Denver County CO Archives Obituaries.....Whitford, Greeley W. May 6, 1940
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The Denver Post 5/7/1940
G. W. WHITFORD, FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE, DIES

Leaders of Bar to Pay Final Tribute at Service Wednesday.

	Leaders of the Colorado bar and prominent Republicans will gather in 
the Olinger mortuary at Speer boulevard and Sherman street at 2 p.m. Wednesday 
to pay a final tribute to Greeley W. Whitford, former chief justice of the 
Colorado supreme court, who died in St. Luke's hospital Monday of a heart 
disease after an illness of two months.  Burial will be in Fairmount cemetery.
	Mr. Whitford, who retired nine years ago when his supreme court term 
expired, would have been 84 years old on June 5.  Until stricken two months ago 
he had been in good health.
	He had made his home for many years at 1740 High street.
	Born in Rockville, Ind., the son of John W. and Jane Whitford, Mr. 
Whitford was educated in the Indiana public schools and in the Iowa Weslayan 
college at Mount Pleasant.
	Upon completing his academic course, he studied law in the office of an 
Iowa attorney and was admitted to the bar of that state in 1882.  Soon after 
that, he moved to Whatcom, now Bellingham, in what was then the territory of 
Washington.
	There he practiced law and was postmaster.
	In 1887, Mr. Whitford came to Denver, where his brother, the late Clay 
B. Whitford, already was practicing law.  He became associated with the late 
John F. Shafroth, one time governor and United States senator, and the late 
Platt Rogers, one-time mayor of Denver and a district judge.
	Later Mr. Whitford was connected with his brother, Clay B. Whitford, 
and the late Henry E. May in the practice of law, and still later he practiced 
with Frederick A. Williams.
	Two years after his arrival in Denver, Mr. Whitford was named assistant 
city attorney under Mr. Williams.  Later he was assistant district Attorney and 
in 1895 was chosen district attorney.
	He resigned two years later to accept an appointment from President 
McKinley as United States district attorney for Colorado.  He served in that 
position until 1901.
	In 1903 he was named a member of the convention to draw up a city 
charter for Denver and in 1907 he was elected to the district bench.
	He was elected to the district bench a second time in 1919 and in 1921 
he was elected to the state supreme court by the largest majority ever given 
for that office.  For the last two years of his ten-year supreme court term he 
was chief justice.
	Mr. Whitford was a member of Beta Theta Pi collegiate fraternity, 
various Masonic bodies, the Knights of Pythias and the Methodist church, in 
addition to the American, Colorado and Denver Bar associations. 
	In 1890 he married Ida Spaulding of Mount Pleasant.  She died Jan. 8, 
1916, and on Sept. 28, 1917, he married the widow of his brother, Clay B. 
Whitford.
	She survives with a son, Kent S. Whitford, an attorney at Tulsa, Okla; 
two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Kepner of Dawson, N. M.; and two step-daughters, Mrs. 
William Taylor and Mrs. Albert J. Gould, both of Denver.

Additional Comments:
Colorado U.S. Attorney 1897-1901
Colorado Supreme Court Judge 1929-31
Colorado District Court Judge 1907-09, 1919-23

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