craig, was born in Cadiz, the youngest of six children and the only living representative of her family during her later years. She died in Colorado in 1892, at the age of seventy-five. Her father, Rowland Craig, was born in Brownsville, Pa., and settled in Cadiz, where he engaged in the mercantile business until his death. Our subject was one of three children that attained maturity, two of whom are living. His brother, Maj. James W. Hanna, served during the Civil war and at its close organized a company and came to Colorado to fight the Indians, being stationed at Fort Collins until his honorable discharge. He now lives in Denver
Born and reared in Cadiz, our subject attended the public schools and Franklin College in Harrison County. At the age of eighteen he went to Mercer, Pa., where he secured work as bookkeeper, and when twenty-three he started the first bank in the place. After five years he sold it to the First National Bank, of which he was cashier from 1864 to 1869, resigning in the latter year on account of illness. In the spring of that year he came to Colorado, where the salubrious air and outdoor exercise upon a farm enabled him to regain his health. In the spring of 1871 he came to Denver and at once began to plan the organization of the City National Bank, the charter for which he secured in Washington. His bank bought out the private bank of Warren Hussey and continued the business at the corner of Fifteenth and Market streets, but after fifteen years erected a new building and removed to Sixteenth and Lawrence streets. In 1892, after having served as cashier for twenty years, he was made president, and continued in that capacity until the business was sold in 1894. He was then with its successors, the American National Bank, as vice-president until the suspension of the institution
In Penn Yan, NY., Mr. Hanna married Miss Ione T. Munger, who was born in New York state, the daughter of Lyman and Martha S. (Whitney) Munger, natives of Massachusetts and New York respectively. Her father, who was a druggist in Penn Yan, later engaged in the grocery and drug business at Galva, Ill., and still later engaged in farming. In 1891 Mr. and Mrs. Munger came to Denver, where they have since made their home with their daughter, Mrs. Hanna. The latter is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution. Active in educational work, she has been president of the educational department of the Woman's Club and for one
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term of three years held the office of school director, but afterward refused renomination
With others Mr. Hanna organized the Colorado College at Colorado Springs in 1874, and from its inception he has taken an active interest in the progress of the institution. For years he was its treasurer and is now serving as a trustee. The college is now considered one of the leading educational institutions in the west. Politically he is a Republican. In the organization of the Y. M. C. A. He took an active part and for more than twenty years he has been one of its trustees. He assisted in the founding and building of the People's Tabernacle Congregational Church, in which he was long a trustee. With many of the laudable enterprises for the advancement of Denver his name has been intimately identified and his influence has been felt in their development. It may be truly said that Denver has no citizen more loyal to its welfare than he, nor are there many who have been more important factors in its progress and advancement.
DWARD A. THOMPSON. In the last half of the present century the lawyer has been a pre-eminent factor in all affairs of private concern and national importance. He has been depended upon to conserve the best and permanent interests of the whole people and is a recognized power in ail the avenues of life. He stands as the protector of the rights and liberties of his fellow-men and is the representative of a profession whose followers, if they would gain honor, fame and success, must be men of merit and ability. Such a one is Edward A. Thompson, who is now serving as county attorney of Weld County
He was born in Gravesend, England, May 27, 1845, but in November, 1847, was brought to America by his parents, Dr. William and Eliza (Hodson) Thompson, who settled in Bradford County, Pa., first at Leroy and later at Herrick, where he has been engaged in the practice of medicine until within the last few years. In 1896 he removed to Towanda, the same county, where he is now enjoying a well-earned rest. Eleven children constituted his family, namely: William H., who was graduated from Princeton College and is now a leading attorney of Wyalusing, Pa.; Alfred, a merchant ofTowanda, Pa.; Edward A., of this sketch; Mary, deceased wife of Frederick Leavenworth, of Towanda; Josephine, who died in childhood; Ernest T., who died at Towanda; Ferdinand, a physician practicing at the asylum in Bradford County, Pa.; Edith A., deceased, who was a teacher in the south; Eugene A., an attorney of Towanda; John G., a carpenter and builder of Scranton, Pa.; and Ethelbert R., a business man of Towanda
Edward A. Thompson acquired his literary education in the common schools of Herrick and the Towanda Collegiate Institute, As his father was a country physician in rather limited circumstances and had a large family depending upon him, our subject began life for himself at the age of thirteen and made his own way through school, paying his expenses at college by teaching. In March, 1865, he enlisted in Company G, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service until hostilities ceased. For three years thereafter he served as sergeant in Company A, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania National Guard, resigning his office on coming west. While teaching school in Pennsylvania, Mr. Thompson read law and was admitted to the bar in 1870, after which he engaged in practice at Towanda until 1882, the year of his arrival in Weld County, Colo. He was principal of the public schools of Erie for three years, and engaged in practice at that place until 1889, when he was elected county judge for a term of six years. He then removed to Greeley, where he opened an office, and has since successfully engaged in general practice, retaining a clientele of so representative a character as to alone stand in evidence of his professional ability and personal popularity. In 1898 he was appointed county attorney, and is now discharging the duties of that office to the utmost satisfaction of the court and bar of the county
In August, 1870, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage with Miss Nellie M., daughter of Daniel C. and Minerva M. Hall, of Bradford County, Pa. They have a son, William Hall, who was admitted to the bar in 1896 and is now associated with his father in practice under the firm name of Thompson & Thompson. The son was married January 19, 1894, to Miss Alice Clark, a daughter of Arthur and Lula (McNutt) Clark, who now reside in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Nellie M.
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Formerly Mr. Thompson was a Republican in politics, but now supports the men and measures of the Democracy. In 1867 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Herrick, Pa., but since coming to this county has become identified with the Congregational denomination. He has affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1866 and now belongs to Poudre Valley Lodge No. 12. He has also been a Mason since 1867, and is a prominent member of Occidental Lodge No. 20, A. F. & A. M., of Greeley; Greeley Commandery No. 10, K. T.; Greeley Chapter No. 13, R. A. M.; Greeley Lodge No. 31, K. of P., which he joined in 1891; and U. S. Grant Post No. 13, G. A. R. He has filled various offices in each of these orders.
HARLES W. ENOS, M. D., who is one of the prominent homeopathic physicians of Denver, is vice-president and a director of the Denver Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital Association, in the organization of which he actively assisted. He was also one of the organizers of the Denver Homeopathic Club and belongs to the Colorado State Homeopathic Medical Society. In the college he is lecturer on materia medica, also professor of the eye, ear, nose and throat department, and successfully superintends a large clinic at the free dispensary. Since May, 1889, when he came to Denver, he has been closely identified with the homeopathic fraternity of this city. In 1880-81 he took a special course in the New York Ophthalmic Hospital and later he also studied in Dr. Knapp's Ophthalmic and Oral Institute, from which he received a certificate. In 1883 he took a postgraduate course in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. He is very systematic in his professional work and, believing such a plan to be helpful, he takes a complete record of every case that conies to his notice, also a record of the ancestry
Dr. Enos was born in Marine, Madison County, III., December 13, 1849, and is the son of Charles R. and Eliza Ann (Thorp) Enos. His father was educated in New York state and after his removal to Illinois he settled on a farm near Marine, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1873, when he was fifty-nine years of age, he entered the Missouri Homeopathic Medical College and took the regular course of lectures, graduating as an M. D. Since then he has been engaged in active practice, and though now eighty-three years of age he still superintends his professional interests successfully. For the last twenty years he has resided in Jersey County, Ill
The marriage of Dr. C. R. Enos united him with Eliza Ann Thorp, a member of a Puritan family and the descendant of ancestors who emigrated from Holland to England, thence to America. She died in May, 1897, aged seventy-one years. Of her seven sons and three daughters, two sons are deceased, and of the survivors the five sons and one of the daughters are homeopathic physicians, while another daughter is a nurse. The children are named as follows: Sarah Cordelia Enos, M. D., of Jerseyville, Ill.; George, deceased; Charles W., of this sketch; Ida Viola, wife of Theodore S. Ellison, of Emmetsburg, Iowa; William H., of Alton Ill.; Joseph W., of Jerseyville; Dudley, deceased; Lawrence, of Decatur, Ill.; Clinton, of Brighton, Colo.; and Grace, a nurse who lives in Jerseyville
The literary studies of our subject were carried on in the Illinois State Normal School at Normal, near Bloomington, Ill., and the Illinois Industrial State University at Champaign. He studied Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri and graduated in 1874, after which he went to Jerseyville, Ill., and engaged in practice for fifteen years, coming from there to Denver in 1889. In political belief he has been a Prohibitionist since 1881 and in 1884 he was his party's candidate for secretary of state of Illinois. He has always been deeply interested in the temperance movement and gives his influence to the cause. By his marriage to Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Abner and Margaret S. Cory, he has three children, Herbert C., Grace E. and Charles R. Enos.
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