Pueblo-Denver County CO Archives Biographies.....Stanton, Irving W. 1836 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

IRVING W. STANTON.

    This gentleman is one of the remaining "old-timers" in Colorado. He came to
the country when Denver was composed of log houses and shanties, and when the
flourishing city of Pueblo only existed in the dreams of a few early pioneers.
Mr. Stanton was born at Waymart, Wayne County, Penn., in 1836. Before he was
fully grown, he started West. Coming as far as Kansas in the early part of 1855,
he lived there about five months, after which he went to Iowa, in which State he
lived over four years. In 1860, he again journeyed Westward, arriving at Denver
in June of that year. He prospected in the mountains during the summer, and
returned to Denver the following fall. He lived in Denver, clerking in the post
office and bookstore there until the spring of 1862, when he went to Buckskin
Joe, and bought out a book and stationery establishment, which he kept until the
ensuing fall. Then disposing of his business, Mr. Stanton enlisted in the Third
Colorado Infantry, and continued in the United States service to the close of
the late war. After the war, he went to Washington City, and was there connected
with the Department of the Interior to 1867. In that year he received the
appointment of Register of the United States Land Office at Central City, Colo.
That position he held over three years, until, during 1871, he was appointed
Register of the Land Office at Pueblo. He held the office at Pueblo until June,
1875, when he resigned. During his intervals of business, Mr. Stanton had
pursued the study of law. This he continued to the fall of 1875, when he was
admitted to the bar, and began the practice at Pueblo, in partnership with Hon.
G. Q. Richmond. He and Mr. Richmond have since continued together, doing a large
and lucrative practice. Mr. Stanton was married at Potosi, Mo., in 1867, to Miss
Mary A. Singer.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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