Denver County CO Archives Biographies.....Elder, Dwight H. 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1919)

DWIGHT H. ELDER.

    Dwight H. Elder, one of the best known representatives of the lumber trade
in Denver, is representing the Douglas Fir Lumber Company as manufacturers agent
and is also distributor for the Troy Trailer Sales Company. Forceful and
resourceful, he never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his
purpose if it can be accomplished by honorable methods. In his entire career
there is no esoteric phase and nothing that seeks concealment or disguise. On
the contrary, his interests measure up to high commercial standards and his life
is illustrative of what may be accomplished through indefatigable energy
intelligently directed. Mr. Elder is a native of Huron county, Ohio, born April
25, 1881. His father, Edwin T. Elder, was a cheese manufacturer until 1884 and
conducted a chain of factories devoted to that purpose. He married Ella H.
Hackett, a native of Indiana, and both are still living. They became the parents
of four children: Blanche, who is a resident of Burlingame, Kansas; Mabel, a
registered pharmacist in the Methodist Hospital at Des Moines, Iowa; Laura, who
is a graduate of St Luke's Hospital of Denver, where she is now night
superintendent; and Dwight H.

    The last named was a young lad of but seven years when his parents removed
with the family to Burlingame, Kansas, where he pursued his early education in
the public schools. He afterward continued his studies in Washburn College of
Topeka, Kansas, and was there graduated in 1900. He started upon his business
career as a shipping clerk in the J. Thomas planing mill, of Topeka, in 1901 and
remained for a year in that position. In 1902 he was made manager of a retail
lumberyard at Belvue, Kansas, and thus acquainted himself with another phase of
the lumber trade. In 1903 he became identified with the Central Sash & Door
Company, which bought out J. Thomas, and in this connection he gained still
broader knowledge of the business, spending two years in that position. He next
became a traveling salesman and later he spent a year in Oklahoma, being
connected with the United Sash & Door Company in 1905. In 1906 he again entered
into connection with the Central Sash & Door Company and in 1907 he came to
Denver, where he opened the western office of the American Sash & Door Company
of Kansas City. He continued with that corporation for eight years, but
ambitious to engage in business on his own account, he severed his relation in
1915 and started out in his present line as lumber manufacturers agent,
representing the Douglas Fir Lumber Company and acting as distributor for the
Troy Trailer Sales Company. He conducts business under his own name and has
already built up a trade of large and gratifying proportions. He handles various
kinds of lumber and he has also secured a liberal patronage as agent for the
Troy Trailer Company, manufacturers of auto trailers at Troy, Ohio.

    On the 1st of February, 1907, Mr. Elder was united in marriage to Miss
Caroline Badsky, of Kansas. He is well known in Masonic circles, holding
membership in Park Hill Lodge, No. 148, A. F. & A. M., while in Guthrie,
Oklahoma, he took the degrees of the Scottish Rite, attaining the thirty-second
degree. He is also a member of El Jebel Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Denver.
He turns to tennis and football for recreation and he has membership in the
Denver Knot Hole Club, which he organized as a local club for the entertainment
of visiting lumbermen. He belongs also to the Civic and Commercial Association
and is actuated by a public spirited devotion to the general good that prompts
his active aid and cooperation in all well defined plans and measures that have
to do with the upbuilding of the city, the extension of its trade relations, its
improvement and the advancement of its civic standards. Moreover, at the same
time he has made for himself a creditable place in business circles and is a
typical representative of the progressive spirit of the west.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME III
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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