Colorado

Treaty of February 18, 1861

Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at Fort Wise, in the Territory of Kansas, on the eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, by and between Albert G. Boone and F. B. Culver, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the following named chiefs and delegates, representing the confederated tribes of Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River, viz: Little Raven, Storm, Shave-Head, and Big-Mouth, (on the part of the Arapahoes), and Black Kettle, White Antelope, Lean Bear, Little Wolf, and Left Hand, or Namos … Read more

Treaty of October 14, 1865 – Treaty of Little Arkansas River

Treaty of Little Arkansas River Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the camp on the Little Arkansas River, in the State of Kansas, on the fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, by and between John B. Sanborn, William S. Harney, Thomas Murphy, Kit Carson, William W. Bent, Jesse H. Leavenworth, and James Steele, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned, chiefs and head-men of and representing the confederate tribes of Arrapahoe and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River, they being duly authorized by … Read more

Eastdale Cemetery Records, Costilla County, Colorado

CLAPP Moudy C., b. 29 Dec. 1887, d. 14 Sept. 1900, ae. 12 yrs., 8 mos., 15 days. Born in Sanford, Conejos Co., Colorado. Child of Elija Clapp and Mary Nealson. William H., b. 19 May 1892, d. 19 May 1892. Eastdale, Costilla Co., Colorado. Son of Elija Clapp and Mary Nealson. DUNN Willard Oliver, b. 6 Jan. 1905, d. 18 Feb. 1905, ae. 6 weeks. Born in Eastdale, Costilla Co., Colorado. Son of Simeon Harmon Dunn and Annie Bulette Jensen. JENSEN Helena Sophia, b. 24 Apr. 1856, d. 26 Sept. 1902., ae. 46 yrs., 5 mos., 2 days. Born … Read more

Eggleston Cemetery Records, Douglas County, Colorado

(on Highway 83) BARKER Martha D, 1838 – 1879. Wife of G. W. Barker. Infant Martha buried in same grave with her mother. Martha, d. 1879. Child of Martha D. and G. W. Barker. H. Fonder grave was in same fenced enclosure with Martha Barker. Possibly indicating relationship. BRYANT Z. T. This name was taken from a knife carved board. It was imbedded in the ground and stood upright. FONDER H., d. 14 July 1874, ae. 36 yrs., 1 mo., 5 days. Next to Martha Barker. KOCH Elizabeth, b. 1810, d. 15 July 1874. Born in Austria (Kmithen?). MCCARY Mary … Read more

Biography of Chalkley M. Beeson

The recent death of Buffalo Bill brings to mind how few of the old western plainamen are left. One of the best known to Kansans of that picturesque class of Americans is alive and vigorous at Dodge City, and Chalkley M. Beeson, although he has rubbed shoulders with Generals Custer and Sheridan, Buffalo Bill and the Grand Duke Alexis (sou of a Russian czar), and was, during the earlier period of his manhood, an active flgure in the unrecorded movies of the wild and woolly West, has been settled these many years as a solid, prosperous farmer and state legislator … Read more

Biography of Marshall M. Murdock

Marshall M. Murdock, a pioneer journalist of Kansas, the founder of the Wichita Eagle and one of the marked men of the commonwealth, was born in the Pierpont settlement of what is now West Virginia, in 1837. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and his father married into the Governor Pierpont family. Soon after his marriage the family moved to Ironton, Southern Ohio, and there Marshall Murdock attended the public schools and commenced to learn the printer’s trade. Thomas Murdock, the father, was unsuccessful in his business venture, and, as he had an abhorrence of slavery and Kansas was then the … Read more

Biography of John Baptist Miege

John Baptist Miege, first Catholic bishop of Kansas, was born in 1815, the youngest son of a wealthy and pions family of the parish of Chevron, Upper Savoy, France. At an early age he was committed to the care of his brother, the director of the episcopal seminary of Moutiers, and completed his literary studies at the age of nineteen. After spending two more years at the seminary in the study of philosophy, on October 23, 1836, he was admitted to the Society of Jesns. The following eleven years he spent in further study, a portion of the time at … Read more

Biography of Paul J. McBride

Every one who had had any relations with the Department of Labor in the state government during the last year realizes that Governor Capper could not have made a better ehoice for the office of State Labor Commission than when he selected Paul J. McBride for these important responsibilities. To his official duties Mr. McBride brought a long and varied experience, most of it obtained in the ranks of organized labor. He is in close touch with the men who toil and he also had that breadth of mind and sympathies which are the fruit of association with people and … Read more

Biography of Lauren Newell

For more than thirty years Zeandale Township, Riley County, had been the chosen home of Lauren Newell, an old pioneer of this section and an honored veteran of the Civil war. Mr. Newell came to Kansas a youth of nineteen years, in search of material independence, and had done much in the way of making easier the paths of those who came later. After the close of the Civil war settlement in Kansas was rapid, but few found so much hardship as had faced young and old when they reached here in 1858. In his New England home Mr. Newell, … Read more

Biography of Col. Horack L. Moore

Col. Horack L. Moore, of Lawrence, had seen valiant service as a soldier of the Civil war and in after campaigns against the hostile Indians of the West. He had also been a successful business man and banker, had served a term in Congress and is still a local leader in substantial and beneficial enterprises. He is a native of Ohio, born at Mantua, February 25, 1837, and received his higher edueation at the Western Reserve Electric Institute, at Hiram, Ohio. In 1858 he moved to Kansas with his brother Francis, who died a mouth after their arrival in Atchison … Read more

Biography of Roderick Morrison

Roderick Morrison, a well known oil producer and manufacturer at Independence, became identified with the oil industry in the eastern states when a young man, and while other enterprises have engaged him his interests have been continuousty identified with some phase of the petroleum industry through all his active years. Out of his experience he had elaborated one of the important devices used in oil and gas fields, and is now manufacturing it at Independence under the name of the Eclipse Pulling Machine. Mr. Morrison is a Canadian by birth and of Scotch ancestry. His grandfather was Angus Morrison, who … Read more

Biography of George A. Crawford

George A. Crawford, the founder of Fort Scott, a well known editor and public man and several times a gubernatorial candidate, was born in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1827, of Scotch-Irish-German stock. After recejving an aendemie education and graduating from Jefferson College, he taught school in Kentucky and Mississippi, when he returned to Pennsylvania to study law. While still reading for the bar, he became edjtor and proprietor of the Clinton Demoernt. During the early ’50s he took an active part in politics against the Know-Nothings and in 1855 was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Demeratie State Couvention. In … Read more

Slave Narrative of Charley Williams

Person Interviewed: Charley Williams Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Date of Birth: Jan. 11, 1843 Age: 94 Iffen I could see better out’n my old eyes, and I had me something to work with and de feebleness in my back and head would let me ‘lone, I would have me plenty to eat in de kitchen all de time, and plenty tobaccy in my pipe, too, bless God! And dey wouldn’t be no rain trickling through de holes in de roof, and no planks all fell out’n de flo’ on de gallery neither, ’cause dis one old nigger knows everything about making … Read more

Biography of Edwin H. Wagner

Edwin H. Wagner, of the firm of Edwin H. Wagner & Company, certified public accountants of St. Louis, was born in Laramie City, Wyoming, October 6, 1873, a son of Henry and Susan (Cantwell) Wagner. The father’s birth occurred in Ohio and during the Civil war he served with the Halleck Guards and participated in the siege of Jackson and other important engagements that led up to the final victory that crowned the Union arms. The mother was a grandniece of General Joseph Warren, who commanded -the troops at Bunker Hill, where he gave his life for the cause of … Read more

Biography of Alonzo Leo Fitzporter, M. D.

Dr. Alonzo Leo Fitzporter, physician and surgeon of St. Louis, in which city he was born July 23, 1884, is a son of Dr. John L. Fitzporter, who passed away June 15, 1915, at the age of seventy-six years, having long figured prominently as a representative of the medical profession in this city. Dr. A. L. Fitzporter attended the parochial schools of St. Louis and afterward became a student in the St. Louis University, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1906 and then entered upon his medical course, winning his M. D. degree in … Read more

Colorado WW2 NMCG Casualty List – A Surnames

ABEYTA, Bonnie, Pfc, USMC. Father, Mr. Adolph Abeyta, 1012 Catalpa St., Pueblo. ABLES, Charles George, Seaman 2c, USN. Mother, Mrs. C. E. Walker, Box 14, Nucla. ABRAHAMSON, Arthur, Chief Commissary Steward, USNR. Brother, Mr. Vincent Abrahamson, 3145 Race St., Denver. ACKLEY, Robert L., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Ackley, Route 2, Walsh. ADAMS, George F., Pfc, USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Adams, 2700 So. Clarkson St., Englewood. ADAMS, James Edward, Carpenter’s Mate 2c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Rosanna Adams, Yuma. ADAMSON, James Marshall, Fireman 1c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Andrew Adamson, 918 Central St., Evans. … Read more

Colorado WW2 NMCG Casualty List – B Surnames

BARRETT, Kenneth Eugene, Radioman 2c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Flossie Baker Carey, Shenandoah Dives Mine, Silverton. BARTLETT, Clarence Edward, Lt., (jg), USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon E. Bartlett, Dove Creek. BAUER, Joseph Paul, Jr., Aviation Radioman 3c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bauer, Sr., 1601 S. Steele St., Denver. BEALE, Donald H., Pvt., USMC. Mother, Mrs. Madge Beale, 1235 Carteret Ave., Pueblo. BEARD, Lonnie Edward, Pfc., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Beard, R. R. No. 1, Wheatridge. BEAUDOUX, Robert B., Cpl., USMC. Mother, Mrs. Gertrude Beaudoux, 406 So. 8th St., Rocky Ford. BECK, Waldemar H., Pfc., USMCR. … Read more

Colorado WW2 NMCG Casualty List – L Surnames

LA BRUE, George R., Cpl., USMCR. Wife, Mrs. George R. LaBrue, 5045 Bryant St., Denver. LAMPTON, Alvin Leroy, Torpedoman’s Mate 3c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Thelma Louise Martin, Westminster. LANDWEHR, Mathew L., Pvt., USMC. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Landwehr, Gen. Del., Arriba. LARA, Eddie Manuel, Soundman 3c, USN. Aunt and Uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Narcisco Valdez, 1911 Cedar St., Pueblo. LAWLEY, Alvin Wilferd, Pfc., USMCR. Wife, Mrs. Nora L. Lawley, Box 192, Erie. LAWSON, Charles Thomas, Cpl., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Eleanor Schmachtenberger, Broomfield. LAWSON, Edward A., Cpl., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Edith F. Vestal, 1819 E. Fifth St., Pueblo. … Read more

Colorado WW2 NMCG Casualty List – W Surnames

WAGNER, John Franklin, Aviation Radioman 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zoll E. Wagner, Box 153, Springfield. WALL, Carl Joseph, Seaman 2c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Stella Mae Wall, 1318 So. York St., Denver. WALLACE, Francis Hall, Signalman 3c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. Blanch Elinor Wallace, E. 8th Ave., Denver. WALSH, John K., Platoon Sgt., USMC. Father, Mr. William F. Walsh, 117 Midway Ave., Pueblo. WALTERS, Donald Henry, Fireman 1c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Alma Lucille Walters, 2522 W. Cucharras, Colorado Springs. WALTERS, Herman R., Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Barbara B. Walters, 225 13th St., Greeley. WARD, Frank J., Jr., USMC. Parents, Mr. … Read more