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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

CHARLES TARBELL.

    Charles Tarbell is the vice president of the Saguache County Bank and is
thus actively and prominently identified with the financial interests of
Saguache, Colorado, where his activities constitute a feature in business
development and progress. He was born in Keokuk, Iowa, and is a son of Edward
and Rebecca Wells (Lyons) Tarbell. At an early age he moved with his parents to
Des Moines. In the paternal line he traces his ancestry back to Thomas Tarbell,
who came from Scotland in 1647 and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. He is
also a descendant in the eighth generation of Rebecca Nurse, who was one of the
martyrs of that black chapter in American history known as the Salem witchcraft.
He is also a great-great-grandson of William Tarbell, who was called out as one
of the minutemen by Paul Revere on the 18th of April, 1775, as he rode from
house to house arousing the Americans with the news that the British were
marching, preparatory to opening the first engagement that plunged the country
into the Revolutionary war.

    Edward Tarbell, the father, was born in Camden, Maine, removed westward to
Iowa and came to Colorado in 1872, making his way to Denver. Soon afterward he
became identified with business interests of Golden as a contractor and
continued a resident of this state until his death, which occurred in 1901. He
had served his country as a soldier of the Civil war. having been a
non-commissioned officer with an Iowa regiment. His wife died in 1885. They had
a family of eight children, of whom Charles Tarbell is the eldest. His living
brothers and sisters are: Edward F., living in Aspen, Colorado; Harry, who is a
resident of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Elizabeth Moffat Hartman, of Pueblo,
Colorado; and Winfield S., of Denver. The family had known David H. Moffat in
Des Moines, Iowa, and Mr. Tarbell's sister, Mrs. Hartman was named for Elizabeth
Moffat, a sister-in-law of David H. Moffat.

    Charles Tarbell began his education in the public schools of Des Moines,
Iowa and continued his studies in Colorado, having been a young lad when in 1872
he accompanied his parents on their westward removal to this state, the journey
being made with team and wagon from Des Moines, Iowa. En route he assisted his
brothers in driving the stock which they brought with them to the west. After
his textbooks were put aside Charles Tarbell turned his attention to
merchandising in Saguache and through all the intervening period since 1874,
when he made his initial step in the business world, he has been closely
identified with the commercial and financial development of the city in which he
now makes his home.

    In 1880 he assisted in the organization of the Saguache County Bank, in
which undertaking he was associated with Isaac Gotthelf and Leopold Mayer. He
was cashier of the bank for a number of years and was then elected to the vice
presidency, which position he still fills, and from the beginning of his
official identification with the institution he has contributed in substantial
measure to its growth and upbuilding. He with the Gotthelf estate owns the
Gotthelf & Tarbell Mercantile Company and his labors have been an important
element in furthering the material progress of city and county.

    Mr. Tarbell was united in marriage in Des Moines, Iowa, to Miss Ella McBroom
and to them has been born a son. Robert R., who married Etta O'Neil. Mr. Tarbell
belongs to the Masonic fraternity and also to the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party
since age conferred upon him the right of franchise and he was an alternate to
the national republican convention which was held in Chicago in 1908. He is much
interested in the vital political problems and questions of the day and belongs
to that class of American manhood who, holding strong political views,
nevertheless place citizenship and the country's welfare above partisanship. His
activities have at all times been intelligently directed, whether for the public
benefit or the advancement of his individual business interests, and in fact his
business affairs have contributed to public progress as well as to individual
success.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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