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| Birth: | 6 May 1850 in West Lubec,Washington,Maine |
| Death: | 18 Jan 1911 in Riverbend,Elbert,Colorado |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | William George Towse b. 5 Jul 1819 in Sackville,New Brunswick,Canada |
| Mother: | Nancy McPhee b. 18 Feb 1818 in Gagetown,New Brunswick,Canada |
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| Changed: 17 Aug 2007 21:10:22 |
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| Ida Hagge (Wife) b. 2 May 1862 in Cleveland,Cuyahoga,Ohio
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| Marriage: | 6 Dec 1881 |
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 Harry Webster Towse b. 2 May 1898 in Elbert,Colorado
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Individual:
1885 census--Colo--Elbert Co: Dan W Towse, age 35, cattleman, b Maine, parentsEngland;
wife Ida age 23, housekeeper, b Ohio, parents born Germany;
August Peters, age 19, upholsterer, and
Benj Heneman, age 21, mechanic, both cousins, born Ill, parents born Germany [prob. Ida's cou sins]---
-Daniel Towse, under agricultural census: 160 acres meadow,; grassland 50 acres mowed, 110 no t mowed; 50
acres hay, 3 horses, $50 new fences, $1100 livestock.
1900 census Colo-ElbertCo- River Bend:
Daniel W Towse, age 50, b May 1850 Maine; wife age 38, b May 1862 Ohio;
Harry W, son, born May 1898 Colo.; Owen Waiter, servant, b June 1872,Maine.
from 3 obituaries: After an illness of several months, Daniel Webster Towse, one of the old t ime cowboys and stockmen of Elbert County died at his home near River Bend, on Jan 18, aged 60 years...member Limon Lodge Knights of Pythias...Mr. Towse was born in Lubec, Maine, on May 6th, 1850, where he lived until
1869, when he moved to Rawlins Springs, Wyoming. In the spring of 1874, he came to River Be nd, where he lived for 37 years...the deceased was active in Elbert County politics. He owned a large tract of land near River Bend, and held
considerable interest in the Limon State Bank, of which he was a director. He was one of t he few men who knew the old time cattle range from Texas to Montana. Mr. Towse was born in West Lubec and at the age of eight years his parents moved to Edmunds where he received a common school education. At the age of 20 he moved to Colorado and took up ranching. He was deputy sheriff for many year, and at one time in trying to break up a gang of cattle thieves was quite seriously wounded. He went west in 1869, and entered the business of ranching, at which he was successful. Later he entered the political field and was elected sheriff of Elbert Co. During his career in this capacity, he was connected with some stirring raids against the cattle thieves that infested that locality, and
was once wounded by a desperado at close quarters, when attempting to round up a gang that h ad taken refuge in a house. Mr Towse leaves to mourn their loss a wife, who was a Chicago lady, two brothers, Thaddeus of North Lubec, and Walter of Chivington, Colorado, three sisters, Mrs. N A Smith of Edmunds, Mrs. C A
Toft of Lubec and Mrs. M A Davis of Boston...Mr Towse who was in Lubec some seven years ago , will be remembered by many people here.
Death Cert: Ranchman; chronic Bright's Disease; born Maine;
parents WG Towse, Nancy McPhee; informant W Towse;
married;lived River Bend 30 years [since1881]
from "Historical Vignettes of Riverbend, Colo." by Kittie Holt, available at Elbert County Hi storical
Society, Kiowa, Colorado: The DAN TOWSE ranch holdings were north and east of Riverbend, bor dering on the Smith Harper ranch on the north. One night, so the story goes, when Mr Towse was away from home thier hired man consumed too much liquor and went berserk. Mrs Towse and small son took refuge in their bedroom
but when the crazed one started pounding on the door they escaped through a window and ran ac ross the prairie to the Smith Harper home which was a mile or more away. Smith was deputy sheriff at that time and capable of handling any situation. Some time later Fred McIlhenney heard footsteps pounding across the porch on the front of his store and this poor fellow burst in shouting, "Hide me! Hide me! Smith Harper is after me!" Fred realized the man was out of his head and sent his older son to bring the section foreman and station agent to help subdue him. They were both large, muscular men but even so it took a hard struggle to get shackles and handcuffs on him. Smith Harper had arrived in the meantime and at times throughout the night it taxed the strength of the four men to hold the poor fellow to the floor. The next morning Dr Rothwell arrived from Hugo to give him a sedative and they finally got him to Denver.
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