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Ebert, William

William Ebert, engaged in the raising of alfalfa and also in the live stock business, handling cattle quite extensively, is the owner of twelve hundred and eighty acres of valuable farm land in Adams county. He is a native of Colorado, his birth having occurred on the 20th of August, 1871, in what was then Arapahoe county but is now Adams county, his parents being Ferdinand F. and Kate (Roeder) Ebert. His father, now deceased, was born in Brunswick, Germany, October 20, 1823, and in 1851 crossed the Atlantic, reaching an American port after forty-eight days spent upon the water. He did not tarry in the east but made his way at once to the Mississippi valley, settling in Iowa, where he engaged in farming for seventeen years. He arrived in Colorado in the spring of 1868 and thereafter made his home in what later became Adams county, to the time of his demise, acquiring a valuable ranch property, on which he engaged extensively in the raising of cattle and horses. The place is conveniently and pleasantly located about fourteen miles east of Denver on the north side of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. In all of his business affairs Mr. Ebert was energetic and enterprising and carried forward to successful completion whatever he undertook. His political allegiance was given to the republican party in the early years of his residence in America but later he became a stanch advocate of the principles of the democratic party. He never sought or desired office and served only as a member of the school board.

On the 27th of June, 1858, Ferdinand Ebert was married to Miss Kate Roeder, also a native of Germany, whence she came to the United States with her mother in her girlhood days. Their marriage was celebrated in Iowa and to them were born three sons and three daughters: Ferdinand F.; George W., living in Salt Lake City; William, of this review; Mary, the wife of Herman C. Behrens; Annie, the wife of B. Speier. of Denver; and Helena.

William Ebert pursued a public school education, continuing his studies until he reached the age of fifteen years. During vacation periods he worked with his father upon the home farm and was thus engaged until the father's death in 190ft, when he took over the old home place of twelve hundred and eighty acres and has since cultivated it on his own account. He is now engaged quite extensively in the raising of cattle and also in the production of alfalfa. What he undertakes he accomplishes. He is alert, wide-awake, energetic and his persistency of purpose has also been one of the strong and salient features in the attainment of success. Everything about his place is kept in good condition. An air of neatness and thrift pervades the farm and
the Ebert ranch is regarded as one of the attractive features of the landscape.

In politics Mr. Ebert maintains an independent course, nor has he ever been an aspirant for public office. He has served however, as a member of the school board and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion. He stands for progressiveness in public affairs but prefers to concentrate his time and attention upon his individual business interests, which, carefully directed, have brought to him substantial success.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, pp. 247-248

Freeman, Henry C.

Henry C. Freeman is owner of a good farm of four hundred and eighty acres in the vicinity of Calhan. His place is well improved according to ideas of progressive farming and his success is the merited reward of persistent and earnest labor. Mr. Freeman is a native son of Illinois, his birth having occurred in Hancock county, that state, on the 10th of May, 1854, his parents being Lewis B. and Mary E. Freeman. The father was a native of New Jersey, while the mother's birth occurred in Ohio. Removing westward, they lived for some time in Illinois, and while spending his youthful days
under the parental roof Henry C. Freeman attended the common schools. He spent the vacation periods at farm work and thus early became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In 1888 he arrived in Colorado, removing to this state from Valley county, Nebraska. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land in Arapahoe county and after residing thereon for a time disposed of that property and came to El Paso county, settling a mile east of Calhan, where he purchased land. To his original holdings he has added from time to time until the boundaries of his farm now include four hundred and eighty acres of excellent farm property. On this place stands a comfortable residence and substantial barns and
outbuildings which furnish ample shelter for grain and stock. He has one hundred head of cattle upon his place and is regarded as one of the wide-awake, alert, energetic and successful farmers of the community.

On the 24th of March, 1876, Mr. Freeman was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Scott, who was born in Marion county, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. They have become the parents of four children. Perry P., born April 10, 1877, married Prudence Dixon, of El Paso county, Colorado, and they reside in Idaho, where he is manager of a large fruit ranch. Russell C., born November 12, 1883, is living on a ranch at Emmett, Idaho. Laura, born April 14, 1892, is the wife of George Sypes and they have a son. Glen, who is with them on their homestead farm, which is situated in the southeastern part of El Paso county. Harry, born December 12, 1897, is at home with his parents and is doing active work in the development, cultivation and improvement of the ranch. He attends to much of the business connected with its cultivation and management and greatly relieves his father of care and labor. He is repaying his parents in filial devotion for the love and care with which they surrounded him in his boyhood days and he is a son of whom the parents have every reason to be proud.

In his political views Mr. Freeman is independent, supporting men and measures rather than party. Fraternally he belongs to Camp, No. 475, of the Woodmen of the World, at Calhan. His life's course has ever been upright, his many friends testifying to his honorable qualities and high character.

History of Colorado, Vol. 3, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918-19, p. 610

Frey Jr., John

John Frey, Jr., is a representative ranchman living in the vicinity of Eastlake, where he. owns and cultivates seventy acres of good land. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, August 31, 1865, a son of John and Elizabeth (Meier) Frey. His education was acquired in his native country and when he was sixteen years of age, or in 1881, he came to America with his parents who, crossing the continent established their home in Denver. The father was employed for many years at the Colorado Iron Works but is now living retired, making his home with a daughter in Brighton.

John Frey. Jr.. after his school days were over, spent a year at gardening and then entered the employ of the Colorado Iron Works. In 1883 his father purchased a relinquishment in Arapahoe county and the son farmed with him until 1890. Subsequently he secured employment in Denver, where he remained for two years, after which he resumed agricultural pursuits by renting a farm in Adams county, upon which he lived for three years. He next purchased seventy acres of land between Eastlake and Broomfield and has since devoted his time and attention to its further development and cultivation. He has added many improvements to the property and made it one of the attractive places of that section of the state. It is equipped with all modern accessories of the model farm of the twentieth century and in the further operation of his land Mr. Frey follows the most progressive methods.

In Denver, on the 1st of December. 1890, Mr. Frey was married to Miss Emma Burkhardt, who was born in Switzerland, and they have become the parents of four children, but John, Emma and Walter have all passed away, the surviving son being Warner.

Mr. Frey has the distinction of having shot the first bear in Adams county, it having evidently strayed from the mountains. For thirty-seven years he has been a resident of Colorado, witnessing much of its development and improvement and taking active part in work that has led to the further upbuilding of the section in which he makes his home. Whatever success he has achieved is the direct reward of his earnest and persistent labor, for from his youthful days he has been dependent entirely upon his own resources. His political allegiance Is given to the democratic party.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, p. 565

Funk, John

John Funk, a successful ranchman living in the vicinity of Eastlake, raised the first crop in his district and throughout the intervening period has been closely identified with the development of ranching interests in that section. Thirty-seven years have been added to the cycle of the centuries since he took up his abode in Colorado and during this period he has lived in several localities but at all times has been a contributing factor to the progress of the community in which he has resided. He was born in Funkstown, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1845, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Shank) Funk, the former a miller by trade. The grandfather was the first settler in that part of Pennsylvania and the town was named Funkstown in his honor.

John Funk of this review was reared and educated in Franklin county, where he remained to the age of twenty years, and during that period was engaged in flour milling. In 1871, however, he determined to try his fortune in the west and made his way to Colorado. He resumed the milling business in Jefferson county, where he remained for two years. He next preempted one hundred and sixty acres of land on the St. Vrain river and afterward homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres in Arapahoe county but did not prove up on that property. After leaving that place he settled upon
his present farm, purchasing three hundred and twenty acres near Eastlake. He has hereon engaged in farming and raised the first crops in this section. His labors have demonstrated the possibilities for successful farming in the district and his work has brought to him very gratifying and substantial success.

On a farm on the Clear Creek road, in Jefferson county, Mr. Funk was married to Miss Sarah Ellen Fielden and to them were born the following named: Mrs. Norah Ellen Starr, William T., Beatrice Bertha, John B. and James. The two sons, John B. and James, each cultivate one hundred and sixty acres of their father's land, while he is practically living retired, although giving to each son some assistance in the farm work during the busy season. Mrs. Funk passed away on October 10, 1887.

Mr. Funk is a warm friend of the cause of education and for twenty-two years served as school director in District No. 71, Adams county, and when he retired from the office was succeeded by his son. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and he has served as road overseer. He stands for those things which are most worth while in the life of the individual and the community and in his business career he has demonstrated the possibility for successful accomplishment through individual effort.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, pp. 622-623

Gormley, Edward A.

Edward A. Gormley is the efficient sheriff of Adams county, to which position he was elected in 1918 as the candidate of the republican party, of which he has long been a stalwart and aggressive champion. Mr. Gormley is one of Colorado's native sons and was born and reared in the county in which he is now capably serving as an oiBcial. His birth occurred upon the home farm near Eastlake, Adams county, October 26, 1883, his parents being Edward L. and Margaret (Chamley) Gormley, who were early residents of that section.

In the acquirement of his education Edward A. Gormley attended the public schools, after which he entered the University of Denver. He started out in the business world when about nineteen years of age. buying and selling horses, buying, feeding and selling cattle and qualified as an expert judge of live stock. He conducted an extensive business along that line until 1903, when he went to California and became connected with the Baker Iron Works of Los Angeles.

The following year, however, Mr. Gormley returned to Denver and accepted a position with the Weicker Transfer Company, with which he remained for several years. He then removed to Beloit, Kansas, and through the succeeding two years was manager of the Alfalfa Stock Farm in that locality. Again returning to Denver, he established a transfer business, organizing the Independent Transfer Company, of Which he remained the president and general manager until he sold out the business in 1910. The following year he spent in the employ ot the Pullman Company as a relief conductor,
serving their interests in various parts of the country. He then resumed agricultural pursuits, locating upon and conducting the old Oliver ranch in Adams county, doing an extensive business in buying, feeding and selling horses and cattle. He has justly been accounted one of the foremost stockmen of his section of the state and few are better qualified to pass judgment upon the value of farm animals.

In 1913 Mr. Gormley was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Oliver, a daughter of George W. and Lucelia (Taggart) Oliver, who were early settlers of Adams county. Her father was a native of North Carolina and came to Colorado in 1871. The mother was born in Massachusetts and removed to Colorado in 1S69. They were married in this state on the 14th of October, 1877, and soon thereafter located upon the ranch in Adams, then Arapahoe county, at which time the district was practically a wilderness. They had live children, of whom three are living: Elsie, now the wife of Eli Sager, of
Cresco, Iowa; Ruth, now Mrs. Gormley; and Bertha Alice, who married Harry Coursey and resides near Denver. Mr. Oliver died in 1903 at the age of fifty-three years, but Mrs. Oliver is still active, with vivid memory of the early days and the pioneer times of Colorado. To Mr. and Mrs. Gormley have been born two children, Margaret and Edward Oliver.

Mr. Gormley has long held membership with the Grange and is also identified with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Foresters. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise he has given stalwart allegiance to the republican party and has been active in political affairs though never an oflSce seeker. In the campaign of 1918, however, he was made the choice of his party and induced to accept the nomination for sheriff, to which position he was elected with a substantial majority, and is now filling the office with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. He
has qualities which make for popularity and for friendship among those who know him and the circle of his friends is constantly growing as the circle of his acquaintance broadens.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, pp. 591-592

Gove, Aaron

For thirty years — the entire formative period of Denver's school system — Aaron Gove was in charge of the educational interests of the city. While at the outset of his task there were other school districts within the limits of the city, District No. 1, of which he was the head, comprised the greater part of the population. Later he became superintendent of all the merged districts. This was his life work. From the time that he was three years old until he was sixty-five, with the exception of the period during which he was a participant in the Civil war, he was never out of a schoolroom. He
not only became one of the great educators of the country, honored in 1887-8 by the presidency of the National Educational Association, but proved himself a wise and careful administrator and financial manager.

From 1864 until 1874 he was in charge of the schools at Normal. Illinois. During that period he was mastering his profession and demonstrating his energy and capacity at teachers' institutes and on the lecture platform.

In 1874, while on a lecture tour, he received the curt information that he had been elected superintendent of the Denver schools at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year. "Kindly wire acceptance" was the laconic conclusion of the message. He wired that he would "look them over" and incidentally they might "look him over." Not yet sure that he could get his release from Normal, he made his way to Denver and found the town was just recovering from a bitter school board quarrel.

On his arrival members of the board kept in close touch with him, hoping that the story of the quarrel would not reach his ears. But Roger W. Woodbury, then publisher of the Times, al«o a native New Hampshire boy. finally getting to him, said: "Mr. Gove, I'm mighty sorry for you. You're undertaking an impossible job." That night, at twelve o'clock, Mr. Woodbury put the file of the Times under Mr. Gove's eyes, so that he might learn the entire story of the fight which was still in the air. But there was enough fighting blood in Mr. Gove to make him feel that the "impossible job" was worth while. He went back to Normal and asked for a release. He was told that he could not be spared that year, but he secured his release. In 1874. therefore, he assumed his position under the law creating the East Denver school district.

Mr. Gove found the district in debt for seventy-five thousand dollars and its fifteen year bonds drawing twelve per cent, interest in the hands of New England banks. His first attempt in financing, failed of success. Though the legislature, at his suggestion, passed a law permitting refunding of school bonds, his offer under the law to the New England banks to substitute thirty-year six per cent, bonds for their twelve per cent, holdings failed to persuade his fellow Yankees. But during his entire term of office, there was but a single further instance of a bond issue to meet a school debt. This was after congress had given the school district the present East Denver high school site, compelling the erection of a school building within a year. There was local opposition to the law and it took two terms of congress to get it through. It was asserted that the people didn't want the site, but Superintendent Gove, then in Washington, telegraphed to Robert W. Steele, later chief justice, to send him a petition favoring the measure. It took the active young attorney less than a week to find a thousand people who wanted that block of ground. Senators Jerome B. Chaffee and Henry M. Teller saved the day on the last day of the session. Senator Morrill of Vermont fought hard to defeat it. Dr. Bancroft, battling for Jarvis Hall and Judge France, believing that the property should be a park and not a school house site, also lost out. The bond issue provided for the west wing. In seven years the entire building was completed and when the last nail was driven there was not a penny of indebtedness on the structure.

When Aaron Gove came to Denver, his first great fight was to establish tlie high school grades in the district. Here he demonstrated, at the very outset of his local career, his capacity for diplomacy. He was a shrewd observer of men, his power in that direction being above even his rare skill as a schoolmaster and as a manager. There were four elements opposed to his effort to establish high school grades. The Methodists were, generally speaking, against the plan. They had just secured a charter for what is now the University of Denver, but Governor John Evans, who had been with him at teachers' institutes in Illinois, promised Mr. Gove his support and he kept his word. Mr. Gove once said: "My reliance was Governor John Evans. When he promised me that my public high school should not be antagonized, I knew he meant what he said." He was also opposed by the Episcopalians, who were building up Jarvis Hall, but stanch friends in that denomination also stood by him. The Catholics also fought him, but there too he was able to find many broad-minded men who, while they did not wish openly to assist him, saw to it that the antagonism was not continued. There were in the community many southerners who had come from sections where the free common school had never been planted. These, too, he won over; and so at last he established his high school in the third floor of the school building on the site of what is now the Club building.

He had with him for twenty years the best men in the community as members of his school board. In those years Fred Steinhauer. E. M. Ashley, Peter Gottesleben, L. C. Ellsworth, Dr. Stedman, K. G. Cooper, George W. Kassler, C. S. Morey and Governor Grant were wise enough to appreciate the services of a great educational expert and gave lavishly of their time and ability in the public service. There was no contention. Progress was rapid and the great school system which ranks among the finest in the nation was established on a firm and sound foundation.

When in 1904 Mr. Gove gave up his school work, he became identified with the great sugar industry of Colorado. Here again, his remarkable mind quickly assimilated what was necessary in those years to successfully maintain that most important enterprise. Documents prepared by him for legislative reference have been pronounced among the ablest presented at congressional hearings.

Mr. Gove was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, September 26, 1839, the son of John Francis and Sarah Jane (Wadleigh) Gove. He was graduated from the Illinois Normal University in 1861. Then began his military career. He entered the service of the United States as a private of Company B, Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, September 18, 1861, and was commissioned second lieutenant on the 26th of September. He became first lieutenant and adjutant on the 6th of September, 1862, and was mustered in as adjutant on the 12th of December of that year. The regiment was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, moved to Ironton, Missouri, September 20. 1861, and was on duty there until March, 1862. It was sent in the expedition to Fredericktown, Missouri, from the 12th to the 25th of October, 1861, and participated in a skirmish at Big River Bridge, near Potosi on the 15th of that month. It was also in action at Fredericktown on the 21st of October. From March until May, 1862, the regiment was attached to the Second Brigade of the Army of Southeast Missouri and then to the First Brigade of the First Division of the Army of Southwest Missouri, Department of Missouri, until July, 1862. It was next at Helena, Arkansas, in the District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of Missouri, until October, 1862, and afterward with Harris' Brigade, Benton's Division, Davidson's Army of Southeast Missouri, until January, 1S63. Its next assignment was to the First Brigade, First Division, District of St. Louis, Missouri, Department of Missouri, until March, 1863, and to the First Brigade, Fourteenth Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, until July of the same year. Its next assignment was to the First Brigade, First Division, Thirteenth Army Corps of the Army of the Tennessee until August, 1863, and afterward to the Army of the Gulf until April 1864.

The record of his service has been given in official documents as follows: "Moved to Reeve's Station, Missouri, March 3. 1862. Steele's expedition to White River, Arkansas, March 23— May 10. March to Batesville, Arkansas, thence to Helena. Arkansas, May 25 — July 14. Action at Hill's Plantation, Cache River, July 7. Duty at and near Helena till September 1, participating in numerous expeditions. Ordered to Sulphur Springs,
September 1, Friar's Point, September 28. Moved to Pilot Knob, Missouri, thence moved to Van Buren, Arkansas, November 15. Campaign through southeast Missouri, December 1862. to March 1863. Ordered to Ste. Genevieve. March 5, thence to Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, and duty there till April 25. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf, April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson, May 1. Fourteen-Mile Creek, May 12. Battle
of Champion's Hill, May 16. Big Black River Bridge, May 17. Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 18 — July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg, May 19 and 22. Hill's Plantation, June 22. Surrender of Vicksburg, July 4. Advance on Jackson, Mississippi, July 5-10. Big Black River July 5. Siege of Jackson, Mississippi, July 10-17. Duty at Vicksburg till August 20. Ordered to New Orleans, Louisiana, August 20. Duty at Carrollton, Brashear City and Bervsrick till October. Western Louisiana campaign, October 3 to November 10. Served detached as aide-de-camp on staff of General C. C. Washburn, commanding First Division, Eighteenth Corps, October and November, 1863, and as division ordnance officer on staff of General N. J. T. Dana, January to April, 1864. Expedition to New Iberia, Louisiana, October 3-6, 1863, and to Vermillion Bayou, October 8-30. Ordered to New Orleans, Louisiana, November 10, thence to Texas, November 12. Capture of Mustang Island, Matagorda Bay, November 17. Fort Esperanza, November 27-30. Duty at Indianola and Lavacca, Texas, till March, 1864. On veteran leave March and April. Moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, April 18-29, thence to Brashear City, May 17, and duty in District of La Fourche till June. Resigned June 18, 1864, and honorably discharged from service on the strength of a surgeon's certificate. Brevetted captain and major. United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865, 'For gallant and meritori-
ous services during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi.' " '

Nature seems to have designed Mr. Gove for the educational field and the school system of Denver stands as a monument to his ability and efficiency. Impossible as it is for most men sixty-five years of age to make a change in their life work, Mr. Gove accomplished this and became a successful factor in connection with the development of the sugar industry of the west.

Mr. Gove was married February 13, 1865, to Caroline Spofford of North Andover, Massachusetts. She died in Denver, September 29, 1916. There were four children of this marriage, Frank E. Gove, Aaron M. Gove, Mrs. Henry Hanington and Mrs. John G. McMurtry, all of Denver. In politics Mr. Gove is a republican. He has been commander of the Loyal Legion, is a thirty-third degree Mason and was for three years grand commander of the Knights Templar of Colorado. Dartmouth College in 1878 conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts and in 1888 he received from the University of Colorado the degree of LL. D. He is a member of the Denver Club and the University Club. Now at the age of seventy-nine years, without invidious distinction, he may be characterized as one of the foremost and honored residents of Denver.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, pp 110-112

Gully, John

John Gully was one of the representative farmers of Colorado who through well directed efforts accumulated extensive holdings and in course of time became the owner of eleven hundred and twenty acres of land in Arapahoe county. His life record should serve to inspire and encourage others who have to begin business, as he did, empty-handed. He was born in Tipperary, Ireland, June 24, 1850, and his life activities covered the intervening years to the 29th of May, 1915. when he nearly had reached the age of sixty-five years. He was a son of Thomas and Temperance (Powell) Gully
and in 1862 came to Colorado with his parents, this being fourteen years before the state was admitted to the Union. They crossed the plains with team and wagon, and Mr. Gully acquired his education in the schools of the mining towns of Central City, Blackhawk and Silver Plume as the family removed from place to place. When he was sixteen years of age he went to Tollgate with his parents and there worked upon the home ranch, assisting largely in the development and cultivation of the property. When about twenty-one years of age he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land in Arapahoe county and, as the years passed on, kept adding to his possessions from time to time, as his financial resources increased, until he accumulated eleven hundred and twenty acres. He engaged extensively in raising live stock and also carried on dry farming to the time of his death. His methods were practical and his work was characterized by a progressiveness that brought good results. His sons are now operating the ranch and are raising wheat and live stock. They have inherited the industrious spirit of the father and their labors are being attended with excellent results.

On the 20th of September. 1892, Mr. Gully was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Clifford, a daughter of Patrick J. and Mary Ann (Maher) Clifford. Mrs. Gully was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and was educated in the public schools of that state. She made progress in her studies and won a teacher's certificate there, after which she engaged in teaching in Iowa for two years. Later she went to Colorado and taught for several years or up to the time of her marriage. She proved a capable teacher. Imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge that she had acquired. To Mr. and Mrs. Gully were bom five children: Mary Frances, James Edward, John Thomas, William Anthony and Elizabeth Alphonese.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church, to which Mr. Gully always adhered. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party and on several occasions he was offered the nomination to public office but always declined. He preferred to give his thought, attention and effort to his business affairs and by reason of the sound judgment which he displayed in the conduct of his farming interests he became one of the prominent ranchmen of Arapahoe county. John Gully was a man of striking personality and charm of manner which, endeared him to those who knew him well. His integrity was unquestioned and in all of his dealings with his fellow men, he applied the principle of the Golden Rule. Coming to Arapahoe county when that section of the state was practically an unbroken wilderness, he manifested his confidence in the future of the country by meeting the privations, and even the dangers, with smiling fortitude, and it may truly be said that he had no small part in the development of Colorado's greatness. Those who knew him, and he had a wide acquaintance, esteemed him for his sterling worth and when death called him on the 29th of May, 1915, there were many who deeply regretted his passing and who yet cherish his memory.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, pp. 108-110

Hawkey, Robert

Among the substantial and valuable American citizens whom Canada has furnished to this country was Robert Hawkey, deceased, who for many years successfully followed agricultural pursuits in Colorado, to which state he came in 1864, homesteading upon land south of Parker in Arapahoe county. There he established himself and as the years passed and his means increased he added to his holdings until he became one of the most substantial ranchers of his county, for at the time of his demise he owned one thousand acres.

Robert Hawkey was born October 18, 1844, and was reared under the parental roof, receiving his early education in the Dominion. There he became connected with farm work and early became familiar with those labors which make up the farm curriculum, at the same time gaining a knowledge of methods which he applied later and which proved of value to him in the cultivation of his land in Colorado. When a youth of nineteen years he came to this state, which remained his home until death claimed him.

On October 18, 1866, Mr. Hawkey was united in marriage to Rosella Jaworski, a daughter of Thomas V. and Cecelia (Shaw) Jaworski, who were among the pioneers of Chicago. Illinois, to which place they removed in 1832, five years before the city was incorporated. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hawkey four are now living. Richard T., who was reared upon the home ranch, resides there with his mother, now managing the property for her, and is married to Maud Monroe. Daisy B. married William F. Rowley, who passed away in 1912. They had become the parents of three children. Retta B. Rowley married Harvey Kime, a native of Oregon, by whom she has one child, Franklin, and they are now living on her mother's ranch just east of Parker. Vera H. Rowley married George Seibert. who enlisted in the United States navy and is now stationed at Newport. Rhode Island. Robert Rowley, a mechanic, is serving with the United States army in Prance. Correna J. Hawkey married George McKinney and they now reside on a ranch in Elbert county, this state, with their two daughters, Rosella and Adela. Cecelia S. Hawkey married Elmer Jewell and they have a son, Velt. "

While Mr. Hawkey was not active in political life he was ever ready to give of his time and means in order to promote public measures of value to his community and through his agricultural labors contributed toward development and upbuilding. He was considered one of the most reliable and trustworthy citizens of Douglas county and enjoyed the respect of all who knew him. Mr. Hawkey was an honored member of the Grange, in which organization he had many friends. His death was the occasion of deep sorrow not only to his Immediate family but to tliose who lost in him a personal friend whom they highly esteemed. His widow now resides upon the home ranch seven miles north of Parker, in Arapahoe county, and many are those who honor in her one of the pioneer women of the state. For fifty-five years she has been a resident of Colorado and here her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are growing up, surrounding her with that loving care which is her due, and repaying her in that way for the loving kindness which she has bestowed upon them.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, pp. 689-690

Heebner, William

William Heebner is one of the active, energetic farmers of Adams county, busily engaged In the cultivation of four hundred and ninety-five acres of land. He was born in Schenectady, New York, October 6, 1880, a son of William and Julia (Snell) Heebner, in whose family of three children William was the second In order of birth. The father was a machinist by trade.

In the schools of the Empire state William Heebner pursued his education to the age of fourteen or fifteen years and then started out to provide for his own support, being employed at the General Electric Works for two years. In 1899 he arrived in Colorado, making his way to Fort Collins, where he spent three months. Responding to the country's call for troops for service in the Spanish-American war, he had enlisted in the Thirty-fourth United States Volunteer Infantry, becoming a member of Company M, and took part in several engagements, being discharged with the rank of corporal. After the war was over he returned to Colorado and settled in Denver but after a brief period removed to Adams county and for two years was in the employ
of his aunt, Mrs. Mary Snell.

Mr. Heebner then married and leased one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he cultivated for two years. He is now leasing four hundred and ninety-five acres and is actively and successfully engaged in farming, devoting his attention to the raising of wheat and alfalfa, and he also has one hundred and forty-five acres planted to beans.

On the 2d of May, 1906, Mr. Heebner was married to Miss Elma Ora Brewer, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Brewer. Mrs. Hebner was born in Arapahoe county. Colorado, her people having come to this state at a very early period in its development and improvement. By her marriage she has become the motheF of five daughters: Elizabeth, Julia E., Alice O., Edna May and Dorothy Mary.

Mr. Heebner is a democrat in his political views and he has served as school director in District No. 97 but has never sought political office. His time and interests have ever been concentrated upon his business affairs and he may truly be called a self-made man, for from the age of fourteen years he has depended entirely upon his own resources and whatever success he has achieved is the direct result of his persistency of purpose, his energy and his Integrity in business affairs.

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Helwig, Clarence Franklin

Clarence Franklin Helwig, who is spoken of by those able to judge as a man one hundred per cent expert in high accounting, now occupies the responsible position of general auditor with the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company. He was born in Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, a son of Christian David and Priscilla Louisa (Demuth) Helwig, both of whom were born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. The former was named in honor of the Moravian soldier, carpenter and evangelist, Christian David, who was born in Moravia in 1690 and who with Nicholas Louis, Count von Zinzendorf of Dresden, reformed the then almost extinct Evangelical church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Christian David Helwig were stanch Moravians, being brought up in that faith. The Moravian sect originally was not German at all, for the Moravians arose in Bohemia and the neighboring province of Moravia and are closely identified with the Reformation which was inspired by John Huss. The mother of Christian David Helwig was a member of the Blickensdorfer family, noted for its civil engineers. She was a stanch admirer of Benjamin Franklin and a very earnest Christian woman, and it was through her influence that her grandson, Clarence Franklin Helwig of this review, assumed his middle name. She encouraged him greatly in the matter of taking up the printer's trade during his boyhood days and exerted a very strong influence upon his earlier life. It was Jacob Blickensdorfer who built the Moravian church at Sharon, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1815, and not far from its quiet country churchyard one may find the ancient site of Moravian missionary labor called "Schoenbrunn" or "Beautiful Spring." From the writings of Loskill this region has become in a manner classic ground. It was the spot selected by David Zeisberger, the Moravian missionary, for a station as early as 1772. About ten miles away a second station was formed and named by the sadly suggestive name of Gnadenhutten. There is located the early Christian Moravian Indian burial ground where among the graves of the red and also the white Moravians will be found the graves of many of the Helwigs and Demuths. The Demuth family, of which Clarence F. Helwig is a descendant in the maternal line, came from Georgia, to which place Gottharrt Demuth is recorded to have emigrated on the 7th of April, 1735. Christian David Helwig, as well as his father before him, saw military service with the American army. The former was in the Signal Corps during the Civil war and marched with General Sherman's forces "from Atlanta to the sea."

In the acquirement of his education Clarence Franklin Helwig attended the Wyandotte Academy of Kansas City, Kansas, and was afterward graduated from the high school there on the 1st of May, 1890. He received his degree of Certified Public Accountant from the Colorado state board of accountancy on the 26th of February, 1914, and in thus qualifying for his life work followed a natural bent. In his boyhood days, however, he learned the printer's trade in Kansas City, Kansas, picking up a knowledge of the business at odd hours while still attending school. Following his graduation from the high school, however, he entered the employ of the Kansas City Elevated Railway, which was then operating a steam suburban line between Kansas City, Missouri, and the various suburban towns across the river in Kansas. He remained with that company until the fall of 1893, holding several positions such as cashier, storekeeper and finally that of purchasing agent.

On the 1st of October, 1893, Mr. Helwig resigned his position as purchasing agent of the elevated railway company and moved to Denver, where he accepted a position with the Denver Lithographing Company, first as solicitor and afterward as foreman of the job printing department. After resigning that position he entered the employ of Frank Trumbull, receiver of the Union Pacific & Gulf Railway Company, under A. D. Parker, auditor for the receiver, with whom he remained until after the reorganization of the Colorado & Southern Railway Company, when he was transferred to its New
York headquarters. In 1906 he resigned and was sent by the bond house of E. D. Shepard & Company to look after some of their interests in the state of New Mexico. In the latter part of the same year, however, he withdrew from that connection and accepted a position with the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company at Denver. One who has known him for about a quarter of a century says: "As a business man he is keen and alert, with an analytical mind, honest, loyal to the interests he represents, hard-working, painstaking and a good organizer of departmental work in his line.

Perseverance, industry and a determination to succeed in whatever he undertakes have been the salient features in his advancement in the business world. He is recognized as an authority in his line and has written articles for different magazines and lectured on the subject of auditing." Aside from being general auditor of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company he is a director and the secretary of the Rocky Mountain Stores Company and auditor of various other subsidiary corporations.

Mr. Helwig has been married twice. On the 16th of October, 1895, in Pueblo, Colorado, he wedded Mary Prentiss Simpson, a daughter of William A. and Louisa (Prentiss) Simpson. Both the Simpson and Prentiss families are of old New England stock dating back to Revolutionary times. Of this marriage there were born two sons, Herschel Sylvester and Frederic William, both artillerymen in the United States Army, the latter having been on active duty in France since 1917.

The prolonged illness of Mrs. Mary Prentiss (Simpson) Helwig, which finally terminated in her death in 1905, the impaired health of the elder son, Herschel Sylvester, and finally the almost fatal sickness of Mr. Helwig himself, due to tubercular peritonitis, caused him to turn his attention to country life as a possible restorative. Mr Helwig began to live in the out-of-doors about seven years ago. His home at present is at Littleton, a suburban town near Denver. Here he regained his health, as he had hoped, engaging in intensified farming on about ten acres, aided by the enthusiastic help of his family, trying out in his spare moments in a practical manner what may be accomplished in the way of intensive farming, not only as to the cultivation of the soil but also as to diversified stock raising. It is his hope that these practical experiments will be fruitful as to suggestions regarding the popular "back to the land" idea and a further aid toward the solution of some of the living problems of the masses. It also is his earnest hope that these experiments, practically presented, may prove of interest to our returning soldiers when they again take up the problems of livelihood incident to civil life.

On the 4th of September, 1906. in Trinidad, Colorado. Mr. Helwig was married to Maud Terhune. a daughter of William Henry and Martha (Jefferson) Terhune. The Terhunes and Jeffersons are old Kentucky and Virginia families respectively. The Jeffersons. many of whom served in the War of 1812, are descendants of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States. To the second marriage of Mr. Helwig have been born two sons and a daughter: David Terhune, Paul Demuth and Martha Louisa.

Mr. Helwig has been a republican for many years but nevertheless voted for President Wilson. His military record is limited to National Guard work in the early '90s. Fraternally he is a prominent Mason, belonging to Oriental Lodge. No. 87. Ancient Free and Accented Masons; Denver Chanter. No. 2. Royal Arch Masons; Denver Council, No, 1. Royal and Select Masons; Colorado Commandery. No. 1. Knights' Templar; El Jebel Temple. Ancient Arabic Order. Nobles. Mystic Shrine; and Manzonita Chapter. No. 85, Order of Eastern Star, of Littleton, being worthy patron of the last named in 191S. The breadth and nature of his interests is indicated moreover in the fact that he has membership in the Denver Athletic Club, in the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants, in the Kansas Club, the Denver Motor Club, the Denver Civic and Commercial Association, the American Institute of Accountants at Washington, D. C., in the Luther Burbank Society, the National Geographic Society, the National Playground Association, the National Efficiency Society, in the Young Men's Christian Association, and in the Presbyterian church of Littleton, of which he is an elder, while in the Sunday school mission work at Louviers, Colorado, he is also actively interested. For a number of years he has been lecturer on the subject of mining accounts in the School of Commerce and Finance of the Denver University. He was chairman of the Young Men's Christian Association war campaign as well as chairman of the Playground Association campaign and vice chairman of the American and Syrian relief campaign, conducted at Littleton in 1917, and of the United War Workers campaign for Arapahoe county, Colorado, in 1918. He has for a number of years been most active in church work and at the present time is most heartily, earnestly and effectively cooperating in movements to uphold the hands of the president in this
critical hour of national history and to extend relief to those people who have so terribly felt the oppressions and burdens of war.

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Arapahoe and Denver counties

Hoery, Robert

Robert Hoery, engaged in the cultivation of three hundred and twenty acres of land near Aurora, was born in Baden, Germany, on the 27th of March, 1856, a son of Joseph and Bebeana Hoery. He acquired his education in schools of his native country and when seventeen years of age came to the United States, making his way to Buffalo, New York, where he was employed for three years. He then came to Colorado, making Denver his destination, and engaged in gardening near Smith's Lake in Arapahoe county for six or seven years. He afterward removed to Harman, Colorado, where he again followed gardening for three years, after which he took up his abode on Colfax avenue, near Denver, living at that place for two years, during which period he was also active in gardening. He then took up the occupation of farming on Sixth avenue, where he continued for five or six years. He now has three hundred and twenty acres of land which he leases and carries on general agricultural pursuits, raising the crops best adapted to soil and climatic conditions here. He annually gathers good harvests and his place, neat and thrifty in appearance, indicates his careful supervision and progressive methods.

Mr. Hoery was married in Denver to Miss Kate Pellens, a native of New Orleans, and to them were born eight children: .loseph; Edward; Leonard; Theodore, who married Evelyn Lovejoy; Frederick; Helen, the wife of Walter Scott; Anna; and Amelia. The wife and mother passed away in 1912. The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church and Mr. Hoery also has membership with the Grange, being interested in all that has to do with agricultural development and progress. He has never regretted the fact that he left his native land to seek his fortune in the new world. He has here found good opportunities and his record proves that success may be obtained through persistent effort and well directed energy without the aid of wealthy or influential friends. He has worked hard and is now in possession of a comfortable competence.

History of Colorado, Vol. 4, by Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1833-1920), ed., c. 1918, p. 754

Hopkins, Henry Arthur

Among the active, well known residents of Colorado, who have had part in the development of the state, is Henry Arthur Hopkins, who though born in the state of Kansas, April 13, 1867, has spent the greater part of his life in Colorado, having been brought to this state when a lad of but seven years by his parents, Ira K. and Martha E. (Suggs) Hopkins.

Ira K. Hopkins resided for many years in Mattoon, Illinois, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits, the while he was also known as an expert horse-shoer and wagon smith. He served with distinction as a member of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry during the Civil war, participating in all of the various campaigns and engagements of that organization. Following the close of the war, he located in Kansas and there had part in the development of the then new state. In 1874, he came with his family to Colorado and here became numbered among those sturdy men who braved the dangers of a frontier community in the reclamation of the wilderness. The long trip across the plains had been made by wagon and by the time Denver was
reached, the scanty cash capital had been exhausted almost to the last penny, and the father cast about for some means of earning a livelihood for himself and family. The country was new at that time, and about the only means of employment were such as were afforded by nature in a sparsely settled community. However these determined settlers of the early '70s, and before, were not to be dismayed by ordinary difiiculties. They had come prepared to meet and overcome privations and the greater the sacrifice, the greater was to be their reward in the winning of a state.

The first location of the Hopkins family in Colorado was at Arvada, on Ralston creek. Having established a domicile, the father busied himself cutting wood which he hauled to Denver, where it found ready sale, though it must be said that the price was low, barely affording a decent wage for the time and labor invested. However, it helped to tide over the winter until a more profitable opening could be found.

Mr. Hopkins later found employment in Golden, where he worked for seventy-five cents a day. However, the requirements of those early pioneers were limited to the meager necessities of a humble existence and they were able to prosper, even under such) adverse conditions. In later years, Mr. Hopkins engaged in market gardening, also in farming, and became widely and favorably known among the early settlers. He is now living retired in California, at the ripe age of eighty-two years. The wife and mother passed to her final rest in 1916, aged eighty years.

Henry A. Hopkins came with his parents to Colorado in 1874, and recalls with much pleasure the impressions made upon his youthful mind and imagination by the long journey overland when the buffalo were plentiful and Indians were looked for on every hand. He shared in the privations of the new country, and his opportunities of every kind were limited to those common to the boys of the period. His educational advantages were those of the district school, which he attended during the winter, and at such other times as the hard work would permit. He remained with his parents, assisting in the support of the family, until he had attained the age of twenty-four. He then started out for himself, leasing a farm in Adams county, then Arapahoe county, and began the career which has made him one of the best known and most extensive farmers and ranchers of this section of the state. He is now the owner of a section of valuable land, near Eastlake and, in addition thereto, he is conducting active farming operations on large tracts of leased land, making a specialty of dry farming, in which he has won not only marked financial success, but also recognition as one of the foremost exponents of dry farming in Colorado. His entire life has been an active one, and the success which he has achieved, has come as the result of untiring energy,
coupled with a keen discrimination and business sagacity which has won deserving recognition among those who know him well.

In political matters, Mr. Hopkins is a republican, though he has never sought office, and reserves to himself the right to disregard the party label, when the interests of the community demand. Fraternally, he is a member of Brighton Lodge, No. 78, A. F. & A. M., while he has also attained the thirty-second grade in Colorado Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons. He also holds membership in El Jebel Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

On January 5, 1892. Mr. Hopkins was united in marriage with Miss Alice E. Johns, a native of Denver and a daughter of John and Catherine Johns, who were also numbered among the pioneers of Colorado. John Johns came first to Denver in 1859, when he brought freight from Omaha, driving an ox team across the plains. He continued as a freighter, making numerous trips between Denver and Omaha, until he enlisted in the Union service, and was assigned to service on the gunboat squadron which did such effective service on the Mississippi during the Civil war. He married Catherine E. Cahill, and they came to Denver in 1868, establishing there, a permanent home. Mr. Johns became one of the early contractors and builders of the
city, and his death occurred in Denver, in 1909, at the age of sixty-nine years. Mrs. Johns died in 1904. aged fifty-five years.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have been born three children. Earl H., Faye Marie and Gladys E.

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