The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-10-21

auditor and superintendent OF insur-
ance. He was elected and for two
years administered the affairs Of those
offices. Colorado never had a better
auditor or better superintendent Of
insurance.
Kingsley had a great liking for In
surance, as well he might, inasmuch as
a $1,000 insurance policy had been the
means Of giving him an education. He
studied insurance in all its phases.
and the more he studied, the more It
office expired he had many opportuni-
ties to engage in business. for offers OF
positions were showered upon him.
In the Insurance Business.
or all the offers that came to him.
one. from an insurance company
proved most attractive. He took 1t.
He loved the work and entered into it
with all his heart. He did SO well that
the company sent him to Boston to
take charge of it's offices there. Boston
proved a rich field for him. He did
magniicently. He inspired his men
with some of his own energy and en-
thusiasm, made friends and did q ire
mendous amount OF business.
He was in Boston for about three
years, and then the company called
him to New York. to become superin-
tendent of all its agencies. He was
as good a superintendent as he had
been canvasser or branch manager.
Next he was made third vice-president
OF the company, and then vice-presi.
dent. and five years ago he was made
president.
1t seems very simple. as II is print
ed here, how this man rose. Essen.
TALLY he Is no different today from
what he was when he edited that little
newspaper in Grand Junction, Colo.
He has broadened and Ia more studi.
GUS, perhaps, but he has the same
ideals, the same earnestness OF char
aoter, the same keennese Of perception
and the same courage today that he
had in 1888. He bias grown and pros
pered. but so has the little city In
which be played his part In making.
Today Grand Junction Is the center
Of what Is known as "the Little EN-
pire of the Western Slope" The gam.
blers, the gunner and the flotsam and
jetsam of western humanity have
passed to other fields.
The valleys OF the Grand and the
Gunnison are rich with agricultural
wealth. Irrigation has transformed the
land. In few places OF the world does
the soil yield more hountifnlly. Tens
of thousands of tons OF fruit are
shipped from Grand Junction every
year. Fine, big stores and brick
structures stand where the saloons.
the dance halls. the faro banks were
housed in shacks in '83. There are
banks and libraries and churches end
handsome dwellings in the beautiful
city. II is a land transformed, 1t is
a land of peace and plenty. All Is
changed but nature's~ work. The
Grand and the Gunnison still pour
their waters down the valleys. the pic
turesque Book cliffs still stand guard
San Miguel peaks, to the northeast
the snow-capped Grand mesa and to
the south the glorious U~ncompahgre
ranges. The ~seagulls come from the
far distant Pacific, as did the eeagulls
Of countless ages Ago..
The Indians are only a memory, al.
most as distant a memory as the faro
banks and the dance halls. Occa-
sionally a %prospector wanders in from
the hills, but not often. Edwin Price,
who had that little printing shop In
the wild, turbulent town and was
proud OF his few fonts of type and his
apology for O press, Is there still. For
sixteen years he has been postmaster.
He is the last Of the old guard. He
was in at the birth of Grand Junction,
I and he will remain there as long as
he lives. /,
May Dream Of Old Days. +,
In his magnificent Office oh Broad
way, or up in the University club or
the Union League club, or in his hand
some home at Riverdaie Kingsley nay
dream at times OF those days when an
armed guard protected him at Grand
Junction and when he carried a pistol
in his coat pocket and had his finger
on the trigger for instant use when he
went abroad. He does not look much
like the man supposed to be the type
to defy the western bad man." But
quiet, earnest men are the ones with
moral courage.
New York knows Kingsley and
knows him well. but II ia not prcnaer
of him than Is Grand Junction, when
they point to the early flies Of the
Grand Junction News, for the Grand
Junction News is still printed. and
show you the editorials and the other
articles that Darwin p. Kingsley
wrote. and when you read the time
yellowed columns they will tell you
that the man who wrote them Is presi-
dent of one Of the greatest life insur-
ance companies In the world and trus-
tee OF many hundreds OF millions of
dollars. And they will tell you that
before he went to Colorado he was a
farm boy in Vermont and that he
worked early and late to get IN edu-
cation and that he knew hardship and
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