Chauncey Stokes Autobiography 1919 April.

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Chauncey Stokes Autobiography 1919 April.

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This folder contains the handwritten autobiography of Chauncey Stokes, on a school tablet, with line ink drawings also by Stokes. He writes of his ancestry and the events of his long life, and mentions his architectural work on the old Boulder County courthouse, the Masonic Temple, the Methodist Church, etc.

1 v. (64 p.)

Boulder Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7454468

Boulder Public Library

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First Methodist Episcopal Church (Boulder, Colo.)

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Masonic Temple (Boulder, Colo.)

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Parsons, Chauncey L.

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Stokes, Chauncey, 1824-1924.

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Born 12 February 1824 in a log cabin in New York, Chauncey Stokes began helping his father in the carpentry trade at age 16. According to the History of Clear Creek and Boulder Valleys (1880, p. 684), Stokes moved to Colorado in 1871 with the Chicago firm that formed a colony in Longmont, Boulder County. He continued in the building construction work in Denver, then in 1875 opened a lumberyard in Boulder and did architectural work in Boulder (see p. 58 of autobiography). From the des...