The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-10-19
DEATH ENDS
CAREER OF
A. R. GUMAER,
PIONEER OIL
OPERATOR
PASSED AWAY AT RED CROSS
HOSPITAL IN SALiDA FRIDAY
MORNING FROM PNEUMONIA
AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SIX OR
SEVEN WEEKS DURATION
ONE OF FREMONT COUNTYS
LARGEST LAND OWNERS

W. H. Dozier of the First Nation
al bank is in receipt of message
from Salida informing him of the
death of A. r. Gumaer at the Red
Cross hospital there at 6:45 O'Clock
this morning from pneumonia. While
il was known to his friends here thai
Mr.. Gumaer was ill at tie hospital in
Salida they were under the impress
sion that he was convalescing with
the indications fayoring his recovery.
In consideration of that fact they
were surprised and shocked by the
announcement that he had passed
away.
Mr.. Gumaer formerly lived in Can
on City; his residence heie covering
the period from 1882 to 1886, during
which he was associated with Ira and
Joshua Muloch in the banking bust
ness. Mr.. Gumaer was cashier OF
the Exchange Bank here until the
discovery of the Florence oil field
when he removed to that city and en-
gagged in the oil business. He was
instrumental soon after going there
in the discovery of an oil well that
was pumped for more than twenty
years and produced moIe than mil
lion dollars in petroleum values. He
ing company and operated it until
1914. He was also the organizer of
the Boston Land & Cattle company
and was for many years the dominat
ing spirit in its affairs until it went
out of business two years ago.
The Boston Land G. Cattle company
owned vast tracks of land IN Fremont,
Chaffee, Custer, Park. Teller. FL Paso
and Pueblo counties and carried on
an extensive business in livestock for
a long period. In June, 1914, it sold
out it's holdings to the Gumaer Estates
company, of which A. ii. Danforth OF
New Jersey was made president, Mr..
Gumaer secretary and VIII l. Morris
of Florence treasurer.
About the first of August this year
Mr.. Gumaer was taken suddenly i'll.
at the Strathmore hotel with bilious
attack while in town looking after
some legal business in the district
court Mr. Gumaer had not been sick.
or taken medicine of any kind, for
more than twenty-five years and he
neglected to take the treatment that
his ailment required as he believed
that his indisposition would soon pass
away. No improvement taking place
in his condition the case he had in
the district court was continued and
he was taken to his apartments at
the Brown Palace hotel in Denver
which had been his home for some
time previously. and a physician sum-
moned to attend him Shortly after
wards pneumonia developed and one
of his lungs became seriously affect
ed. so much so, in fact, that surgi-
cal operation for relief became neces-
sary He sent for DR.. F. N. Cochems
of Salida an old friend, and the latter
took him on August 23rd to the Red
Cross hospital where the operation on
his lungs was performed. II was not
entirely successful in the removal of
the pus that had accumulated there
and two subsequent operations had
to be made before the desired relief
was obtained. His fever. which be-
fore had been very high, subsidized af-
ter the draining of the lungs and his
temperature soon after became nor
NAL, leading his friends to believe that
he had passed the crisis of the dis
ease.
Altho Mr.. GuInaer was at one time
regarded as a wealthy man and al
ways had plenty of money his business
affairs became badly tangled in his
later years and much of his fortune
was dissipated in litigation and in un-
fortunate investments. Few men in
Fremont county have had as much to
do with the courts. either as complain
ant. or defendant in the trial of civil
cases, as Mr.. Gumaer and many thou
sands of dollars We're spent by him in
the prosecution and defense of what
he considered his property rights.
Mr.. Gumaer came TO Fremont coun.
ty from the state of New York, where
he was born and reared. His wife is
at present at Middletown. New York.
and he has brother, Peter E. Gu
maer. at Port Jarvis in that state. He
has also several sisters in the east,
but the exact places of their residence
iB not known here. Mr.. Gumaer was
about sixty seven years of age. He
had no family of his own. No infor-
nation is available at this time in re-
1ation to the funeral service or where
the burial will take place.