BUTSCH , Valentine

Longmont Ledger (Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado) Feb 24, 1905 Page 3 BOULDER NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD. Denver, Feb. 18--A Boulder dispatch yesterday says: After an illness covering a period of over two years, Valentine Butsch, one of the proprietors of the Daily Camera, died this morning at 3:30 o’clock, aged seventy-seven. Mr. Butsch was born in Bavaria and came to this country when fourteen years old. He was married fifty-two years ago, his widow and five children surviving him. The children are Mrs. Dickinson of Indianapolis, Indiana; Mrs. M. M. Blake of Denver, Mrs. F. V. Kirk, Mrs. L. C. Paddock, wife the editor of the Camera and Charles Butsch of Boulder. Mr. Butsch came to Boulder in 1878 from Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was at one time very wealthy. After coming to Boulder he was interested in smelting and milling in Lake and Boulder counties. He bought the Camera in 1892 and ran it successfully. He was appointed postmaster of Boulder by President Cleveland during the latter’s first term, at the request of Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks, and served five years. He also served some time as justice of the peace and the police magistrate of Boulder.