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60-549: George Atwater Jarvis (March 9, 1806 – May 3, 1893) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Jarvis was successful in retail and wholesale grocery, banking, and insurance industries in New York. He was founder and vice president of South Brooklyn Savings Institution and president of the Lenox Fire Insurance Company. He sat on the board or was a trustee for many organizations. As the result of his success, Jarvis

120-493: A mutual organization to a joint-stock company and became a public company via an initial public offering . The same year, the bank changed its name to Independence Community Bank. Independence Community Bank acquired SI Bank & Trust in 2004 and was itself acquired by Santander Bank two years later. Colorado Territory The territory was organized in the wake of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush of 1858–1862, which brought

180-446: A " Grand Tour ", which did not relieve her broken heart. Mary Caroline contracted tuberculosis after throwing herself "arduously into church work". Mary Caroline came to Denver with Bishop George M. Randall to cure her case of tuberculosis. For one year she lived with Bishop Randall and his wife before she married Dr. Frederick J. Bancroft in 1871. During an extended trip to celebrate his daughter's wedding, Jarvis bought four lots that

240-516: A force of Texans . Sibley's New Mexico campaign was intended as a prelude to an invasion of the Colorado Territory northward to Fort Laramie , cutting the supply lines between California and the rest of the Union . The Coloradans, under the command of Union Army General Edward Canby and Colonel John P. Slough , Lt. Col. Samuel F. Tappan and Major John M. Chivington , defeated Sibley's force at

300-514: A liberal arts, grammar and military college for males in 1869 that was a predecessor of the Colorado School of Mines . Randall coordinated the creation of the university in Golden, Colorado , which operated from 1870 until 1874, when it was destroyed by a fire. The college operated in another Golden building from 1878 to 1882. The school moved to Denver in 1882, where it operated until 1904. The site

360-706: A mining camp Auraria (named for a gold mining camp in Georgia) at the confluence of the South Platte and Cherry Creek . The Georgians left for their home state the following winter. At Bent's Fort along the Arkansas River , Russell told William Larimer, Jr. , a Kansas land speculator, about the placer gold they had found. Larimer, realizing the opportunity to capitalize on it, hurried to Auraria. In November 1858, he laid claim to an area across Cherry Creek from Auraria and named it " Denver City " in honor of James W. Denver ,

420-499: A theological education after graduating from Brown University . After they met, Jarvis donated monies to fund Randall's education. Thus began the first of many efforts by Jarvis to donate funds for people's Episcopal seminary education. He purchased land in Denver for Bishop Randall, his daughter, the Diocese to build a church, other charities, and personal investment. Jarvis donated funds for

480-645: Is now part of the Lowry Campus . During the time that Davis was managing his business, he had also served in the National Guard of the City of New York from September 1, 1832, to June 4, 1841, when he was honorably discharged. Horatio Seymour , Governor of New York, appointed Jarvis as a War Committee member in 1862. Rather than serve in the New York Seventh regiment, Jarvis hired someone to serve in his stead. This

540-692: The Civil War , the tide of new miners into the territory slowed to a trickle, and many left for the East to fight. The Missourians who stayed formed two volunteer regiments, as well as home guard. Although seemingly stationed at the periphery of the war theaters, the Colorado regiments found themselves in a crucial position in 1862 after the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory by General Henry Sibley and

600-639: The Colorado War , in November 1864, a force of 800 troops of the Colorado home guard, after heavy drinking, attacked an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek , murdering between 150 and 200 Indians, mostly elderly men, women and children. This Sand Creek Massacre or 'Massacre of Cheyenne Indians' led to official hearings by the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of

660-633: The Mexican Cession in 1848. The land claims of Texas were initially controversial. The border between the U.S. and Mexico was redrawn in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican–American War , and the final borders of the state of Texas were established by the Congressional Compromise of 1850 . The land that was eventually defined as the Colorado Territory

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720-816: The Pike Expedition of 1806–07 by Zebulon Pike , the journey along the north bank of the Platte River in 1820 by Stephen H. Long to what came to be called Longs Peak, the John C. Frémont expedition in 1845–46, and the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 by John Wesley Powell . In 1779, Governor de Anza of New Mexico fought and defeated the Comanches under Cuerno Verde on the Eastern Slope of Colorado, probably south of Pueblo. In 1786, de Anza made peace with

780-679: The United States Congress did not recognize the territory, and it never gained legal status. Congressional grant of territorial status for the region was delayed by the slavery issue, and a deadlock between Democrats, who controlled the Senate, and the antislavery Republicans, who gained control of the House of Representatives in 1859. The deadlock was broken only by the Civil War. In early 1861, enough Democratic senators from seceding states resigned from

840-611: The secession of seven, later eleven southern slave states had been occurring those several months proclaiming / forming a new independent Southern government of the Confederate States of America (which eventually grew in the next year by two more divided state governments to thirteen in the Confederacy, with two alleged western territories) that precipitated the American Civil War of April 1861 to June 1865. The boundaries of

900-831: The Christ Church in Brooklyn and his hometown St. Peter's Church. The Cheshire Academy received funds for the construction of Bronson Hall from Jarvis. He also provided scholarships for the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown. Jarvis was one of the founders of the Brooklyn Athenaeum . He was also a director or trustee of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in

960-629: The Comanches, creating an alliance against the Apaches. A group of Cherokee crossed the South Platte and Cache la Poudre River valleys on their way to California in 1848 during the California Gold Rush . They reported finding trace amounts of gold in the South Platte and its tributaries as they passed along the mountains. In the south, in the San Luis Valley , early Mexican families established themselves in large land grants (later contested by

1020-463: The Federals' newly designated Colorado Territory were essentially identical with those of the current / modern State of Colorado , with lands taken from the four surrounding previous Federal territories of Nebraska , Kansas , New Mexico , and Utah (Deseret) established during the 1850s . The organization of the new territory helped solidify Union / Federal control over the mineral-rich area of

1080-701: The Territorial government remain: the historic log building in Colorado City, and the Loveland Block in downtown Golden City (which had housed the complete legislature, Territorial Library and possibly Supreme Court from 1866 to 1867, with library remaining to 1868). Others which served include the original Loveland Building (1859–1933, 1107 Washington Avenue in Golden, housing the Territorial House from 1862 to 1866);

1140-558: The U.S. Senate to give control of both houses to the Republicans, clearing the way for admission of new territories. Three new territories were created in as many days: Colorado (February 28), Nevada (March 1), and Dakota (March 2). Colorado Territory was officially organized by Act of Congress on February 28, 1861 (12  Stat.   172 ), out of lands previously part of the Kansas, Nebraska , Utah , and New Mexico territories. Technically

1200-542: The U.S.) from the Mexican government. In the early 19th century, the upper South Platte River valley had been infiltrated by fur traders , but had not been the site of permanent settlement. The first movement of permanent U.S. settlers in the area began with the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed private land claims to be filed. Among the first settlers to establish claims were former fur traders who returned to

1260-477: The U.S., government to build roads, military and other posts on Indian lands. If these roads could be used by U.S. citizens to lawfully pass through the Indian territories was not stated but apparently implied since the U.S. government bound itself to protect Indian nations against depredations by U.S. citizens. The treaty did not grant any rights for the erection of posts or settlements by U.S. civilians. Since this treaty

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1320-533: The United States Congress passed the Admission Act for the territory in late 1865, but it was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson . For the next eleven years, the movement for territorial admission was stalled, with several close calls. President Grant advocated statehood for the territory in 1870, but Congress did not act. In the meantime, the territory found itself threatened by lack of railroads . By

1380-797: The United States and The Church Charity Foundation. Jarvis was a member of the Brooklyn Mercantile Library, New York Chamber of Commerce , and the Long Island Historical Society . During the history of the Colorado Territory , Jarvis worked with his friend Bishop George M. Randall to develop Episcopalian educational facilities in Colorado, where Randall was an Episcopal missionary for the Diocese of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. The friendship between Randall and Jarvis began when Randall came to New York in 1835 seeking

1440-617: The War in March and April 1865. After the hearings, the Congress Joint Committee in their report on May 4, 1865, described the actions of Colonel John Chivington and his Volunteers as "foul, dastardly, brutal, cowardly" and: It is difficult to believe that beings in the form of men, and disgracing the uniform of United States soldiers and officers, could commit or countenance the commission of such acts of cruelty and barbarity as are detailed in

1500-513: The agreement, and became even more belligerent over the 'whites' encroaching on their hunting grounds. Tensions mounted when Colorado territorial governor John Evans in 1862 created a home guard of regiments of Colorado Volunteers returning from the Civil War and took a hard line against Indians accused of theft. On August 21, 1864, a band of 30 Indians attacked four members of the Colorado Cavalry as they were rounding up stray cattle. Three of

1560-561: The area at times. The earliest explorers of European extraction to visit the area were Spanish explorers such as Coronado , although the Coronado expedition of 1540–42 only skirted the future border of the Colorado Territory to the south and southeast. In 1776, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante explored southern Colorado in the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition. Other notable explorations included

1620-547: The couple could build a house upon at the southwest corner of Stout and 16th Street. Mary Caroline, an Episcopalian, was a contributor to church and Denver community activities. Jarvis moved to Brooklyn in 1841 and three years later had a house built there. Jarvis wrote the book The Jarvis Family: Or, The Descendants Of The First Settlers Of The Name In Massachusetts And Long Island, And Those Who Have More Recently Settled In Other Parts Of The United States And British America . On May 3, 1893, Jarvis died at his home in Brooklyn. He

1680-474: The development of Wolfe Hall, an Episcopal school for girls in Denver. It was located at Champa and 17th Street. Jarvis was the largest contributor to the territorial activities of Bishop Randall. John D. Wolfe of New York was the second largest donor and the namesake for Wolfe Hall, which opened in September 1868. Bishop Randall lived at Wolfe Hall with his wife. Jarvis created an endowment to found Jarvis Hall ,

1740-663: The end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Native American presence had been largely reduced or pacified through military action or peace treaties on the High Plains . The land that eventually became the Colorado Territory fell under the jurisdiction of the United States in three separate stages: the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 (as adjusted by the 1819 Adams–Onis Treaty ), then the Annexation of Texas in 1845, and finally

1800-402: The first large concentration of white settlement to the region. The organic legislative act creating the slave-free Territory of Colorado was passed by the United States Congress and signed by 15th President James Buchanan (1791-1868, served 1857-1861), into law on February 28, 1861. During that period which at the same time (since beginning with South Carolina the previous December 1860),

1860-479: The former home of a relative, Bishop Abraham Jarvis . The house was built for the bishop about 1797 when he became a trustee of the newly opened Episcopalian academy in Cheshire. At 18 years of age, Jarvis went to New York. His uncle, Noah Jarvis, let him live in his home and made an arrangement with a wool store for George to work as an apprentice with no pay for a year while he learned the business. The second year, he

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1920-771: The intermixed Cheyenne and Arapaho , as well as by the Pawnee , Comanche and Kiowa . In 1861, ten days before the establishment of the Federal territory, the Arapaho and Cheyenne agreed with the United States government in the East in Washington, D.C. to give up most their areas of the Great Plains to white settlement but were allowed to live in their larger traditional areas, so long as they could tolerate homesteaders near their camps. By

1980-467: The lands they once trapped, including Antoine Janis and other trappers from Fort Laramie , who established a town near Laporte along the Cache la Poudre in 1858. See Forts in Colorado . In 1858, Green Russell and a party of Georgians , having heard the story of the gold in the South Platte from Cherokee after they returned from California, set out to mine the area they described. That summer they founded

2040-523: The lands, ten years earlier designated to their tribes, for white settlement, keeping only a fragment of the original reserve , located between Arkansas River and Sand Creek . This new fragment was assigned in severalty to the individual members of the respective tribes with each member receiving 40 acres (160,000 m ) of land. The United States, by the Fort Wise Treaty, wished to have the Indians settle

2100-577: The late 1860s, many in Denver had sold their businesses and moved northward to the Dakota Territory communities of Laramie and Cheyenne , which had sprung up along the transcontinental railroad . Faced with the possible dwindling of the town and its eclipse by the new towns to the north, Denverites pooled their capital and built the Denver Pacific Railroad northward to Cheyenne to bring the rail network to Denver. The Kansas Pacific Railway

2160-482: The members made it back to the stockade at Franktown, Colorado, but the fourth man failed to return. This man, Conrad Moschel, was found a few days later having been shot with a firearm and pierced with an arrow, and had been scalped in the manner of the Cheyenne. This offensive action by the warring Cheyenne further enraged the U.S. people of Colorado. After several minor incidents in what would later come to be designated as

2220-414: The mountains quickly, seeking the lode source of the placer gold, and founded mining camps at Black Hawk and Central City . A rival group of civic individuals, including William A.H. Loveland , established the town of Golden City at the base of the mountains west of Denver City, with the intention of supplying the increasing tide of miners with necessary goods. The movement to create a territory within

2280-412: The new reservation as farmers. The U.S. agreed to pay the tribes a combined total of $ 30,000 per year for 15 years and in addition to provide a lumber mill, one or more mechanic shops, dwelling houses for an interpreter, and a miller engineer. See Article 5 of the Fort Wise Treaty. A good part of their co-nationals repudiated the treaty, declared the chiefs not empowered to sign, or bribed to sign, ignored

2340-493: The northeastern corner of the New Mexico Territory . On the western side of the Divide, the territory included much of the eastern older Utah Territory , all of which besides its substantial while Mormon / L.D.S. population especially around the capital of Salt Lake City , was strongly controlled by the Ute and Shoshoni native tribes The Eastern Plains were held much more loosely by

2400-554: The present boundaries of Colorado followed nearly immediately. Citizens of Denver City and Golden City pushed for territorial status of the newly settled region within a year of the founding of the towns. The movement was promoted by William Byers , publisher of the Rocky Mountain News , and by Larimer, who aspired to be the first territorial governor. In 1859, settlers established the Territory of Jefferson , and held elections, but

2460-557: The previous governor of the Kansas Territory . Larimer did not intend to mine gold himself; he wanted to promote the new town and sell real estate to eager miners. Larimer's plan to promote his new town worked almost immediately, and by spring 1859 the western Kansas Territory along the South Platte was swarming with miners digging in river bottoms in what became known as the Colorado Gold Rush . Early arrivals moved upstream into

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2520-449: The territory was a recurring issue during the subsequent Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration, with Republican 18th President Grant advocating statehood against a less willing Congress during the following post-war Reconstruction era (1865-1877). After a long constant lobbying campaign, the old Colorado Territory finally ceased to exist after only 15 years when the State of Colorado

2580-421: The territory was open to slavery under the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, but the question was rendered moot by the impending American Civil War and the majority pro-Union sentiment in the territory. The name "Colorado" was chosen for the territory. It had been previously suggested in 1850 by Senator Henry S. Foote as a name for a state to have been created out of present-day California south of 35° 45'. During

2640-405: The testimony, but which your committee will not specify in their report. Nevertheless, justice was never served on those responsible for the massacre; and nonetheless, the continuation of this Colorado War led to expulsion of the last Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa and Comanche from the Colorado Territory into Oklahoma . Following the end of the American Civil War, a movement was made for statehood;

2700-414: The two day Battle of Glorieta Pass along the Santa Fe Trail, thwarting the Confederate strategy. In 1851, by the Treaty of Fort Laramie , the United States acknowledged the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes control, in the Colorado area, of the Eastern Plains between North Platte River and Arkansas River eastward from the Rocky Mountains . The Fort Laramie Treaty, in Article 2 of the treaty, did allow

2760-521: The western Rocky Mountains . Statehood was regarded as fairly imminent with the expected growth in the constantly westward moving population, but the local territorial ambitions for full statehood were thwarted at the end of the war in 1865 by a constitutional veto by newly sworn in 17th President Andrew Johnson (1808-1875, served 1865-1869), who was a War Democrat who succeeded to the office after briefly only serving one month as Vice President after Lincoln's assassination that April. Statehood for

2820-469: Was Hezekiah Jarvis. Jarvis had a brother, Benjamin and other siblings. George attended an Episcopalian Cheshire Academy , which was run by Rev. Dr. Tillotson Bronson. At some point during his childhood, Benjamin began to be raised by his uncle, Titus Atwater. Benjamin was a legislator, farmer, and official at St. Peters Church. His family had been Episcopalians for several generations. Some were wardens, lay-readers, and bishops. His immediate family lived in

2880-445: Was a practice that other businessmen and friends utilized. He was a member of the Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York . Jarvis was married three times. Catharine Jarvis, his first wife, died within a year of their marriage. She was the daughter of Samuel Jarvis of New York. Jarvis married his second wife, Mary McLean on February 11, 1836. She was the daughter of Cornelius McLean of New York. Maria Jenkins, his third wife,

2940-448: Was a trustee or director of the Home Life Insurance Company , Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute and Union Trust Company. For 33 years, he was vice president of South Brooklyn Savings Institution , which he co-founded. Jarvis was president of the Lenox Fire Insurance Company beginning in 1860, during which time it had acquired a $ 90,000 surplus after having been "crippled". He retired in 1881. Jarvis made large donations to

3000-452: Was a wine and tea dealer. He issued copper hard times tokens with his address 142 Grand near Elm, a bust image of Liberty , and the year 1837. He cofounded a wholesale grocery business, Stanton and Jarvis, in September 1838. After Jarvis moved to Brooklyn in 1841, he developed business and civic interests within the borough. Jarvis withdrew from Stanton and Jarvis in 1854 and the same year resigned as director of Atlantic Dock Company. Jarvis

3060-408: Was able to be a contributor and founder of a number of educational, historical, religious, and other efforts. His donations helped establish the Episcopalian Jarvis Hall , a college for males in Golden, Colorado; Wolfe Hall in Denver for girls; Bronson Hall at Cheshire Academy ; and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He wrote a book about the genealogical lineage of the Jarvis family. Jarvis

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3120-409: Was admitted to the Union as the 38th state during the American Centennial celebrationn in August 1876 East and West of the Continental Divide , which split the North American continent and the Rocky Mountains , plus the new territory which included the western portion of the previous Kansas Territory , as well as some of the southwestern decade-old Nebraska Territory , and a small parcel of

3180-441: Was buried in Greenwood Cemetery . Among the charities that Javis left money to in his will, the largest was for construction of Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut. South Brooklyn Savings Institution Independence Community Bank was a bank based in Brooklyn, New York . In 2006, the bank was acquired by Santander Bank . The bank was originally chartered in 1850 as South Brooklyn Savings Bank. George A. Jarvis

3240-466: Was completed to Denver two months later. The move cemented the role of Denver as the future regional metropolis. The territory was finally admitted to the Union in 1876. Three Colorado cities served as the capital of the Territory of Colorado: For much if not all of its existence, the Colorado Territorial government did not actually own its houses of government, instead renting available buildings for governmental purposes. Today, two buildings which served

3300-482: Was enacted before the railroads had come and before the finding of gold in the region, few whites had ventured to settle in what is now Colorado. By the 1860s, as a result of the Colorado Gold Rush and homesteaders encroaching westward into Indian terrain, relations between U.S. and the Native American people deteriorated. On February 18, 1861, in the Treaty of Fort Wise , several chiefs of Cheyenne and Arapaho supposedly agreed with U.S. representatives to cede most of

3360-421: Was home to a number of indigenous civilizations. The Ute lived across both Western Colorado and the eastern high plains . The Anasazi lived in the southwestern, southern, and parts of southeastern Colorado. The Comanche and Jicarilla Apache lived in the area that would become the southeastern portions of the Territory. The Arapaho and Cheyenne also had a presence in the eastern and northeastern plains of

3420-421: Was married three times and had one child, Mary Caroline who married Dr. Frederick J. Bancroft in Denver. George Atwater Jarvis was born on March 9, 1806, in Cheshire, Connecticut . He was the son of Stephen and Mary Ann Atwater Jarvis, who was the daughter of Benjamin Atwater of Cheshire. His father was treasurer and warden at the St. Peter's church. Both of his parents were devout Episcopalians. His grandfather

3480-408: Was one of the 26 co-founders and was vice president for 33 years. James S. T. Stranahan was also a co-founder. In 1975, the name of the bank was changed to Independence Savings Bank. The bank acquired Long Island City Savings and Loan Association in 1992. Four years later, Independence Savings Bank acquired Bay Ridge Federal Savings Bank for $ 144 million in cash. In 1998, the bank converted from

3540-440: Was paid for his work. Within the third year, the economy crashed. Jarvis lost his position at the store and, because of the poor economy, he was unable to find another position. Noah hired his nephew to assist him in the collection of assessments and he performed well. Noah provided a loan so that George could establish a grocery business near Broadway on Grand Street. George repaid the loan, with interest, within several years. George

3600-420: Was the daughter of Lewis Jenkins of Canandaigua, New York , and then Buffalo . Maria was the granddaughter of Hon. Moses Atwater, a founder of St. John's Episcopal Church, Canandaigua . His only surviving child was Mary Caroline that he had with his second wife, Mary McLean Jarvis. Unable to approve of his daughter's suitor, Jarvis broke their relationship and arranged for Mary Caroline to travel to Europe for

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