I am Rebecca Maloney, Webmistress and Coordinator for this Phillips County, Colorado site. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make. Many thanks go to Vicki Conklin and Aileene Vance for all of the hard work they put into this genealogy website.
STATE HERALD, Holyoke, Phillips, Colorado
J.H. Painter, Editor
and Publisher
10 Jul 1908, Friday, Vol. 21 - No. 50
Page One
PHILLIPS COUNTY
Phillips County was formerly a part of
Weld County and the county seat of our earliest settlers was Greeley
150 miles away, while the would-be homesteader filed at Denver.
When Weld County was divided, in March 1887, the eastern part was
called Logan County with Sterling as the county seat. Logan County was
afterward divided in March 1889 and part of the eastern portion was
called Phillips County with Holyoke for the county seat.
Phillips County lies between north latitude 49 deg. 44 min. 21.18 sec.
on the north and 40 deg. 26 min. 5.44 sec. on the south and west
longitude 102 deg. 39 min. 28.02 sec. on the west and 102 deg. 2 min.
58.53 sec. on the east. Holyoke is 40 deg. 34 min. 47.22 sec. north
latitude and 102 deg. 17 min. 47.76 sec. west longitude. A degree of
latitude at Holyoke is 68.994 miles long and a degree of longitude 52.6
miles.
Phillips County is 32 miles long and 21 miles wide with
an area of 672 square miles. The altitude of the eastern part of the
county is 3,500 above sea level while the western is 4,100 feet above
the sea, or 600 feet higher than the eastern portion, making a rise of
over 19 feet per mile.
The altitude of Holyoke is 3,734 feet,
Haxtun 4,062. Although Sterling is only 76 feet higher than Holyoke the
highest point of land between here and Sterling is 4,500 feet above the
sea or 766 feet higher than Holyoke. The lay of the land is what is
generally called a level surface except in the southeastern part where
the sand hills are situated.
The magnesia which we use for
plastering sod houses, is composed of small shells from the size of a
pea down to nothing. It is found at almost any depth.
The
Frenchman rises in Logan County and extends across our county from west
to east but does not become a flowing stream until it enters Nebraska.
There are no bullfrogs or fish in this county except those which were
brought in by man.
The underground water of this county is not
one great lake as is generally supposed, but consists of different
water levels. The bottom of the wells in the Haxtun country are a
hundred feet above the top of the standpipe at Holyoke. The depth of
the wells vary from 72 feet in the eastern part to 200 feet in the
west.
S.C. Evans, the first settler, pre-empted on the sw
quarter of 12-3-43 in June 1885. He put down the first dug well in the
county on the new quarter of 19-8-43 in 1886. It as 150 feet deep. Mr.
Evans still farms this land.
Our first county superintendent
was Oscar Trego.
Holyoke was started at 1 p.m. Wednesday
September 21, 1887 when George E. Clark bought the first lot where C.M.
Mowry’s hardware store is now situated for $1,400. The B. & M. well at
Holyoke was put down in September 1887. It has a six inch casing, 57
feet of water, and a capacity of 85,000 gallons per day. It is 187 feet
deep.
The first newspaper published at Holyoke was the Logan
County News, the first number of which was issued August 9th 1887 in a
little sod shanty near the Gordon house with B.F. Williams as editor.
The State Herald was founded September 10, 1887 in a little shack
southwest of the stockyards, with C.W. Painter and W.N. Jordan as
editors. Afterwards the State Herald and the News were combined with
J.H. Painter as editor and proprietor.
The first child born in
this county was Glendora Fair. She was born May 24, 1886 on section
18-8-43.
School district 78, the first district in the county
was organized December 15 1886 with Anna Larkins as its first teacher.
It included all of township 7-44 and had 44 scholars.
Phillips
County High School was voted for in November 1900. It was organized
February 22, 1901 with Prof. O.E. Jackson as its first principal and I
think you will agree with me that our high school is a credit to this
county.
-- Paper read by J.B. Worley at the 8th grade
graduating exercises June 12 1908.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
Dr. Irving Daniel Ramsay
Magdalena Miller
Edwards Family
County Officials
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Coordinator - Rebecca Maloney
State Coordinator: Rebecca Maloney
Asst. State Coordinators: Betty Baker
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Indiana and do not have access to additional records.
