LENHARDY, Mrs.

MRS. GEORGE LENHARDY A veritable pioneer of Colorado passed away February 28 at Denver. Mrs. Lenhardy who was county clerk and recorder and made the transcript of the division at the time that Chaffee county and Lake county were separated; before this time the two counties had been one with the county seat in Granite after having for a long period been Twin Lakes, before Leadville with its half billion record of created wealth had insistence Denver in the imagination of the most visionary prospectors of the El Dorado Land; the capital of which was Pikes Mountain and its farthest outpost the California gulch diggings. Mr. George Lenhardy, a Swiss emigrant, reached California gulch form Wisconsin in 1864. He at once took an active part in the social, business and political affairs of Oro city in California Gulch, and was made sheriff of Lake county which then extended to Utah and included a great portion of the western part of the then Jefferson territory -- a part of the new state of Kansas--that has since become the important Commonwealth of Colorado. Mrs. Lenhardy came to her husband early in 1865 and her presence in the camp where women were exceptions rather than the rule, it yet remembered by a few survivors of that far away time as an important even in the annals of the region. The Lenhardy home was at once a center for all the interests of the pace and was visited by the celebrities from the east as the representation of all that was worth seeing and studying Out West at that time. The Henderson's, Maters, Tabors, Arnolds, De Marys, Meyers, etc., welcomed the new family and regarded them as decidedly superior and so treated them. In 1866 Mrs Lenhardy, as the wife of the high sheriff and the leading man of the settlement, entertained Bayard Taylor at her home in Twin Lakes village on his trip thru the region just after his return from a visit to Europe celebrated in his :Views A-Foot," and after wards a presentation copy of a book containing a pleasing account of the function. Big-Horn or Rocky Mountain sheep chops being the central dish at the table. After the rise of Leadville the Lenhardy's purchased a ranch at Riverside, Colorado, and made their home there until the death of Mr. Lenhardy in 1908, since which time Mrs. Lendardy has lived mostly in Denver. Her daughter, Mrs. Frank Gay, whose husband was proprietor of Leadville's first extensive foundry, and Mr. Mark Lenhardy, a son, were with Mrs. Lenhardy at the time of her death. The remains were interred at Buena Vista on March 4. 12 Mar 1917 CARBONATE CHRONICAL