Albert Anderson
Marriages
Stella Hayes - 1928
in Glenwood Springs.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise - February 2, 1967
GUIDE FOR TEDDY ROOSEVELT DIED FRIDAY
Albert Anderson, retired prospector and hunting guide, died in Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs Friday morning, January 27. He was [94] years of age.
Mr. Anderson was born Sept 27, 1872 in Enterprise, Kansas and spent his childhood in Kansas and at Aspen, Colorado. For many years he lived in the Gypsum community.
He came from Kansas to Aspen in 1887 at the age of 15 and worked in the Molly Gibson and Smuggler mines during the next 4 years. In 1891 he went to Glenwood and worked in brickyards there. A year later he worked with a team on the foundation of the Colorado Hotel.
Two years later he took Billy Gibson as a partner and went into the fish business. They packed into Trappers and Deep Lake where they caught fish to sell in Glenwood.
Next he went to work for Jake Borah prominent Gypsum guide. Anderson worked for him as a wrangler, guide, an dpacker on hunting trips organized by Borah whose paying guests were important eople of the nation out for bear and lion.
President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most prominent of Borah's hunting guests-- and Anderson was the packer on Roosevelt's successful hunts in this area.
He was married to Mrs. Stella Hayes in Glenwood Springs in 1928. She preceded him in death.
Mr. Anderson is survived by a step-son Clyde Hayes and a step-daughter Tillie Olson, both of Denver. The funeral confused by Farnum Mortuary of Glenwood was held at the Lutheran church in Gypsum January 31 and interment was in Cedar Hill cemetery in Gypsum, with IOOF No. 146 conducting graveside services. Rev. Glenn A. Chambers of Glenwood Springs was the officiating minister.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 6 - January 28, 1967
