Hal Sayre papers, 1859-1925.

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Hal Sayre papers, 1859-1925.

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The Hal Sayre papers are comprised mainly of personal and business correspondence (1864-1925), business documents, including 79 mining and abstract of title office books, and legal (1859-1892) and financial (1864-1920) files. The extensive business records reflect early mining activity in Gilpin, Clear Creek and Boulder counties. Included are abstract of title orders (1866-1873), mine and mining company documents, and numerous plats, maps and blueprints. Sayre's legal files hold original drafts of the Miners Court laws and regulations, Kansas Territory (1859-1861), Colorado Territory (1861- ), an estate settlement, a company liquidation, court cases involving Sayre and others, promissory notes, naturalization papers and several miscellaneous items. The 23 diaries of Hal and Elizabeth Sayre describe early mining life in Central City, their later years in Denver, and daily accounts of their travels in the U.S. and abroad. One diary details the Sand Creek campaign led by Colonel John Chivington in 1864. The collection also contains materials from 1869-1882, the years Sayre and Ed. C. Parmelee were survey and abstract business partners. Parmelee was also postmaster of the Georgetown Post Office. Publications, newspapers, photographs and miscellaneous personal items conclude the remainder of the collection.

36 linear ft.

University of Colorado, Boulder

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University of Colorado, Boulder

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University of Colorado Libraries. Archives Dept.

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Sayre, Hal, 1835-1926

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Hal Sayre (1835-1926) was an experienced surveyor and civil engineer when he came to Colorado during the Clear Creek gold rush of 1859. He was instrumental in determining the extent of mining claims derived from pre-territorial mining districts in Gilpin and Clear Creek counties, Colorado. Born Peter Halbert Sayre in Orange Co., N.Y., on April 2, 1835, he was educated at an academy in Binghamton, N.Y., and participated in building the New York and Pennsylvania canal (1851-1852) and surveyed an e...

Chivington, John Milton, 1821-1894

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Chivington was born in Lebanon, Ohio on January 27, 1821, the son of Isaac and Jane Chivington, who had fought under General William Henry Harrison against members of Tecumseh's Confederacy at the Battle of the Thames. Drawn to Methodism, Chivington became a minister. Following ordination in 1844, his first appointment was to Payson Circuit in the Illinois Conference. On the journey from Ohio to Illinois, Chivington contracted smallpox. He served the Illinois conference for ten years. In 1853...

Parmelee, Ed. C.

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