Obit in Denver Post, unknown date (guess about 1934). Headline: "Mrs. Loretta H. Rich, who came to Denver 75 years ago, is dead"
Was Wife of Early-Day Mediator in Indian Disputes.
A lingering illness ended Monday the life of Mrs. Loretta H. Rich, 89, who came to the huddle of cabins named Denver in 1859 and whose mother was the first woman voter in Colorado.
Outliving her husband, Nathaniel A. Rich, early day Ute Indian trader, interpreter and mediator of Indian-white territorial troubles, and her two sons, she died in the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. James W. Rich of 3727 Julian Street. She had been critically ill since March.
She was the youngest member-just 14-of a group of trail blazers who left Davenport, IA, in the summer of 1859 in the gold rush to Colorado.
Party Pushed On to Nevada Gulch
With her and her parents in an ox-drawn wagon were David and Will Stout, brothers of one of Denver's founders, E. P. Stout, after whom a downtown street was named.
They arrived in Denver when a canvas-roofed saloon was the most pretentious building and concurrently with the christening of the city's first streets: Blake, Larimer and Curtis.
Immediately they pushed on to boisterous Nevada gulch, where Mrs. Rich's mother, Mrs. Nancy Shield, was the first woman to discover gold in the Central City region. She was the only woman accorded a seat in the miners' court and voted at all miners' meetings and district elections.
The family returned to Denver in the fall of the year and the young daughter became the wife of Nathaniel Rich, whose diplomacy averted a mass uprising of pained Ute Indians against the "invading" white gold-seekers and whose ability to understand the Indian later aided Territorial Gov. John Evans to preserve peace.
Husband Made Fortunes in Mining
Rich made and lost several fortunes in mining and finally settled with his wife and two sons on a ranch near Salida. After his death, Mrs. Rich and her sons moved to Denver.
She was made honorary member of the Pioneer Women of Colorado, and was selected to write a brief account of early-day Denver for The Denver Post of Aug. 4, 1926.
Besides her daughter-in-law she is survived by one sister, Mrs. Kate Caddon of Denver.
Funeral services, conducted by the Pioneer Women's society, will be held at the Moore mortuary at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.
August 4, 1926 Denver Post, page 31, col.2:
Woman Pioneer of 1859 tells Graphic Story of Early Denver.
One of the pioneer women entered in the Post's search for the men and women who have lived longest in Denver and in Colorado is Mrs. Loretto Rich, 3018 West Ninth Avenue. Mrs. Rich has written a brief but graphic story of the early days, when Colorado was wild country and Denver but a huddle of cabins. Here is Mrs. Rich's story:
"Being an old pioneer, I would like to tell the younger generation what the pioneers found. I came to Denver with my parents in May, 1859. When we arrived in Denver, the city consisted of a few cabins. There was not a shingle-roofed house in Denver. The best and largest house at that time was a saloon covered with a canvas roof, owned by the Blake brothers. The Broadwell house was built in that summer. It was the first good building in the city.
The streets were named that summer - Stout, Blake, Larimer and Curtis. The summer of 1859 we lived in Nevada gulch. My mother found the first gold in Nevada gulch and was the first woman voter in Colorado. She had a vote at all miners' meetings and district elections.
In the fall of '59 we moved back to Denver, where I attended my first school. We were the second white family in Gregers Point. No houses there, nothing but tents. I have seen Denver grow from a few tents and cabins to a great city.
I married Nathanield A. Rich, a boy who came to Denver in May, 1860, one year after I had broken the trail. He was a Ute Indian trader as well as an interpreter. He had a great influence with the Ute Indians. At the time Evans was governor of Colorado, the Utes were about to rise against the whites. They were going to drive all white people out of Colorado, claiming they were killing all the deer. Mr. Rich quieted them and sent for Governor Evans to come into Lake county where the Indians would meet him at Cache Creek.
When the governor arrived at Cache Creek, he was met by about 500 buck Indians all dressed in war paint. They settled their trouble by sending a delegation of chiefs to Washington.
The children had no shoes in winter, only mocassins made by the Indians. I have lived to see the Indians of Colorado change from wild red devils into civilization.
I have seen the rise and fall of many mining camps. I lived in California gulch before there was Leadville. Mr. Rich made fortunes and lost them. I never was out of the state but once and that only for a few weeks. I have accumulated the finest jewels in the world and thank Colorado for them-three bright pretty great-grandchildren, Eileen, Floyd and Elsie, all pioneers and like myself, one of them, Elsie, attended her first school at the Lincoln school in Denver."
Was Wife of Early-Day Mediator in Indian Disputes.
A lingering illness ended Monday the life of Mrs. Loretta H. Rich, 89, who came to the huddle of cabins named Denver in 1859 and whose mother was the first woman voter in Colorado.
Outliving her husband, Nathaniel A. Rich, early day Ute Indian trader, interpreter and mediator of Indian-white territorial troubles, and her two sons, she died in the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. James W. Rich of 3727 Julian Street. She had been critically ill since March.
She was the youngest member-just 14-of a group of trail blazers who left Davenport, IA, in the summer of 1859 in the gold rush to Colorado.
Party Pushed On to Nevada Gulch
With her and her parents in an ox-drawn wagon were David and Will Stout, brothers of one of Denver's founders, E. P. Stout, after whom a downtown street was named.
They arrived in Denver when a canvas-roofed saloon was the most pretentious building and concurrently with the christening of the city's first streets: Blake, Larimer and Curtis.
Immediately they pushed on to boisterous Nevada gulch, where Mrs. Rich's mother, Mrs. Nancy Shield, was the first woman to discover gold in the Central City region. She was the only woman accorded a seat in the miners' court and voted at all miners' meetings and district elections.
The family returned to Denver in the fall of the year and the young daughter became the wife of Nathaniel Rich, whose diplomacy averted a mass uprising of pained Ute Indians against the "invading" white gold-seekers and whose ability to understand the Indian later aided Territorial Gov. John Evans to preserve peace.
Husband Made Fortunes in Mining
Rich made and lost several fortunes in mining and finally settled with his wife and two sons on a ranch near Salida. After his death, Mrs. Rich and her sons moved to Denver.
She was made honorary member of the Pioneer Women of Colorado, and was selected to write a brief account of early-day Denver for The Denver Post of Aug. 4, 1926.
Besides her daughter-in-law she is survived by one sister, Mrs. Kate Caddon of Denver.
Funeral services, conducted by the Pioneer Women's society, will be held at the Moore mortuary at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.
August 4, 1926 Denver Post, page 31, col.2:
Woman Pioneer of 1859 tells Graphic Story of Early Denver.
One of the pioneer women entered in the Post's search for the men and women who have lived longest in Denver and in Colorado is Mrs. Loretto Rich, 3018 West Ninth Avenue. Mrs. Rich has written a brief but graphic story of the early days, when Colorado was wild country and Denver but a huddle of cabins. Here is Mrs. Rich's story:
"Being an old pioneer, I would like to tell the younger generation what the pioneers found. I came to Denver with my parents in May, 1859. When we arrived in Denver, the city consisted of a few cabins. There was not a shingle-roofed house in Denver. The best and largest house at that time was a saloon covered with a canvas roof, owned by the Blake brothers. The Broadwell house was built in that summer. It was the first good building in the city.
The streets were named that summer - Stout, Blake, Larimer and Curtis. The summer of 1859 we lived in Nevada gulch. My mother found the first gold in Nevada gulch and was the first woman voter in Colorado. She had a vote at all miners' meetings and district elections.
In the fall of '59 we moved back to Denver, where I attended my first school. We were the second white family in Gregers Point. No houses there, nothing but tents. I have seen Denver grow from a few tents and cabins to a great city.
I married Nathanield A. Rich, a boy who came to Denver in May, 1860, one year after I had broken the trail. He was a Ute Indian trader as well as an interpreter. He had a great influence with the Ute Indians. At the time Evans was governor of Colorado, the Utes were about to rise against the whites. They were going to drive all white people out of Colorado, claiming they were killing all the deer. Mr. Rich quieted them and sent for Governor Evans to come into Lake county where the Indians would meet him at Cache Creek.
When the governor arrived at Cache Creek, he was met by about 500 buck Indians all dressed in war paint. They settled their trouble by sending a delegation of chiefs to Washington.
The children had no shoes in winter, only mocassins made by the Indians. I have lived to see the Indians of Colorado change from wild red devils into civilization.
I have seen the rise and fall of many mining camps. I lived in California gulch before there was Leadville. Mr. Rich made fortunes and lost them. I never was out of the state but once and that only for a few weeks. I have accumulated the finest jewels in the world and thank Colorado for them-three bright pretty great-grandchildren, Eileen, Floyd and Elsie, all pioneers and like myself, one of them, Elsie, attended her first school at the Lincoln school in Denver."
Obit in Denver Post, unknown date (guess about 1934). Headline: "Mrs. Loretta H. Rich, who came to Denver 75 years ago, is dead"
Was Wife of Early-Day Mediator in Indian Disputes.
A lingering illness ended Monday the life of Mrs. Loretta H. Rich, 89, who came to the huddle of cabins named Denver in 1859 and whose mother was the first woman voter in Colorado.
Outliving her husband, Nathaniel A. Rich, early day Ute Indian trader, interpreter and mediator of Indian-white territorial troubles, and her two sons, she died in the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. James W. Rich of 3727 Julian Street. She had been critically ill since March.
She was the youngest member-just 14-of a group of trail blazers who left Davenport, IA, in the summer of 1859 in the gold rush to Colorado.
Party Pushed On to Nevada Gulch
With her and her parents in an ox-drawn wagon were David and Will Stout, brothers of one of Denver's founders, E. P. Stout, after whom a downtown street was named.
They arrived in Denver when a canvas-roofed saloon was the most pretentious building and concurrently with the christening of the city's first streets: Blake, Larimer and Curtis.
Immediately they pushed on to boisterous Nevada gulch, where Mrs. Rich's mother, Mrs. Nancy Shield, was the first woman to discover gold in the Central City region. She was the only woman accorded a seat in the miners' court and voted at all miners' meetings and district elections.
The family returned to Denver in the fall of the year and the young daughter became the wife of Nathaniel Rich, whose diplomacy averted a mass uprising of pained Ute Indians against the "invading" white gold-seekers and whose ability to understand the Indian later aided Territorial Gov. John Evans to preserve peace.
Husband Made Fortunes in Mining
Rich made and lost several fortunes in mining and finally settled with his wife and two sons on a ranch near Salida. After his death, Mrs. Rich and her sons moved to Denver.
She was made honorary member of the Pioneer Women of Colorado, and was selected to write a brief account of early-day Denver for The Denver Post of Aug. 4, 1926.
Besides her daughter-in-law she is survived by one sister, Mrs. Kate Caddon of Denver.
Funeral services, conducted by the Pioneer Women's society, will be held at the Moore mortuary at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.
August 4, 1926 Denver Post, page 31, col.2:
Woman Pioneer of 1859 tells Graphic Story of Early Denver.
One of the pioneer women entered in the Post's search for the men and women who have lived longest in Denver and in Colorado is Mrs. Loretto Rich, 3018 West Ninth Avenue. Mrs. Rich has written a brief but graphic story of the early days, when Colorado was wild country and Denver but a huddle of cabins. Here is Mrs. Rich's story:
"Being an old pioneer, I would like to tell the younger generation what the pioneers found. I came to Denver with my parents in May, 1859. When we arrived in Denver, the city consisted of a few cabins. There was not a shingle-roofed house in Denver. The best and largest house at that time was a saloon covered with a canvas roof, owned by the Blake brothers. The Broadwell house was built in that summer. It was the first good building in the city.
The streets were named that summer - Stout, Blake, Larimer and Curtis. The summer of 1859 we lived in Nevada gulch. My mother found the first gold in Nevada gulch and was the first woman voter in Colorado. She had a vote at all miners' meetings and district elections.
In the fall of '59 we moved back to Denver, where I attended my first school. We were the second white family in Gregers Point. No houses there, nothing but tents. I have seen Denver grow from a few tents and cabins to a great city.
I married Nathanield A. Rich, a boy who came to Denver in May, 1860, one year after I had broken the trail. He was a Ute Indian trader as well as an interpreter. He had a great influence with the Ute Indians. At the time Evans was governor of Colorado, the Utes were about to rise against the whites. They were going to drive all white people out of Colorado, claiming they were killing all the deer. Mr. Rich quieted them and sent for Governor Evans to come into Lake county where the Indians would meet him at Cache Creek.
When the governor arrived at Cache Creek, he was met by about 500 buck Indians all dressed in war paint. They settled their trouble by sending a delegation of chiefs to Washington.
The children had no shoes in winter, only mocassins made by the Indians. I have lived to see the Indians of Colorado change from wild red devils into civilization.
I have seen the rise and fall of many mining camps. I lived in California gulch before there was Leadville. Mr. Rich made fortunes and lost them. I never was out of the state but once and that only for a few weeks. I have accumulated the finest jewels in the world and thank Colorado for them-three bright pretty great-grandchildren, Eileen, Floyd and Elsie, all pioneers and like myself, one of them, Elsie, attended her first school at the Lincoln school in Denver."
Was Wife of Early-Day Mediator in Indian Disputes.
A lingering illness ended Monday the life of Mrs. Loretta H. Rich, 89, who came to the huddle of cabins named Denver in 1859 and whose mother was the first woman voter in Colorado.
Outliving her husband, Nathaniel A. Rich, early day Ute Indian trader, interpreter and mediator of Indian-white territorial troubles, and her two sons, she died in the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. James W. Rich of 3727 Julian Street. She had been critically ill since March.
She was the youngest member-just 14-of a group of trail blazers who left Davenport, IA, in the summer of 1859 in the gold rush to Colorado.
Party Pushed On to Nevada Gulch
With her and her parents in an ox-drawn wagon were David and Will Stout, brothers of one of Denver's founders, E. P. Stout, after whom a downtown street was named.
They arrived in Denver when a canvas-roofed saloon was the most pretentious building and concurrently with the christening of the city's first streets: Blake, Larimer and Curtis.
Immediately they pushed on to boisterous Nevada gulch, where Mrs. Rich's mother, Mrs. Nancy Shield, was the first woman to discover gold in the Central City region. She was the only woman accorded a seat in the miners' court and voted at all miners' meetings and district elections.
The family returned to Denver in the fall of the year and the young daughter became the wife of Nathaniel Rich, whose diplomacy averted a mass uprising of pained Ute Indians against the "invading" white gold-seekers and whose ability to understand the Indian later aided Territorial Gov. John Evans to preserve peace.
Husband Made Fortunes in Mining
Rich made and lost several fortunes in mining and finally settled with his wife and two sons on a ranch near Salida. After his death, Mrs. Rich and her sons moved to Denver.
She was made honorary member of the Pioneer Women of Colorado, and was selected to write a brief account of early-day Denver for The Denver Post of Aug. 4, 1926.
Besides her daughter-in-law she is survived by one sister, Mrs. Kate Caddon of Denver.
Funeral services, conducted by the Pioneer Women's society, will be held at the Moore mortuary at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.
August 4, 1926 Denver Post, page 31, col.2:
Woman Pioneer of 1859 tells Graphic Story of Early Denver.
One of the pioneer women entered in the Post's search for the men and women who have lived longest in Denver and in Colorado is Mrs. Loretto Rich, 3018 West Ninth Avenue. Mrs. Rich has written a brief but graphic story of the early days, when Colorado was wild country and Denver but a huddle of cabins. Here is Mrs. Rich's story:
"Being an old pioneer, I would like to tell the younger generation what the pioneers found. I came to Denver with my parents in May, 1859. When we arrived in Denver, the city consisted of a few cabins. There was not a shingle-roofed house in Denver. The best and largest house at that time was a saloon covered with a canvas roof, owned by the Blake brothers. The Broadwell house was built in that summer. It was the first good building in the city.
The streets were named that summer - Stout, Blake, Larimer and Curtis. The summer of 1859 we lived in Nevada gulch. My mother found the first gold in Nevada gulch and was the first woman voter in Colorado. She had a vote at all miners' meetings and district elections.
In the fall of '59 we moved back to Denver, where I attended my first school. We were the second white family in Gregers Point. No houses there, nothing but tents. I have seen Denver grow from a few tents and cabins to a great city.
I married Nathanield A. Rich, a boy who came to Denver in May, 1860, one year after I had broken the trail. He was a Ute Indian trader as well as an interpreter. He had a great influence with the Ute Indians. At the time Evans was governor of Colorado, the Utes were about to rise against the whites. They were going to drive all white people out of Colorado, claiming they were killing all the deer. Mr. Rich quieted them and sent for Governor Evans to come into Lake county where the Indians would meet him at Cache Creek.
When the governor arrived at Cache Creek, he was met by about 500 buck Indians all dressed in war paint. They settled their trouble by sending a delegation of chiefs to Washington.
The children had no shoes in winter, only mocassins made by the Indians. I have lived to see the Indians of Colorado change from wild red devils into civilization.
I have seen the rise and fall of many mining camps. I lived in California gulch before there was Leadville. Mr. Rich made fortunes and lost them. I never was out of the state but once and that only for a few weeks. I have accumulated the finest jewels in the world and thank Colorado for them-three bright pretty great-grandchildren, Eileen, Floyd and Elsie, all pioneers and like myself, one of them, Elsie, attended her first school at the Lincoln school in Denver."
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