Chauncey Stokes (age 96) near church photographs, 1920.

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Chauncey Stokes (age 96) near church photographs, 1920.

Views of a well dressed elderly man in front of a church.

2 photographs.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7468790

Boulder Public Library

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Clint O. Dumm (Photographer)

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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...