Chaffee County CO Archives Biographies.....Staley, Daniel H. March 25, 1867 - ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Crook jlcrook@rof.net February 28, 2006, 2:38 pm Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado This progressive public-spirited and prominent business man of Chaffee county, whose life in this state has been productive of much good to its mercantile and industrial interests, is a native of Mason county, Illinois, born on March 25, 1867. He was reared on his father’s farm and attended the district school in the neighborhood of his home, remaining under the parental roof until he reached the age of eighteen. He then went to Hamlin, Kansas, and during the next two years conducted a confectionery business at that place and studied bookkeeping. In 1887 he moved to Portis in the same state and took a position in a bank there which he held for about one year and a half. In April, 1891, he came to this state and located at what is now Hooper, Costilla county, but was then called Garrison. He became cashier of the bank there and also engaged in merchandising in partnership with his brother, they having two stores. About the year 1895 he accepted the position of cashier of the bank at Creede and moved to that town. Three years later he and his brother sold one of their stores at Hooper and organized the Costilla County Bank, with his brother Wesley as president and himself as cashier, and in 1901 they disposed of their other store at Hooper. Mr. Staley then organized the State Bank of Salida, with a capital stock of thirty thousand dollars, which was increased the next year. Dr. F. N. Cochran was made president, Mr. Staley vice-president, and J.M. Whitmore cashier. In 1903 the bank was re-organized with Mr. Staley as president, E.R. Naylor vice-president and Mr. Whitmore cashier. Under their management the bank has flourished, greatly increasing its volume of business and growing strong in the confidence of the people. It is now one of the esteemed and firmly established financial institutions of the western or central part of the state, with a large body of well satisfied patrons and a steadily expanding trade. Mr. Staley is also a director of the First National Bank of Monte Vista, which was organized in 1904, being a consolidation of the Costilla County Bank and the Exchange Bank of Monte Vista. Of this his brother Wesley is cashier and general manager. In political allegiance Mr. Staley is an ardent Democrat and always takes an active part in the affairs of his party. He is chairman of its county central committee in Chaffee county, and the vigor and earnestness of its campaigns there are largely due to the skill of his management and the spirit he infuses into its activities. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the order of Elks at Salida. In the former he is a member of the finance committee of the grand lodge, and in the latter is treasurer of his lodge at Salida, of which he is a charter member. He also belongs to a number of other fraternal orders and is ever active and helpful in lodge work. Additional Comments: From Progressive Men of Western Colorado. Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/chaffee/bios/staley203gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb