COLORADO LEGISLATURE.

SENATE.

Lafayette Head, Lt. Governor, President; Geo. T. Clark, Secretary. The Senate consists of twenty-six members, who hold their office for four years and receive a compensation of four dollars for each day’s attendance.

George T. Clark, (Rep.), of Denver, Arapahoe county, was born in Douglas, Worcester county, Mass., February 24, 1873; received a common school education; moved to Wisconsin in 1849, and to Colorado in the spring of 1860; was agent at Denver of the Western Stage Company and Henckley & Co.’s Express until 1861; was connected with Clark, Gruber & Co.’s Banking House and Mint, and was appointed Treasurer of the Territory of Colorado by Governor Gilpin; was also Treasurer of Arapahoe county and the city of Denver in 1863, and became partner in the banking house of Clark & Co.; was a member of the Constitutional Conventions of 1864-5; was elected Mayor of Denver in 1865, and with Hon. Jerome B. Chaffee, organized the First National Bank of Denver, of which he was Cashier, until October 1, 1866, when he took charge of the banking house of George T. Clark & Co., at Central and Georgetown. He was Assistant Secretary of the Legislative Council of 1870, and was appointed Territorial Treasurer by Gov. McCook, and re-appointed in 1872; was delegate to every Republican Convention held in the Territory; was Secretary of the State Republican Central Committee in the campaign of 1876, and was chosen Secretary of the Senate November 1, 1876.

First District consists of Weld county. Population, 6,000.

Silas B. A. Haynes, (Rep.), of Greeley, was born in Livermore, Androscoggin county, Maine, September 30, 1828; received his education at the Monmouth Academy and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary; is by profession an attorney-at-law; migrated to Wisconsin and settled at Green Bay, where he became associated in his profession with James Howe, Esq., afterwards Attorney-General of that State. At the commencement of the war of the rebellion he entered the army, receiving an appointment in the paymaster’s department with the rank of Major, and was mustered out of service with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He then made Milwaukee his home. Two years afterwards he was appointed an officer of the United States Senate, which position he held four years; came to Colorado in 1871 and located at Greeley; was Probate Judge of Weld county for three years; was elected to the Senate, receiving 742 votes against 498 for David C. Wyatt, Democrat.

Second District consists of Larimer county. Population, 3,500.

Norman H. Meldrum, (Rep.), of Fort Collins, was born in Caledonia, Livingston county, New York, October 11, 1841; he received a common school education. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in company B, 100th regiment, New York infantry; served under General McClellan through the Chickahominy campaign, and participated in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks and the Seven Days’ Fight. He was subsequently commissioned second Lieutenant in the 21st regiment New York cavalry, and did service in the Shenandoah Valley; was aide on the staff of General Hunter during his raid to Lynchburg; shared in the valley campaigns under Sheridan, and was present in eighteen general engagements. At the close of the war he was ordered to Colorado, and was mustered out of service as Captain, July 13, 1866; was City Treasurer of Cheyenne in 1867, and Assessor of Larimer county for two years; was a member of the last Territorial Legislature, and on October 3, 1876, was elected to the First State Legislature, receiving 332 votes against 313 for William C. Stover, Democrat.

Third District consists of Boulder county, and has two Senators. Population, 12,000.

James P. Maxwell, (Rep.), of Boulder, was born in Walworth county, Wisconsin, June 20, 1839; was educated at the Lawrence University, Wisconsin; is by occupation a civil engineer; came to Colorado in June, 1860; represented the county of Boulder in the Legislature of 1872, and again in 1874; was a member of the School Board for two years, and was appointed Deputy United States Land Surveyor in 1872, and still holds that position. In 1876 he was elected to the Senate of the first State Legislature, receiving 1,484 votes, against 1,039 for J. C. Hummel, Democrat.

Theodore O. Saunders, (Rep.), of Sunshine, was born in Augusta, Kennebec county, Maine, August 5, 1810. Until his 22d year he attended at intervals the public schools and then entered Waterville College, Maine, but at the close of the second year, was obliged, through ill health, to desist from his studies. He spent nearly twenty years in Waterville, and was chosen Chairman of the Board of Select-men, was Grand Treasurer and Grand Worthy Associate, and was offered the Patriarchship in the Order of the Sons of Temperance. During the war of the rebellion he enlisted as a private, but was shortly afterwards promoted to Orderly Sergeant, and served for nearly two years when he was discharged on account of sickness. He came to Colorado in 1866, and settled in Douglas county, where he held the office of Justice of the Peace for two years; was delegate to the Republican Convention at Boulder in 1876, and was nominated by that body as a candidate to represent the county of Boulder in the first State Legislature. On October the 3d, 1876, he was elected to the Senate, receiving 1,438 votes against 1,028 for A. D. Miles, Democrat.

Fourth District, consists of Gilpin county. Population 9,000.

Lewis C. Rockwell, (Rep.), of Central City, was born in Esperance, Schoharie county, New York, in 1840; was educated at the High School in Beloit, Wisconsin; came to Colorado in 1862; is by profession an attorney-at-law; in 1869 he was appointed United States District Attorney for Colorado, which position he held for four years. In 1875 he represented the county of Gilpin in the Constitutional Convention, and in 1870 he was again chosen from Gilpin county to the Senate of the first State Legislature, receiving 1,011 votes against 757 for John C. McShane, Democrat.

Fifth District, consists of the counties of Gilpin, Summit and Grand. Population 11,800.

William W. Webster, (Rep.), of Montezuma, was born in Wellington, Lorain county, Ohio, November 26, 1835; was educated at the public schools of his native State; is by occupation a stock-raiser and miner; came to Colorado in June, 1859; represented the county of Summit in the Legislature of 1866; was elected to the Council in 1868 of which he was the presiding officer. In 1870 he was again elected to the Council, and in 1872 to the House of Representatives. In 1875 he was chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and in October 1876, was elected to the Senate, and now occupies the chair as president pro tem. of that body. He received 1,325 votes against 1,032 for David D. Belden, Democrat.

Sixth District, consists of Clear Creek county, and has two Senators. Population 10,000.

William A. Hamill, (Rep.), of Georgetown, was born in England August 21, 1836; received a collegiate education partly in England and partly in the United States; is by occupation a miner; during the war was adjutant in the 156th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers; came to Colorado in July, 1865. In 1876, at the first State election, he was elected to the Senate, receiving 1,115 votes against 976 for Joseph Van De Voort, Democrat.

Albert Johnson, (Rep.), of Georgetown, was born in Berkshire county, Mass., in 1837. He attended a public school in Pittsfield, and completed his education at an academy in Stockbridge, Mass., having devoted much attention to civil and mining engineering, the profession he subsequently adopted. He removed from Pittsfield to the West in 1856, and settled in Evanston, near Chicago, and in 1857 located in Wisconsin, where he explored and established a post route and military road through the wilderness from Appleton to Lake Superior, and was elected to the offices of county clerk and county surveyor, and re-elected without an opposing vote. He married the youngest daughter of the Hon. Joel S. Fisk, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and removed to Chicago, where he engaged in the insurance business. In 1866 he came to Colorado and settled in Georgetown, where he has been occupied as civil and mining engineer and deputy United States surveyor of mineral lands. He was a member of seven and chairman of two committees in the Senate, to which he was elected October, 1876, receiving 1,113 votes against 963 for Robert W. Steele, Democrat.

Seventh District, consists of Jefferson county. Population 5,500.

Allison H. De France, (Dem.), of Golden, was born in Mercer, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1835. He was educated at Alleghany College, Meadville, and at Westminster, New Wilmington, Penn.; is by profession an attorney-at-law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859; came to Colorado in June, 1861, and settled at Golden in 1868, where he pursued the practice of law; represented the county of Jefferson in the Legislature of 1870; was a member of the Council in 1872, and was county attorney for one year. In October, 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 565 votes against 559 for Joseph T. Boyd, Republican.

Eighth District, consists of Arapahoe county and has four Senators. Population 28,000.

Joseph E. Bates, (Rep.), of Denver, was born in Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York, May 3, 1838; received an ordinary education; is a capitalist, and largely engaged in commercial pursuits; came to Colorado in 1860, and located in Denver, where he became alderman of the first ward, which position he held for four years; represented Arapahoe county in the Legislature of 1872, and while serving in this capacity was elected Mayor of Denver. He is President of the St. Louis Land and Mining Company, also of the Boulder Valley Coal Company, and of the Denver Brewing Company. In Oct., 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 2,278 votes against 1,644 for A. J. Williams, Democrat.

Lewis C. Ellsworth, (Rep.), of Denver, was born in Troy, N. Y., June 30, 1832; was educated at Naperville, Ill.; removed to Chicago in 1852 where he followed the banking business; is a capitalist; came to Colorado in 1871, and located in Denver, where he engaged in the construction of the Denver Street Railway, of which he is now President. In 1875 he was elected delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and in 1876 he represented the county of Arapahoe in the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 2,345 votes against 1,615 for A. P. Hereford, Democrat.

Alfred Butters, (Rep.), of Denver, was born in Penobscot county, Maine, May 27, 1836, and was educated in the common schools of his State, and at the Bucksport Seminary. At the age of twenty he became a teacher and was thus occupied in Kansas and Missouri for about three years; removed to Colorado in 1866 and engaged in stock-raising, and located in Denver in 1871. In 1874 he was elected to the Legislature from Arapahoe county; in 1876 he again represented the county of Arapahoe, and was chosen Speaker of the House. At the close of this session the House of Representatives in testimony of their high appreciation of his services as Speaker, presented him with a costly gold-headed cane and a silver tea set. In October, 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 2,308 votes against 1,692 for Charles F. Leimer, Democrat.

Hiram P. Bennet, (Rep.), of Denver, was born in Carthage, Maine, September 2, 1826; received a common school education in Ohio; is an attorney-at-law. In 1852 he was elected to a judgship in western Iowa; moved to Nebraska Territory in 1854, and was elected a member of the Territorial Council; in 1858 he was re-elected to the Nebraska Legislature and made Speaker of the House; came to Colorado in September, 1859, and in 1861 was chosen a delegate to the Thirty-Seventh Congress; and in October, 1862, was re-elected to the Thirty-Eighth Congress. In 1869 he was appointed Postmaster at Denver, which position he held until 1874. In 1876 he was elected to the Senate, receiving 2,251 votes against 1,622 for Alonzo Rice, Democrat.

Ninth District, consists of the counties of Bent and Elbert. Population 5,500.

Eugene Gaussoin, (Dem.), of Higbee, was born in Liege, Belgium, July 5, 1812; received his education at the University of Liege, Anthenaeum of Brussels and School of Mines; is a mining engineer; was captain of artillery in Belgium; came to Colorado July, 1873. In 1876 he was elected to the Senate, receiving 508 votes against 355 for G. M. Woodworth, Republican.

Tenth District, consists of El Paso county. Population 5,750.

Edwin S. Randall, (Rep.), of Colorado Springs, was born at Mount Holly, Rutland county, Vermont, June 23, 1831; was educated at the University of Salem, and at the Washington Academy, Washington, New Hampshire; is a stock-raiser and the possessor of 11,000 acres of land; came to Colorado in the spring of 1859; was probate judge of El Paso county for four years. In 1876 he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 709 votes against 395 for Rodney Quimby, Democrat.

Eleventh District, consists of Douglas county. Population 3,500.

James K. Gardner, (Rep.), of Frankstown, was born in Attica, New York, November 2, 1834; received a common school education; came to Colorado in June, 1859; was in the 3d regiment, called to serve one hundred days. In 1862 he was elected County Clerk of Douglas county, retaining the office for three years, and appointed postmaster at Frankstown, which position he still occupies. He was Treasurer of Douglas county from 1865 to 1871, and represented the counties of Arapahoe and Douglas in the Legislature of 1866, and Douglas county in 1872. In October 1876 he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 294 votes against 282 for James M. Nimerick, Democrat.

Twelfth District consists of Park county. Population 4,500.

James Moynahan, (Rep.), of Alma, was born in Greenville, Wayne county, Michigan; received a common school education and a full course at Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial College; is by occupation a miner. During the war he entered the army as private, was promoted and mustered out of service as captain of the 27th Michigan infantry. He came to Colorado in August, 1876; was Commissioner of Park county for three years; was postmaster at Alma, and in 1876 resigned to enter upon his duties as State Senator, receiving 437 votes against 427 for James Y. Marshall, Democrat.

Thirteenth District consists of the counties of Lake and Saguache. Population 4,800.

Jason B. Hall, (Rep.), of Villa Grove, was born in Williston, Chittenden county, Vermont; received a common school education; is by occupation a stock-raiser; represented Lake county in the Territorial Legislature of 1870, and in October, 1876, was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 496 votes against 445 for Joseph Hutchinson, Democrat.

Fourteenth District, consists of the county of Fremont. Population 5,250.

James Clelland, (Dem.), of Canon City, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, September 20, 1823; received a common school education, and is by occupation a merchant; came to Colorado in 1862; was a member of the Council in 1876, representing the counties of Fremont, Park, Lake and Saguache. In October, 1876 he was elected Senator to the first State Legislature, receiving 548 votes against 502 for M. N. Megrue, Republican.

Fifteenth District, consists of Pueblo county. Population, 6,500.

Isaac W. Hill, (Dem.), of Pueblo, was born in Rock Springs, Cecil county, Maryland, January 28, 1847; was educated at Westnottingham Academy, Maryland. At the age of nineteen he removed to the west, and engaged in the grain business at Litchfield, Illinois, where he remained one year. He was next employed by a wholesale grocery, and was connected with the branch house that followed the Kansas Pacific Railway, then in course of construction. At Fort Sheridan he formed a co-partnership with Thomas M. Field, and the new firm moved with the road until it reached Kit Carson, where they remained a short time. The firm then located at Colorado Springs, and finally removed to Pueblo. In October, 1876, he was elected to the State Senate, receiving 728 votes against 542 for James Rice, Republican.

Sixteenth District, consists of Huerfano county. Population 5,000.

William B. Hamilton, (Dem.), of La Veta, was born in Westport, Jackson county, Mo., March 30, 1844; was educated at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri; is a stock-raiser and dealer; came to Colorado, December, 1869; was postmaster at Spanish Peaks for three years. In October, 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 548 votes against 447 for Fred. Walsen, Republican.

Seventeenth District consists of the county of Las Animas, and has two Senators.

Daniel L. Taylor, (Dem.), of Trinidad, was born in Cataraugus, Cataraugus county, New York, April 5, 1838; received a common school education, and is by occupation a stock-raiser; came to Colorado May 20, 1859; was Justice of the Peace in Las Animas county for six years, and Probate Judge for one term; in 1874 represented Las Animas county in the Territorial Council, and in October, 1876, was elected to the Senate of the first State Legislature, receiving 969 votes against 695 for Antonio Gutieres, Republican.

Casimiro Barela, (Dem.), of Barela, Colorado, was born in El Embuda, Rio Arriba county, N. M., March 4, 1847, and was educated at Mora, New Mexico, by the Rev. J. B. Salpointe; came to Colorado in 1867; is by occupation a merchant and stock-raiser. On his birthday, March 4, 1867, he was married; in 1870 was elected Assessor of Las Animas county; in 1872 and 1874 represented Las Animas county in the Territorial Legislature; in the fall of 1874 was elected Sheriff of Las Animas county; and in 1875 was chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention. In October, 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 1,186 votes against 577 for George R. Swallow, Republican.

Eighteenth District, consists of Costilla county. Population 2,000.

William H. Meyer, (Rep.), of San Luis, was born in Hanover, Germany, April 14, 1847; was educated at Osnabruck, Germany; migrated to America when fifteen years old and made a short stay at St. Louis; removed to New Mexico, and in July, 1866, came to Colorado and settled in Costilla county, where he was married; is by occupation a stock-raiser; was Clerk of the County and District Court for eight years; represented the counties of Conejos, Costilla and Saguache in the Territorial Legislature of 1870, and Conejos county in 1874; was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1875; in October, 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first State Legislature, receiving 349 votes against 97 for Augustine Lacome, Democrat.

Nineteenth District, consists of Conejos county. Population 2,500.

Juan F. Chacon, (Rep.), of Guadalupe, was born in New Mexico, October, 1837; received a common school education; is by occupation a stock-raiser and farmer; came to Colorado in October, 1855; in October, 1876, was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 321 votes against 225 for C. Valdez, Democrat.

Twentieth District, consists of the counties of Rio Grande, Hinsdale, San Juan and La Plata. Population 12,800.

Henry Henson, (Rep.), of Wagon Wheel Gap, was born in Wayne county, Kentucky, Nov. 12, 1824; received a common school education; was Treasurer of Martin county, Indiana, for four years; came to Colorado April 19, 1860; represented Park county in the Territorial Legislature of 1864, and was also Justice of the Peace; in October, 1876, he was elected to the Senate of the first General Assembly, receiving 1,276 votes against 1,181 for John G. Taylor, Democrat.