Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Whipp, John E. 1859 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     John E. Whipp, deputy county treasurer of Gunnison county, is a native of

Iowa, born in 1859.  He was reared to the age of twenty-one in his native state

and Kansas and received a common-school education there.  In 1880, desiring to

see something of the world, and also to find enlarged opportunity for the

employment of his energies, he came to Colorado in company with a brother and

located for a short time at Georgetown, Clear Creek county.  From there he came

to Gunnison and the following spring, 1881, moved to Crested Butte, where he

engaged in mining for others, at the same time prospecting for himself.  He

followed these exciting but not always remunerative occupations until January,

1894, when he qualified and entered upon his official duties as county assessor,

an office to which he had been elected in the previous fall as the candidate of

the Populist party.  He served in this position two years, and at the end of his

term bought a newspaper called the People's Champion, which he conducted until

the spring of 1898, when he went to Alaska, remaining till November of the same

year prospecting through the Cooper river country.  He then returned to Gunnison

and soon after was appointed deputy county treasurer, a position which he is

still holding and in which he is exhibiting a capacity and faithfulness to every

trust that is gratifying to his friends, satisfactory to the people of the

county and highly creditable to himself.  He knows the county well and is loyal

to its every interest.  At the same time his official career has been marked by

considerate regard for the rights and the feelings of every individual citizen,

omitting nothing of the most exacting requirements on the one hand, and avoiding

every form of oppression and discourtesy on the other.  Mr. Whipp was married in

August, 1891, to Miss Fannie Bray, a native of Illinois and daughter of Andrew

and Celes (St. Cair) Bray, residents of Gunnison who came here to reside in the

spring of 1881, and have since been among the most respected and popular

citizens of the place.

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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