Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Thatcher, Mahlon D. 1839 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

MAHLON D. THATCHER.

    Mr. Thatcher is well known, especially among the business men in Southern
Colorado as a large capitalist and banker of Pueblo. He was born in Perry
County, Penn., December 6, 1839. When fourteen years old, he moved with his
parents to Martinsburg, Penn., where he received an academical education. After
finishing school, he kept store for a time with his father at Martinsburg. He
came to Colorado in the spring of 1865, and located with his brother in the
mercantile business at Pueblo. He and his brother, John A. Thatcher, have since
been together in all their business transactions. The Thatcher Brothers have
been and are connected with many of the most important enterprises of Pueblo,
the most notable of which is the First National Bank They instituted the bank
and now own and conduct it themselves exclusively, John A. Thatcher being the
President, and M. D. Thatcher, Cashier. Mr. Thatcher has amassed a large fortune
and is to-day one of the leading business men of Colorado. His residence at
Pueblo, is said to be the finest at this time in the State. He was married at
Pueblo, August 1, 1876, to Miss Luna Jordan.


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

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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