April 2017

TERRITORIAL DAUGHTERS OF —SOUTHERN CHAPTER

Monthly Newsletter

In this issue: April Meeting • April meeting The first chapter meeting of the year will be • April Birthdays April 22nd at 1:00 p.m. • Lectures/Events •May meeting Place: Cripple Creek Heritage Center, 9283 •Edgeplain S. Highway 67, Cripple Creek, CO

•April Calendar We will meet in the theater downstairs. There is elevator access. The program will be a tour of the Heritage Center.

Please have lunch before the meeting.

Lectures and Events April Birthdays Ute Indian Prayer Trees Kathy West - April 19

April 4, 7 p.m. Neppie Williams—April 25 Presented by John C. Fremont Library, Florence, CO

This presentation is based on the book written by ************************ John Wesley Anderson and published by the Historical Society (OCCHS). The Ute Please let Tamara Estes or Indian Prayer Trees of the Region is not just a story about Culturally Modified Trees; it’s about Peggy Martin know when your the advanced culture of the deeply spiritual Ute birthdays are. We are trying to people behind the trees. .FREE EVENT ensure we recognize our Where: 130 Church Ave, Florence, CO members, especially our older members. Forging the West April 11, 6:30—7:30 p.m. May Meeting Historic Pueblo, Inc., in collaboration with the Pueblo City-County Library district, will show the newly The May meeting will be held in released film, "Forging the West" produced by Walsenburg on May 20th at the HaveyPro Cinema. The film focuses on the history of Golf Course Restaurant at the Company (CF&I) from the Lathrop State Park. The early years in the 1870s and 1880s through today. A meeting will begin at noon. question and answer session will be available following the film with staff members from the RSVP to Marie Romero by May Steelworks Center, which provided the majority of the 13th with your meal selection of photos used in the film. FREE EVENT pot roast of chicken. Phone (719) 676-2031 or email Rawlings Library, 100 E. Abriendo Ave., Pueblo, [email protected] Colorado Many thanks to Marie Romero

for helping to plan this meeting

More Events and Lectures can be found on the website.

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Edgeplain (Bass-Arthur House)

Colorado Springs, CO

By Tamara Estes

The Tudor Revival style house was built by Lyman K. and Frances Metcalfe Bass in 1881. Lyman Bass was a U.S. Repre- sentative from New York. He was in a law- yer in the firm of Bass Cleveland and Bis- sell in Buffalo, New York with future presi- dent Grover Cleveland. Bass contracted tuberculosis, and moved to Colorado Springs for his health. Lyman Bass be- came the general counselor for the and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) owned by William Jackson Palmer. Bass served on the board of directors for D&RG, and incorporated many business interests for Palmer including the Colorado Coal and Iron Company in 1879.

The house was designed by architect A.C. Willard. The house is made of sandstone block of various sizes with tinted mortar. The Bass’s christened their home Edge- plain, since it resided at the edge of unde- veloped prairie. The home cost $115,000 to build.

Bass died in 1889 in New York City. Frances married Colorado Senator Ed- ward O. Wolcott in 1890. They were di- vorced in 1900. She moved back to Buffa- lo, New York, where she passed away in 1933. William Jackson Palmer assisted Frances in selling Edgeplain following her husband’s death. Several owners followed over the next few years.

The house was finally acquired by Ches- ter Alan Arthur II (son of President Ches- ter A. Arthur) in 1901. Chester A. Arthur II was known as Alan Arthur. Arthur gradu- ated from Princeton University, then at- tended law school at Columbia University. After living in Europe for ten years, he returned to the U.S. and passed the bar. Arthur suffered from asthma and bronchitis. He moved to Colorado Springs to improve his health. Alan Arthur and his wife, Myra Fithian Andrews Arthur, expanded the house from 1902-1907. Alan Arthur was an avid polo player. He and his wife entertained then Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt at Edgeplain in 1901. Arthur was chosen to represent Colorado at the inaugura- tion of President William Howard Taft as one of the forty- six handsomest dancing men in the country. ` Arthur was an organizer of the development of a big game hunting preserve on the Trinchera Ranch in . The preserve failed during World War I, after initial success. The Arthur’s sold the house for $20,000 in 1922.

The house had several more owners, before it was Chester A. Arthur II acquired by in 1962 for $75,000 and used as a dormitory. (Alan Arthur)

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Ute Indian Pueblo: A Prayer Rail Town, Trees, Flor- Pueblo Histo- ence Library, ry Connec- 7:00 pm tions, 7:00

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Forging the West, Rawl- ings Library, Pueblo, 6:30 pm

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Kathy West Legacy of TDC Meeting Birthday A.B. Griffin, Cripple Florence Creek Herit- Library, 7:00 age Center, pm 1:00 pm

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Henry Hoder Neppie Wil- and the Wild- liams Birth- hornRanch, day Florissant Library, 2:00 30 1 2 3 4 5 6

Meeting and Event details available on the website.

www.southerncoloradoterritorialdaughters.org