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Catherine Ellen "Helen" Brown (July 22, 1889 – September 18, 1970) was born in Leadville, Colorado. [5] She married George Joseph Peter Adelheid Benziger (1877–1970) on April 7, 1913, in Chicago , Illinois , with whom she bore two sons, James George Benziger (1914–1995) and George Peter Joseph Adelrich Benziger (1917–1985).
He moved to Leadville, Colorado, in 1879, and started his career in mining. Five years later, he formed a partnership with George M. Robinson, and became the owner of several lucrative mines, including the Harvard, Penrose and El Dorado. McDonald entered politics as mayor of Leadville, a position he held from 1899 to 1905.
According to cemetery records, she was born May 31st, 1874, but her obituary in the Salida Daily Mail-Record notes that she was born May 31, 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri. [2] It was also possible she was born May 31, 1871 on a farm in Mobile, Alabama. [3] Evans became a sex worker in the 1890s. She got married at 17 years old to John Cooper ...
In Fairplay, Colorado, at the South Park City Museum, the Dyer Memorial Chapel is named for Father Dyer. [6] In 1977 he was one of the first inductees into the Colorado Ski & Snowboarding Museum Hall of Fame. [1] Near Turquoise Lake, outside Leadville, Colorado, stands the Father Dyer Campground. [7] [8]
Horace Austin Warner "Haw" Tabor (November 26, 1830 – April 10, 1899), also known as The Bonanza King of Leadville and The Silver King, was an American prospector, businessman, and Republican politician. [1] [2] His success in Leadville, Colorado's silver mines made him one of the wealthiest men in Colorado.
Leadville (/ ˈ l ɛ d v ɪ l / LED-vil) [9] is a statutory city that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] The city population was 2,633 at the 2020 census . [ 7 ]
Born a Scotsman in a Leadville, Colorado log-cabin to John MacDonald and Sarah Elizabeth Harris, his family returned to Poweshiek County, Iowa when he was young. (He attended elementary and high school at public schools in Montezuma, Iowa, the county seat.) His father was a partner in T. Harris & Company, a grain and lumber dealer founded by ...
August Robert Meyer (August 20, 1851 – December 1, 1905) was an American mining engineer, founding organizer of Leadville, Colorado, and developed the park and boulevard system for Kansas City, Missouri as first president of the Commission of Parks.