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


p. 324, 326
photo p. 325


JOHN H. REDDIN.

	The bar of Colorado finds many of its brightest legal lights in 
the city of Denver. Not only is John H. Reddin prominently known as an 
able attorney but ia also a man of excellent literary attainments, 
whose name as author and writer is a familiar one in various sections 
of the country. Mr. Reddin comes to the west from New York, his birth 
having occurred in Seneca county, that state, on the 13th of October, 
1858, his parents being John and Sarah (Sullivan) Reddin, both of whom 
were born in Ireland. They came to America in early life and settled in 
Seneca county, where they were married and resided during the Civil 
war, removing thence to Oneida, New York, and later to Norwich, New 
York. The father was prominently engaged in railroad construction in 
the early days of the New York Central. He came west when the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy was projected to Denver, and reached this city in 
1881. Here he continued to reside to the time of his death, which 
occurred in 1907, when he had reached the age of seventy-six years. For 
a considerable period he had survived his wife, who passed away in 
Denver in 1888, when fifty years of age. They had a family of four 
children: John H.; Patrick, who died in Denver in 1883; William G., who 
has been connected from the beginning with the Moffat Railroad in 
Denver; and Mrs. W. P. Pattridge, also a resident of Denver.

	In early life John H. Reddin attended the public schools of 
Oneida, New York, passing through consecutive grades to the high school 
and academy in Norwich, New York, and later he took up the study of 
law, believing that he would find the practice of that profession a 
congenial pursuit. After thorough preliminary training he was admitted 
to the bar at Albany, New York, in 1880, and with the removal of the 
family to Denver he also came to this city and opened law offices here 
on the 20th of April, 1881. Through the intervening period, covering 
thirty-seven and more years, he has been in active practice here and 
has long ranked with the most successful members of the Colorado bar. 
For a short period in the early days of his practice here he was 
assistant district attorney. He has for many years, however, been one 
of the leading corporation lawyers of Denver and attorney for the 
Colorado Milling & Elevator Company, which is perhaps the largest 
private corporation of the state. He is likewise attorney for the 
Hibernia Bank & Trust Company of Denver, for the Solis Cigar Company of 
Denver, which controls the largest business in that line west of St. 
Louis, and of various other corporations. He is himself a director and 
stockholder in a number of large business enterprises in the state, and 
is at the present time extensively engaged in mining at Cripple Creek, 
and farming and stock raising in Morgan county. He belongs to the 
American Bar Association, the Colorado State Bar Association and the 
Denver City and County Bar Association.

	Aside from his professional interests Mr. Reddin has been for 
many years prominently identified with the Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks. He was one of the organizers of the "Big Brotherhood" 
movement in that order. He is also prominent in the Knights of 
Columbus, of which he is a national director and supreme master of the 
fourth degree, with jurisdiction over the United States and all its 
possessions, including Porto Rico, the Hawaiian islands, the Philippine 
islands, Alaska, and also over Canada, and Newfoundland. At the present 
time he is giving much of his time to the war work of the Knights of 
Columbus in this country and France for the benefit of our American 
soldiers and sailors in the great world war. He is the father of a 
great educational movement in the Knights of Columbus known as the Free 
Public Lecture movement. He holds membership In the Immaculate 
Conception cathedral of Denver and while taking a deep interest in the 
work of the church, he is also active in civic affairs wherever he 
believes that his aid is needed to further progress and improvement.

	In May, 1900, Mr. Reddin was united in marriage to Miss Mary 
Ford, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ford of Chicago Illinois. The 
former was a well known contractor there but both he and his wife are 
now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Reddin have become parents of tour children. 
Mary, who was born in Denver in 1902, is now attending Loretta Academy. 
Margaret, born in Denver in 1904, is a student in the Cathedral high 
school. John W., born in Denver in 1906, is also attending the 
Cathedral school, as la Josephine, the youngest of the family, who was 
born in Denver in 1910.

	The history of Mr. Reddin would be incomplete if reference were 
not made to his ability as a writer and historian. His activities have 
always been of a helpful character, contributing to progress and 
improvement through intellectual development and moral uplift, and the 
consensus of public opinion places him in the front rank among Denver's 
representative men.