Leopold Mayer, 1838-1926

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Identifier: B111.07.0007.0004

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Abstract

Leopold Mayer was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838 and immigrated to New York in 1849. In 1859, he came to Denver and went into the general merchandise business. He also served on the second Denver City Council. In 1880, the Mayer family went to Saguache, Colorado, where Leopold Mayer became a rancher and later founded a bank and a dry goods store. He served as a state representative while in Saguache. Leopold and his family moved back to Denver in... 1893 and he died in 1926. The file contains copies of photographs, articles, and documents.

Dates

1838-1926

Creator

Mayer, Leopold, 1838-1926 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Leopold Mayer was born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1838 and immigrated to New York when he was 11 years old. In 1859, at the beginning of the Colorado gold rush, he began a 70-day walk to Auraria (Denver), Colorado from Leavenworth, Kansas. He went into the general merchandise business and served on the second Denver City Council. In 1880, Leopold and Barbara Mayer and their sons went to Saguache, Colorado, where Leopold Mayer became a rancher and later... founded a bank and dry goods store. He served as a state representative while in Saguache. Leopold and his family moved back to Denver in 1893 and he died in Denver in 1926. Leopold Mayer married his second wife Pauline Schlossmann May 1887 in Chicago.

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From the File: 1 Items (Contains 27 file folders.) : legal document box

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Scope and Contents

Folder contains xerox copies of photographs and articles about Leopold Mayer, an article about the Mayer home in Denver which was given to the Childrens Hospital in Denver, copies of documents, and a history of the town of Saguache in the San Luis Valley. Emily Mayer Selig, Leopold's granddaughter was a Childrens Hospital volunteer for 57 years.