Holmes, David Hull, 1874-1967.
Biographical notes:
David Hull Holmes was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 18 July 1874. He first moved to Boulder in 1895, married Helen Pierce in 1898, and moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he taught and practiced architecture. Returning to Boulder in 1917, Holmes became involved in tungsten mining until 1929. He was active in civic matters, and was chairman of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce highway committee that secured the first section of concrete paving on the road from Boulder to Denver.
Holmes' obituary, from which the biographical sketch here was drawn, appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on 20 January 1967.
From the description of Colorado roads scrapbook 1916-1920 (bulk 1919). 1919. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427265575
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Subjects:
- Automobiles
- Concrete roads
- Highway departments
- Highway engineering
- Motor fuels
- Pavements, Asphalt
- Pavements, Concrete
- Pavements
- Road materials
- Roads
- Roads
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- Colorado--Wyoming state line (as recorded)
- Colorado (as recorded)
- Lincoln Highway (Denver (as recorded)
