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A Brief
Look at Some of Green Mountain's
More Prominent Occupants
CHARLES O’CONNOR was born, October 26, 1878 on a farm near Edina, Knox County, Mo., October 26, 1878. He graduated from the State Teachers’ College, Greeley, Colo., in 1901 and from the law department of the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1904; he was admitted to the bar the same year began practice in Boulder. He served as first assistant attorney general of Colorado 1911-1913; city attorney of Boulder 1917-1918. In 1919 he moved to Tulsa, Okla. and continued to practice law. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931). After an
unsuccessful attempt at re-election he returned to Tulsa, Okla. In failing health, he returned to Boulder in 1936 and died in Denver, Colo., November 15, 1940.
WILEY BLOUNT RUTLEDGE was born July 20, 1894, in Cloverport, KY. He graduated from the University of Wis. in 1914 and attended the University of Colorado Law School
where he earned his LL.B. in 1922. He maintained a private practice in Boulder from 1922-1924 and became an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado, 1924-1926. After several career moves that took him to Washington and Iowa he was nominated to the Federal Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 21, 1939, confirmed by the Senate April 4, 1939, and received his commission on May 2, 1939. His distinguished career next led him the the Supreme Court of the United States where he was seated on February 11, 1943. He remained in this position until his death on September 10, 1949, in York, ME.
DEAN CYRIL REED was born and raised in Colorado, he
was the Elvis Presley of the communist world. Living in East
Berlin, Reed enthusiastically endorsed Soviet politics and
enjoyed immense popularity and fame. At the age of 47, he was
found dead in an East German lake. The mystery of his death has
not been solved. His epitaph reads "AMERICAN REBEL,"
the name of the award-winning documentary of his life which
premiered at the Denver International Film Festival in 1987.
IRA MITCHELL DeLONG, a Professor of Mathematics
at C. U.; President of the Charter Convention which wrote Boulder's
founding charter and a member of the first Colorado Chautauqua
Board of Directors. Professor DeLong is buried next to two of his
wives, the latter a member of the successful manufacturing Sloan
family, whose monument is directly east of the DeLong family's.
Curiously, the date of I.M. DeLong's death has never been
recorded on the headstone.
FRANK STREAMER Pioneer Boulder druggist whose
drug store was a fixture at the NE corner of Broadway and Pearl (now
Ben & Jerry's). With wife Lulu Walker, owned the landmark
Lytle-Hurlburt house, recently relocated to the Walnut Hollow
neighborhood.
GEORGE HARRY McCLURE An early Boulder resident
and dry goods business owner who started as a partner with Jay
Joslin. One of the first Colorado Chautauqua Board of Directors
and one of the first Board of Directors of the Boulder Cemetery
Association, McClure's son Harry built the house at 637 Pine
Street known as the "The McClure House."
PERCY EMMET An Indiana native, Emmet was the
owner of the Boulder Marble & Granite Works, founded in 1892
and supplier of many of the early markers and monuments for Green
Mountain Cemetery. "The Mitchell Emmet House" at 550
Mapleton was owned by his son, Victor. Unlike many family
monuments, both PERCY and EMMET appear on the main headstone,
although a number of other Emmets are also buried in the plot.
PENFIELD TATE Boulder's first African-American
mayor and a well-loved politician of recent times.
A. A. and ANNIE LAURIE PADDOCK Named after former
Colorado Governor Alva Adams and thus nicknamed "Gov.,"
A. A. edited and published the Boulder Daily Camera for more than
twenty years. His father L. C. Paddock (Lucius Carver) and his maternal grandfather, Valentine Butsch,
acquired the newspaper (founded by Frederick P. Johnson and Bert Ball) in 1891. Annie Laurie was CU graduate and teacher at University Hill
School before their marriage.
WILLIAM VAN CLEAVE CASEY Boulder Superintendent
of Schools from 1894-1934, and after whom Northside Junior High
was renamed. He held a Ph.D. from CU, and in 1892 built the house
at 820 Pine street with his wife, the former Ida Mav Row.
ALBERT VIELE Early Boulder pioneer after whom
Viele Lake was named, and who was a member of the famous Macky
Hose Company, a firefighting team responsible for extinguishing
many blazes. He constructed the model of Boulder's first school
house, now owned by the Boulder Museum of History.
MARGUERITE SHERMAN A graduate of State
Preparatory School and CU and a former college teacher. Miss
Sherman was the real estate Broker and owner of Warden and
Company for 25 years. Parents Grace Barickman Sherman and George
Sherman were early Boulder residents and George was the President
of Citizens National Bank. Also in the family plot is brother Ray
Sherman, who was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver en
route to a fraternity dance on April 9, 1920.
ALONZO COAN Second President of the original
Boulder Cemetery Association, "Captain" Coan made his
money in mining. The Coans managed to secure one of the more
impressive monuments and sites in Green Mountain Cemetery close
to another business associate, George McClure.
The area now occupied by Green Mountain Cemetery and the
surrounding neighborhood was purchased as a "quarter section"
(about 160 acres) from the United States Government by John C.
Fisher in 1874. It was rural land, a good distance from downtown
Boulder, and remained undeveloped until the City of Boulder, due
to unpaid taxes, acquired it in 1890. Because of its remote
location, the City chose it as the site for a home for indigent
persons, which was known at the Poor Farm. This building still
stands at 635 22nd Street.
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