Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: PETERS, Melville Emerson (published 1918) *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003643 September 9, 1999 *********************************************************************** "History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II p. 160 MELVILLE EMERSON PETERS. Melville Emerson Peters, for twenty-four years a member of the Denver bar, came to the outset of his professional career in this city well equipped for the onerous duties of the profession by previous experience and with the passing years his powers have broadened and deepened and he is accounted one of the foremost representatives of the legal fraternity in this state. He was born in Hillsdale county, Michigan, on the 7th of March, 1867, and is a son of William J. and Roxey (Troop) Peters, both of whom were natives of the state of New York and have now passed away. They had a family of eight children, tour of whom are living. The ancestral line can be traced back to a brother of the Rev. Hugh Peters, who was one of the founders of Harvard University. The youthful days of Melville Peters were spent in the usual manner of lads of that locality and period. District school training was supplemented by a high school course in Coldwater, Michigan, in 1886 and 1887, after which he entered the University of Michigan for the study of law and was graduated with the class of 1891, at which time the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him. Admitted to the bar, he at once entered upon the practice of his profession in Coldwater, Michigan, where he remained for three years and then sought the broader Held offered by a growing western city and became a resident of Denver. Here he has since concentrated his efforts and attention upon his practice. He is devotedly attached to his profession, is systematic and methodical in habits, sober and discreet in judgment, diligent in research and conscientious in the discharge of every duty. In 1907 Mr. Peter's was united in marriage to Miss Lola M. Johnson, of Illinois. He Is appreciative of the social amenities of life and has membership in both the University and the Denver Athletic Clubs, while along the strict path of his profession he is connected with the Denver County and City Bar Association, the Colorado State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is a broadminded man. Interested in everything that has to do with welfare and progress in his adopted city and cooperating heartily in well defined plans and measures looking to the general good, while the zeal with which he has devoted his energies to his profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his clients and an assiduous and unrelaxing attention to all the details of his cases have brought him a large business and made him very successful in its conduct.