The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-01

Mrs Arthur St. Clair Denver and
daughter. Miss Cornelia Denver. two
highly cultured and exceedingly
charming ladies' who take great pride
in being the -sister-in-law" and
niece" respectively. of Colorado's cap
ital, the city of Denver, as Miss Dem
YER naively puts it, arrived at the Tenn
IletOn hotel yesterday morning on q
brief visit to Salt Lake.
Mrs. Denver is the widow of Arthur
st. Clair Denver. a brother of General
j. W. Denver, for whom the Colorado
metropolis was named. They are on
their way from Washington City, their
home, TO California, TO spend the Win
ter and stopped of for a day 10 see
the city and visit few of the old time
friends of Miss Denver's husband
Colonel DOn1n of the Utahnian, who
was one of Mr.. Denvers warmest
friends, showed the ladies about the
city in the afternoon and in. the even
ing they received calls from Judge c.
c. Goodwin and few others who
knew Mr.. Denver in the early days of
the west. They viii continue on their
journey to California today.
Mrs. Denver conversed very enter
tainingly with Herald reporter last
evening on the subject of her illus
triOuS relations. 1t was in 1897 that
General Denver was commissioner OF
Indian affairs under President Buchan-
an. Colorado and Kansas were then
the territory of Kansas. When the
reign of blood and disorder held
Bleeding Kansas in it's grasp, Cen
eral Denver was appointed governor
of the territory and was sent west to
restore order. He had many narrow
escapes from plots to kill him and
finally after seven months succeeded in
accomplishing his mission and returned
TO Washington. President Buchanan
testified to his esteem for General Den
yer by holding the Office of commits
sioner open for him during his alb
sence.
1t was during his reign as governor
Of the territory, that some friends laid
out the city which subsequently be-
came ColOradOs capital. and named it
Denver after the general. General Ho-
ratio King was at the time postmaster
general and addressed the first letter
TO the Denver postOffice. General King
is still living in Washington and is a
much Venerated friend of Mrs and
Miss Denver.
Colonel Arthur st. Clair Denver
Mrs. Denver's husband. formerly lived
in California He was a forty miner"
and one of the pioneers in EldOradO
county. He was for four years the
state senator from that county and
was ar one time the wealthiest man
in the county which was then the
largest and wealthiest in the state
He built the first house in Placerville,
the famous placer camp, in the spring
of 1850 and in the same year was the
first white man to visit Lake Tahoe,
the famous crater lake. Mrs. Denver
shared her husbands pioneer days in
California and Miss Denver was born
there. When she was very young the
family removed to Washington City,
where Mr.. Denver spent the remainder
of his days practicing law. He was
noted as one of the foremost attorneys
of the capitol city. General ]. w.
Denver died about four years ago and
the little less distinguished brother
followed less than three years later.
Mrs. Denver visited Salt Lake 20
years ago in company with her hus-
band and Hon. and Mrs. Charles Ken
dali. Mr.. Kendall was at the time con-
gresham from Nevada. The Walker
house was then the principal hotel and
the tabernacle was the only building
of great Importance that she remem-
bers. She was astonished at the great
changes that have taken place since
then and was enthusiastic in her praise
of the city.
While at Denver the ladies were
shown distinguished attentions by the
citizens. They are immensely proud
of the fact that the city bears the
name of their family.