Weatherly, Margaret Enright, 1864-

Dr. Edward Christopher Weatherly was one of 13 children born to an aristocratic English family on June 2, 1855, at Portishead, Somerset, England. Dr. Weatherly's early ancestors were freeholders in England, and were among the distinguished assembly who marched to London to demand their rights as citizens from King John in 1215. Those rights were embodied in the historic Magna Carta. Weatherly's grandfather was a partner of Sir James McKenzie, the engineer who built the Great Western Railroad, and of MacAdam of Macadam roads.

Dr. Weatherly was a graduate of Oxford University as a Doctor of Medicine. During his young manhood, he traveled extensively throughout the world. In October, 1888, he immigrated to the United States, where he abandoned the practice of medicine to become a newspaper writer and an expert on mining matters. After living in New York and California for several years, Dr. Weatherly located in Ouray, Colorado, in 1907. During this period he was associated with Frank A. Wright in a mines and investments business headquartered at Chicago, Illinois, and he continued in this line of work, minus the association with Wright, throughout his years in the San Juans. During his twenty-seven years residence, he became an authority on mining development and mining economics with particular reference to the Silverton-Telluride-Ouray (Colorado) districts of the San Juan mining region. He studied and wrote papers on these topics and was a member and promoter of many mining development companies.

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