Amous Bourquin 1857 to 1943
Amous Bourquin 1857
–1943Letter from Aspen, Colo., April 17, 1881
Dear Jule:
I have been here a couple weeks so I will try to let you know what little I can of Aspen. I will begin at Denver. I left there in the morning about half sick. Reached Leadville 7:30 pm. I had intended to stop in Leadville one day to look around the City but a couple of hours the next morning satisfied me as it was a cloudy day and very muddy and cold. I then took the stage for Independence 35 miles but the snow got so soft before night that we had to stop at the foot of the range 10 miles from Independence. We started again at three o’clock in the morning in order to cross the range while the snow was frozen. We reached Independence for breakfast, and it was a hard old breakfast for a fellow that had a hard days walk to do here the less. I left my baggage for the jack train fitted on my gum boots and prepared for a snowey tussel for Aspen. Reached here about five o’clock and found the boys all well.
A. D. Bourquin
(letter is edited
– full letter on file at Aspen Historical Society.)
This letter is from Augustus Dominick Bourquin b.16 May 1852, d.14 Jan 1899 in Aspen. It is to his older brother Jule or Julius B. Bourquin. Amos Sebastian Bourquin, his younger brother, was a Broker in Aspen, lived in Aspen and died in Colorado Springs; his birth and death dates are correctly stated. Eventually, A.D.'s brother in law J.B. Stitzer and wife Eugenia, brothers William, Amos and George(later became Judge in MT) came to Aspen. Jule came also but did not stay. A.D.'s mother moved to Aspen when his father died in PA and she died in Aspen shortly after his passing 7 Feb 1899. His wife Martha Jane returned to PA to live near her family. Aspen was certainly beautiful and an attraction that drew families. J.B. Stitzer ran the Power Plant in Aspen.
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