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The Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa), was a mining company and was incorporated on May 7, 1893 〔Date is taken out of corporate records held at the Secretary of State of Iowa〕 under the laws of the state of Iowa. It had an initial capital stock of $600,000, 600,000 shares, $1.00 each. The company was represented by its president Biddle Reeves and its secretary and treasurer George W. Peirce.〔The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Mines & Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, 1897, p. 409.〕 The difference between this company and the Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (New York), is very probably that the capital stock of $600,000 was organized under the same company name, but a separate incorporation in a different state. The company had its administration at 101 Boston Building, Denver, Colorado. The company had a predecessor under the same name of Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company, of New York, which was formed in 1879 and incorporated 1882 under the laws of New York. Properties, including those in gold mining near Georgetown, Colorado, were taken over. ==People involved== * Biddle Reeves, the company’s first president, born November 18, 1850, was married to Maria Carver, by whom he had one son.〔Biddle Reeves was the son of Biddle Reeves (born May 14, 1814 near Woodbury, New Jersey; died June 19, 1852 in Woodbury) and Sarah (Scull) Reeves. Source: Sinnott, Mary Elizabet: Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families, 1905, p. 132-133.〕 Mr. Reeves was prominently known in Colorado, and made some of his fortune as realtor in Colorado and Utah. Biddle Reeves was buried at the Fairmount Cemetery, Denver.〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34863493〕 His death on May 29, 1898, was worth a newspaper report: The excerpt from The Deseret News, May 30, 1898, page 2, and The New York Times, June 1, 1898, page 7, reads:
* George W. Peirce, secretary and treasurer of the company.〔The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Mines & Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, 1897, p. 409.〕 * W. A. Akers, was superintendent and general manager at the Golden Fleece Mine (Colorado), at least until 1895.〔The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Mines & Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, 1897, p. 409, 414.〕 * E. A. Kent, was named to be the first vice president of the company.〔The Mine, Quarry and Metallurgical Record of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Mines & Quarry News Bureau, Chicago, 1897, p. 409.〕 * Silas S. Kennedy (born on January 6, 1837; died at age 77, on June 7, 1914 in Denver 〔An account of the life of Silas S. Kennedy was published by Mike McCormick in the ''Terre Haute Tribune Star'': An HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: The Kennedy family from Center Point: (Article published at Tribstar.com on December 20, 2008 )〕), a vice president of the company. Silas S. Kennedy was also founder of the Union Bank of Greeley, Colorado.〔(History of the Union National Bank )〕 In 1889 he hired architect Eugene Remich Rice to construct an elegant residence for him and his family at 27th West & 2709 Federal Boulevard, Denver.〔(Infos at 1453race.com )〕 * William Millard Lippitt, born in Putnam, Connecticut in 1864; died March 19, 1904 in Chicago, Ill. He was an engineer, employed at Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Co. in 1896 and 1897, and did all the surveying and map work for the company. Mr. Lippitt was alumni of Brown University, Providence.,〔Brown Alumni Monthly, The Brown Alumni Magazine Co., Brown University, Providence, R. I., Vol. 4, 1903 (June/May Issue), 1904, p. 224.〕〔Mining and metallurgy: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Vol. 4-5, 1905, p. 772.〕 * Harold Butler Barnes, an electrical engineer, was chief engineer and director in 1922, when a revival attempt of the company was made. He was born on February 18, 1880 and was son of Phineas Barnes and Fanny Ellsworth Wood. Harold Butler Barnes died on May 12, 1938 at Denver, Colorado, at age 58.〔Leonard, John W.: Who's who in engineering, vol. 1, 1922, p. 103.〕〔Some information about Harold B. Barnes can be found at the homepage of Holcombe Family Genealogy: ()〕 Mr. Barnes was inventor of some patents and made some contributions to the electrification of Chicago as author of a professional text book.〔Barnes, Harold Butler: Practical solution of the Chicago terminal electrification problem, 1920, 2 pl., 19 p. illus., diagr.〕 * Blanche Kibble,〔Blanche Kibble is the daughter of Ephraim T. Kibble (born October 30, 1861 in Edgar county, Illinois, died March 5, 1922) and Idella Hilton〕 was secretary and treasurer of the revived Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company of Denver, Colorado.〔Grant Lee Shumway: History of western Nebraska and its people. General history…, Lincoln, Neb.: The Western Publishing & Engraving Co., 1921, p. 339〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Golden Fleece Mining and Milling Company (Iowa)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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