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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Hugh R. Steele |
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Denver, Colorado , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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July 01, 1849
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| Died | November 02, 1923
(74 years)
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
Apr 29, 2019 04:07pm |
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| Info | Miner
Early 1890s Mayor of Cripple Creek
Father R.W. Steele was the 1st Governor of the Territory of Jefferson
It was on May 24, 1860, that Hugh A. Steele first looked on Denver, the village, which was to become his home, and which was to grow into the city where he would breathe his last.
His father, R. W. Steele, who later became the first governor of the Jefferson Territory, his mother, and the four Steele children had crossed the plains, in a prairie schooner drawn by an ox team, from the Missouri River. With them they brought the family cow, led behind the wagon, a hen, and six chicks. They had camped alongside Indian villages, had been compelled to force their way through great herds of buffalo and had survived all the hardships and dangers attendant upon an excursion into the trackless West.
In Denver the Steele family pitched camp in a grove of cottonwood trees, where the Colorado and S. shops now stand. They had heard the West was wild and woolly. The morning after their arrival they were convinced of its wildness when they saw, only a few feet from their camp, the lifeless body of a man dangling in the breeze at the end of a giant cottonwood. While they slept, vigilantes had administered frontier justice. A horse thief had been punished for his infraction of the “Thou shalt not steal” commandment.
After 10 days in Denver the Steele family moved on into the Clear Creek district and for several years lived near Golden. Hugh R. Steele returned to the Middle West and entered the University of Iowa, from which institution he was graduated.
He then came back to Colorado, a full-fledged mining engineer. For a number of years he was engaged in various surveying expeditions. Then he went to Cripple Creek, where his fellow townsmen honored him by electing him mayor.
In Cripple Creek Mr. Steele met Winfield Scott Stratton and for some time he was private secretary to the Colorado Springs multimillionaire. Mr. Steel died at the home of his sister, Miss Mary Steele, 2700 Umatilla Street, and was buried in the Steele family burial plot at Colorado Springs.
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