Diary 1892-1895.

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Diary 1892-1895.

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This is a daily account of a retired farmer's life, 1 July 1892 through 12 February 1895. During this period, Bateman was still living at Brainard's Hotel. He made a trip through Denver, Colorado Springs and the top of Pike's Peak on August 29 - September 4, then was off again from September 26 to October 19, attending the World's Fair in Chicago. A 2-page list of promissory notes precedes this diary.

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Bateman, James M., 1830-1898.

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James M. Bateman was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, on 10 July 1830, and died in Boulder, Colorado, on 6 October 1898. He came to Colorado in 1860, and moved to Boulder in 1861. He owned land on the Farmer's Ditch in Boulder; his farm was valued at $7,000 in the 1885 census. In 1890, he sold his farm for $9,500, and lived in Boulder from 1891 until his death in 1898. Most of that time, he stayed at the Brainard Hotel. He was buried in Columbia Cemetery, Boulder. From the description o...

Brainard's Hotel (Boulder, Colo.)

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