Harry T. West, 8 North 52 West
HARRY'S FAMILY
In 1860 Kewanee, Henry County, Illinois,
Henry T. West 35 is a druggist,
Mary O, West
35,
George West
10,
Maria L. West
7,
Henry West
2, and
David McComber
18, a clerk born in New York
.
In 1870 Chicago,
Henry T. West is a banker,
45,
Mary O. West
45,
George West,
Lina M. West
17,
Harry T. West 12,
Anna Leary
19, and
Mary A. Sears
72.
January 1871 
In 1880 Livermore, Larimer County, Colorado, Henry is a hotel manager, 65, Mary A. 55, and Thomjas Sion a domestic laborer.
Harry is 22, a printer, born in Wisconsin
October 1910 Greeley 
November 18, 1922 "Henry Tracy West,
98 years old, the last surviving member
of the locating committee of the Union
colony which founded Greeley, Colorado
for Horace Greeley, died this afternoon
at Caldwell, Idaho, according to word
received by his son Harry T. West late
today. Mr. West had been in failing
health for some time. His son was en
route to Caldwell from Arkansas Valley,
Colo., when he received word of his
father's death.
Mr. West resided in Greeley for
forty years. He founded the first
bank at Greeley, the H. T. West and company,
May 14, 1870. He was a member and president of
the Union colony for a nmnSer of years.
Born at Palmyra, near Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1824,
Mr. West went to Chicago early in life and then to Fort Dearborn.
In 1870 he came west with Nathan C. Meeker and
General R. A. Cameron as a locating committee to
select a site for the Union colony, joining the
expedition at Omaha. They selected the site on
which Greeley now stands and the next year drew up
articles of incorporation for the Union colony of
Colorado."
November 17, 1922 " In 1875 with relatives he became interested in coal mining at Canfield,
west of the present town of Erie. He developed the Rob Roy mine. Numerous strikes of miners caused
this enterprise to fail, and, according to Boyd’s history, Mr. West who had invested $12,500 in the
enterprise, lost heavily. Mr. West was president for many years of the Union Colony Pioneer society
founded by him. For many years after the massacre of Nathan C. Meeker he was president of the Union
Colony. He was also a member of the Colorado Pioneer society. He resigned the presidency of the
Union Colony Oct. 11, 1912. Mr. West founded Masonic Occidental lodge No. 20 A. F. & A. M. of Greeley
in 1870 and he joined the Grand Lodge of Colorado the following year. He was also the oldest
thirty-second degree Mason in the United States, having been initiated at Kenosha, Wis., in 1856.
He became affiliated with the Odd Fellows at Waukegan, (Little Fort), Ill., in 1848. He was a member
of Poudre Valley lodge No. 12 I. O. O. F. in Greeley. Local Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges had sent
Mr. West flowers and congratulations on his birthdays for many years. Mr. West's residence in
Greeley was located on Tenth street east of Eighth avenue close to the site of the Ecker
plumbing establishment. Mrs. Leroy Carpenter, president of the Union Colony Pioneers, received
a telegram Thursday night from Caldwell notifying her of Mr. West’s death. The telegram stated that
funeral services will be held at Caldwell Sunday afternoon. Interment will be at Caldwell.
The Masonic lodge at Caldwell will be in charge of the service. Mr. West died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Albert E. Gipson, at Caldwell, where he has lived since he left Greeley 10 years ago.
George H. West of Caldwell, one of the sons, was in Denver at the time of death.
Another son, Harry T. West, lives at Portland, Ore. There are 10 grand-children and 22 great
grandchildren who survive Mr. West. None of them live in or near Greeley."
November 1924 "Subscription Book, Greeley Tribune, N. C. Meeker, Publisher and Proprietor.
Dec. 23, 1872," is the title of an old account book uncovered during a bit of house cleaning at
the Tribune office Armistice day.
The first name on the book was 'F. C. Beckwith, Burlington, Colo.' For many years
Mr. Beckwith, who is still living, was editor and publisher of the Longmont 'Times.'
He was once secretary of state and for many years was prominent in state democratic politics.
A large number of the subscribers to the early Tribune were easterners. The name and address,
'P. T. Barnum. 438 Fifth Avenue, New York City' indicates that the famous showman
was one of the earliest subscribers.
The names and addresses of 'Horace Greeley, Tribune, N. Y. C." and “Ralph Meeker,
New York Standard' appear below that of Barnum. "Dr. G. Law, Blissfield. N. Y„' is on the next page.
Dr. Law became one of the pioneer physicians of the city. In the book was found a letter
written by James G. Cooper of the New York Tribune, dated June 14, 1889 and addressed to
Henry T. West, Bruce F. Johnson, Benjamin H. Eaton, J. Max Clark and others
regarding plans of the pioneers to erect a suitable statue of Horace Greeley. There was also found
a wedding announcement addressed to Henry T. West and family announcing the marriage
of Ida, daughter of James G. Cooper of the New York Tribune, to William P. Robinson.
This was dated 1888. There were bills and receipts for some of the first alfalfa seed brought into the Greeley district in 1872. In I June 1889 people of Greeley sub- , scribed $B5 for the relief of survivors of the Johnstown flood and a receipt addressed to Henry T. West was Included in the collection. "
The Fort Collins Coloradoan in February 1883 carried a Denver business.
In 1885 Weld County, Harry is a rancher, 27, James Henshaw 26 a laborer born in Nebraska.
On the same census page is Thomas Richie and family. Thomas claimed land in 7 North 53 West - so likely they both are in the current Logan County.
Harry claimed a quarter in section 29,
8N 52W in 1886.
March 1888 Greeley "Harry West of Denver is Greeley recently. Harry is running a commission house."
January 1906 Greeley " Harry T. West returned to Denver last Friday after two weeks visit with ids father, li. T. West"
June 16, 1910 
November 1915 the Springfield, Colorado advertisement:
In April 1918 the Hugo, Colorado Range Leader:
In 1930 Klamath,
Jesse H. Keller is
21,
Elsie F. Keller
20
Wife, and
Harry T. West 72 Roomer is a novelty salesman.
January 1934 Klamath Falls - " The first prosecution In Klamath county under the Knox bill was started Tuesday when complaints were filed against Harry West and Hugh L. Reisen ot Fort Klamath. West is charged with unlawful possession of liquor, and Reisen with unlawful possession and sale. The development grew out of a visit to the Fort Klamath country Monday by deputy sheriffs, who reported they investigated liquor conditions there. After a conference between the officers and the district attorney, the charges were filed under the Knox bill."
Harry T. West
BIRTH
1858
Wisconsin,
DEATH
17 Jul 1939
Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon,
BURIAL
Linkville Pioneer Cemetery
Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon,
PLOT
22-9-29
MEMORIAL ID
28605511.
GIPSON
In 1880 Greeley,
Albert E. Gipson is a banker,
31
,
Lina W. Gipson 27 Wife,
Mary F. Gipson
5
Daughter,
Albert W. Gipson
4
Son, and
Ruth C. Gipson
2
Daughter
.
November 1907 " Lawrence Gipson, a former Greeley boy, a grandson of Henry T. West,
after graduating from Oxford college, England, where he was sent on securing the Rhodes scholarship,
has been appointed to the chair of history and languages in the College of Idaho."
Lawrence Henry Gipson was born in Greeley, Colorado, on December 7, 1880. He was the
son of Albert Eugene Gipson, a lawyer and newspaper editor, and Lina Maria (West) Gipson. The
Gipson family lived in various places in Colorado and Idaho before settling in Caldwell, Idaho, in
1893. Young Gipson worked as a stagecoach driver and printer’s “devil” at the Caldwell Tribune
and attended classes at the Academy of the College of Idaho. In 1899, he entered the University of
Idaho in Moscow, and received his B.A. degree in 1903. The following academic year, he served as
an instructor of history and economics at the University of Idaho.
In 1904, Gipson was selected as Idaho’s first Rhodes Scholar. He attended Lincoln College of
Oxford University and received the B.A. degree in 1907. On his return from England, Gipson taught
history and coached debate at the College of Idaho in Caldwell from 1907 to 1910. He spent the
academic year, 1910-1911, at Yale University as a Farnham Fellow in history. In 1911, he accepted
a teaching appointment in the Department of History and Political Science at Wabash College in
Crawfordsville, Indiana, where, with the exception of the year, 1917-1918, he remained until 1924.
Gipson continued his graduate studies at the University of Chicago during the summers of 1912-
1915, and spent the summer of 1917 in military service at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis.
In 1917-1918, Gipson returned to Yale to complete his graduate work, receiving the Ph.D.
degree in 1918 at the age of thirty-seven. While at Yale, he studied under Charles McLean Andrews,
and, against Andrews wishes selected a study of Connecticut loyalist, Jared Ingersoll, as his
dissertation topic. The dissertation was subsequently published as Jared Ingersoll: A Study in
American Loyalism in Relation to British Colonial Government by Yale University Press in 1920,
and was awarded the Justin Winsor Prize by the American Historical Association in 1921.
After his graduation from Yale, Gipson began to formulate plans for a more comprehensive
study of the period covered by the Ingersoll biography. His initial intention was to examine in
detail the whole of the British Empire for the dozen years preceding the American Revolution.
Realizing the need to be closer to the primary research collections for such a study, Gipson accepted
the post of head of the Department of History and Government at Lehigh University in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, in 1924. He continued in this position until 1946, when he was appointed research
professor of history. He spent the academic year, 1951-1952, in England as the Harold Vyvyan
Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Upon his return to Lehigh, he was
made professor emeritus of history.
He was married on October 8, 1909, to Jeannette Reed of Sioux City, Iowa, a teacher and
artist. Gipson died on September 26, 1971 at the age of ninety. He is buried in Caldwell, Idaho.
"When Lawrence Henry Gipson died in 1971, he left his entire estate, including his personal
and professional papers, to Lehigh University. With resources from the estate, Lehigh established
the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1972 as a memorial to its
best-known scholar and one of America’s most noted historians. The chief aim of the Gipson
Institute is to promote understanding of the Eighteenth century from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives. To this end, the Institute holds annual symposia, awards research grants and
Fellowships, and sponsors other programs in eighteenth-century studies.
In 1983, the Institute’s council made available funds for processing of the Gipson Papers
and preparation of this Guide. The papers (103 Boxes and 8 oversized drawers) have been
arranged into five series, reflecting the major types of materials contained in the collection. The
Guide provides descriptive summaries of the contents of each of the five Series, and box and folder
inventories for Series I, II, III, and V. A biographical sketch of Gipson, a general analysis of the
arrangement preface the series descriptions and inventories. At the end of the Guide are indexes to
prominent correspondents and major subjects represented in the papers.
The Gipson Papers will be open, by appointment, for research beginning in January, 1985.
Access to the papers by qualified researchers is unrestricted, with the exception of certain materials
in Series IV. For further information, see the description for Series IV. The papers are currently
housed in the office of the Gipson Institute in Maginnes Hall; however, it is anticipated that they will
be moved to the Linderman Library during 1986. Inquiries prior to 1987 should be addressed to
the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Maginnes Hall 9, Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015. Beginning in 1987, letters should be directed to the
Linderman Library 30, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015.
As is often the case in preparing a guide of this kind, the archivist had assistance and
support from many quarters. I would like to acknowledge the contributions of two of Gipson’s
research associates: Jean Stauffer Hudson, for her extensive preliminary organization of the
materials in Series IV; and Jere Knight, for her unique insights into Gipson’s life and work. I would
also like to thank a number of my Lehigh colleagues for their advice and assistance: Lawrence
Leder, Berry G. Richards, William G. Shade, W. Ross Yates, and especially, James S. Saeger, director
of this project.
Diane Windham Shaw
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
August 3, 1984"
GEORGE
September 24, 1908 " The wedding of Miss Ollie West, a granddaughter of Gen. Henry T. West,
the only surviving member of the locating committee who founded the town of Greeley,
and Alexander Trelease, formerly of London, now of Telluride, took place Wednesday."
October 1910 Ordway, Colorado "A culmination of an acquaintance formed while attending Colorado
college, Mr. P. S. West and Miss Jean Vaughn were united in marriage at the home of
the bride's parents in Clearfield, Iowa, on Wednesday, October 12th. Mr. West is a son of
George H. West, for many years in the real estate business here and is at present making his home
in Ordway while overseeing the harvesting of apples from his large orchards between Ordway and Olney.
and a grandson of Henry T. West, a prominent and influential citizen of Greeley. Colorado.
He is a young man of sound physique, good morals and plenty of personal magnetism and will,
without doubt, make rapid progress on the road to fame and fortune. He has made many friends
in Ordwav during the short time he has resided here. The bride comes from a good Iowa family
and has already endeared herself to many of our people by her womanly ways and pleasant disposition.
After a short visit in Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo the happy couple arrived in Ordway
last Sunday and at once started housekeeping in the Trainor house on Sherman avenue,
where they will reside until spring, when they expect to remove to Portland, Oregon,
where the groom will engage in the real estate business with his father. The New Era
joins with their many friends in wishing them a long and happy wedded life."
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