On the job: Circa 1800s

POLITICAL

1877 — William Watrous was appointed in March to the first state board of agriculture and will assume the position of President. Watrous, a native of Pennsylvania, previously served on the board of county supervisors in Wisconsin.

1900 — Larimer County recently announced its officers for the 1900 year. New officers include: J.H. Sargisson, county commissioner; H.E. Tedmon, county clerk; Clark Smith, county treasurer; John A. Cross, sheriff; M.Y. Osborn, assessor; Mary E. Gill, county superintendent; Walter Gough, coroner; and Emmet McAnelly, surveyor.

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MEDIA

1873 — Anna Dickinson, a journalist with the New York Tribune, recently climbed Longs Peak in Estes Park. Dickinson plans to write an account of her experience, which locals hope will provide Estes Park with some publicity on the east coast.

1900 — William T. Drannan has published “Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains,” a work that recounts his experiences as a hunter, trapper and scout in the wilder lands of Larimer County.

1901 — The Loveland Register was recently joined by George C. Briggs. Briggs, who previously worked in the mercantile business of Evans, will serve as the newspaper’s new business manager.

LAW

1862 — Joseph Slade recently assumed the position of desperado for Larimer County. Slade, previously a division superintendent with Overland Stagecoaches, was awarded the designation of outlaw after killing Andrew Farrar of Wyoming and later attacking a coach near Laporte.

1906 — George Carlson has been appointed deputy district attorney of Larimer County. Carlson, who has his own law office in Fort Collins, previously attended the Agricultural College at Fort Collins and received his A.B. degree from Colorado University in Boulder.

TRANSPORTATION

1881 — Virgil W. Stoddard has taken up a partnership with George Foote in Loveland to pursue a possible point of entry into the livery business. Both Stoddard and Foote are former residents of Greeley. Foote also operates the stage line between Loveland and Estes Park.

TECHNOLOGY

1860 — Joe Davis of the St. Vrain Valley has co-founded the Pella Grist Mill. The mill, which is located approximately half a mile west of Fort Pella, is powered by moving water; water channeled through a ditch-system of Davis’ design rotates a wheel which in turn rotates stone implements within the mill that grind grain.

1903 — Freelan Stanley, a former resident of Massachusetts, has introduced Colorado to the Stanley Steamer — a steam-powered “horseless carriage” invented by Stanley and his twin brother. Stanley has already driven the machine from Lyons to Estes Park in half the time it takes a four-horse stagecoach to make the journey.

EDUCATION

1871 — Byron L. Carr has been named the first schoolmaster of Longmont. Carr will begin classes this summer as the program’s only teacher and classes will be held in Library Hall at 335 Pratt St., Longmont.

1897 — The Colorado State Agricultural College in Fort Collins announced on Jan. 1 that Edward B. House has been named to the position of professor of Mathematics. House, who joined the College on Sept. 1 of last year as an assistant in mathematics and physics, was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

1909 — Charles Alfred Lory has been selected as the new president of the Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins. Lory was previously a ditch rider for Weld County and superintendent for the Big Cut Lateral and Reservoir Company for five years. He earned a Ped. B degree from the State Normal School of Colorado in 1898 and a B.S. from the University of Colorado in 1901 and has been a professor of physics and electrical engineering at the Colorado Agricultural College since 1907.

AGRIBUSINESS

1862 — On August 1, John and Emily Coy, formerly of Cuba, Mo., settled in the Cache La Poudre valley and are preparing to launch operation of their new farm.

HEALTHCARE

1904 — Mary D. Reckly has opened a physician’s office in Fort Collins. Reckly, a native of Hillsboro, Ohio, was educated at the University of Denver, where she received an A.B. degree. She has also received degrees in medicine and osteopathy and has the distinction of being the first woman physician to offer services in Fort Collins.

MANAGEMENT

1907 — George Clammer recently became a partner with H.H. Wallis & Co., a grocery and baking business located at the old McIntosh stand on College Avenue in Fort Collins.