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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II


p. 447-448




FRANK BULKLEY.

Almost forty years have come and gone since Frank Bulkley became 
a resident of Colorado and since December, 1899, he has made his home 
in Denver. Through the intervening period his activities have 
constantly broadened and have also deepened in their scope and 
importance. He is today prominently connected with many of the 
important mining interests of the state and is widely known as a most 
capable mining engineer. He was born in Washington, Iowa, July 10, 
1857, a son of Gershom Taintor and Fidelia (Groendycke) Bulkley. The 
father and the grandfather constructed the first railroad west of the 
Mississippi river in Iowa and Frank Bulkley was born while his parents 
were temporarily residing in that state. The ancestry in America can be 
traced back to the Rev. Peter Bulkley, who came from England to the new 
world in 1636 and founded the historic town of Concord, Massachusetts. 
Gershom T. Bulkley was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where the 
family was represented through many successive generations. In 1836, 
however, he sought the opportunities of the growing west and removed 
with his family to Michigan.

Frank Bulkley of this review pursued his education in the schools 
of Michigan but did not complete his course of study there. He was 
given the E. M. degree by the Colorado School of Mines in June, 1876. 
He came to Colorado in April of that year, making his way to Leadville, 
and was engaged in mining engineering and mine management at that place 
until November, 1888. He next went to Aspen, Colorado, where he was 
engaged in mine management until December, 1899, when he removed with 
his family to Denver, where he has since resided. He has developed and 
managed properties for the following companies: the Big Pittsburgh 
Consolidated Mining Company of Leadville; the Rock Hill Consolidated 
Gold & Silver Mining Company of Leadville; the Aspen Mining & Smelting 
Company of Aspen; the Mollie Gibson Consolidated Mining Company of 
Aspen; the Bushwhacker Mining Company, also of Aspen; the Park Regent 
Mining Company, the Chloride Mining Company and the Morning & Evening 
Star Mines, all of Aspen; the Robinson Consolidated Mining & Smelting 
Company of Robinson, Colorado; the Summit Mining Company of Robinson, 
and others. At the present writing, in the summer of 1918, he is 
president of the following active companies: the Crested Butte Coal 
Company; the Crested Butte Anthracite Mining Company; the Walsenburg 
Fuel Company; the Summit Gold & Silver Mining Company; and the Colorado 
Sulphur Production Company. He is the vice president of the Baldwin 
Fuel Company and of the Walsenburg Coal Mining Company. He is also 
interested in active gold and silver mines and coal mines and his 
activities have been a most important factor in the development of the 
rich mineral resources of the state, which have constituted in large 
part the source of Colorado's wealth, progress and prosperity.

On the 22d of January, 1885, Mr. Bulkley was united in marriage 
to Miss Luella Bergstresser, a daughter of Reuben Bergstresser, who was 
engaged in merchandising and in railroad building in Illinois. Mrs. 
Bulkley was educated in Boston, Massachusetts, and was formerly well 
known as a vocalist . of unusual ability. To Mr. and Mrs. Bulkley have 
been born four children: Louise Jeannette, now the wife of Harold 
Kountze, chairman of the board of the Colorado National Bank of Denver; 
Ronald Francis, who married Blanche Rathvon, of Denver, a daughter of 
S. F. Rathvon, a well known business man; Ralph Groendycke, a first 
lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Forty-first Field Artillery of the 
United States army at Camp Funston, Kansas; and Eleanor, who married 
Joseph B. Blackburn, a lieutenant of the field artillery at Camp Grant, 
Illinois. The family attend St. John's Cathedral.

Mr. Bulkley is a member of the Denver Club, with which he has 
been thus associated for twenty years or more. He is also a member of 
the Denver Country Club. In politics he may be said to be a democrat 
but is of very liberal views and votes according to the dictates of his 
Judgment without regard to party ties at local elections, while giving 
his allegiance to democratic principles at national elections. He was 
elected a member of the Colorado fifth general assembly from Lake 
county in 1884, in which year he had the unusual distinction and honor 
of being the only democrat elected on the ticket and yet he received 
the highest majority of any candidate upon either ticket, a fact 
indicative of his personal popularity and the confidence and trust 
reposed in him. He was a trustee of the Colorado School of Mines for 
sixteen years, from August, 1896, and was president of the board of 
trustees during a large part of that time. He has membership in the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Mining Congress 
and the Colorado Scientific Society. It would be tautologlcal in this 
connection to enter into any series of statements, showing him to be a 
man of high scholarly attainments and marked efficiency in his chosen 
profession, for this has been shadowed forth between the lines of this 
review. He ranks with those men who through the development of the rich 
mineral resources of the state have contributed in marked measure to 
its upbuilding and progress and no history of Colorado would be 
complete without extended mention of him, so closely is his name 
interwoven with its mining activity.