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The Cotopaxi Colony:
A Thesis by Flora Jane Satt
With
permission from Flora Jane Satt,
her thesis "The Cotopaxi
Colony" is being posted
here.
This thesis contains a good history of Cotopaxi, and I think this is the best
source of info on the Cotopaxi Colony.
Much credit is due to my
wife, Cruz,
for entering most of the thesis into MS Word documents. As time permits, more
will be posted online.
Update:
December 2009: my sister
Jen Lowe
has entered
Part VI - Bibliography
and it is now
posted on the thesis page! Jen
has also done a tremendous about of research and is compiling the Cotopaxi
colonist's genealogy.
Cotopaxi
Colorado:
A
Road Marker
for the
Return to Jerusalem?
with
excerpts from
Ramban
and
Pirkei D'Rebbi Eliezer
Proof Saltiel used
the colonists for cheap labor - he didn't pay them! posted 1-13-2010
The Descendant's
Page
Their "What's New?" Page!
Ship manifest for Shames,
Prezant, Washer, Milstein families!!
The People
- List
of the Cotopaxi Colonists
Schradsky
Family Descendants
Schneider (Snyder) Family and Descendants
Milstein -
Shuteran - Prezant Families & Descendants
Kinship Report for
Menashe Milstein
Milstein-Shames
Descendant chart
The Land Declarations
Colony Lands - Map of Colonist's
Plots
- identified by name
Emanuel Saltiel
page
Just how rough was early Cotopaxi?
Coming soon -
a
murder
mystery!
The Cemetery Page
A special Thank You to Jerry and Judy Klinger
with the
Jewish American Society For Historic Preservation (JASHP)
For Their Kind Act
of
Funding this Project
Tid Bits
Above, The
Cotopaxi Mine Built by Peter Young in 1919.
Burned down in 1956. This was later (note vehicle) than the
time of the Cotopaxi Colony. Researching Canon
City Historical Center records
Microfishing Findings:
Fremont County
Leader, Sept 2, 1882:
"Married.
Chuturin-Snyder - On August
25, by
Rev D. Grupitzky, Mr. Marcus
Chuturin and Miss Fanny Snyder,
both of Cotopaxi, Colo."
Thinking:
D. Grupitzky probably was
David Korpitsky. BUT maybe not.....
developing...
Chuturin =
Shuteran etc, Snyder =
Schneider
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We Have Found: The Beehive Mine
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Photo: an old crib in an old shed in
Cotopaxi...
Julius Schwartz, March 2, 1883 letter to
HEAS:
" Now
the facts are, that only six
of the
houses are constructed on town lots,"
(so this should be read - six of the shacks Saltiel built were within the
Cotopaxi townsite.)
"The houses are double-boarded with tar
paper between them, are sixteen by twenty feet and are twelve feet high in the
center"
in other words....they were clapboard/tarpaper shacks....
At some point, we will have to take a look at just where these properties were.
Emanuel Saltiel
page
Hero or villain? Both!?!? Just a quick look:
Wanted in Montana
and
Emanuel
Saltiel's "Sweated Labor" (Jewish Colonists)
No smooth talking is going get in the way of history on this site.
But I think the bottom line will be:
Although
not likely his intent, Saltiel helped some Jews get out of
Russia at a time that saved them from immediate Russian government
oppression and also saved them from the future
Holocaust.
In this light, Saltiel's good BY FAR out weighs his
not-so-good.
Crook, shyster, con man ? Absolutely.
It's well documented.
Genius? Absolutely!!!
But
if one Jewish life was saved by his actions, even inadvertently,
then he is elevated far above many others.
This is the proper view of Emanuel Harris Saltiel.
1882
Saltiel OWNED Cotopaxi.
Coming soon -
The Gold Tom connection!
developing! |
