Stokes / Parsons family miscellany 1915-

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Stokes / Parsons family miscellany 1915-

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427287519

This folder contains an anecdotal article handwritten by Chauncey Stokes on pages of a school tablet on 12 Feb. 1915, with line ink drawings also by Stokes. Also in this folder is a souvenir card bearing a portrait of Chauncey R. Parsons, pupil of Samuel H. Blakeslee.

2 items (7 p.)

Boulder Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7456871

Boulder Public Library

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Parsons, Chauncey L.

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Blakeslee, Samuel H.

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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...