Records 1918-1935

Colorado Museum of Natural History

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Elmer W. Merritt was a trustee and founding father of the Colorado Museum of Natural History (CMNH). Merritt was born in New York State on October 31, 1861, attended the University of Ann Arbor and arrived in Denver in 1879. He went into the lumber and mercantile business and eventually became connected with the Continental Oil Co. In 1885 he began a career in real estate and investment securities, forming the firm Merritt and Gromman. He served as Secretary ...

Hills, R. C. (Richard Charles), 1848-1923

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Richard Charles Hills was a self-educated miner and mineralogist who served as Honorary Curator of Geology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History, now Denver Museum of Nature and Science, from 1911 until his death in 1923. Through his generosity and untiring efforts, the young Museum geology collections and library were enlarged and greatly enhanced. Richard Charles Hills was born in Ewhurst, Surrey, England in early 1848 and came to the United States in 1865. For more than ten years the youn...

Howland, Frank, 1857-1938.

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Frank Howland worked in the Colorado Museum of Natural History's Department of Geology and Mineralogy for twenty years and was Curator from 1923 until his retirement in 1934. Frank Howland was born in 1857 in Pennsylvania. His boyhood hobby of collecting minerals led to a career in geology. In 1911 he and his wife, Anna, moved from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Denver. By 1915 he had joined the staff of the Colorado Museum of Natural History, now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. In 1919 he...

Bradbury, William Chase

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