Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-17
BISHOP WARREN'S BRIDE.
The Romantic Career of Young
Sewing Agent.


4 Col, last week, to Mrs. Elizabeth s.
Tiff. The ceremony was performed
! by Bishop Simpson. of Philadelphia,
assisted by Rev. DIR. H. D. Moore
and Rev. Dr.. i Cranston, of Dem
YER Notwithstanding that 400 in
vitations had been issued the wedding
was an unostentatious one The
ushers were Secretary oftState, Ed
wards, FL. Q. Lowrie, Truman Bogl
and Professor Low, of the Denver
/ University. A reception was held at
the residence of The bride after the
ceremony. and it was attended by up
wards of 900 people.
Mrs lifts career has been most
romantic. About the year 1869
young progressing modest and
determined girl alighted from the
coach IN Denver one morning. She
was perhaps 81 years of age and it
was evident to those who met her on
the occasion of her advent in that
then rather vociferous town under
the mountain shadows that she had
gone West with the intention of
| growing up with the country, as she
evinced a remarkable degree of indie
pendence, softened, however, by
strong womanly qualities, which
soon established her high in the
esteem of all with whom she came in
contact. She at once made her mission
known by canvassing the business
portion of the city for an eligible
location in which to open store, and
finally succeeded in securing a room
previously occupied by the Adams
Express Company, in the building
owned by the proprietor of the Rocky
| Mountain NelCs, and next door to the
Netcs publication Office, in Larimer
street. The adventuresome young
lady had gone out from Chicago as
the agent of the Singer Machine Com
pany, and, among total strangers,
and with but her own shrewdness and
strong stamina to back her, proposed
to win her support. 1t appears that
when a mere infant she, with several
brothers and sisters, had been left
| without parents. Relatives had
brought the children up in some OBJ
scure town in Illinois, and when ar
rived at mature years the girl had
struck out for herself in Chicago, by
securing a position as instructor in
the Singer office in that city. Her
duties were to follow up local agents
and teach purchasers of machines
! how to operate them. Finally the
company decided to establish the
Denver agency, and she applied for
and was given the place, not without
some misgiving on the part of the
| oounyoOv hut og cba bo1 lte,,loraI ,,o
markable business tact they were sat
isfied to at least let her make the at
tempt. How well she succeeded in
the new and trying field, is well
known to every old citizen of Denver,
and, in fact, to nearly every one who
lived in Northern Colorado at that
time. With energetic men
in rival establishments to con
tend with, to open new stores
and appoint local agents in remote
towns, their being then not a rod of
railway in the Territory; to keep her
own general business going, and at
the same time maintain a reputation
in a locality where then it. was diff
cult for a single woman, without fam
! lily support, to do so; these all tried
her to the utmost, but she rose supe-
rior to all the obstacles, and was soon
respected far and wide, as it was CON
coded she had the right stuff in her,
and that of all things, was the one
great factor in winning success IN
those days of Colorado.
Among the foremost-if not the
foremost-cattle raisers in Wyoming
in these days was Mr.. |. w. Tiff.
| His herds were numbered by hun
dreds of thousands, and his ranges in
/ Wyoming and Colorado wide spread.
By some chance-he being a widower
at the time-he met the young sew
! rg-machine agent on one of hisvsits
to Denver. Courtship followed and
] it was not long before sewing ma
chimes were abandoned for family
cares. She became Mrs. Tiff and
| Cheyenne became her home for a
short time. Now the wife of mil
lionaire, and removed from the cares
of a business life Mrs. Tiff displayed
in a supreme degree those high wom-
only qualities which had under
former trials, brought her
so successfully through In 1876
when United States Marshal
Shatfenburg, of Denver, was sent to
prison for Irregularities in office, Mr.
and Mrs. Hi bought his palatial
home and removed to Denver. Here.
soon afterward, Mr. Tiff died, leaving
his entire and vast cattle interests to
his widow and his two sons, minors.
Instead of leaving aside these new
cares bv d sposing of her herds. Mrs.
/ Tiff at Cnce assumed these fresh and
great responsibilities, and became one
of the leading cattle dealers of the
/ United States. From the moment
she assumed charge of this trust for
tune has followed every venture she
has made, and her income has steadi-
" rolled in at the rate of from $780,
/ 600 to 5000, 600 year 1t quite nat
urally followed that she should be
soupbt'in MARRIAGE nv ad ven tllrers and