Death Notice, 3 Dec 1890 The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), CO
"Cranmer - December 2, at his residence, 925 Seventeenth avenue. W.H.H. Cranmer (of the firm of Ernest & Cranmer) aged 49 years. Funeral notice will be given later."
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Born about 1842 in Cooper County, Missouri, son of William Sharp Cranmer (1800- 1866) and Catherine Houx (1806-1853.) Bill became a Captain for the Confederate States of America; he was decorated for the Missouri and Kansas Campaigns of the Civil War. After the war, he traveled to Texas with his father, and worked as a cattle foreman for John Nathan Hittson from 1865-1875. When Hittson moved to Deer Trail, Colorado with his cattle business, Cranmer established his own ranch in Elbert, Colorado. John Hittson and his sons-in-law, Bill Cranmer and Finis Ernest controlled all of the water rights from the Arkansas River to Fort Morgan, and from Denver to the Kansas border. Hittson also granted Cranmer his "Three Ring" brand, whereas Bill named his ranch the "Three Ring Ranch. He built a house on West Bijou Creek.
December 22, 1874, Bill married the boss' daughter, Martha Jane Hittson, the daughter of John Hittson and his wife Salena Frances Brown. The wedding took place at the Six Springs Ranch in Deer Trail. The couple had seven children, the first daughter born at the Three Ring Ranch. After a flood took out the house on West Bijou Creek, the Cranmer Family moved to Denver in 1878, where the remainder of their children would be born and raised at 928 17th Avenue, in a house designed and built by Frank Edbroke.
Bill continued in the cattle business with John Hittson, Jesse Hittson (John's son), William Bedford Hittson (John's
brother), and Finis Plumbley Ernest, (Bill's brother-in-law). Ernest had married Hittson's younger daughter, Salena Virginia, January 7, 1880, adopting four young children and birthing six more. The Ernest and Cranmer partnership would build the first modern office building in Denver.
In his memory, Bill Cranmer's wife, Martha Hittson Cranmer and Denver cattleman John Iliff's wife, invested together and built the Denver Coliseum which would become the Denver National Western Stock Show, at the Denver Stockyards location east of Denver, along the Kansas-Pacific Railroad line from Denver to Deer Trail.
The children of William Henry Harrison and Martha Jane Hittson followed their parents' life patterns of education and business in Denver and surrounding communities.
Bill passed away on December 5, 1890 at his home in Denver. Martha carried on with his businesses and raising their children to be productive and charming citizens.
Bill was buried near John Nathan Hittson at the Riverside Pioneer Cemetery in Denver; however, after the death of Martha Jane Hittson Cranmer, February 5, 1930, the family moved Bill to Fairmount Cemetery where a very large family lot was purchased by the Cranmer Investment Company. Many of Bill and Martha's children rest beside them.
The large family monument was made by New England Granite Works, Westerly, Rhode Island.
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WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON CRANMER.
William Henry Harrison Cranmer, who for many years was actively, prominently and successfully Identified with the cattle industry in Colorado and whose enterprise yet finds tangible evidence in the Ernest & Cranmer building of Denver, was born in Cooper county, Missouri, in 1841, his parents having removed from Tennessee to Missouri, at which time they took up their abode in Warrensburg. The mother died when her son William was but thirteen years of age. He attended school in his native county and with his twin brother, Thomas, served In the Confederate army, participating In the campaigns in Missouri and Kansas and making* a gallant record. When the war was over he went to Texas, where he engaged in the cattle business and there became acquainted with John Hittson, for whom he worked as foreman for ten years.
Mr. Cranmer's residence in Colorado dated from 1869, although he had previously visited the state In connection with his employer's cattle Interests. In that year, however, he embarked In the cattle business on his own account, becoming a partner of William Hittson, brother of John Hittson, in the purchase of the Three Circle ranch In Elbert county. After the marriage of his partner Mr. Cranmer bought his Interest In the business and thus established an extensive cattle business which proved his lifelong occupation and brought him substantial wealth. He also engaged in the real estate business to some extent, Investing his profits from the cattle industry In property. He was also associated with Finis P. Ernest in the erection of the Ernest & Cranmer building of Denver, which still stands as a substantial monument to the enterprise and progresslveness of the builders.
On the 22d of December. 1874, Mr. Cranmer was united in marriage at the White ranch, the home of the bride, then in Arapahoe county, to Miss Martha J. Hittson, born In Palo Pinto county, Texas, a daughter of his former employer, and they became the parents of seven children. Jessie May, the eldest. Is the wife of William P. McPhee, of Denver, and they have three children: William Cranmer, John Raymond and Wlllamain Cranmer. Jennie Leontine became the wife of William C. Russell, a mining man, and has one son, William C., Jr. William Henry Harrison, Jr., married Margaret Wood and is the father of two sons, William H. H. (Ill) and Robert Lorln. W. H. H. Cranmer, Jr.,
is now captain of Battery B, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment of the First Artillery, and is serving in France. George Ernest, now at camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, married Jean Chappell, daughter of the late Delos Chappell, of Denver, and has four children: Allen, Forest, Silvia and Chappell. Norma died at the age of nine months. Catherine H. formerly resided in New York city, is now at a government school in Portland, Oregon, taking a course in physio-therapy preparing for government service. Willamain H. is the wife of Grover Coors, of Golden, Colorado. The family circle was broken by the hand of death when on the 2d of December, 1890, the husband and father was called to his final rest. He was a man devoted to the welfare and happiness of his family and found his greatest pleasure in promoting their best interests. As a business man he ranked among the prominent representatives of the cattle industry in Colorado, his interests being most carefully and intelligently directed. He was one of those who helped to build up the great cattle interests of the state and at all times he stood for progress and improvement in public affairs, the sterling worth of his character and the integrity of his activities bringing him the highest respect of all with whom he came in contact.
Death Notice, 3 Dec 1890 The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), CO
"Cranmer - December 2, at his residence, 925 Seventeenth avenue. W.H.H. Cranmer (of the firm of Ernest & Cranmer) aged 49 years. Funeral notice will be given later."
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Born about 1842 in Cooper County, Missouri, son of William Sharp Cranmer (1800- 1866) and Catherine Houx (1806-1853.) Bill became a Captain for the Confederate States of America; he was decorated for the Missouri and Kansas Campaigns of the Civil War. After the war, he traveled to Texas with his father, and worked as a cattle foreman for John Nathan Hittson from 1865-1875. When Hittson moved to Deer Trail, Colorado with his cattle business, Cranmer established his own ranch in Elbert, Colorado. John Hittson and his sons-in-law, Bill Cranmer and Finis Ernest controlled all of the water rights from the Arkansas River to Fort Morgan, and from Denver to the Kansas border. Hittson also granted Cranmer his "Three Ring" brand, whereas Bill named his ranch the "Three Ring Ranch. He built a house on West Bijou Creek.
December 22, 1874, Bill married the boss' daughter, Martha Jane Hittson, the daughter of John Hittson and his wife Salena Frances Brown. The wedding took place at the Six Springs Ranch in Deer Trail. The couple had seven children, the first daughter born at the Three Ring Ranch. After a flood took out the house on West Bijou Creek, the Cranmer Family moved to Denver in 1878, where the remainder of their children would be born and raised at 928 17th Avenue, in a house designed and built by Frank Edbroke.
Bill continued in the cattle business with John Hittson, Jesse Hittson (John's son), William Bedford Hittson (John's
brother), and Finis Plumbley Ernest, (Bill's brother-in-law). Ernest had married Hittson's younger daughter, Salena Virginia, January 7, 1880, adopting four young children and birthing six more. The Ernest and Cranmer partnership would build the first modern office building in Denver.
In his memory, Bill Cranmer's wife, Martha Hittson Cranmer and Denver cattleman John Iliff's wife, invested together and built the Denver Coliseum which would become the Denver National Western Stock Show, at the Denver Stockyards location east of Denver, along the Kansas-Pacific Railroad line from Denver to Deer Trail.
The children of William Henry Harrison and Martha Jane Hittson followed their parents' life patterns of education and business in Denver and surrounding communities.
Bill passed away on December 5, 1890 at his home in Denver. Martha carried on with his businesses and raising their children to be productive and charming citizens.
Bill was buried near John Nathan Hittson at the Riverside Pioneer Cemetery in Denver; however, after the death of Martha Jane Hittson Cranmer, February 5, 1930, the family moved Bill to Fairmount Cemetery where a very large family lot was purchased by the Cranmer Investment Company. Many of Bill and Martha's children rest beside them.
The large family monument was made by New England Granite Works, Westerly, Rhode Island.
http://www.babcock-smithhouse.com/GraniteIndustry/MapUS/CO/Denver/Cranmer.html
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON CRANMER.
William Henry Harrison Cranmer, who for many years was actively, prominently and successfully Identified with the cattle industry in Colorado and whose enterprise yet finds tangible evidence in the Ernest & Cranmer building of Denver, was born in Cooper county, Missouri, in 1841, his parents having removed from Tennessee to Missouri, at which time they took up their abode in Warrensburg. The mother died when her son William was but thirteen years of age. He attended school in his native county and with his twin brother, Thomas, served In the Confederate army, participating In the campaigns in Missouri and Kansas and making* a gallant record. When the war was over he went to Texas, where he engaged in the cattle business and there became acquainted with John Hittson, for whom he worked as foreman for ten years.
Mr. Cranmer's residence in Colorado dated from 1869, although he had previously visited the state In connection with his employer's cattle Interests. In that year, however, he embarked In the cattle business on his own account, becoming a partner of William Hittson, brother of John Hittson, in the purchase of the Three Circle ranch In Elbert county. After the marriage of his partner Mr. Cranmer bought his Interest In the business and thus established an extensive cattle business which proved his lifelong occupation and brought him substantial wealth. He also engaged in the real estate business to some extent, Investing his profits from the cattle industry In property. He was also associated with Finis P. Ernest in the erection of the Ernest & Cranmer building of Denver, which still stands as a substantial monument to the enterprise and progresslveness of the builders.
On the 22d of December. 1874, Mr. Cranmer was united in marriage at the White ranch, the home of the bride, then in Arapahoe county, to Miss Martha J. Hittson, born In Palo Pinto county, Texas, a daughter of his former employer, and they became the parents of seven children. Jessie May, the eldest. Is the wife of William P. McPhee, of Denver, and they have three children: William Cranmer, John Raymond and Wlllamain Cranmer. Jennie Leontine became the wife of William C. Russell, a mining man, and has one son, William C., Jr. William Henry Harrison, Jr., married Margaret Wood and is the father of two sons, William H. H. (Ill) and Robert Lorln. W. H. H. Cranmer, Jr.,
is now captain of Battery B, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment of the First Artillery, and is serving in France. George Ernest, now at camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, married Jean Chappell, daughter of the late Delos Chappell, of Denver, and has four children: Allen, Forest, Silvia and Chappell. Norma died at the age of nine months. Catherine H. formerly resided in New York city, is now at a government school in Portland, Oregon, taking a course in physio-therapy preparing for government service. Willamain H. is the wife of Grover Coors, of Golden, Colorado. The family circle was broken by the hand of death when on the 2d of December, 1890, the husband and father was called to his final rest. He was a man devoted to the welfare and happiness of his family and found his greatest pleasure in promoting their best interests. As a business man he ranked among the prominent representatives of the cattle industry in Colorado, his interests being most carefully and intelligently directed. He was one of those who helped to build up the great cattle interests of the state and at all times he stood for progress and improvement in public affairs, the sterling worth of his character and the integrity of his activities bringing him the highest respect of all with whom he came in contact.
