Walter C. Mead Papers 1930-1935
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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 ...
Mead, Walter C., 1866-1951.
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Walter C. Mead, a noted patron of the arts and sciences in Denver, served on the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science) from early 1913 until his death in 1951. Walter C. Mead was born in 1866 in Greenwich, Connecticut, on a farm that had been in the family since 1662. The oldest of four children, he worked as a clerk in a brokerage office in New York City for a year, then decided to head west to Colorado. He arrived in Denver ...
