Chauncey Stokes biographical sketch, 1898.

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Chauncey Stokes biographical sketch, 1898.

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A two-page biographical sketch.

2 p.

Boulder Public Library

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Boulder Public Library

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President's House (University of Colorado, Boulder)

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Stokes, Lucy Wylie.

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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...