Extracted
from History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado
by O. L. Bakin & Nelson Millett
(O.L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers 1880), page 534 (no
photo)
Contributed by: Mary Wilson Miller
John J. Maxey,
dealer in agricultural implements and a man who has met with much
success through his business ability and sterling worth, was born
in New Orleans, La. His parents removed to St. Joseph, Mo., when
he was seven years of age. At sixteen years of age, he began to
learn the wagon and buggy manufacturing business, serving as an
apprentice two years in St. Joseph and one in Western Missouri.
After working as a journeyman five years longer, four years as
foreman in the employ of the Holladay Stage Company, he came,
in the fall of 1861, to Denver. He found himself possessed, on
his arrival, of a $5 gold piece, with which he paid his first
week's board. He was employed by the Overland Stage Company for
some little time and in the fall of 1866, formed a partnership
with W. J. Kinsey, continuing with him until the fall of
1870, since which time he has continued the business alone in
the same locality. He is the owner of a fine farm in Larimer County
and a fruit ranch in Los Angeles, Cal. and is, therefore, enabled
to test the worth and utility of his stock in trade on his own
premises.
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