Pueblo-Fremont County CO Archives Biographies.....Roe, George W. 1850 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

GEORGE W. ROE.

     George W. Roe, a Pueblo architect, standing high in his profession, was
born in Jefferson county, Ohio, October 24, 1850, and is a son of William and
Elizabeth (Gosnell) Roe. The father died while serving as a soldier in the Union
army, and the mother passed away in March, 1918. George W. Roe was but a young
lad when his father died, giving his life as a sacrifice to his country during
the Civil war. The boy attended the public schools and afterward had the benefit
of instruction in Hopedale College at Hopedale, Ohio. He later took up the study
of architecture in the office of W. A. Burkett in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and
located first for the practice of his profession in that city for six years,
removing to Canon City, Colorado, in 1881. Arriving in Denver he expected to
follow his profession there but found twenty-seven architects already
established which fact decided him to turn his attention to the lure of the
mines and he became identified with mining and prospecting, hut after having
some experience along that line he concentrated his efforts and attention upon
his profession in Canon City, where he remained for eight years. In 1889 he came
to Pueblo and through the intervening period, covering almost three decades, he
has designed some of the state's finest buildings, including the library
building of the University of Colorado at Boulder, also the chapel and the
dining room and some of the cottages for the State Industrial School for Boys at
Golden. He likewise made the plans for three buildings for the Colorado State
Hospital at Pueblo and while in Canon City he was superintendent of construction
of the state penitentiary. He likewise planned the county building at Canon City
and was associated with Albert R. Ross in the building of the Pueblo county
courthouse. He has planned sixty different public school buildings in the state,
among them being the Centennial high school of Pueblo, the Riverside school, the
Carlisle and the Hinsdale, all of Pueblo, together with eleven others in this
city. He was the architect of the Carnegie Library at Lamar and has made the
plans for between five and six hundred other buildings at various points in the
state. In fact there are few architects in Colorado who have equalled him in the
number and in the importance of the buildings which have been erected after
designs which he has made.

     Mr. Roe was united in marriage to Miss Clara Schaefer and to them have been
born two children: George H., a draftsman with the United States Naval
Construction Company at Long Beach, California, who married Ethel Rigdon, a
member of a very prominent Pueblo family; and Anna, who married Alfred R.
Johnson, also a member of a prominent Pueblo family, who is now serving in the
Aviation Corps of the United States army and is stationed at Riverside, California.

     Mr. Roe gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He is very
prominent in the Masonic order, in which he has attained the honorary
thirty-third degree. He is a past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Colorado,
is a past grand high priest and past grand commander. Moreover, he is a member
of Colorado Consistory, No. 1, A. A. S. R.; Canon City Council, No. 5,-R. & S.
M.; and is an active life member M. V. A., Pacific Coast, and inspector general
honorary of the Supreme Council, thirty-third degree, S. J. U. S. A. He has
figured quite actively in public life, serving as town trustee also as county
commissioner and in other positions of public trust. He is guided by a
progressive spirit in everything that he undertakes, whether for the benefit of
the community at large or in connection with his profession, and advancing step
by step, he now occupies a prominent place among the leading residents of
southeastern Colorado.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

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VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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