M. C. Abbott was born near Philadelphia, Penn., October 29, 1827.  At an early age, his parents removed to Columbia County, where most of his boyhood was spent.  When about eighteen years of age, he learned the blacksmith’s trade, at which he worked until he came to Denver, in 1867.  He was employed four years in Denver by Wells, Fargo & Co.  In 1876, he moved on his ranche, on the Platte, fourteen miles below Denver, where he keeps the Island Station House, of which he is the proprietor, besides farming and blacksmithing.  He is one of Arapahoe County’s most enterprising and successful farmers.

 History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, p. 305

    Albert Abel was born in Prussia, Germany, April 16, 1845.  He came to America in April, 1866, and located at Omaha, Neb., where he began business as clerk for Max Meyer, in the cigar and tobacco business.  Afterward, he became a partner in the firm, under the firm name of Max Meyer & Co., but, owing to failing health, he came to Denver in November, 1876, and established a branch of business of his firm at No. 273 Fifteenth street, where he has met with good success and perfect restoration of health.  In January, 1878 having severed his connection with the Omaha house, he bought out the interest of Max Meyer in the Denver establishment, and removed to the new Moffat & Kassler Block, on Lawrence street, where he has established one of the finest wholesale and retail cigar and tobacco houses of the West.  He was married, March 1, 1874, to the daughter of Jacob Solomon, of Omaha, Neb.

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, p. 305

    Frank Aickelman, one of the earliest settlers of Colorado, was born in Wittenburg, Germany, in 1835.  At the age of seventeen, he came to the United States, living two years in the State of New York, and then removed to Galena, Ill., where, for three years, he was variously employed, working the greater part of the time in a livery stable.  Becoming tired of so tame a life, he determined to remove to Colorado.  The first two years here were spent at Breckenridge, mining, in which he was unsuccessful.  He came back to Denver, and soon bought a ranche on the Platte, seventeen miles below the city, on which he has since resided.  He was married in 1869, in Galena, Ill.

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, p. 307

    Henry E. Allen, of Littleton, Colo., was born in Greenfield, Mass., January 27, 1842.  At eighteen years of age, having received a good academic education in South Hadley Falls, he went to Illinois and remained in Wayne, Du Page Co., until the beginning of the war of the rebellion.  He was one of the first to respond to the call of the President for three-years troops, enlisting on the 12^th of August, 1861, in Company K, Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Infantry.  He served in the campaign of Gen. Curtis against Price, in the spring of 1862, taking part in the battle of Pea Ridge, on the 6^th, 7^th and 8^th of March.  From there he went with his regiment to Corinth. Miss., and served under Gen. Halleck, and, in the fall of 1862, to Louisville, Ky. Taking part in the campaign of Buell against Bragg.  He was wounded at the battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862, in consequence of which he was sent, home on furlough.  During his leave of absence he was married, December 5, 1862, to Miss Mary J. Wait, of Wayne, Ill.  Rejoining his regiment, he was honorably discharged March 8, 1863, for wounds received.  Locating in Chicago, he was employed as foreman in a mechanical bakery until 1868, when he removed to Denver, Colo.  In October, 1869, he settled in Littleton, and has since been engaged as foreman, shipping and receiving clerk, and book-keeper of the Rough and Ready Flour Mill, where his practical knowledge of, and faithful attention to, the details of the business, have rendered his services invaluable to his employers.

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, pp. 305-306

    E. E. Allison, of the firm of Allison Brothers, and brother of E. H. Allison, is a young man whose business qualifications and social standing award him a place among Denver’s good citizens, and, although a young man, he is identified with her careful and industrious business men.  He was born in Spencer, Owen Co., Ind., March 3, 1857, and received a good common school education.  In 1873, he came to Denver with his parents, and in a short time entered upon a clerkship in a leading grocery house, where he was engaged most of the time, until his connection with the present firm, in December of 1877; since that time he has given his entire attention to their business, and, by carefully studying the trade, they have gained the reputation of having one of the neatest, cleanest and best managed retail groceries in this city.

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, p. 304

    E. H. Allison, of Denver, is an enterprising young business man, whose character and social standing are of the very best.  He was born in Spencer, Owen Co., Ind., December 26, 1854, and received a good common school education.  In 1872, he determined to learn the drug business, and entered a drug store in Worthington, Ind., for that purpose, but after remaining for about a year his father decided to remove to Denver, and he left his place to come with him.  After arriving here, in October of 1873, he entered upon a clerkship in a grocery house, where he remained until the fall of 1877.  He then returned to his native State, and married Miss Ida M. Reed, of Indianapolis, in October of 1877, after which he returned to Denver, and, having saved his earnings, and being ambitious to have a business of his own, he formed a partnership with his brother and engaged in the retail grocery business, in which they have since continued, and in which they have since continued, and in which they have succeeded in building up a fine trade.

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, p. 304

    Lewis B. Ames was born in Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., May 7, 1827, followed agricultural pursuits during his minority, and at twenty-one went to Michigan and spent three years in a land office in Hillsdale.  In 1851, he returned home and resided until 1855.  He then emigrated West to Decorah, Iowa, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits for five years.  In 1860, he joined the tide of gold-seekers, setting across the Plains toward the Rocky Mountains, and on his arrival in the Territory, went at once to what is now Gilpin County, and engaged in mining near the site of the present town of Black Hawk, where he erected a quartz-mill, which he ran during the summer.  Up to 1867, he was engaged in prospecting, and in farming, being twice washed out by floods.  In 1867, he purchased his present farm, taught school during the winter, and in 1868, was joined by his wife from the East, and made a permanent settlement on his farm, where he owns 125 acres of land, well improved, and especially devoted to the culture of fruit.  He has conclusively demonstrated that horticulture can be successfully carried on in Colorado—apples, pears, plums, grapes, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, gooseberries and currants growing in his grounds in profusion, and of the finest quality.  In politics, Mr. Ames is a stanch Republican, and was a firm Union man during the time of the civil war, though in local affairs, where no national issues are involved, he holds the welfare of the community above party, and casts his ballot for the best man.  He was first elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, in 1868, and successively re-elected to the present time.  He has proved a justice of the peace in fact as well as in name, his aversion to litigation leading him to counsel compromise; and thus preserve peace between the parties.  Mr. Ames was married, January 31, 1866, to Miss H. L. Sarawa, of Waukegan, Ill., and has two children.

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, pp. 307-308

    A record of those citizens of Denver who have succeeded in their respective business enterprises must necessarily include the name of John N. Ammen.  He was born in Fincastle, Virginia, in 1842, and early in life was placed in a good school in his native town.  But his studies were soon interrupted, and military discipline usurped the mild regime of college life.  As a member of the Fincastle Rifles, he was ordered to Harper’s Ferry, to suppress the insurrection of John Brown, and was on duty at the time those unfortunate people paid the penalty of their treason to the State of Virginia.  When the “Rifles” were discharged from further service to the State, John Ammen resumed his studies at Fincastle until the “Fincastle Rifles” were again ordered into the service of the State, at the breaking-out of the great rebellion.  Responding to the summons, the “Rifles” marched away again, not to suppress the mad efforts of the slaves to gain their freedom, but to assist in carrying on for several years the most sanguinary warfare known to the pages of modern history.  It was mustered into the Confederate service, and became part of the Army of Northern Virginia, participating in the first battle of the war at Blackburn’s Ford, and ending with the surrender of Lee.  Sharing with his comrades the toils and dangers of the war, the young soldier was engaged in all of the great struggles of the different campaigns—Manassas, Drainsville, Williamsburg, the seven days’ fight—Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, and many of the skirmishes and minor engagements.  He was twice wounded, once at White Oak Swamp, on the sixth of the seven days’ fight, and again at Five Forks; and three times a captured prisoner and exchanged.

    At the close of the war, he returned to his native town, working for a couple of years on his father’s farm, when he went to Baltimore, and completed a course of studies in a commercial college of that city.  During the next four years, he clerked in a country store in Bonsack’s, Va., and then removed to Denver in 1872.  But mining was too alluring to permit him to become a permanent resident at that time.  In the neighborhood of the South Park he spent two years in prospecting, and afterward, in 1877, lost several months in the Black Hills.  Returning to Denver, he assumed a controlling interest in the City Laundry, 553 Blake street, where is now conducted by far the largest business in that branch of industry in the State of Colorado.  The establishment employ [sic] about thirty persons, such as washers, ironers, etc., and two wagons constantly collecting and delivering articles.  It is proposed soon to remove their business to a more commodious building, and to introduce machinery of a greater power, and possessing all the improvements of modern science in that class of mechanics.  Mr. Ammen is unmarried—in the prime of life—and starts out well for the goal of fortune by combining industry and enterprise in the management of his business. 

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, pp. 308-309

    William Anderson, the grandfather of Thomas J., was of Scotch-Irish descent, a man of Herculean strength, standing six feet and four inches in height.  He had a family of twelve children—with sons and four daughters.  The sons were perfect athletes, their average height was six feet and one inch, and were all very powerful men.  Martin Anderson, son of William, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1817, and married Ellen Houck, a lady of German descent, from the vicinity of Baltimore, Md.  Their son, Thomas Jefferson, was born at Atwater, Portage Co., Ohio, May 29, 1839, and received an English education in the Marlboro Union School, under Prof. Holbrook, the founder of the Southwestern State Normal School, at Lebanon, Ohio.  After one year in Iowa, Thomas removed with his parents to Kansas in 1857.  Martin Anderson, when in Ohio, took an active part in the organization of the “Free-Soil” party, and upon his removal to Kansas, gave his hearty support to the Free-State cause, serving as a member of the Territorial Council, and afterward as a member of the first State Legislature.  A good public speaker, he frequently took part in the political canvass, was recognized as an able member of the Territorial Council, and afterward as a member of the first State Legislature.  A good public speaker, he frequently took part in the political canvass, was recognized as an able member of the Republican party after its organization, and was elected State treasurer in the fall of 1864, which office he held for two years.  He was also a zealous advocate of the temperance cause, doing efficient service for that reform.  Thomas J. Anderson was deeply interested with his father in the success of the Free-State movement, and with him assisted in the organization of the Republican party in Jackson County, March 12, 1858, on which occasion they were attacked by a drunken mob of border ruffians, and his father severely wounded.  At the ensuring election, Thomas J. was elected County Surveyor of Jackson County upon the Republican ticket. 

    When the war began he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fifth Regiment United States Volunteers, and was mustered into service at Fort Leavenworth, July 4, 1861.  Upon the organization of the regiment he was appointed Sergeant-Major, and in the fall of that year he was discharged from the ranks to accept promotion as Lieutenant of Engineers on Gen. Lane’s staff, with whom he served during his Missouri campaign, and was mustered out upon the collapse of his Texas expedition.  February 22, 1862, he was appointed by President Lincoln Assistant Adjutant General, with the rank of Captain, was assigned to duty on the staff of Brig. Gen. James G. Blunt, and organized the Fourteenth Kansas cavalry, and the Second Kansas Colored Infantry.  May 26, 1863, he was promoted to the rank of Major and served as Assistant Adjutant General of the Army of the Frontier, under Gens. Blunt, McNeil and Thayer, and was Gen. McNeil’s Chief of Staff during his services in Arkansas.  March 3, 1865, he was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel, and two days later was brevetted Colonel.  Soon afterward he resigned his position in the army, and was appointed, by Gov. Crawford, Adjutant General of the State of Kansas.  He thoroughly organized that department, and brought the records of the Kansas regiments to a condition of completeness equaled in few of the loyal States.  August, 1866, he resigned this position, and in the following October accepted the appointment of agent of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, which he held until March 1, 1873, when he was appointed General Freight and Ticket Agent of the Kansas Midland Railroad, and continued in that office until the road  was purchased by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company.  Upon the purchase and transfer of the Midland road, Maj. Anderson was appointed General Passenger Agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, which position he held from August 1, 1875 to March 15, 1878, when he was appointed General Agent of the Company, in charge of its freight and passenger interests in Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico.  In the spring of 1875, he was elected Mayor of Topeka, was reelected the following year, and displayed fine executive ability in managing the affairs of the city government.  He was elected to the Legislature of 1879, on the Republican ticket, from Topeka City district.  At the close of the session, he removed to Denver in the capacity of General Agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.  Maj. Anderson is a worthy, honored and zealous member of the Masonic Order.  He founded Topeka Chapter and Topeka Commandery, has filled many subordinate positions in the fraternity, and has been Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter, and Grand Commander of the Knights Templar for the State, and is the Representative of the Grand Master of Knights Templar for the United States for the Ninth District, embracing the States of Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado.  Maj. Anderson was married, April 12, 1864, to Martha E., daughter of Joseph Miller, of Fort Smith, Arkansas.  They have two daughters, Minnie and Mary.  The Major has a commanding appearance, is six feet two inches in height, well proportioned, and of dignified and soldierly bearing.  He is a live man, energetic, possessed of fine executive ability, and is a leading spirit in all public enterprises, as well as in social life.  He took such an active part in the early struggle of the State, and came so prominently into notice during the war of 1861-65, and subsequently as Adjutant General of the State, that few men are better known throughout Kansas.  His twenty-one years of active life in the State—thirteen of these passed at the capital, have brought him in contact with her citizens from every section, and among them all he is honored for his adherence to principle, his able discharge of the many and onerous duties assigned him, and his steady devotion to the interests of his adopted State.

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    W. W. Anderson, M. D., physician and surgeon, 353 Larimer street, is of Scotch parentage.  He was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1850, and received his education in his native country.  He removed to the United States in the spring of 1876, and the same year entered Michigan University.  During 1877, he occupied the position of Assistant Surgeon and Demonstrator of Anatomy in that institution.  After the close of the the [sic] session, he removed to Green Bay, Wis., where he continued the practice of medicine until December, 1878, when he was compelled by declining health to remove to a western sanitarium, and settled in Denver, Colo., in January, 1879, where he has since established himself in a lucrative practice.

    The junior member of the firm of Thompson & Annis, lumber dealers, corner of Sixteenth and Wazce streets, Denver, is E. B. Annis, whose past honorably career and present business connections entitle him to a sketch in this volume.  He was born near Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1847, and is a graduate of the High School in that city.  Entering the U. S. Navy, after completing his studies as Paymaster’s Clerk, he was assigned to duty on the U.S. steamer Kickapoo, stationed in Southern waters, and participated in the engagement at Spanish Fort, in Mobile Bay.  At the close of the war, he was stationed for awhile at New Orleans, and went from there to Howell, Mich., where he was employed for a few years in the Internal Revenue office.  In 1870, Mr. Annis came to Colorado, and was one of the original founders of the Greeley Colony, holding by appointment the position of Secretary of the Association.  From there he moved to Evans, engaging in the lumber business at that point, and thence to Cheyenne in 1875 where, during the four following years, he carried on an extensive business in lumber, and, in the spring of 1879, came to Denver and entered into partnership with W. F. Thompson, at his present location.  This firm is doing a very large business in Denver and other points, occupying as their lumber depot nearly a square of ground at the corner of Sixteenth and Wazce, and operating a large steam saw-mill on the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad.  Mr. Annis is married, the owner of considerable real estate in Greeley, and may be regarded as one of the promising business men of Denver.

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    George Anstee was born in Hendon, County of Middlesex, England, August 12, 1840.  At an early age, he went to work for Cubit & Co., the heaviest contracting and building firm in London, with whom he remained until 1869, when he came to the United States.  He first settled in Chicago, remaining but a few months, however, when he went South and worked at his trade, that of a brickmason and contractor, until the latter part of 1870, when he came to Denver.  He combines brickmaking with bricklaying, and also does an extensive business as a contractor.. [sic]  Mr. Anstee was elected Alderman from the Sixth Ward, on the Democratic ticket, in 1875, and, after serving one term, was re-elected in 1878.  He was married, in August, 1866, to Miss Mary J. Ford, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

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    Charles E. Anthony was born in Auburn, N. Y., June 10, 1843.  At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Nineteenth New York Infantry, and served three years.  After the war, he worked as a carpenter and contractor, in Auburn, until 1870, when he came to Denver, and at once engaged in assaying and mining, which he was followed with varied success ever since.  In the summer of 1878, Mr. Anthony discovered and worked the famous “Tecumseh” mine at Rosita, which is now a very promising piece of property.  By far the richest discovery yet made by Mr. Anthony is the “Big Blossom” mine, on Jim Creek, in Boulder County.  The heaviest assay of ore from this mine gave $250,000 to the ton.  The mine is in litigation at present with the Grand Central Company, and has as yet not been fully developed.  The “Swallow Tail” and “Palisade” mines, both of which have attracted considerable attention, were discovered by Mr. Anthony.  He is a careful and shrewd business man, and has developed some of the richest mines of the Centennial State.

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     Emmet Anthony, the pioneer architect of Denver, having the oldest established office in the State, was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., March 2, 1828.  When nine years of age, he attended a private school, taught by Prof. Benedict, for many years a leading Professor in the University at Rochester.  At the age of thirteen, he became interested in architecture, and was advised by his friend, George Woodward, then a rising young architect, to learn the trade of a carpenter and builder, as a necessary preparation for the practice of architecture.  From that time until the age of twenty, he was engaged during the summer in the workshop, gaining a practical knowledge of mechanical construction, and during the winter in the study of mathematics and drawing.  At the age of twenty, he entered a class for a course of mathematical training under Prof. Winslow, in Livingston County.  Having fitted himself as a practical and competent mechanic, he entered the office of Mr. Berger, in New York City, where he spent three years as a draughtsman and superintendent.  Since that time, he has devoted himself exclusively to the designing and superintending of buildings in different sections of the country, being for some time in the employ of the New York & Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railways.  In 1871, being troubled with a cough and throat disease, he sought the genial climate of Colorado.  Arriving in Denver in March, his first business was to make the design of what is now the Iliff residence.  Since that time, he has devoted himself entirely to the practice of his profession in Denver, occasionally receiving calls to adjoining towns and cities, principally to Cheyenne, where many buildings have been erected from his designs.  His early and thorough mechanical education is apparent in all of his designs, no instances of incompleteness or insecure mechanical construction appearing among the many buildings erected from them.  Mr. Anthony is a close student of all the mechanical, sanitary and artistic improvements that are being made in his profession.  Despite the sharp competition, he has each year added a large list to the architecture of the city.  During the past year, with the assistance of one able draughtsman, he has completed the designs and awarded the contracts for thirty buildings in the city.  The completeness of his plans render them popular among the mechanics, while severe superintendence makes him sometimes unpopular among the contractors.  Among his designs are the Opera House, Walhalla, Alkire’s, Shleier’s, Moffat & Kassler’s, and other blocks.

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    Mr. W. D. Anthony was born in Union Springs, Cayuga Co., N. Y., June 4, 1838, and received a good common-school education.  He removed to the West in 1856, and located in Henry County, Ill., where he engaged in the grain business until the fall of 1858, when he went to Leavenworth, Kan., and was employed in the office of the Register of Deeds.  He came to Colorado in the spring of 1860, and has made his home in Denver since that time.  In 1861, when Colorado was first admitted as a Territory, he was appointed as Private Secretary under the Executive, which position he held until 1862, when he was appointed Clerk of the District Court of the First Judicial District of Colorado.  Resigning this position in 1865, he was elected County Treasurer of Arapahoe County, and Collector of Taxes for the city of Denver.  In 1867, he was elected County Clerk and recorder, and re-elected at the three successive elections for that office, thus holding this important position for eight years, during which time he inaugurated and completed a perfect and complete set of abstracts of titles to land in the entire county, and upon an entirely new system.  These books are now used in the office of Anthony & Landon, for the purpose of furnishing abstracts.  In 1876, Mr. Anthony was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of the new State, and chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives of the "Centennial State."  This session convened in Denver November 1, 1876, and adjourned March 20, 1877, and during the entire session he never failed in calling the ouse over which he presided to order on the exact moment to which it had adjourned, and although several appeals were taken from his decision as Speaker, yet in every instance his rulings were sustained by the House.  Mr. Anthony has long been connected with the Masonic Order, and is an active and earnest worker in his Lodge.  He was three years Master of Union Lodge; two years elected as Grand Master of Masons in Colorado; was the especial Deputy of the Grand Master of Knights Templar of the United States, to organize the Grand Commandery of Colorado, and in 1876, was elected Grand Commander of Colorado.  He was chosen Secretary of the Convention in 1864, which organized for the purpose of presenting a constitution for the formation of a State government.  This Constitution, after being adopted by the people of the State, was rejected by Congress, and Colorado remained under Territorial government until 1876.  At present, he is Chief Clerk of the United States Mint, at Denver, a position which he has held since November, 1877. 

    Henry Apple, junior member of the firm of Bunch & Apple, real-estate agents and mining brokers, was born in Cincinnati in 1838.  When he was seventeen years of age, he began clerking in a wholesale dry-goods house in Nashville, Tenn., to which place his parents had removed when he was but four years of age.  In 1863, he went to New York City where he was employed as book-keeper in a commission house, and afterward went into the boot and shoe business on his own account, which he continued until 1868.  Returning to Nashville about this time, he was actively engaged in business, in that city, for more than two years, when he again went to New York City, and was with the well-known wholesale clothing house of Thomas Chatterton & Co., until 1875.  From that time until January, 1879, he was engaged in the auction and commission business in Nashville, and was also raveling agent for the Star Union Freight Line in Kentucky and Tennessee.  He came to Denver in the summer of 1879, and in the September following entered into a copartnership with Mr. H. K. Bunch, with whom he is still associated.  He was married in Cincinnati, in 1865, to Miss Spencer, an accomplished and intelligent lady of that city. 

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    In May, 1875, Mr. S. T. Armstrong took charge of the Denver office and of the district comprising Colorado and New Mexico.  t that time there were in the office three operators, one clerk and two messengers, the latter employed not more than two-thirds of the time.  At that time the operations Company in this locality, outside of the eastern of the lines, were limited to the line along the Colorado Central; that to Cheyenne, on the D. P. R. R., and the Southern line, extending from Pueblo to Santa Fe.  Del Norte was then out of the world; the San Juan country had not been settled; the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was somewhere away up in Kansas; no road was built south of Pueblo; the South Park road had stopped at Morrison; the Colorado Central stopped at Central City; Leadville was not dreamed of; Silver Cliff was only the Wet Mountain Valley; carbonates were a myth in Colorado, and there were comparatively few stations off the line of the railroad where telegraphic facilities could be procured.

    Very soon the business of Denver increased so that it became necessary to put another wire on the line between here and Kansas City.  That was done in 1875 and 1876.

    The next improvement was the rebuilding and putting on the second wire of the Colorado Central line and its extension with two wires to Cheyenne, Wy.  Then the southern part of the State came in for its share of attention.  The extension of the Rio Grande to El Moro induced the construction of a new line to that point from Pueblo, and at the same time the line from Pueblo north was reconstructed--a second wire being strung along the entire route from Denver to El Moro.  Then came the building of the railroad over the Sangre de Christo, and a line there leaving the railroad and pushing on to Del Norte, the present terminus.  Then came the wonderful discoveries at Leadville, and with half a dozen important projects on foot, a line had to be hastily constructed over the mountains to the carbonate camp.  This had hardly been completed when the Colorado Central extension to Cheyenne compelled the erection of a line along that route.  Then came the reconstruction with cedar poles of the line from El Moro south to Las Vegas and Santa Fe, and the construction of the line from Granada along the new Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to Pueblo, and along the line of the same from La Junta to Otero, New Mexico.  All the work above enumerated has been completed, and there is now being constructed a line extending 150 miles southeast from Las Vegas; a line from Del Norte to Silverton, via Lake City and Ouray; a line from Cañon City to Silver Cliff and Rosita; a line from Leadville to Ten-Mile; a third wire from Denver to Cucharas; a second wire from Pueblo to Cañon City; a two-wire line from Cañon City to Leadville; and two large telephone exchanges between Leadville and Denver.  There are also in process of negotiation a number of additional extensions and improvements of an important character. 

    By tracing the lines on the map, it will be seen at a glance that more than three-fourths of the system now centering in the Denver office has been constructed within the past four years.

    In 1875, the whole telegraph force of Colorado, exclusive of the repair men, numbered not more than forty.  Now there are on the rolls as operators, clerks and messengers, not less than 150.  Twenty of these are in the Denver office, and Leadville is a larger office than Denver was four years ago, four operators, two clerks, and four messengers being required to attend to the business, which, without a newspaper night report, is rarely closed up for the day before 2 o'clock of the following morning.

    Between 3,000 and 4000 miles of line have Denver as the center of the system, and within a short time several hundred miles more will be added.

    Railroads may possibly begin nowhere and end nowhere--they go into a country sometimes to develop it, and fail.  With telegraph lines, however, it is different.  They go where there is a reasonable amount of business--enough, at least, to pay the interest on the cost of construction, and therefore the wonderful extensions during the last four years in this State, may be taken, in a measure, as an indication of the actual growth of the population and business interests of the State, and an important fact is, that even with the push that has characterized every movement of the Company in Colorado during the period cited, it has been unable to keep up to the pressing demands of the State, a new want presenting itself almost as soon as an old one is filled.

    Dr. Louis Auerbach was born in Berlin, Germany.  At the age of eighteen, he began the study of medicine, and after graduating at the University of Berlin, was appointed Assistant Physician at Queen Augusta Hospital, in Berlin, which office he continued to fill for four years, and then began the practice of medicine for himself in that city.  In the spring of 1878, he came to the United States, and practiced medicine in New York City one year.  He was married in New York in 1878, and came to Denver in the spring of 1879.  Dr. Auerbach is a finely educated gentleman, and is destined to meet with good success in his profession.

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, p. 308

    Mr. Aurich is a son of a government official in Germany; was born November 2, 1853, at Glauchau, Germany; attended school until the age of fifteen years, and was then apprenticed to the mercantile business.  Taking a position in a large exporting house in Liepsic, Saxony, he remained there till 1872, when he came to America, and obtained a situation as clerk in a steam flouring-mill in New Orleans, from which city he went to St. Louis, and there remained until 1875.  Going to Chicago, he was employed as book-keeper for an insurance company, and the New York Coal Company, for a year.  He then went to St. Joseph, Mo., and remained two years, engaged in book-keeping.  Coming to Colorado, he has been employed as a book-keeper for Philip Zary, since September, 1877.  Mr. Aurich is an enterprising, aspiring young man, and a good business member of the City Council of Denver, and is still serving in that body.

    Alida Cornelia Avery—sixth in the family of three daughters and five sons of Hannah Dixon and William Avery—was born in June, 1833, in Sherburne, Chenango Co, N. Y.  Her father was one of the little band of Abolitionists of Central New York, who marshaled under the leadership of Gerritt Smith, and he was wont to relate the personal perils and social ostracism encountered by these pioneers in advancing political freedom; especially was the first Anti-Slavery Convention, held in Utica in 1834, and attacked by a fierce mob, a theme never wearied of by him or his home audience.  He lived to see the end of American slavery and of the rebellion, when, like old Simeon, he said, “How, Lord, let thy servant depart,” for the prayer of his whole life was answered.  The children of this Puritan Presbyterian Deacon had the hardy regimen of farmer folk; work, school and meeting being much larger factors than play in their daily and yearly routine.  They had the fair educational training afforded by the public schools and academy of their native town, and, before she was sixteen, the subject of this sketch began to teach, and continued that vocation, with but brief intervals, for some years.  In the spring of 1857, she entered upon medical study under the tuition of Drs. S. O. and Rachel B. Gleason, of Elmira, N. Y., and in the autumn of 1858, she matriculated in the Philadelphia Woman’s Medical College.  A year later, she entered the New York Infirmary for Women and Children—a noble charity founded and conducted by Drs. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell—where, for a twelvemonth, she was resident student and had the advantages of clinical and general practice under careful supervision.  Meanwhile, the war began and most of the students of the Philadelphia school volunteered as arm nurses, and the Trustees of that institution—which was not then, as now, richly endowed—thought it unwise to attempt a session with so small a class; for this reason, Miss Avery’s plans for the winter were changed, and she went to Boston instead of Philadelphia, and in April, 1862, received her diploma of Doctor in Medicine from the New England Female Medical college.  After some months of private practice in Brooklyn, L. I., she accepted a place as assistant physician under Dr. T. T. Seelye, in the Cleveland (Ohio) Water Cure, where she remained until the opening of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, in September, 1865, in whose Faculty she occupied the Chair of Physiology and Hygiene for nearly nine years.  In April, 1874, she removed to Denver, and from that time has identified herself with the interests of the young city and State.  Her influence is always to be counted on for whatever makes for “the good, the true and the beautiful.”

History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, c. 1880, p. 306