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Yuma County Pioneer Photographs:
William F. Hayden, Bryant
1913 Wages items in the Yuma Pioneer "Theo.
Felderman visited the Hayden brothers last week."
William F. Hayden cash-claimed a quarter in section 30, 5N 47W in 1890. This could be about six miles from Eli's claim.
He might be the William Frederick Hayden born January 7, 1870 in Milwaukee to Thomas S. Hayden and Flora P. Matson.
William is a banker in 1900 Denver, born Jan 1870
in Wisconsin, with parents Thomas Hayden 50 a banker
and Flora 49 born in Connecticut. Newell is a minister, 31,
Thomas 24 working in a bank, Lewis A. 17
a mining engineer, and Florence 19 at school.
Thomas died in 1903, and William was the administrator of his estate.
In 1910 Denver, William is treasurer of Central Trust Company, 40, and his father Thomas 71 is president. Flora is 68, and they have two servants.
"Thomas Scott Hayden, President of Denver Union Water
Company and one of Denver and Colorado's most prominent
business and financial men, died suddenly on March 7, 1912,
being stricken with heart disease while at work at his desk.
Several days ago Mr. Hayden had a warning.
Dr. James Rae Arneill advised the financier to take a long
rest. "It is your heart,” the physician said.
But rest, cessation from work, was not in the vocabulary
of Thomas Scott Hayden. So he continued his work,
for when David H. Moffat died and Mr. Hayden took
up the burden as the head of the water company,
he had said: "It is my definite and determined purpose
that so long as I am responsible for the water supply
of the city of Denver, the city shall have the best
and greatest water system of any like city in the
world. Some men may have ambition and never
accomplish their ambition, but I am going to
accomplish my ambition and make this water system the
peer of all. I only want four years more and I will
have accomplished my greatest ambition,"
the financier told W. P. Robinson,
general manager of the water company, only a few
days ago. He is the third president of the water
company to die in harness. Quiet and unassuming,
taking much pride in personal appearance,
despite his 73 years, courteous and affable,
never seeking the public print, or the great white
light of spectacularism for his own personal
ends, Mr. Hayden leaves an indelible mark upon
the pages of Colorado's history. It is estimated
that Mr. Hayden’s wealth will total $5,000,000."
William F. and Katherine C. Hayden divorced in Denver in 1910.
William is president of a realty company in 1920 Denver, 50, married to Caroline 36,
born in New York. Katherine is 5, William 4, Helen L. 3, all born in Colorado, and his mother Flora 70 is widowed. They have three servants.
In 1930 Caroline is in Minneapolis, 47, with William 14 and Helen L. 12. She's living with her partnts George D. Dayton 73 and emma 74.
November 1937 "William Frederick Hayden, resident of Denver for
60 years, passed away last week. He held extensive real estate, mining
and cattle interests in Colorado. He was president of the Charter Oak
Coal company, the Colorado-Routt Coal company and the George Land company.
For many years he was associated with his brother, Thomas,
in the Hayden Brothers Coal company, Hayden. Surviving him are his wife,
St. Claire Okie Hayden; a son, John Okie Hayden, a senior at the
University of Colorado; a sister-in-law, Mrs Lewis Hayden,
three nephews, Thomas, George and Lewis, Jr, and a niece,
Betty, all of Denver; a sister, Mrs. William Lockhart of Palm Beach,
Fla., and a brother, Newell M. Hayden of Pasadena, California.
Two children by a former marriage also survive. They are
William F. Hayden Jr. and Helen M. Hayden, both of Mineapolis."
In 1940 parties to a real estate claim in Denver included "Thos. H. Hayden. C. R. Brlnkmeyer. St. Claire Okie Hayden. Executrix of Estate of William Frederick Hayden, also known as William F. Hayden, dec'd.. Moses Howell and Leo Bach."
In 1944 "C. R. BRINKMEYER, sued WILLIAM F. HAYDEN,
ST. CLAIRE OKIE HAYDEN, HELEN LOUISE HAYDEN, WILLIAM FREDRICK HAYDEN, JR., KATHERINE HAYDKN FORTH..."
Lewis A. Hayden and Carolyn V. Kramer married in Denver on Otober 10, 19066.
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In the 1930s Thomas S. Hayden Realty purchased Downingdale and expanded the property into a 7,000-acre ranch. Those boundaries are the same that still exist for Green Mountain Estates today.
"With more than 2,400 acres of open space, William Frederick Hayden Park on Green Mountain is the second largest park in Lakewood. The park features a challenging network of multi-use trails. The summit, at 6,800 feet, offers unique and stunning views of the Denver metropolitan area to the east, as well as high mountain peaks to the west.
Since 1972, the majority of William Frederick Hayden Park was donated by, or purchased from, the Hayden Family. Once home to the buffalo, this park now provides rich habitat for a diverse array of wildlife, including coyotes, hawks, rattlesnakes, bluebirds, rabbit, mule deer and an occasional mountain lion.
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