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

p. 112, 114
photo p. 113


BULKELEY WELLS, A. B.

	Mining constituted the first potent force in Colorado's wonderful 
development and has remained a strong element in the growth and 
progress of the state through all the Intervening years. With the 
passing of time splendid organization has been introduced into the 
development of the rich mineral resources of the state and controlling 
these Interests are men of master minds and executive force whose 
labors have been most resultant. To this class belongs Bulkeley Wells, 
who is connected with many important mining companies of the west. He 
was born in Chicago, Illinois, March 10, 1872, a son of Samuel Edgar 
and Mary Agnes (Bulkeley) Wells. After pursuing a course in the Roxbury 
Latin school he attended Harvard University and won his A. B. degree 
upon graduation with the class of 1894. The following year was spent as 
a machinist with the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New 
Hampshire, and in 1895 he entered the employ of the Boston & Albany 
Railroad Company of Boston, continuing in that connection until 1896. 
Since the latter year he has been interested in metal mining and during 
the intervening years has operated extensively over the United States 
and Mexico in connection with the construction and operation of hydro 
electric power plants at various points in the west. Something of the 
extent and value of his services in the material development of the 
state and the utilization of its natural resources and his force as a 
factor in the upbuilding of various districts in the west is indicated 
in the fact that he is now the president of the Western Colorado Power 
Company, president of the First National Bank of Telluride and 
president and managing director of sixteen metal mining properties, 
operating from Alaska to Oklahoma, while the Utah Power & Light Company 
and the Denver Rock Drill Manufacturing Company number him as a 
representative of their directorates. Thus from point to point he has 
extended his efforts and investments, his business connections 
constantly broadening in scope and importance until his work is of the 
utmost value to the state and to the west at large.

	On the 16th of October, 1895, Mr. Wells was married to Miss Grace 
Daniels Livermore. a daughter of Colonel Thomas L. Livermore, of 
Boston, and they are now parents of two sons and two daughters: 
Bulkeley L., born July 15, 1896, now an ensign in the United States 
navy; Barbara, born April 10, 1898; Dorothy L., January 15, 1900; and 
Thomas L., August 14, 1902.

	Mr. Wells' military record covers service as captain of Troop A 
of the First Squadron of the Colorado National Guard from February, 
1904, until 1905; as adjutant general from April, 1905, until 1907; as 
colonel on the governor's staff from 1907 until 1909; as colonel of the 
First Cavalry Regiment of the National Guard of Colorado from June, 
1917, until August 4, 1917, at which time he was placed on the retired 
list with the rank of brigadier general. He has served on the Colorado 
board of corrections but resigned in 1918. He is well known, too, in 
club circles from the Atlantic to the Pacific, having membership in the 
Alta Club of Salt Lake City; in the Sutter of Sacramento; the Pacific 
Union Club of San Francisco; the El Paso and Cheyenne Mountain Country 
Clubs of Colorado Springs; the Denver and the Denver Country Clubs of 
Denver; the Knickerbocker Club of New York; the Racquet and Tennis Club 
of New York; the Rocky Mountain Club of New York; and the Harvard Clubs 
of New York, Boston and Colorado.

	His record is the embodiment of those characteristics which in 
this country constitute what we call a square man. In a word, there has 
been nothing sinister and nothing to conceal in all of his career. 
Placing a correct valuation upon his talents, he has so directed his 
efforts that the utilization of opportunities has brought him to the 
fore, making him a dynamic force in mining circles and an influencing 
factor in relation to many important problems and conditions which have 
to do with the welfare and upbuilding of city and state. Fraternally he 
is identified with the Masons, having attained the Knight Templar 
degree in the York Rite and the thirty-second degree in the Scottish 
Rite. He likewise belongs to the Mystic Shrine and is also a member of 
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Moreover, he has membership 
relations with the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science, the Colorado Scientific 
Society, the Navy League of the United States, the American Mining 
Congress, the Colorado Metal Mining Association, the United States 
Cavalry Association, the United States Infantry Association and the 
Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. He finds recreation in 
polo, tennis, hunting and shooting. His religious faith is that of the 
Episcopal church and his political allegiance is given to the 
republican party. Colorado has been particularly fortunate in having 
among its great mine owners men to whom law and order in every nook and 
corner of the state is an essential to prosperity. Bulkeley Wells is 
possessed of rare courage, which, added to a keen sense of justice, is 
largely responsible for his success in dealing with great bodies of 
men.