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train crossing the plains and went direct to Russell Gulch, arriving there on the 15th of July. His brother, Andrew J., formed one of the train, and he having been in the state before was able to give valuable counsel to the others. He owned some mining claims in the gulch, and thither the two brothers went. When the winter weather set in they engaged in the wood business, and for three years devoted themselves to this enterprise. For two years following our subject engaged in teaming and freighting from Denver and the mountains. In 1867 he married Miss Artemissia M. Mathewson, their marriage being solemnized on the 20th of February. Afterward he came to Boulder and took tip a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, also pre-empted one hundred and twenty acres, situated some three miles northeast of town. Here he began raising stock and farm products, and also turned his attention to dairying. During the thirty-one years he has lived on this place he has been prospered in his enterprises and has gained a reputation as a man of persevering disposition and upright character.
The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Poor are: Ella B., deceased, and Arthur D., who assists his father in the management of the farm. The family are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church and contributors to its good works. Fraternally Mr. Poor is a member of Centennial State Lodge No. 8, A. O. U. W. While in the main he has been prosperous and has attained a competency through his untiring perseverance, yet he has had his share of reverses. January 5, 1874, his residence was destroyed by fire, and on the 29th of January, 1883, his barn burned down, at the same time thirty-five head of cattle and four horses being lost in the fire.
EKALB STERNBERG, who owns and occupies a farm of one hundred and sixty acres one and one-half miles east of Boulder, was born in Herkimer County, N. Y, November 24, 1833, a son of Lambert and Ruvina (Sternberg) Sternberg. He was one of nine children, seven of whom are living, as follows: Jane; Mary, wife of Charles Reed, of Dakota; Rebecca, the widow of Jacob Crouse, of Los Angeles, Cal.; Marcus, of Mitchellville, Iowa; our subject; Jay, living in Pomona, Cal.; and Lambert, a farmer whose home is in Mitchellville, Iowa.
Lambert Sternberg was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., in 1800, and in boyhood accompanied his father, Marcus, to Herkimer County, where he grew to manhood and married. He was a man of sagacity and integrity and, as he prospered in farming, he enlarged his ventures and became a stock speculator, attaining large wealth. In 1857 he removed to Polk County, Iowa, and established a hotel at the junction of the Iowa City and Keokuk roads, which was one of the noted points of pioneer days and was the crossing point of five or six stage routes. He also engaged in breeding and feeding stock, and cultivating a farm, until his death, which occurred in 1870.
The Sternberg family descends from three brothers who came from Germany in all early day and settled in Schoharie County, N. Y. They became well known throughout the state as the producers of the first wheat sold in their county. Marcus Sternberg, grandfather of our subject, was a farmer and the son of Nicholas Sternberg. George M. Sternberg, well known throughout the United States as a surgeon-general of the regular army, is a member of this family and a second cousin of our subject.
The mother of our subject was Ruvina Vroman, but when she was a child her mother was married a second time, becoming the wife of Marcus Sternberg, and the daughter took her stepfather's name, as did the other Vroman children. During the Revolution Indians massacred a father and mother in the family of Vromans and captured three or four of their children, whom they took into Canada; one or two died of exposure to the severe cold and of starvation. Others of the family escaped by fortifying themselves in an old stone church near their home.
In 1855 our subject removed to Polk County, Iowa, where for six years he was engaged with his father in farming and raising stock. In 1862 he went to Hamilton County, where he conducted milling and farming pursuits until 1867, and then disposed of his property and removed to Ogle County, Ill. Upon a farm of two hundred and ninety acres that he purchased, he settled down to farming November 7, 1864, in Hamilton County, Iowa, he married Miss Mary Harris. Five children were born of the union. Lambert, the eldest, is a member of the McAllister Lumber & Supply Company, and manager
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. of the firm's interests and lumber yards at Louisville, Colo.; he is a graduate of the Colorado State University and took a law course at the State University of Michigan. Guy V., the second son, is a graduate of the State University, degree of A. B., and graduated from the law department of the same school with the degree of LL.B. He is now practicing his profession at Grand Junction, Colo. Irene resides with her parents; Emma L., who graduated from the State University with the degree of A. B., took a four years' course in Germany, spending the time in Berlin, Dresden and Leipsig; and Grace R. is the wife of Dr. Charles Ambrook, of Boulder.
Selling his property in Illinois in 1869, Mr. Sternberg returned to Hamilton County, Iowa, and remained there until February, 1870, when he settled in Arapahoe County, Colo., some five miles north of Denver, purchasing three hundred and forty acres and engaging in farming. In December, 1872, he removed to Boulder and erected a gristmill. This he conducted until 1879 and then sold his interests and purchased his present valuable homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, where he has since resided. He also owns eighty acres one-half mile east of his homestead, which he acquired in 1880. Fraternally he is connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In political views he is liberal, supporting men and measures he believes to be right, irrespective of the parties supporting them. When the town of Boulder was incorporated he was a member of the council.
ETER HALDI, a pioneer of Altona, Boulder County, was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, November 25, 1845, a son of Peter and Catherine (Reichenbach) Haldi. He was one of nine children, of whom five besides himself are living, viz.; Catherine, Louisa, Maria, Christian, Alfred and Susanna C. His father, a native of Switzerland, born in 1826, learned the trade of a blacksmith in youth and followed that occupation in his native land until 1881, when he crossed the ocean to Canada and spent three years there. Returning to Europe, he remained two years, and then, in 1886, came to the United States, stopping eighteen months in Ohio and coming from there to Colorado in 1888. Establishing his home in the Left Hand Canon, he engaged in the dairy business and farming on a small scale, and has since continued to reside there.
After acquiring a common-school education and learning the blacksmith's trade, the subject of this sketch entered the military service at the age of twenty years and for three years was a member of the Heavy Artillery, Company 5, Division No. 44. Upon the close of his term of service he returned home, where he worked in the shop for a short time. In 1869 he emigrated to America, landing in New York on the 1st of June. From there he went to Carrollton, Mo., where he worked as a journeyman blacksmith. In October, 1872, he came across the plains to Colorado, as a member of a party whose train was stopped several times by herds of buffalo. Arriving in Denver on the 1st of November, he secured employment at his trade, in which capacity he continued until April 1, 1875. At that time he came to the mouth of Left Hand Canon and bought his present shop, which had been built by Walt Wright and Sam Noblet in 1870. This, and some other buildings that he bought, cost him $1,100. He settled down to the blacksmith's trade and gradually built up a good custom. The township had not yet been surveyed, and, wishing to take up a homestead, he turned his attention to the survey, which was finally made, in 1882, through his efforts. He then entered one hundred and sixty acres of land. In 1879 he was instrumental in establishing a postoffice here. The original name of Ni Wot was changed to Altona, on account of the confusion caused from the fact that a railroad station on the Colorado Central Railroad bore the name of Ni Wot. In 1880 he was instrumental in the building of the direct road to Boulder. His father, on coming to Boulder Canon, had taken up one hundred and sixty acres of land, and this our subject bought later, and with an eighty-acre tract that he also bought, makes his place one of four hundred acres.
In Denver, May 1, 1872, Mr. Haldi married Miss Anna B. Seekamp. Five children were born of their union, three of whom are living: Adolph, Ida and Fred. For the past eighteen years (with the exception of eighteen months) Mr. Haldi has been a member of the school board, and he is also actively connected with the Altona
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Grange. Fraternally he is connected with the Swiss Gruetli Society of Denver and Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M.
OHN N. EWING, a progressive agriculturist, whose farm is situated near Louisville, Boulder County, was born in Highland County, Ohio, January 15, 1833, a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Milton) Ewing. He was one of ten children, five of whom are now living, namely: Jessie C., Robert M., John N., Samuel E. and Lorena I., wife of William P. Graham. The father, who was a native of Brown County, Ohio, born March 12, 1805, learned the trade of a carpenter in youth, and followed it in Ohio for some time, but in 1837 took his family to Illinois, settling in Schuyler County, where he followed his trade. As his boys grew toward manhood, wishing to give them some practical experience in farming, he bought eighty acres, which he superintended, while working at his trade. In 1857 he removed to Kansas and settled sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. There he devoted his attention entirely to farm work. For many years he served as justice of the peace, and was chosen a delegate to the convention that framed the constitution of the state of Kansas. His death occurred December 12, 1884.
In the common schools of the home neighborhood our subject had fair educational advantages. He worked on the home farm until the breaking out of the war. September 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, Colonel Judson commanding. He took part in the battle of Cain Hill, Prairie Grove and many skirmishes. Upon the close of hostilities he was mustered out of service January 5, 1865, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
While in the army Mr. Ewing applied for a short furlough. This was granted him, and September 4, 1862, he returned to Kansas, where he married Miss Amanda Hodgson, sister of William B. Hodgson, whose sketch appears upon another page. They were married September 6th and on the 7th Mr. Ewing returned to his command. After the war closed he entered one hundred and sixty acres in Linn County, Kan., under the homestead law, and began to farm the place, where he remained until 1880. He then joined a wagon train composed of four wagons, en route to Colorado, and after a journey of four weeks arrived at Boulder May 26. He spent the summer on Left Hand Creek, at job and day work, being too late to put in a crop. In the spring of 1881 he settled in Boulder Valley, one-half mile north of his present home, and for seven years operated rented land. In 1888 he purchased forty. acres where he now resides. This he has improved and cultivated, in connection with eighty to one hundred and sixty acres which he rents each year. For many years he has served as a member of the school board and is heartily in sympathy with the free-school system. The Boulder Valley Grange numbers him among its active members.
Mr. and Mrs. Ewing became the parents of seven children, three of whom are living. They also adopted a child, whom they reared as their own. The daughters and son were named as follows: Ida M., Hattie F. and Myrtie A., all deceased; Anna J.; Carrie S., who married Albert P. Carnahan and has a son, Raymond B.; Mary, deceased; Flora E. and Delton R. H.
LBERT T. HENRY, who first came to Boulder in the Centennial year, has been a witness of vast changes in Colorado. His beautiful home is situated at the corner of Hill and Thirteenth streets, and in addition to this, he is the owner of several valuable pieces of property in the town, as well as other residences. He has always taken an active and interested part in all local enterprises, and has freely used his means and influence for the development of the resources of this region and for the improvement of the town.
In early life Mr. Henry engaged in the milling business in Rochester, N. Y., but later removed to Michigan and subsequently became proprietor of a hotel at Jackson. As his health was not of the best, he determined to try life on the plains, and, accordingly, went to San Antonio, Tex., where he remained until the spring of the next year. He then started for Denver by team, traveling part of the way with a body of United States troops, and the rest of the distance with Mexican trains, as the Indians were very hostile, and emigrant trains which had preceded, as well as several which followed, were destroyed by the red men. The trip to Denver took three months,
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and a few days after his arrival in the present capital of Colorado, Mr. Henry settled in Boulder. The next June he went east and at a point near Sedalia, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad line, the train in which he was traveling was "held up" by the famous James boys and the Younger brothers. He went to Cincinnati and Michigan, and on his return to Boulder engaged in the wholesale liquor and cigar business. He continued in this pursuit until 1894, when he sold out and retired.
Mr. Henry was one of the original stockholders in the Boulder Milling and Elevator Company, and has always been connected with the organization in this capacity and also holds stock and for some years was a director in the First National Bank of Boulder. When the Masonic Temple was in process of erection he was one of the trustees and was treasurer of the funds. When he was a young man, and a resident of St. Joseph, Mich., he was initiated into the Masonic order, and has long stood high in the fraternity. He belongs to Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. & A. M., and is its past master, while his son, A. T., Jr., is the present master (and the youngest, by the way, who ever occupied the chair in this lodge). For eight years Mr. Henry was the high priest of Boulder Chapter No. 7, R. A. M., and in 1879 he received the degree of Knight Templar, in Colorado Commandery No. 1, of Denver. Later he was one of the leaders in the founding of Mount Sinai Commandery No. 7, K. T., of Boulder, being one of its charter members. With the exception of once, when, in 1883, he was absent and traveling in Europe, Mr. Henry has attended every national conclave of the Masons. He is identified with El Jebel Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Denver. Formerly he was active as a Knight of Pythias and Odd Fellow, but is not at this time. He was first chancellor of the first-mentioned order and belonged to the encampment and canton of the Odd Fellows' Society.
Politically he is a Republican.
Until about six years ago Mr. Henry owned real-estate in Denver, but is now more interested in his Boulder property. He is building three cottages on terraced lots at the corner of Spruce and Ninth streets, and is greatly improving that locality. Other property in this town is also owned by him, from which he derives a good income. His attractive home is presided over by his cultured wife, whose maiden name was Carrie Andrews. They have two children, Albert T., Jr., and Beulah Genevieve. The son was educated in the University of Colorado, and while there belonged to the glee club. At present he is assisting in the management of his father's interest. The daughter is a graduate of the class of '98 of the state university. Both are most promising young people.
ICHAEL L. ROSENBAUM, the owner of a large farm and sawmill near Louisville, Boulder County, was born in Homer, Neb., February 22, 1860, a son of Anthony and Mary (Boyle) Rosenbaum. He was one of twelve children, ten of whom are living, namely: Michael L., Christopher C., Harmon, Mary, Maggie, Katie, Emma, Lizzie, Willie and Nettie. The father, who was a native of Germany, was born on the River Rhine in 1837, and in youth learned the trade of a carpenter. In 1855 he emigrated to America with his father, Christopher Rosenbaum, who was also a carpenter; and for some time he worked in New York City. Later, when his father returned to the old country, he settled in Covington, Neb., and after working some time at his trade he embarked in farming. Afterward he kept a stage station for a number of years. In 1863 he came to Colorado and opened a carpenter shop on Fifteenth street, Denver, where he worked for two years. In 1865 he went to Virginia City, Mont., and opened a shop. He made coffins for seven road agents who had been hung, receiving $700 for the seven coffins. A year later he went to Silver Bow, where he was engaged in mining and contracting. After some months he proceeded to Diamond City, where he spent several years in mining and contracting. A very substantial monument to his memory there is the piping he put in Altar Gulch, one-half mile each side of the mountain, where a two-foot piping forced the water up the mountain for hydraulic purposes. In 1870 he returned to Colorado and settled in Boulder Valley, two miles north of our subject's home, on Dry Creek, where he engaged in farming and continued to reside until his death, in 1897.
The maternal grandfather of our subject,
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