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ton County, Ind. They have two daughters, twins, Bessie and Blanche, and lost a son in his infancy. Both daughters are students in the University of Colorado, being members of the class of 1901.
UDLEY D. MAYO, manager of the Denver and Rio Grande Express, with office at No. 346 Equitable building, Denver, was born in Newport, Ky., September 24, 1843, and is a son of Henry Hunt and Louisa (Winston) Mayo, also natives of Kentucky. The Mayo family is of remote English extraction and was founded in this country by three brothers, one of whom settled in Massachusetts, another went to Connecticut and the third established his home in Virginia. From the Connecticut branch our subject is directly descended, some of the family having removed from the Nutmeg state to Kentucky. Daniel Mayo, who was born in Kentucky, was, in partnership with Colonel Taylor, the owner of the land on which Newport is built, and he became the first postmaster of that town, a position which he held for twenty-five consecutive years.
Henry Hunt, son of Daniel Mayo, was, on his mother's side, a great-great-grandson of Gen. Israel Putnam. A business man of large ability, he carried on a planing mill and engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds, as well as all kinds of building material. At the beginning of the Civil war his mills were burned down and, while he rebuilt, he carried on business at a loss during the war. His lumber yards were in Newport and his mill in Covington, to which place the family removed when our subject was a child of ten years. From that time until manhood he resided in Covington, where he attended the public schools and aided his father in business. He finished his schooling at an academy in Cincinnati. During a part of the Civil war he worked on a farm in Kentucky with his brother.
In 1863 he secured employment as express messenger for the Adams Express Company between Cincinnati and Indianapolis, and this position he held for two years, after which he became clerk for the same company in Evansville, Ind. Two years later he was transferred to Cincinnati as messenger on the Kentucky Central Railroad, serving in that capacity for three years. Between 1869 and 1877 he received successive promotion from messenger to way-bill clerk, money clerk and cashier, and in 1877 he was transferred to St. Louis as cashier. He remained in that city until 1880, when he was transferred to Colorado as route agent, having charge of the Adams express business on the Denver & Rio Grande and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads in Colorado and New Mexico for one year, and afterward took the agency for the Adams Express Company in Denver. When, eighteen months later, the company withdrew from Denver, he became cashier for Wells, Fargo & Co.
In 1883 he severed his connection with that concern and accepted a position as cashier for the Denver and Rio Grande Express. He was promoted to be agent and in 1885 became general agent, continuing in the latter position until April, 1893, since which time he has been manager.
In Covington, Ky., May 9, 1877, Mr. Mayo married Miss Mary Ella Monk, a daughter of Samuel Monk, who came to Denver during the early '60s and has since resided in this city. The three children that came to bless their union were Ella Louisa, who was born in St. Louis and died in Denver when about nine years of age; Florence and Dudley D., both of whom were born in Denver. Mr. Mayo was reared in the Methodist faith and his wife in the Episcopalian doctrines, and after settling in Denver he identified himself with the Episcopal Church, to which he has since adhered. Politically he is a Democrat. While in Newport he was made a Mason *and after coming to Colorado took the Royal Arch and Knight Templar degrees; also became a member of the Mystic Shrine of El Jebel, in which he holds the office of Chief Rabbi.
ELVIN A. TENNEY, who came to Colorado in 1875 and settled in Denver six years later, was born in Lebanon, Grafton County, N. H., June 26, 1833, and is a member of an old Connecticut family that traces its lineage to England. The first of the name in America were three brothers, John, William and Asa, who crossed the ocean in an early day and made settlement in Connecticut. The father of our subject, Andrew Tenney, was born in Hanover, N. H., and followed the carpenter's trade in Lebanon, where he died in 1836, at the age of thirty-five. His wife, Eliza M. Miner, was born in New
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Hampshire, her parents having removed to that state from Connecticut. The Miner family is descended from Henry Bollman, a brave Englishman, who owned and operated large mines in his native land and who, when the Revolution broke out, organized his men and marched at their head, assisting in quelling the revolution. For this signal service he was knighted and given the name of Miner. The Miner arms consisted of a shield with three griffin heads.
Our subject's mother died in New Hampshire when seventy years of age. In her family there were seven sons and one daughter, but only three are living. A brother, Edwin A., who served as a lieutenant in the Mexican war, died in LaCrosse, Wis., in 1895. Charles V., who was in the quartermaster's department during the Civil war, died in Dixon, Ill., where he had long made his home. R. O., who was a member of a Vermont regiment during the Civil war, for three months, later served in the commissary department for three years, and is now living at Fort Collins, Colo. The only sister is our subject's twin, Helen E. A., wife of Charles Barrett, of Somerville, Mass.
Our subject was taken to Hanover when he was but four years old. There he worked on a farm during the summers and attended the public schools winters. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, but after one year his boss died; however, he continued at the trade with another man in Hanover, and after finishing his term of service he was employed on the Vermont Central Railroad as foreman in bridge building. At the opening of the war he determined to enlist in the Union service and in October, 1861, his name was enrolled as a member of a regiment, winch was to be the First New England Cavalry, but which, on the muster, was made the First Rhode Island Cavalry. For two years he remained in the service as quartermaster sergeant, being with the Army of the Potomac until mustered out by Order No. 126 from the war department. He was honorably discharged in 1863.
Returning to New Hampshire, Mr. Tenney engaged in the building business until 1875. He then came to Colorado and settled at Fort Collins, where he engaged in ranching for two years, and later resumed work as a carpenter. In 1881 he came to Denver, where he was interested in the building of irrigation canals, being in charge of all the woodwork and also giving levels in the construction of the Highland ditch in the Platte Valley. He superintended the operating of the Highland and Platte Valley ditches, also the Loveland and Greeley canal. In 1886 he resigned his position and went to Larimer, where he had charge of the construction and giving levels on the lone Land and Cattle Company's canal for eight months. On returning to Denver he began general carpenter work, which he has since carried on, having his shop at No. 1856 Arapahoe street. In politics he is a silver Republican. Fraternally he is connected with Franklin Lodge No. 6, F. & A. M., at Lebanon, N. H., in which he was Worshipful Master for years. He was at one time commander of the James B. Perry Post No. 6, G. A. R., at Lebanon.
OHN H. PRINCE, one of the progressive and enterprising farmers of Boulder County, has spent his entire life in Colorado and is one of the few men now living in the state who were born here. A native of Denver, his birth occurred March 14, 1866, to Hiram and Helen M. (Lindsay) Prince, of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this volume. He passed his boyhood years in the parental home and acquired a fair education in the local common schools.
In 1895 Mr. Prince was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Huffmann, daughter of Thomas D. Huffmann, a native of Iowa, but since 1894 a resident of Colorado. His first home in this state was at Boulder, where he resided until recently. At this writing he is engaged in farm pursuits and the stock business in Weld County. One child blesses the union of Mr. and Mrs. Prince, a daughter, Alice Mary, who was born January 29, 1897.
Fraternally Mr. Prince is identified with the Knights of Pythias. At one time he was prominent in the Woodmen of the World, but his membership in this order he has allowed to lapse. In political belief he is an advocate of protection of American industries, believing such a course most helpful to workingmen of our country. He is also a stalwart champion of the silver cause, holding the belief that permanent prosperity cannot be attained until silver is restored to its right standard. In addition to the cultivation of his
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place of eighty acres, he also manages the homestead comprising two hundred and forty acres; and the oversight of these two estates consumes his entire time, so that he has little leisure for public affairs. However, he is a public-spirited citizen and discharges every duty that comes to him as a citizen of Colorado.
HOMAS J. RHYNO came from Iowa to Colorado in 1878, making the long journey across the plains with a team of horses and spending thirty-five days on the road. As soon as he arrived in Boulder he began to freight from this city to Leadville, covering intermediate points, but after three years he discontinued that work and, purchasing land, settled down to farming. In 1892 he purchased three hundred and twenty acres near Louisville, Boulder County, but afterward sold eighty acres and gave to his son another eighty, leaving one hundred and sixty acres in his home farm.
Born in Putnam County, Ind., October 28, 1848, our subject is a son of William and Sarah (Nunn) Rhyno, and was one of seven children, all but one of whom are still living. His father, who was a native of Wythe County, Va., born in 1822, moved to Indiana in early manhood and settled down to farming in that state. From there, in 1849, he migrated to Iowa and settled in Madison County, where he made his home nearly thirty years. In 1878 he accompanied his son, Thomas, to Colorado and was so delighted with the prospects here that he returned to Iowa to dispose of his property. Having done so, he came to Colorado to establish his permanent home here, and for five years resided in Denver, where he had a contract in car-building for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. From that city, in 1884, he went to the North Fork of the Gunnison River, where for three years he engaged in farming. Selling that property, he went to Iowa, and in 1898 returned to Colorado, where he is now making his home with our subject. He was one of those men who, in 1860, were led to the mountain regions by reason of the discovery of gold, but after a few months in the Blackhawk district, not finding gold, he returned to Iowa. His wife, who was born in Ohio in 1817, resides in Delta County, Colo.
When a boy our subject was obliged to work almost constantly on the home farm. Forty-eight days at one time was his longest continued experience of school life. However, by reading and contact with men he has gained a broad and useful knowledge. He remained at home until he was twenty-three years of age, when he began to work for the farmers of his neighborhood. November 6, 1871, he married Miss Emma Rancy, and afterward devoted himself to farm work. In 1872 he bought fifty acres in Madison County, which he cultivated until his removal to Colorado. He left Iowa August it, 1878, and has since made his home in Boulder County. He and his wife had three children, but the older son, Charles E., is deceased. The only daughter, Rosa B., is the widow of Richard Strong; and the younger son, Fred, who is married and has one daughter, is engaged in cultivating a farm, that adjoins his father's place. Mrs. Rhyno died October 18, 1876.
Fraternally Mr. Rhyno is identified with Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., of Boulder, and is also a member of Camp No. 137, Woodmen of the World, of Louisville.
RANK K. WAGNER, a successful contractor and builder of Boulder, is a young man who numbers a host of sincere friends among his fellow-citizens here and outside acquaintances. His genial, cordial manners make him a general favorite, and his rectitude and correct methods of transacting his business affairs, entitle him to the high reputation he bears in commercial circles.
Born in Atchison, Kan., the subject of this sketch is now in his thirty-fifth year. His father, Tilghman Wagner, came from a sterling old Pennsylvania family, and his birthplace was in Allentown, Lehigh County. He came as far west as Illinois in his early manhood, and there married Miss Juliet Wilson, a native of Canada, who had accompanied her father, Samuel P. Wilson, to the Prairie state. The latter went to California during the gold excitement and died on the Pacific Slope a few years ago. The three children of Tilghman and Juliet Wagner are: Frank K.; Charles, who is in business with his father in Aspen, Colo.; and Jessie, who is at home. After his marriage the father went to Atchison, Kan., and about 1860 started for Colorado by team.
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. He has followed brick-laying and contracting, and erected many of the old-time brick residences and business blocks yet standing in Boulder. The first time that he came to this state he remained but a year, then returning to his old home in Atchison, where he was steadily employed at his accustomed vocation up to 1874. That year he came to Deliver by railroad, and from that city to Boulder by wagon. In 1893 he took up his residence in Aspen, Colo., and is still living there, his time being given to the manufacture of bricks and to contract work.
Frank K. Wagner was about ten years of age when he came to Colorado, and for some time he was a pupil in the public schools of Boulder. Afterwards he learned the butcher's trade and as a member of the firm of Church & Co., carried on a market up to 1889. About that time he commenced learning the bricklayer's trade with his father and brother and two years later he started in contracting on his own account. He plastered the Masonic Temple, built Dr. Dodges' residence and that of Mr. Fulton and many others, too numerous to mention. He is a member of the Master Plasterers' Association and was one of the organizers of the Boulder Brickbuilders' Association. He is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with Ruth Rebekah Lodge No. 5, to which his wife also belongs. In politics he is to be found on the side of the Prohibition party.
Mrs. Wagner, who is a charter member of the Ladies of the Hive of the Maccabees, and has been commander of the same ever since it was organized, is from an old and prominent Colorado family. Her father, Samuel Mishler, was born in Dayton, Ohio, and came to this state in 1859, when a young man. He settled on Dory Hill, and for years was engaged in mining. He died in Boulder in December, 1893, aged sixty-four years. Three of his brothers were in eastern regiments during the Civil war. His father, William Mishler, was a native of Germany, and lived in Pennsylvania and later in Ohio. The mother of Mrs. Wagner, Mary A., was born in Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, and is now living in Central City, Colo. She was the only child born to the first marriage of George Lytle, who, in company with three others, discovered and named the famous Caribou mine after one which Mr. Lytle had seen in California, of a similar rock formation. He had gone to the Pacific coast in 1848, and there engaged in mining for eighteen years. Returning then to Colorado, he was occupied in the same pursuit for years and died here in September, 1896, at the ripe age of seventy-one. The Caribou mine, which he and his companions opened and worked for seven years or more, they at last sold for $3,000,000. Mr. Lytle also discovered the Idaho, which was a large paying mine.
The marriage of our subject and wife was solemnized near Blackhawk, Colo., in 1890.
She was formerly Miss Viva Mishler and was educated in the preparatory school here, after which she entered the University of Colorado, and devoted three years to teaching. She is the eldest of nine children, three of whom died while young. Bertha died in Blackhawk, May 1, 1891. Ida is the wife of Harry Feehan, of Blackhawk; and Blanche, Dora and Irena are residents of Central City.
EORGE B. POOR, who is engaged in farming in Boulder County, was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., May 28, 1842, and is a son of Alanson and Ruth (Adams) Poor. He was one of nine children, six of whom are still living, namely: Tracy H., Andrew J., Charles B., Cordelia, George B. and Dallas M. The father was born in Vermont in 1793 and migrated to New York state in boyhood, settling in Chautauqua County, where he followed farm pursuits. About 1852 he retired from active labors and afterward made his home with his children. In 1860 he went to Hastings, Minn., where he made his home with his eldest son up to the time of his death, in 1866.
At the time of the mother's death, the family broke up housekeeping, and our subject was given a home with his sister, Mrs. Solomon Bennett. He was then ten years of age, and for six years he lived in his sister's home at Bust Bye Corners, Chautauqua County. Afterward he lived with his brother, Tracy H., in Centerville, Crawford County, Pa., within eight miles of the oil regions, where he engaged in teaming in connection with his brother. In the fall of 1861 he made a trip to Minnesota, where he spent the winter in visiting a relative and attending school.
In April, 1862, Mr. Poor turned his face westward. He secured employment as a cook for a
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