BLEECKER, Warren
Bio of Warren Floyd Bleecker
He was educated in the public schools of Pueblo, the
University of Colorado, and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and
Sigma Xi fraternities. He worked as a newspaperman and
for three years as a professor. He became nationally
known as an inventor. He developed processes for the
extraction of Radium and designed the first and largest
plant in the world for producing Radium.
He was an inventor of many patented processes and
apparatus used by industry. During World War I he
operated Tungstan mines and an electric smelter in
Boulder County, Colorado and did much metallurgical and
chemical research work. He invented an Electric Furnace
U.S. Patent number 1,469,033 dated September 25, 1923
which he turned over to the Tungsten Products Mining
Company. Since 1923 he has been President and manger of
Bleecker and Co., Inc., Manufacturer of Zero Hour
Electric Bomb which he invented with William J. Cheley
(U.S. Patent numbers 1,541,790 dated June 16, 1925, and
1,832,924 dated November 24, 1931 which became generally
used in the oil industry. He was elected to the state
legislature in Colorado in 1928 and served as chairman
of the Finance and the Ways and Means Committees. While
there, he became President of the Colorado Tax Council.
Sources:
1. Colorado State Business Directory 1919 - 1921 for
Tungsten Products Mining Company. (#4 Williams
Building).
2. 1923 listed in the Colorado State Business Directory
for Bleecker Mining Co., located at 2031 12th St.
Boulder, Colorado.
3. 1928 in the Colorado State Business Directory, listed
under Bleecher and Co., Inc. at 301 Arapahoe, Boulder,
CO. referencing Oil Well Torpedos. It is also listed in
1929 but not in 1930. (We think Bleecher is a typo and
should be Bleecker)
4. Patents information was found in Colorado and it's
People, Vol 2, Pg 504
5. Genealogy Files of Sara Hemp: Born: October 19, 1877
Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois; Died: June 1936
Boulder, Colorado; Buried: Green Mountain Cemetery,
Boulder, Colorado; Parents: Martin Colbow Bleecker &
Helena Olive Taggart; Grandparents: John J Bleecker I,
MD & Roseanna "Annie" Bader; Benjamin F Taggart &
Rebecca M. Hill.
Submitted to Genealogy
Trails by Sara Hemp |
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COBB, Mrs. Sara M. Maxson, art
teacher and artist, born in Geneva, N. Y., 30th
September, 1858. She traces her lineage on her father's
side to the Maxtons, of Maxton-on-the-Tweed, in
Scotland. Her father's family came to America in 1701,
after having been settled in England for generations.
Her father, E. R. Maxson, A.M., M.D., LL.D., a graduate
of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., had
been a lecturer on medical subjects in the colleges of
Philadelphia, Pa., and Geneva, N. Y. His "Practice of
Medicine" and "Hospitals: British, French and American,"
are well-known books. Her mother, Lucy Potter Lanphere,
was of French-English extraction. Mrs. Maxson-Cobb has
lived in Geneva, Adams and Syracuse, N. Y., in
Philadelphia, Pa., and Kent's Hill, Maine, and now
resides in Boulder, Col. When very young she commenced
to write for amateur papers. When about eight years of
age, happening to read an article on drawing, she tried
her pencil at reproducing the simple cuts given in it
for copying, with a success so surprising to herself
that she then and there resolved in her own mind to
become an artist. Her parents had her taught in drawing
from youth. In 1883 she was graduated from the Liberal
Art College of Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y., and
she has since received from it, on examination in a
post-graduate course, the degree of Ph.D. She is a
member of the Alpha chapter of the college society.
Alpha Phi. In 1886 she was graduated from the Fine Art
College of the same University with the degree Bachelor
of Painting. Immediately after graduating she was
induced to found and conduct an art school in connection
with the college and seminary in Kent's Hill, Maine.
Under her management the school soon became successful.
In 1892 she was engaged by the regents of the State
University of Colorado to introduce drawing there, and
she still has it in charge. Her own artistic
productions, though yet comparatively few in number,
have been well received. She executes in all usual
mediums. A strong literary taste and sympathy for active
philanthropic and Christian enterprise have led her into
many kinds of work. Her numerous poems, stories told in
verse, translations from the German,
travel-correspondence and articles on art subjects have
found their way into prominent publications. She is a
believer in united action, and in the many societies to
which she belongs, missionary, temperance, art, literary
and scientific, she is recognized as a superior
organizer and leader. Geology, microscopy and
photography claim a share of her attention, and she has
an interesting collection of specimens of her own
finding, slides of her own mounting and
photographs of her own taking. She delights in music and
has a cultivated contralto voice. In March, 1890, she
became the wife of Herbert Edgar Cobb, of Maine, a
graduate of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and
now one of the teachers of mathematics in the State
University of Colorado.
(American Women Fifteen
Hundred Biographies Vol. 1, by Frances Elizabeth Willard
& Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by
Marla Snow)
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