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not a member of any denomination. While residing in Paterson he married Miss Rachel Van Winkle, a native of Passaic County, N. J., and daughter of Cornelius S. Van Winkle, for some years a farmer of that county, but later a resident of Paterson. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison are the parents of five children: Mrs. Lizzie Curzons, of San Francisco; Frank, a merchant tailor of San Francisco; Laura, Mabel and Birdie, who are at home.
HOMAS AUTREY, who resides at No. 808 Pine street, Boulder, was born in Andrew County, Mo., April 6, 1842, a son of James Sterling and Sarah (Robinson) Autrey. Reference to the family history is made upon another page, in the sketch of William Autrey. After having acquired a fair education in the common schools of Missouri, in the fall of 1862 our subject went to Leavenworth, Kan., and hired to Power & Faulkner, to drive a team to Denver, but after going as far as Rock Creek, Kan., having grown tired of that kind of work, he left his employers and proceeded alone to Nebraska City, where he was employed during the winter in chopping cord wood. In the spring of 1863 he drove an ox-team through to Cottonwood Springs for Jennings & Humphrey, and from that point drove a team to Denver for a Mr. Clark, thence going to Central City for Mr. Jennings, working his way for his board. After having been employed at chopping cord-wood for fifteen days at Central City, he started for Denver with $5 in his pocket and walked the entire distance, bare-footed, and with only such food as he could procure at the infrequent stopping places.
Arriving in Denver, Mr. Autrey hired with Carlyle & Holliday as a teamster and went to LaPorte, where he worked for them during the summer at $25 per month. In the winter he had charge of cattle at Cottonwood Springs and in the spring resumed teaming, which he continued through the summer. In the fall of 1864 he went to Nebraska City, where he remained during the winter. During the summer of 1865 he drove six mules, and in the fall stopped on Laramie Plains, where he wintered cattle. In the spring of 1866 he became assistant wagon-master, and later in the season was made wagon-master. In the spring of 1867 he joined the wagon train of Walters & Dunham, loaded with dry hides and bound for Salina, Kan., he being assistant wagonmaster. During the trip, at Cedar Point, one of his employers was killed by Indians. After herding cattle for the firm at Salina for a month, he joined his employers on a trip to Fort Hayes. From there he took the train for his home.
For two years afterward Mr. Autrey devoted his time to farming. In the winter of 1869 he emigrated to Colorado, in company with his parents and brothers, William and George K. In the spring of the following year he and his brother, William, bought four mules and engaged in freighting. For a time they worked for the railroad company, constructing a track from Evans to Denver. In the fall of 1870 they took up a homestead claim of eighty acres, and continued together for some years, increasing their possessions and meeting with success. When a division of the property was made Thomas took one hundred and twenty acres of railroad land in township 1 south, range 69 west, in addition to which he rented one hundred and sixty acres from his father-in-law. After two years he bought eighty acres previously rented, and on this land, in 1893, he discovered coal. The following year he leased the property to the Enterprise Coal Company. For two years he carried on a meat business in Louisville, and still owns one-half interest in a shop there, besides having two houses in the town. In 1895 he removed to Boulder, where he owns valuable city property. In June, 1873, he married Miss Mary Mink. Four children were born of their union, namely: James B., Luella, Laura and Marion Thomas, all of whom are living except Laura. Fraternally Mr. Autrey is connected with Hiawatha Tribe No. 25, I. O. R. M.
EORGE W. EGGLESTON, who is one of the influential residents of Boulder, County, was born near Simcoe, Canada, September 29, 1833, a son of Elisha and Rachel (Kinne) Eggleston. He was one of eight children, those besides our subject being Elisha M., a retired business man residing in Denver; Theodore D., deceased; Susan E., who is married and lives in Idaho; William W.; Wellington K., of Grand Junction, Colo.; Charles B., of Denver; and Albert L, of Ouray, Colo.
The father of our subject was born in Madison County, N. Y., in 1804, and grew to manhood
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. and married there. Afterward, removing to Canada, he settled in Norfolk County on what was known as Yankee street. Some five years were spent there, and in 1837 he removed to New York, after having taken up arms in the Canadian rebellion. For some six years he resided in Onondaga County, and then went back to Canada, again settling on Yankee street. After four years h removed to another part of the county, where he erected a sawmill and remained until 1850. His next location was McHenry County, Ill., but after a year he moved to West Union, Fayette County, Iowa, where he engaged in farming, brick-making and milling. In 1860 he came to Colorado, where he spent the summer in the mines and took up a claim of one hundred and sixty acres. Returning for his family in 1861, he came back with them and settled on Coal Creek, in Boulder County, where he engaged in farming, stock-raising and mining, his ditch being the first water taken out of Coal Creek. His death occurred in 1868.
The great-grandfather of our subject, Bigot Eggleston, was a native of London, England. The grandfather, Darius Eggleston, was born in Madison County, N. Y., and became one of the leading contractors on the Erie canal when it was constructed. He was a sawmill man and farmer, and an active and successful business man.
In the common schools our subject acquired a fair education. At twenty years of age he began life for himself in Fayette County, Iowa, as a brick molder and subsequently engaged in the grocery business. Later he began teaming and expressing from McGregor to West Union. In 1864 he came west to Colorado in company with his brother, Elisha M., both bringing their families. They left Iowa on May 15 with two wagons and some five or six yoke of cattle, arriving in Denver August 1. Coming from there to Coal Creek, our subject pre-empted one hundred and twenty acres of land adjoining his father's place, and afterward went into the mountains; spending the winter at Blackhawk in mining and working at other things. On the 1st of March, 1865, he returned to the valley and settled down to farming. With the exception of a short time spent in mining, he has since devoted his attention to farming and stock-raising. As he prospered he added to his place of one hundred and twenty acres by purchase until his property comprised six hundred acres. The family own all together twelve hundred acres in this valley, all of which is supposed to be valuable coal land.
April 29. 1858, Mr. Eggleston married Miss Sarah A. Smith, daughter of Daniel B. Smith, a prominent farmer of West Union, Iowa. To their marriage five children were born. The oldest, Inez A., born September 12, 1859, is the wife of E. A. Weston, a prominent farmer and stockman of Chaffee County, Colo.; she owns a farm on Coal Creek and city property in Boulder. Charles E., the oldest son, was born August 17, 1861, and is now a farmer and stock-raiser in Boulder County. Ada Myrtle is a graduate of the state preparatory school and a teacher in the public schools of Boulder County. Nellie M. and Bessie L. have also been given good advantages and are with their parents. Politically Mr. Eggleston is a silver Republican. For four terms he served as justice of the peace, and for thirty years he has been a member of the school board of his district in Boulder County.
OHN J. WALLACE, who has resided upon his farm near Lafayette, Boulder County, since 1885, was born in Jefferson County, Ind., December 29, £827, a son of William and Mary (Conway) Wallace, natives of Gallatin County, Ky. His father, after some time spent in Indiana, removed in 1848 to Wisconsin, where his son, John J., had preceded him some months. After entering eight hundred acres of land he returned to Indiana and brought his family to Wisconsin, where he had land in Iowa, Lafayette and Grant Counties. There he remained until his death.
At the age of twenty our subject went to Wisconsin, where he attended the academy at Platteville, Grant County. On leaving school he turned his attention to farming, and in one fall he broke up and put in a portion of one-quarter section of the land his father had taken up. Later he went to the lumbering woods up the Wisconsin River, where he worked with three other men rafting the logs down the river. In the spring he ran the first lumber from Jennie Bull to Little Bull, the former being the highest camp up the river at that time. He rafted lumber to build a slide over the falls, which he assisted in building. Returning home his father
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gave him a quarter section of land in Lafayette County, and with the proceeds of his winter's labor he began farming for himself. After he had improved his place he sold it and bought a farm in Grant County, where he remained until the spring of 1860.
About the 1st of April of that year he was elected captain of an emigrant train bound for Colorado, and composed of seven wagons and many head of oxen. The weather was fine and they traveled without interruption, arriving in Denver the 1st of May, and spending some days there, thence he came to Boulder and went into Gold Hill, where he prospected. Afterward he was joined by his partner, a cousin of his wife, who had accompanied him from Wisconsin, but had gone west to California. The two worked together in the erection of a fifty-stamp quartz mill on Horse Falls, but when the work was about completed, they found they had scarcely water power enough to run a three-stamp mill. Mr. Wallace took the mill down, moved it to Left Hand Creek and set it up again. He had some cattle and a wagon, and with these he went to Gold Dirt, when the excitement incident to the discovery of gold broke out.
The winter of 1860-61 was spent there, and in the spring he went to what was then known as the Wanamaker ranch on Upper Boulder Creek, where he prospected during the summer. About the same time he took up a ranch on a small creek which leads up near the Caribou lode, and there he hunted, fished, prospected and cut hay. In the spring of 1862 he came to the valley and began at ditch work and gardening. In the fall he bought some cattle and a wagon, and cut hay which he hauled to the mountains. In the spring he rented a ranch on South Boulder Creek, and there farmed during the remainder of 1863. The following year he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land near Valmont, where he engaged in farming, at the same time superintending his rented ranch. In 1865 he removed to his Valmont ranch, where he lived, with the exception of one year in Blackhawk, until 1871, and, having in the meantime become involved, he was obliged to give up his farm. In 1872 he bought back his former farm and there resided until 1876, when he took a bunch of cattle and went down the Platte, but was unfortunate in losing them. Returning to the valley he resumed farming on rented land and prospered, in spite of grasshoppers and hail storms that injured his crop, and other calamities. In 1885 he purchased his present homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. Wherever he has lived, he has planted trees and made valuable improvements.
In October, 1853, Mr. Wallace married Miss Mary A. Johnson, a native of Wisconsin. Six children blessed their union, namely: Farnam J., at home; William, deceased; Kittie M., deceased; Lew, who is engaged in railroading; John W., who manages the home ranch and also owns one hundred and sixty acres in partnership with his brother; and Lena, the youngest of the family, and the wife of Marion Hudson.
In early boyhood our subject attended school during the winter months, while the summer seasons were given to such work as his strength permitted. His frugal and industrious habits laid the foundation for active manhood and for a successful business life. He began farming and stock-raising for himself and was prosperous from the first. His father and mother, who were advanced in years, took up their home with him and assisted him financially. Shortly after his arrival in Boulder he bought one hundred and sixty acres five miles southeast of Boulder and began to cultivate the tract. After some years of
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. successful farming there, he sold the place and purchased one hundred and sixty acres, about one mile further west, where he now resides. The most of his time and attention has been given to the raising of cattle. He has acquired additional land from time to time until now his possessions aggregate six hundred and ten acres, including a timber claim of one hundred and sixty acres. In 1875 he bought eighty acres on section two. Finding indications of coal in the soil, in 1893 he decided to bore for the black diamond, and was successful in striking a twelve-foot vein of superior coal. The development of the mine was at once begun. After its development he leased the property and March 25, 1898, sold twenty-seven of the eighty acres, containing the mine and all improvements, to a good advantage.
Politically Mr. Shanahan is liberal in his views.
In religion he is a consistent member of the Catholic Church. His marriage took place in Boulder in 1863, and united him with Mrs. Mary (Coughlin) Hoonahan, the widow of Thomas Hoonahan, and the mother of a son, James Hoonahan, who was cared for and reared by Mr. Shanahan.
AREY K. FLEMING, M. D., professor of gynecology, abdominal surgery and clinical midwifery in Gross Medical College, is one of the prominent and successful specialists of Denver. On coming to Denver in 1889 he engaged in general professional work, but he now limits his practice to gynecology and abdominal surgery, and, in addition to his private practice and college professorship, he is attending gynecologist to St. Anthony's Hospital. In the organization of the Denver Clinical and Pathological Society he took a very active part and is now president of the organization. He is secretary of the local committee of arrangements of the Western Surgical and Gynecological Association, a meeting of which was held in Denver in December, 1897. For the meeting of the American Medical Society, to be held in Denver in 1898, he is chairman of the committee on exhibits. At one time he was secretary of the Colorado State Medical Society and also served as chairman of its executive committee. He has also been secretary of the Denver and Arapahoe County Medical Society, of which he is an active member. His name is prominently associated with the Rocky Mountain Inter-State Medical Association, of which he is a charter member. In addition to his other duties in Gross Medical College he is assistant secretary of the faculty and chairman of the dispensary committee. He is also assistant surgeon (with the rank of captain) to the Colorado National Guard, this appointment having been tendered him by Governor Adams.
Tracing the record of the Fleming family in this country we find that the doctor's great-grandfather, James Fleming, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, enlisting from his native state, North Carolina. After the close of the war he removed to Indiana in the capacity of civil engineer for the government, and entered the land and laid out the village of New Paris, where later he engaged in farming. His son, James, was born and reared in Indiana and spent his active life in New Paris. Josiah M. Fleming, our subject's father, was born in New Paris, but removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and while there he enlisted in an Ohio regiment for service in the Civil war. Later he went to Cincinnati and thence to Chicago, where he engaged in merchandising. In 1889 he came to Denver, where he is a merchant. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Addie W. Crum, was born in Cincinnati, of German descent, being a member of a family that early settled in Virginia. Her father, Rev. George Crum, was born in Winchester, Va., and became a pioneer minister of Cincinnati, being for some time a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The subject of this sketch is the only living child of his parents. He was educated in the Chicago University, but left that institution at the close of the junior year, and took up the study of medicine. In 1883 he entered Chicago Medical College, the medical department of the Northwestern University, from which he graduated in 1886. He then engaged in practice in Chicago until 1889, having, in addition to his private practice, the duties of attending physician to Chicago Orphans' Asylum and the South Side free dispensary of Chicago Medical College. In 1889 he came to Denver, where, the next year, he became connected with Gross Medical College as an instructor, later was the lecturer and in 1894 became professor of gynecology, abdominal
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