TERRITORIAL DAUGHTERS OF COLORADO SOUTHERN CHAPTER

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

September Birthdays

Sept 4—Tonya Sharp

Sept 4—Mary Ann Fleming

Sept 6—Ruth Huff

Sept 6—Cynthia Johnson

Sept 8—Nola Cox (90)

Sept 8—JoAnn Peralta-Templeton

Sept 11—Betty Duran (89)

Sept 23—Peggy Martin

In this issue:

•September Meeting

•September Birthdays

• Doyle Clean-Up Day

• October Meeting

• New Members

• Frances Peabody

•September Calendar

Doyle School Clean-up

Doyle School Community Clean-up day

September 30, 10 a.m.—3 p.m.

Please join the Southern Chapter of TDC for a community

clean-up day at the Doyle School. This is the next step in

the preservation of the school. The Doyle school is the

oldest school building in Colorado, and was recognized by

Colorado Preservation, Inc. as one of the most endangered

historic sites in Colorado at their 2018 conference. The

grounds around the school will be cleaned up in

preparation for a fence to be placed around the school and

the school to be boarded up . Pueblo County will be

providing us a dumpster for the cleanup. More details

available on the website.

Location: Doyle School, Avondale, CO (Go past 36th Lane on

Doyle Road to reach the school. Map will be on the website.

More Events and Lectures can be found on the website.

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September Meeting

The September meeting will be September 22 at Noon. We will meet

at Nino’s Mexican Restaurant, 326 Main Street, Alamosa Lunch will

be ordered off the menu. The program will be presented by Sandra

Wagner on the History of the Upper Rio Grande. Please RSVP by

September 17 to Mari Lynn Hathorn ( phone 719-873-5805 or email:

mari.hathorn@gmail.com ) or Tamara Estes (719-244-4747, territori-

aldaughters@gmail.com). Many thanks to Mari Lynn Hathorn for ar-

ranging the meeting for us.

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October Meeting

The October meeting will be Oct 20 at

Lathrop State Park Visitors Center. We

will meet at noon. Please bring your

lunch.

State Board Meeting

Oct 27—2 p.m. At Hotel Colorado, Glen-

wood Springs, CO. Contact Tamara Estes

for more information.

Southern Chapter News

New Members—Welcome to the new members of the Southern Chapter. Nancy

Fossum and Kelly Calkins are the daughters of Southern Chapter member

Genevieve Gablehouse. Cynthia Johnson is a descendant of William F. Thomp-

son who arrived in Colorado in 1860. We also welcome Jeanne Turnbull Gripp

back into membership. Jeanne’s sister Becky is a current member. Their mother,

Donna Turnbull, was a past president of the Southern Chapter.

FRANCES LILLIAN CLELLAND PEABODY

by Margaret Stiles Storm

UPDATE FROM MINUTES OF THE TERRITORIAL DAUGHTERS OF COLORADO

28 September 1914 - Mrs. Frances Clelland Peabody was one of four new members voted in the society – from Cañon City.

25 January 1915: -Mrs. James H. Peabody, Cañon City, nominated by Mrs. Hatch, seconded, for 3

rd Vice President; she was duly elected for the 1915 calendar year. She was also a mem-

ber of the Ways and Means Committee.

ORIGINAL SPIRITS OF THE PAST, 2ND

EDITION, MAY, 2016, ARTICLE, used with permis-

sion from the author of the article, M.A. Storm:

Frances Lillian Clelland was born at St. Joseph, Missouri, on July 1st, 1860. She was born to

James and Anne Bayne Clelland, immigrants who arrived from Scotland in 1848. The parents

were married June 6, 1845. First, James arrived in New York City aboard the Madagascar;

he then sent for his wife and brother who traveled aboard the same ship.

As a trained engineer in Glasgow College, James Clelland was able to obtain work in Phila-

delphia as an engineer and pay-

master on the western construc-

tion of the Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad. His work took his fam-

ily to Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, Mis-

souri and Kansas. The Clel-

land’s son, George, was born in

Iowa City in 1859; Frances born

in Missouri. Construction of the

railroad halted at the start of the

Civil War; James purchased a

farm and operated an overland

freight company between

Atchison, Kansas, and Denver,

Colorado, with ox and mule

wagons.

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Frances and James Peabody

Frances Peabody (Con’t.)

In the spring of 1865, James moved his family to Denver. “The journey was made in a prairie

schooner with all the conveniences of the day, such as carpets, featherbeds, blankets and com-

forters.” But Denver was not the final move; it was made to Cañon City in Fremont County in

1872. James had been there the year before, purchasing real estate and starting in the grocery

and merchandising business. Later, he was active in the railroads, public utilities and banking.

He was vocal in politics, becoming a member of the Territorial Council in 1876 from Fremont

County and was the first senator from the Fourteenth District in 1877.

Frances attended St. Mary’s Academy for her early education and graduated in 1878 from Wolfe

Hall, which was an Episcopalian college-preparatory academy for young women – best in the

west for that time period. Both her brother, George, and she were enrolled in boarding schools

in Denver.

James Hamilton Peabody secured the bookkeeping position in the Clelland Grocery and Mer-

chandise Store on Valentine’s Day, 1875. He was an eighth-generation American of New Eng-

land lineage and one of seventeen children. James was born on August 21, 1852, in Orange

County, Vermont. He migrated to Pueblo in 1872 to join his family. He was tall and handsome;

he earned the reputation of hard-working, efficient, and a good businessman. Father Clelland

saw the many merits of Peabody and made him a partner in the business with the name becom-

ing Clelland and Peabody. Peabody married the boss’s daughter on March 19, 1878. Their

wedding present from the Clelland’s was a charming, small stone house with a picket fence at

202 Macon Avenue. He was the 13th and 15th Governor of Colorado, and is noted for his public

service in Cañon City. He was a two-term mayor of Cañon City; and, he was president of the

First National Bank. He also continued his public service by serving two years as city treasurer

and two years as alderman. He was an organizer of the Cañon City Water Works Company, and

for many years was its secretary and treasurer. He also assisted in forming the Electric Light

Company of Cañon City and was its first president. At the age of 32, he was chosen to be the

Grand Master of the Colorado Masons, the youngest grand master in America.

At the death of Frances’ father, the younger Peabody’s moved into the larger, red brick home at

403 River Street that belonged to the Clellands. Frances and James had four children: Calvin,

James, Cora May, and Jessie Anne.

Mrs. Peabody was active in many

women’s organizations and social

clubs in Cañon City. As a charter

member of the Dickens Club, she

helped form the first chapter in the

United States. She was a devout

member of the local Episcopal church

and participated in the women’s

groups of the church. Frances was a

director in the Library Association and

was a member of the Territorial

Daughters of Colorado, which she

served as an officer from 1915 to

1924.

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Peabody House in Canon City, Colorado

”Across the Plains DeLuxe in 1865” was written by Frances and published in the Colorado Maga-

zine, a publication of the State Historical Society of Colorado, Volume XVIII, Number 2, March,

1941. In it, Frances gives memorable experiences from her childhood moving from Kansas to

Colorado. A couple of these memories:

1. Many of the incidents and experiences of the journey are preserved only by what my mother

told me, but minor things you wouldn’t expect a child would remember are still fresh in my

mind – the creaking and jolting of the wagon, the straining of the oxen over rough places, the

odor of the dust and sweat of the oxen, the crack of the long bullsnake whip as the teamster

urged them on, the clanking of the big heavy chains when needed to keep the wheels from

running over the oxen on bouncing over a steep place.

2. I was a child who was used to having my wished regarded, so as I looked over the vast ex-

panse of barren country before me, I wondered where and how I should have a birthday pre-

sent, as my birthday was approaching … I was rewarded with a doll, bought at what was

called a “sutler’s store” in the little village of Marysville, Kansas. The doll was immediately

named Mary. This doll gave me the greatest pleasure …

3. Sunbonnets were the only head covering at all appropriate for that long trip, and I had a very

pretty blue chambray quilted one. I cannot visualize my mother in a sunbonnet. Yet I feel

sure she must have worn one, as she was very careful of her pink and white complexion.

This was still beautiful when she poured tea at her ninetieth birthday party.

My amusement consisted in sitting close to my mother while she told me stories of her home be-yond the sea. She had a sweet voice and sang to me the old songs that she loved, “Annie Lau-rie,” “Flow Gently, Sweet Afton,” “The Last Rose of Summer” and melodies of her native Scot-land.

Sources: The Clelland and Peabody Family History Files at the Royal Gorge Regional Museum & History Center, Cañon City, CO.

History of the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., 1881

The Colorado Magazine, March 1941 and 1975

The Legislative Manual of the State of Colorado, Denver Times Publishing Co., 1877

History of the State of Colorado, Frank Hall, Blakely Printing Co., 1891

Colorado, Fremont County, Canon City, Marriage Records, Book 14, pg. 57

Denver Tribune, 21 March 1878

Obituary, Cañon City Daily Record, April 24, 1945

Fremont County CO Archives Biographies…Peabody, Frances Clelland July 1, 1860, www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm.

Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton_Peabody

Local Cultural Influence, Cañon City Daily Record, January 16, 2012

Written by M.A. Storm from notes of Donna Chester and the above resources. Peabody House photo by M.A. Storm.

September 2018 Frances Peabody (Con’t.)

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Tonya Sharp

&

Mary Ann

Fleming

birthdays

Cynthia John-

son &

Ruth Huff

birthdays

Nola Cox Birth-

day

JoAnn Temple-

ton Birthday

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Greeley Chap-

ter meeting

Betty Duran

Birthday

Western Chap-

ter Meeting

Hispanic Day,

Bent’s Old Fort

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Battle of

Cuerno Verde,

Pueblo, 6 pm

Southern

Chapter—San

Luis Valley

Fall Equinox,

9:54 pm

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Peggy Martin

Birthday

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Doyle School

Community

Clean-up, 10-3

Meeting and Event details available on the website, or by contacting The Southern

Chapter at territorialdaughters@gmail.com