Henry & Clarence Hamlin

HAMLIN, CLARK, GUNNELL, REED

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 3/9/2005 at 01:43:04

Late in the fifties Henry F. Hamlin of Pennsylvania decided to seek his fortune in the west and he started. He reached Delaware county, Iowa and the town of Manchester. There he stopped, began business as a merchant and attained prominence. In Manchester, Iowa, Clarence C. Hamlin, now of Colorado Springs was born. Mr. Hamlin received his early education in the schools of his native town going far enough to complete a high school course. He was a nephew of Senator C.D. Clark of Wyoming and, deciding to study law, went to his uncle's office and put in some time reading. Later he returned to Iowa and completed his law course at the University of Iowa law school at Iowa City. He then returned to Wyoming where he practiced law with remarkable success from 1890 to 1895. Four years of these six he was a member of the state senate of Wyoming, and during this time was a member of a commission to make a complete revision of all the laws of the state. The commission completed this work while Mr. Hamlin was in office. In 1896, when he came to Colorado Springs to become a partner of Judge A.T. Gunnell, he resigned his seat in the Wyoming senate. for three years he was a member of the law firm of Gunnell and Hamlin, until 1899, when he resigned to become the partner of Mr. V.Z. Reed in his general mining and investment business. In his present connection he is a leader in the Colorado Springs business community. If Iowa has more men like him, Colorado Springs is ready to adopt them.

-source: Colorado Springs Gazette; Colorado Springs, Colorado; December 9, 1900

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