ALICE'S FAMILY
In 1860 York County, South Carolina, Blairsville post office, E. L. Minter is farming, 36, "Elvis" Minter 32, Mary E. Minter 11, Jane A. Minter 9, and Alice R. Minter 6.
In 1870 Tippah County, E. L. Minter is a dry goods merchant, born in South Carolina, 46 , Elvira Minter 42, M. E. Minter 21, J. A. Minter 18, A. K. Minter 15, and J. G. Miller 19.
Elvira Carter Minter BIRTH 2 Apr 1829 DEATH 12 Dec 1871 BURIAL Old Hickory Flat Cemetery Hickory Flat, Benton County, Mississippi, MEMORIAL ID 35380530.
Alice R. Minter and William Gelder married on 16 Mar 1876 in Greeley, Weld County, Colorado.
In 1880 Leadville, Colorado, W. Gelder 29 us a real estate broker, born in England of English parents, , sick with diphtheria, A. R. Gelder 26 Wife E. (Joseph Ethelyn) Gelder 3 Son L. Gelder 1 Daughter.
April 1882 " That Mr. William Gelder, of Leadville, will build a handsome residence in Aspen this season, and will make his home here."
March 1883 Ashcroft, Colorado " A Trip to the New County of Garfield.
Leaving Aspen on a bright and beautiful March morning, the reporter of the SUN, seated behind the famous team, Dexter and Maud S., was whirled away along the road across the mesa below town in the direction of the already famous hot springs on the Grand. Perhaps not many of the SUN'S readers are aware that Dexter is a mule and his famous road mate a long-legged mare of mettle that has found her way into the mountain, fulfilling the humble destiny of a freight horse. The light wagon labored under the disadvantage of a lame wheel and a sprained axle, and groaned beneath its load of bacon and tobacco. However, as the day was balmy and beautiful and the hearts of Mr. Top Mitchell, the driver, and the reporter innocent and light, the famous team and the disabled wagon were not greater luxuries than the beautiful scenery and the clear, fresh mountain air as we wended our way northwestward down the valley of the Roaring Fork. Some snow and considerable mud still clung to the streets at Aspen and to the road as far down as Woody creek, but below that point the snow was all gone. And the roads occasionally dusty. At the mouth of Woody, Mr. Jim Kinney and partners have a comfortable and commodious ranch-house and corral, and he is receiving a good share of the road patronage. Two miles below Kinney's is Foster's ranch, where that gentleman is erecting a large house for the accommodation of travelers and two miles still farther on is the Barnes' home, where good accommodation is also to be found.
What the Reporter Saw and Heard by the Way.
The famous stopping-place on the road, however, is Cramer's, at the mouth of Sopris creek, where the genial host Mr. Cramer, and his sister, Mrs. Dillon, furnish good chuck and clean beds for travelers, and a large corral for stock. The ranch house, a two-story hewed log, situated as it is midway between Aspen and the Springs is convenient and deservedly popular.
The dividing line between Pitkin and Garfield counties crosses the valley in the vicinity of Cramers, and below that hostelry the roads, being beyond the reach of Pitkin county warrants, were not generally so good as this side. Two miles below Cramers the road at present crosses the river by a ford that promised to wreck our outfit.
Mr. Isaac Cooper's toll road, which commences at the county line will, when completed, continue on the south side of the river to the Rock creek bridge. Contracts are to be let this spring to complete the road to the mouth of Rifle creek on the Grand, where it will connect with the government road to Grand Junction and the White River agency. We missed the city of Satank by passing by on the other side of the river, and arrived at the Springs in the early evening. The neighborhood of the Springs is admirably adapted for a summer resort. The scenery about it is very beautiful and the open mesas on both sides of the river are well situated for a large city. These springs have been so frequently described in these columns that we will not dwell upon their many merits.
Many of Garfield county's new officials live at the Springs. In a modest dugout on the hillside resides County Judge Gelder and Captain Noble, and near by is the dwelling of similar architecture of two County Commissioners. Mr. John Blake, sheriff of the county, lives on the north side of the river, and down near the springs in a canvas-covered dugout we found our old friend, Frank Allen, who has been appointed deputy Clerk and Recorder by Mr. McBrierty. Mr. Allen is a son-in-law of Judge Waite, and will fill his important position in the new county with credit to himself and honor to his family.
Our destination was further on, and we pushed on to Mitchell Flat, two miles down the Grand, where we arrived just at dusk..."
May 1883 "Below the mouth of the Roaring Fork, the valley widens upon the Grand and here are one or two of the finest ranches at the Springs. Judge Gelder and Mr. Landis are putting up their residences on these ranches. At present they cross the Roaring Fork with a rope, skiff ferry in high water and ford in low water. Here there are beautiful shade trees and an irrigating ditch has been dug so that farming can be made from now on a profitable investment."
September 1885 Red Cliff, Colorado items " Mr. William Gelder, wife and child, of Glenwood Springs, were in town Tuesday. They were on their way to Denver. "
December 1885 "Mr. William Gelder, wife and three children, passed through Aspen last week on their way home to Glenwood from Denver."
June 1886 Aspen "Judge William Gelder, the popular host of the Hotel Gleuwood, came up from tho Springs Tuesday."
William claimed a quarter in section 3, 8N 52W in 1886.
March 1888 Glenwood Springs "Judge Gelder and Mrs. Gelder left on Monday for Tennessee. Mrs. Gelder will make a three months' visit. Mr. Gelder, after escorting his wife to the other side of the Mississippi, will return home."
In January 1889 the Hotel Glenwood "a mammoth structure that presides over the very heart of the city, and one which would reflect credit upon the most pretentious metropolis that has grown up in the new west. This commanding structure that stands as an unrivaled monument to the pluck and energy of the frontier, is located at the intersection of Eighth street and Grand avenue, across from the building of the First National bank, and in point of hospitality and comforts, is unsurpassed by any rival west of the Missouri river. The magnificent building, which is divided into seventy-two rooms, each of which is appointed in a manner that secures comfort to every guest, was incepted by Col. Isaac Cooper, a patriarch whose memory it perpetuates .... included a participant Senator William Gelder, who at tho recent election was selected to represent an enthusiastic constituency, that was drawn from both parties, in the legislative halls of the commonwealth."
June 1892 Aspen
January 1894 "Judge Gelder, of the Gelder-Bailey Brokerage Co., has just returned from Boulder county, and reports quite an air of prosperity in the vicinity of Eldorado and Cardinal, and up Left Hand. Especially is this noticeable in the old mines. "
August 1894 "State senator William Gelder, the well known mining man of Denver, was in Boulder today."
September 1900 Glenwood Springs town council minutes "Trustee Kendriok secured tbe floor and addressed the council as follows:
Mr. Mayor and gentlemen of the Board of Trustees¦
I wish to say a few words about the ownership of the mineral springs of this town. The secretary of the interior of the United States in 1882 granted a patent to William Gelder, county judge, in trust, for the use and benefit of tbe inhabitants of the town of Defiance (now Glenwood Springs) for 400 acres of land for a townsite. These lands included the springs known as the Glenwootl Hot Springs. Judge Golden deeded the property to four men; himself being one of its four. Those men called themselves the Glenwood Springs Town oompany. This company subsequently deeded a portion of the land, including the springs, to the Hot Springs company for a monetary consideration. We, as trustees of the town of Glenwood Springs, it seems to me, are successors in trust to the county judge, on behalf of the town or the inhabitants thereof, and if Judge Gelder fraudulently and oorruptly bartered away the people's rights, the question naturally comes up, have we a remedy , and if so, what is that remedy? If we have a remedy, is it wise and expedient to use it? I believe that we have a remedy and that it is both wise and expedlont to use it. And I will give my reasons for thinking so.
1st. The springs are very valuable in a medioal sense.
2d. They oould be so utilied as to be of great benefit to the town i, a pecuniary way.
3rd. They are now being used in such a way as to be of no great medical value, nor a pecuniary one, and to but very few people, comparatovely.
To go somewhat into the history of the case, about 1880 Isaac Cooper built and gave to the town a bath house to be used by the people free. The town appointed a person to take care of it and paid him a salary. This free bath houise was a great boon to the poor, both resident and non-resident, and the cures performed were great, and the fame of the springs was spread far and wide,
And it is my firm belief and opinion that if this free bath house had been maintained, the fame of the cures woud have been such that we should now have rivaled, if not excelled the famous hot springs at Arkansas with twenty hotols and 550 boarding houses.
Bit this was not done; instead Judge Gelder and his friends sold out to a corporation called the Hot Springs company and they notified the town that they could not use the water any more, as they had bought it.
Now let us see what the company did after paying the town $200 for the bath house they tore it down, and used one on the opposite, or north side of of the Grand river, which was conneoted with the town by a wooden bridge at Cooper avenue, charging twenty-flve cents a bath. Then they ereoted the stone bath house and oharged one dollar for a simple tub bath without any attendant, and if a person wanted rubbing by attendant there was, and still is, an additional charge for massage of $2.00. I used to give an attendant fifty cents additional for rubbing me; the superintendent found it out and discharged him on the spot.
Then the state bridge was built with its twenty-two steps on the town side and seventy-four on the north side, and the wooden bridge was taken out, and no tub bath could be had on the town side, and the poor cripples were deprived of tbe chance to bathe. I have known poor men who came here, and whose expenses were paid by a fraternal society, who could not walk, who paid for a bath and going and coming $2.50.
Then the Colorado hotel was built, a nd the twenty-five cent bath house was torn down, and for a whole summer, in 1893, no bath could be had for less than a dollar.
And now the twenty-five cent bath house is so filthy that no self-reapecting person will go there, and many persons, both residents and visitors, rather than go there will walk to Mr. Ware's bath house nearly a mile away.
In fact the springs are being run in such a way as to be of no profit to tbe company and a great detriment to tbe town. When we consider tbe great volume of medical water amounting to millions of gallons per day, the fine climate, and all tbe other numerous advantages which we possess, it seems a wondrous pity that it should be taken from its rightful owners and the intentions both of nature and a benevolent government frustrated by such unintelligent management as we have witnessed and are witnessing. If the United States government had the management of these springs, as it has in Arkansas, our population would be increased many fold, our property would be increased in value many times, and untold thousands would be benefited by the health-giving properties of these truly wonderful springss. And I know no good reason why the town could not run the springs in the same manner that the government does those at Arkansas.
I therefore move that the town attorney investigate the title to the springs and report to the counoil at his earliest oonvenience."
November 1900 Denver "Mrs. William Gelder and her eldest daughter. Miss Lillian, of 1359 Gaylord street, are spending the fall months making a tour of the Southern states, visiting friends and old family homes. Amongst the interesting spots to be visited on their tour is the historic homestead of Shirley, Va., the home of Mrs. Gelder's ancestors. It is their intention to return to Denver in time for Christmas festivities."
July 1901 Denver "Bankruptcy may not shield William Gelder, mining broker, from prosecution to recover on a criminal bond. S«.me months ago the district attorney’s office forfeited a bond on which Gelder was surety, and upon presenting the claim learned that Gelder bad taken the bankruptcy course. Judge Hallett, In the United States court, however, has since held that debts on criminal bonds are not abrogated by the bankruptcy act, and David G. Taylor, deputy district attorney, secured an execution. Gelder's attorneys appeared before Judge Carpenter in the district court yesterday with a motion to quash the execution. It was argued and taken under advisement."
December 1902 Grand Junction " Harry Layton son of J. A. Layton, who is now and lias been a resident of New’ York city, saw many changes in tho city of his boyhood on liis present visit to Grand Junction. Mr. Layton left here seven years ago and he marks a noted change in tho busi ness interests of the city. He is now a partner with William Gelder in a number of enterprises in which Mr. Gelder is the promoter"
December 1902 Denver "Mrs. William Gelder and daughter and Mrs. Ethelwyn Gelder left Monday evening for New York, where they will make their future home."
Denver, April 21, 1906 - "William Gelder passed through here this week on his way from Nevada east. In Nevada he visited the property of the Bristol Copper company, at Bristol, Nevada. This company was financed by the Kendrick Promotion company, while Mr. Gelder was a partner, and later taken over by Mr. Gelder. At that time the Clark road was expected to pass the property, which would give cheap transportation and a market for the big bodies of milling ore, but the road was built on another route, so that only the higher grade or smelting ore could be shipped to advantage. Most of the work on the lower levels last year, or at least for quite a number of months, was in anticipation of opening a big ore shoot at a certain junction, but the superintendent of the mine followed the wrong crevice and drove for months with but little ore, and finally the mine was shut down. Last fall a party took a lease until June, crosscut a few feet and opened the big ore body anticipated. He now has about 20 teams hauling this high grade ore, running a hundred dollars or more per ton. When Mr. Gelder was at the mine the roads were bad and the teams could not haul the ore as rapidly as it was hoisted, and there were 450 tons of this high grade ore in the bins and a large amount of ore broken ready to hoist. They were driving in ore from 11 to 14 feet in width that was soft and easy to mine, the high grade streaks running often a thousand dollars a ton in silver, copper and gold. The lessee says he expects to clear one hundred thousand dollars by the first of June on his lease, and leave a big body of ore in the mine at that time. It now seems that the superintendent was working on a wrong theory. Some parties claimed so at the time, and the lessee has it. It is now claimed that the upper workings can be driven into big ore, similar to the lower ones, and make as valuable a property of it as was anticipated in the beginning."
May 1912 Greeley "Senator William Gelder, formerly of Colorado and now of New York City, will arrive in Greeley this evening where he will spend a few days with his son, R. W. Gelder, before returning east. Mr. Gelder has not been in Greeley since he made his home here in the early seventies. He will be glad to meet any of his old friends."
William Gelder BIRTH 7 Feb 1851 DEATH 3 Jun 1923 BURIAL Laurens City Cemetery Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina, MEMORIAL ID 8191848 .
Alice Robinia Minter Gelder BIRTH 29 Nov 1853 DEATH 31 Jul 1932 BURIAL Laurens City Cemetery Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina, MEMORIAL ID 8191852
JOSEPH AND ISABELL
Joseph E. Gelder and Isabell A. Bradbury married on 27 Dec 1900 in Denver, Colorado.
Isabella Augusta Gelder and Joseph Gelder divorced on 3 Jun 1911 in Denver, Colorado.
ISABELLA AFTER JOSEPH
1914 Reno, Nevada "Mrs. Isabel Gelder, who has been the house guest of Mrs. E. J. Nixson for the past two weeks, left for her home in Denver last Sunday evening. Mrs. Gelder has just returned from a delightful three months visit with her sister in Honolulu. While here she was the honored guest at many small affairs and her many friends will regret to hear of her leaving so soon."
Isabelle Bradbury Gelder BIRTH 9 Oct 1880 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, DEATH 1957 Colorado, BURIAL Fairmount Cemetery Denver, City and County of Denver, Colorado, PLOT Blk 87 MEMORIAL ID 95455330.
JOSEPH AFTER ISABELL
Joseph Gelder and Harriet Johnstone (nee Smith) married in 1911 in New Jersey.
Joseph Ethelwyn Gelder BIRTH 31 Jan 1877 Colorado, DEATH 30 Dec 1956 Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, BURIAL Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown MEMORIAL ID 185960369.
"Joseph E. Gelder, well known Nevada mining man, who made the original discovery and played a leading part in the early stages of the development, oln what is now the "Anaconda' Copper 'Co. copper works at Yerington, is dead, according to the Reno Evening Gazette.
Death came to the veteran mining figure at his home in Reno Sunday night. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 11 am. at the O'Brien-Rogers chapel with officers of Reno lodge No. 13, F. and A.M. officiating.
Born in Boulder county, Jan. 31, 1877, Mr. Gelder had devoted most of his life to the mining game. After graduating from Denver high school and Colorado School of Mines he took post graduate work at Columbia University in New York.
Coming to Nevada shortly after the turn of the century, Mr. Gelder first "joined his father, the late William Gelder and associates in the operation of the Bristol Silver properties at Pioche. In 1906 they came to Yerington and Joseph Gelder remained here several years mining and producing copper in the Rocklin district. Later he went into the Mountain City region as manager for exploration work being conducted there, then moved to Reno to make his home. Mr. Gelder held various "official posts. He was the last to hold the office of U.S. Surveyor General for Nevada, and he was in the office of A. Holgate, county engineer. During World War II he was with the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
He served for several years as secretary of the Reno Rotary Club and was a member of Beta Theta Pi and of Reno lodge No. 13, F. and A.M.
