ALS, 1887 January 25 : Washington, D.C., to his wife [Louisa Rombach Denver].

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ALS, 1887 January 25 : Washington, D.C., to his wife [Louisa Rombach Denver].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16752819

Denver, after whom the city was named, reports a delay in a Supreme Court decision. He reports on Ben Holladay, railroad owner, "laid up and nearly imbecile from the use of morphia. A sad closing of a boisterous and heartless career! Grasping, unscrupulous and dissolute he allowed no principles of morality to restrain him."

2 p. ; 26 x 20 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Denver, Louisa Rombach.

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Holladay, Benjamin, 1819-1887.

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Denver, James William, 1817-1892

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James W. Denver was born near Winchester, Virginia. He attended public schools and moved to Ohio with his parents in 1830, settling near Wilmington. In 1841 he taught school in Missouri, and in 1844 he graduated from the law school of the University of Cincinnati. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law near Xenia, Ohio. He moved to Platte City, Missouri, in 1845, where he continued his law practice and acting career. In 1847, during the Mexican–American War, he recruited a company for t...