Ashbaugh Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WH1978

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Includes Ashbaugh, Stearns, Brown, Thompson, Clark, Wilkenson and Varian family genealogy information, papers and photographs.

Dates

1814-2001

Creator

Ashbaugh, Gwen (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Copyright

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Beale Stearns (b.1859 d. 1946) came to Denver in the spring of 1883. He graduated from Colombia School of Mining and Engineering. In Denver, he opened the Stearns Rogers Manufacturing Company. He was also connected to the Kitty Clyde Mine and Spreckles Sugar Factory in Delta, Utah. He was a Federal Food Administrator during the First World War. He later married Lillian Burt. One of their grandchildren was Carolyn Burt Stearns Ashbaugh. She was the second of five children from the marriage of Burt Stearns and Dorothy Brown, married in 1913. After Burt's death from influenza and Lillian's death from peritonitis, the grieving father and daughter-in-law Dorothy and T.B. Stearns developed a love that would lead to marriage in 1926.