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First governor, first lady : John & Eliza Routt of Colorado / Joyce B. Lohse.

Title
First governor, first lady : John & Eliza Routt of Colorado / Joyce B. Lohse.
Author
Lohse, Joyce B. (Joyce Burke), 1950-
Publication
Palmer Lake, Colo. : Filter Press, c2002.

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xvii, 172 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
John Long Routt was born in 1826 in Eddyville, Kentucky. He married Hester Ann Woodson in 1845 in Bloomington, Illinois. They had five children. He served in the Union Army in the Civil War. Hester died in 1872 and John married Eliza Pickrell, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Pickrell and Mary Ann Elkin, in 1874 in Decatur, Illinois. They had one daughter. John was appointed territorial governor of Colorado in 1875. He also served as state governor and mayor of Denver City.
Subject
  • Routt, John Long, 1826-1907
  • Routt, Eliza Pickrell, 1839-1907
  • 1876-1950
  • Governors > Colorado > Biography
  • Governors' spouses > Colorado > Biography
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Colorado
  • Colorado > Biography
  • Colorado > History > 1876-1950
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-164) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0865410631 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2001050810
OCLC
  • 48655851
  • SCSB-11330670
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library