Larimer County, History of Colorado, BIOS: HOLLOWELL, Walter T. (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 29, 1999 *********************************************************************** "History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II p. 248, 250 photo p. 249 WALTER T. HOLLOWELL. Walter T. Hollowell, engaged in the undertaking business at Fort Collins, is numbered among the substantial citizens that Indiana has furnished to Colorado, for his birth occurred in Salem of the former state on the 2d of June, 1857, his parents being Abraham and Priscilla (Trueblood) Hollowell, who were also natives of the Hoosier state. The father followed the occupation of farming in Indiana during the greater part of his life, but during the period of the Civil war he allowed no personal interest or consideration to check his patriotic spirit and enlisted as a member of Company E of the Fifty-third Indiana Infantry, with which he served throughout the period of hostilities between the north and the south, participating in a number of important engagements and also going with Sherman on the celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea. He died September 7, 1914, at the age of ninety-two years, his birth having occurred on the 5th of January, 1822. He had long survived his wife, who died in February, 1876. Walter T. Hollowell was reared and educated in Salem, Indiana, and remained at home until he attained his majority. He took up the printer's trade in early life and continued to follow that pursuit in different places until 1900. While at Hamburg, Iowa, he occupied the position of foreman on the Hamburg News for three years. He afterward went to Dunlap, where he remained for a year and later took up his abode in Red Oak, Iowa. where he accepted the position of foreman of the Red Oak Express. Later he bought a third interest in the paper, which he subsequently sold to Thomas D. Murphy, the big calendar man. Mr. Hollowell remained at Red Oak from 1887 until 1900. He was also superintendent of the big calendar plant there and was thus connected with important business interests. In 1900 he came to Colorado, making Fort Collins his destination. Here he entered into partnership with a brother-in-law in the furniture and undertaking business, but eventually they disposed of their stock of furniture and Mr. Hollowell concentrated his efforts and attention upon the undertaking business alone. He has carried this on independently since and has a leading undertaking establishment of his section of the state, being accorded a very liberal patronage, for he is most conscientious and careful in the conduct of his business and puts forth every effort to please his patrons. On the 11th of March, 1886, Mr. Hollowell was married to Miss Emma W. Krauss and to them has been born a son, Max K., who was born November 7, 1888, and who is cashier of the Great Western Sugar Company at Bayard, Nebraska. He married Miss Olive V. Law and they have two children, Walter and Betty Maxine. Mr. Hollowell is filling the position of county coroner, in which capacity he has served for four terms. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which position he has filled for ten years. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Modern Brotherhood of America, the Independent Order of Puritans and the Knights of Pythias. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. Sterling traits of character have always been manifest throughout his entire career and his life has been actuated by high and honorable principles, making his life history an open book which all may read.