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LANCASTER/SHANNON
FAMILIES COLLECTION |
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SILVER DOLLAR TABOR
Daughter of Senator H.A.W. Tabor being presented to President
Roosevelt by Sheriff Alexander Nisset and Senator Irby, President of
the Press Club at the chuck dinner given by the press club
August 29, 1910
In an article in the Rocky Mountain Memories
by Frances Melrose it said:
"In Leadville the hero of San Juan Hill was
given a glorious welcome, and hundreds marched ahead of his carriage
as he rode from the depot to the speakers' platform erected at the
corner of Fifth and Harrison streets."
In another article it reads:
"When President
Theodore Roosevelt visited Leadville in 1908, Silver Dollar rode into
town to see him and later wrote a poem, Our President Roosevelt's
Colorado Hunt, which was set to marching music by A.S. Lohmann of
Denver.
Two years later,
Silver Dollar, by then working on the Denver Times, pressed close to
the platform when Roosevelt made an appearance in Denver and handed
him a copy of the song. They were photographed together, and Denver
newspapers carried the picture. "
The picture I have also has the
signature of Silver Dollar Tabor on it.
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| Photo #2 A hotel somewhere in Colorado and
probably up in Leadville as you can see the mountains in the background
and the area looks a lot like the Leadville area. The elevation is
high as it appears to be above timberline as there is not a tree in
site! I have given a copy of this picture to the Denver Public Library
also but nobody has yet identified where or when the picture was taken.
It was in my Grandma's things and since she lived in Leadville I presume
that is was taken there but not sure. |
| Photo #3 This is a letter of Resolutions of
Sympathy. It was written by someone in the GAR which my great
grandmother Jennie Lancaster was a member. It was sent to her in 1891
when her daughter Iva (or Ivy) died. Iva was eleven years old at
the time. I do not know what she died of but would love to find
out. Iva (or Ivy) is buried in the GAR section of Evergreen Cemetery in
Leadville. Ivy Lancaster is buried in Block 5, Lot 141. There is a marker. |
