Frank Bulkley

Frank Bulkley -- Uncle of Ruth Bulkley Garnsey. brother of Fred Bulkley, Ruth's father. I found another cite for Fred from a book on Aspen. Was one of the top four in mine owned by Wheeler or Jerome (?). Went to New York with him on new stock IPO for the mines.

Fred was a mining engineer also -- found a technical article and some testimony from him. My mother (June Garnsey Clarke) said she recalled Fred was sick some -- could not do all that Frank did. They were partners of sorts.


"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II


p. 447-448




FRANK BULKLEY.

Almost forty years have come and gone since Frank Bulkley became
a resident of Colorado and since December, 1899, he has made his home
in Denver. Through the intervening period his activities have
constantly broadened and have also deepened in their scope and
importance. He is today prominently connected with many of the
important mining interests of the state and is widely known as a most
capable mining engineer. He was born in Washington, Iowa, July 10,
1857, a son of Gershom Taintor and Fidelia (Groendycke) Bulkley. The
father and the grandfather constructed the first railroad west of the
Mississippi river in Iowa and Frank Bulkley was born while his parents
were temporarily residing in that state. The ancestry in America can be
traced back to the Rev. Peter Bulkley, who came from England to the new
world in 1636 and founded the historic town of Concord, Massachusetts.
Gershom T. Bulkley was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where the
family was represented through many successive generations. In 1836,
however, he sought the opportunities of the growing west and removed
with his family to Michigan.

Frank Bulkley of this review pursued his education in the schools
of Michigan but did not complete his course of study there. He was
given the E. M. degree by the Colorado School of Mines in June, 1876.
He came to Colorado in April of that year, making his way to Leadville,
and was engaged in mining engineering and mine management at that place
until November, 1888. He next went to Aspen, Colorado, where he was
engaged in mine management until December, 1899, when he removed with
his family to Denver, where he has since resided. He has developed and
managed properties for the following companies: the Big Pittsburgh
Consolidated Mining Company of Leadville; the Rock Hill Consolidated
Gold & Silver Mining Company of Leadville; the Aspen Mining & Smelting
Company of Aspen; the Mollie Gibson Consolidated Mining Company of
Aspen; the Bushwhacker Mining Company, also of Aspen; the Park Regent
Mining Company, the Chloride Mining Company and the Morning & Evening
Star Mines, all of Aspen; the Robinson Consolidated Mining & Smelting
Company of Robinson, Colorado; the Summit Mining Company of Robinson,
and others. At the present writing, in the summer of 1918, he is
president of the following active companies: the Crested Butte Coal
Company; the Crested Butte Anthracite Mining Company; the Walsenburg
Fuel Company; the Summit Gold & Silver Mining Company; and the Colorado
Sulphur Production Company. He is the vice president of the Baldwin
Fuel Company and of the Walsenburg Coal Mining Company. He is also
interested in active gold and silver mines and coal mines and his
activities have been a most important factor in the development of the
rich mineral resources of the state, which have constituted in large
part the source of Colorado's wealth, progress and prosperity.

On the 22d of January, 1885, Mr. Bulkley was united in marriage
to Miss Luella Bergstresser, a daughter of Reuben Bergstresser, who was
engaged in merchandising and in railroad building in Illinois. Mrs.
Bulkley was educated in Boston, Massachusetts, and was formerly well
known as a vocalist . of unusual ability. To Mr. and Mrs. Bulkley have
been born four children: Louise Jeannette, now the wife of Harold
Kountze, chairman of the board of the Colorado National Bank of Denver;
Ronald Francis, who married Blanche Rathvon, of Denver, a daughter of
S. F. Rathvon, a well known business man; Ralph Groendycke, a first
lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Forty-first Field Artillery of the
United States army at Camp Funston, Kansas; and Eleanor, who married
Joseph B. Blackburn, a lieutenant of the field artillery at Camp Grant,
Illinois. The family attend St. John's Cathedral.

Mr. Bulkley is a member of the Denver Club, with which he has
been thus associated for twenty years or more. He is also a member of
the Denver Country Club. In politics he may be said to be a democrat
but is of very liberal views and votes according to the dictates of his
Judgment without regard to party ties at local elections, while giving
his allegiance to democratic principles at national elections. He was
elected a member of the Colorado fifth general assembly from Lake
county in 1884, in which year he had the unusual distinction and honor
of being the only democrat elected on the ticket and yet he received
the highest majority of any candidate upon either ticket, a fact
indicative of his personal popularity and the confidence and trust
reposed in him. He was a trustee of the Colorado School of Mines for
sixteen years, from August, 1896, and was president of the board of
trustees during a large part of that time. He has membership in the
American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Mining Congress
and the Colorado Scientific Society. It would be tautologlcal in this
connection to enter into any series of statements, showing him to be a
man of high scholarly attainments and marked efficiency in his chosen
profession, for this has been shadowed forth between the lines of this
review. He ranks with those men who through the development of the rich
mineral resources of the state have contributed in marked measure to
its upbuilding and progress and no history of Colorado would be
complete without extended mention of him, so closely is his name
interwoven with its mining activity.

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Frank's wedding in Leadville. Ruth Bulkley (Garnsey)[my grandmother] may have been there in that Ruth was born in Leadville. Frank and Fred seemed to move around the same times -- Leadville, to Aspen to Denver. However, I just reread the wedding notice. It was 1885. Ruth was born in 1880s late 80's I think.


MARRIAGES



MARRIAGE BELLS
The Impressive High Church Wedding Yesterday, of Mr. Frank Bulkley and Miss Lelia Bergstresser

There occurred in St. George's church yesterday the most notable event of the society season, and one of the most brilliant weddings that Leadville has ever witnessed, Hon. Frank Bulkley leading to the altar Miss Lolla Bergstresser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Bergstresser, and a lady who has been, throughout her residence in Leadville, one of the queens of Carbonate society.

At ten minutes before 5 o'clock the triumphal strains of the organ, under the skillful hands of Mr. Nash, began to peal forth a jubilant march. Immediately the vestry door opened and the Rev. John Gray, the rector of St. George's, preceded by four acolytes, Masters Frank Follett, Charlie Fearnley, David Hodges and Ruby Bergstresser, entered the chancel. The acolytes were preceded by four little flower girls - Lily Wood, Katie Wood, Ethel Burrell and Dottie Gray. The altar having been robed with the festal white, and brilliant with the mystic seven candles, together with the white robes of the clergy and the beautiful white array of the children, presented a reverent and lovely scene. In a very few moments the church doors entering the broad aisle were opened, and the bridal procession slowly advanced toward the chancel; the ushers, Mr. S. D. Walling, Mr. Harry C. Burnett, Mr. M. H. Slater, Mr. Ellery Stowell, Mr. D. G Miller, and Mr. Frank W. Owers preceding, followed by the bride leaning upon the arm of her father with Nona Wood, one of the dainty while robed lasses, bearing the train, the bridegroom supporting the mother of the bride.

The whole company advanced as far as the chancel step. The rector, descending from the altar steps to meet them, began the reading of the service, proceeding with the same through the betrothal. At this point the marriage ring was placed upon a silver paten and carried to the altar by Master Frank Follett, where it was blessed for the holy purpose of matrimony by the rector, being then returned to the groom, who placed it upon the fourth finder of the bride's left hand. Again the organ pealed forth a joyful burst of melody, and the bridal party advanced to the chancel rail, where the rector pronounced the marriage declaration, adding, as the entire party knelt, the solemn blessing of the undivided trinity, the boys singing the responses. The strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march filled the sacred edifice with grand harmony, the we maids in white, with baskets of flowers on their arms, strewed the pathway of the happy couple with blossoms as they proceeded down the aisle, and so - they were married.

The service was something never before witnessed in Leadville, being conducted in the manner frequently seen in Trinity church, New York, and other large eastern parishes.

The beautiful interior was fittingly decorated, a satin slipper for good luck hanging above the chancel during the ceremony.

It may be safely said that Colorado has never seen a more lovely bride. The toilet, without a description of which the account would be incomplete, was a cream brocade and surrah satin, falling in soft, luxurious folds, and extending, as has been said, to a train, the stain trimmed with the finest of lace flounces. There was an exquisite corsage and a hand bouquet of tea roses, and the bridal veil in al the fascinating beauty that belongs to it.

The groom, in conventional black, appeared to the best possible advantage, looking every inch the manly gentleman.

Succeeding the ceremony an informal reception to which none but the relatives of the contracting parties, the ushers and the flower girls were invited, occurred at the residence of the bride's parents.

The gifts of congratulation were many, and to be noted for their uniform elegance and the rare taste displayed in their selection. From the groom, a wonderfully exquisite diamond lace pin; from the Leadville Athletic association, a very handsome and delicately chased silver service of eleven pieces; from four of the ushers, Mr. M. H. Slater, Mr. F. W. Owers, Mr. Harry C. Burnett and Mr. Stuart D. Walling, a complete dinner set in tastefully decorated china; from MR. D. G. Miller, a silver mounted chased and engraved carving set, in a velvet case; from Mr. Ellery Stowell solid silver and gold lined berry and sugar spoons; from the brother and sister of the groom, a fruit dish in mannered silver, a set of beautifully hand painted fruit plates, and a silver, porcelain lined oyster tureen; from the brother and sister of the bride, pearl and silver nut picks and an exquisite set of pearl handled fruit knives, and from the mother of the bride, a lovely fancy work casket.

Miss Eva Baker presented a hand-embroidered, plush opera case; Judge and Mrs. L. M. Goddard, a set of frosted silver after coffee spoons; Miss A. V. Fletcher, a beautifully bound volume of familiar quotations; Miss Ethel Burrell, an optic jewel case, Mr. and Mrs. Jervis Joslyn, an ebony vase in chased silver; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fox, and embroidered crepe shawl; Mr. and Mrs. Clanton, fine table linen and napkins.

From Misses Katie, Nona and Lillian Wood came a dainty pair of bisque figures; from Miss Frueauff, a lovely hand painted banner; from Fred C. Ewing, of Denver, a silver cologne set; from Major and Mrs. J. F. Frueauff, a fruit dish in craquelle ware; from Mr. Harry Fisher, of Denver, a handsome bronze framed mirror; from Mrs McCov and and Mrs. Becker, a rare piece of artistic work, in a hand painted placque, with a hand-painted plush frame.

From Mr. R. M. McDermott, of Denver, the fortunate bride received a beautiful oil painting of Ute Falls; from Miss Rose North, of Columbus, Nebraska, a ground glass claret set; from Miss Florence Lake, brass candelabra; from Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Bonner, a plush, embroidered glove box; from Mrs. C. W. Crews and Miss McMurtrie, a daintily embossed lass and silver fruit dish, from Mrs. P. J. Cunningham, a pair of bisque vases.

There was also an optic water set from Mr. W. L. Thompson; a clock, cathedral gong, in black marble, from Mr. Henry D. Bates; a sugar spoon in solid native silver, from Mr. F. H. Cole; a gold, chased and engraved pie knife, from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Harsh; a lovely daisy tidy, from Miss Allie Ritter, of Sedalia, Mo.; an exquisite hand-embroidered mirror and easel, from Mrs. J. W. Smith, and by no means least, a silver water set, from Mr. Michael Finnerty.

From Virginia, Illinois came two elegant fruit plates, from Mrs. Dunaway and Mrs. Jones, relatives of the bride.

The church was filled, almost crowded in fact, while telegrams and letters of congratulations and regret at the non-ability of the signers to attend, came from teh following: Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Black, Tucson, Arizona; C. M. and Carrie E. DAvis, Denver; Mrs. D. J. Swinney, Cheyenne; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schloss, St. Joseph, Missouri; the officers and directors of the New Pittsburg Mining company, New York; Mr. J. S. Thomson, Lacon, Illinois; Miss Rose North, Columbus, Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Boyd; Dr. Sawyer and family, and Mr. L. L. Johnson, Monroe, Michigan, as well as from a host of others.

Last evening's Rio Grande train carried with it Mr. and Mrs. Bulkley, enroute to Denver, whre they will remain during the session of the legislature, with perhaps occasional visits to the city that has so honored itself in honoring them. They were accompanied to the train by a merry, congratulatory party of friends.

Mr. Bulkley is too well know to require extended mention. His worth and strength of character are as will defined as his popularity; attested by his election to the legislature in the recent contest, when almost his entire ticket was snowed under. He is an old resident of the camp, connected with the Evening Star Mine in its early days and at present resident manager of the New Pittsburg.

Mrs. Bulkley, nee Miss Bergestresser, is known throughout the state as the possessor of a singularly sweet and rarely flexible soprano voice, cultivated by two year's study in Boston conservatories. During the past year she has added greatly to the merit of the choir of St. George's church, and in charity enterprises has always been among the first to respond.

The happy couple, commencing their one life together under such favorable circumstances, THE DEMOCRAT, in behalf of their almost innumerable friends, extend it heartiest congratulations and the wish that they may "grow old together, " finding their pathway through life strewn with as fair and fra grant blossoms as those scattered before them as they left the altar.

Note: From the collection of Kate O'Brien hand written date of January 22, 1885.

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