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Finding Aid of the John Lipsey Papers, 1890-1966Pikes Peak Library District Special CollectionsEmail: http://www.ppld.org/SpecialCollections/SpecialCollectionsContact.aspURL: http://www.ppld.org/SpecialCollections/default.asp © 2009 Pikes Peak Library District
Biography / HistoryJohn Lipsey was a writer and bookseller in Colorado Springs. He was born September 9, 1890, in Winchester, Tennessee. He earned a bachelor of arts from Mississippi College in 1908. Lipsey came to Colorado Springs in 1921, after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. He married Julia Frances Hassell on June 14, 1924. During WWII, he served as a secretary for the War Price and Rationing Board of El Paso County. He died in 1969. John Lipsey was a bookseller and author. John Lipsey and his wife Julia, started Western Books in 1925. They ran the business out of their home and relied on word of mouth. He extended his knowledge of western history from the book trade to writing. He wrote a column titled “Lipsey Dixit” for the Free Press from 1954 to 1955; published articles in Colorado Magazine, and wrote: The Lives of James John Hagerman, along with other manuscripts. John Lipsey was a member of the Denver Westerners, Denver Press Club, Historical Society of the Pikes Peak Region, State Historical Society of Colorado, Ghost Town Club of Colorado Springs, Elks, American Legion, El Paso County Tuberculosis Association, Disabled American Veterans, and Community Chest of the Pikes Peak Region. Scope and ContentFourteen research files, arranged alphabetically, contain information concerning Colorado History. Materials include manuscripts, photographs, letters, and ephemera. The “Articles, research, letters” folder contains the manuscripts Bayou Salade and H. H. [Helen Hunt Jackson] Visits Fort Garland and Garland City. The “Gazzam, Joseph P.” folder includes letters to Lipsey about strikes in Cripple Creek and Leadville and Gazzam’s work as a superintendent in a Colorado mine. Gazzam also sent photographs of the American Nettie Mine near Ouray, Colorado, and Small Hopes Consolidated Mining Company. The “McFarland, Lloyd” folder contains the manuscripts: The Night Fountain Blew Up; News from the Town of Monument; Culture Under the Pines: The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua at Palmer Lake; and Wildlife in the Colorado Rockies. The folder, “Miscellaneous articles from western authors,” includes the manuscripts: The Ute Bear Ranch by Verner Z. Reed and Gunnison and the West by Mel Deering. The “Miscellaneous research file” contains biographical information about Parkhill Forbes; a transcribed diary of John Lawrence from 1867; store report from the Dew Drop Mill Company; blacksmith report from the Adit Tunnel Company; shift report; and two stock certificates from the Orphan Gold Mining Company and Arcadia Mining Company. The folder “Palmer and Glen Eyrie” contains an article General William Jackson Palmer: His Twenty-Eight-And-A-Half Months of Life after a Fatal Injury, which was published in the Free Press on March 14, 1954 and the manuscript Mansion of a Magnate, which provides description of the interior of Palmer’s residence with measurements. Other manuscripts include: Roughing It with General Palmer in 1901 and Once a General, Always A General. Also included is a letter from 1905, to General Palmer from F. W. Cragin concerning the earliest names for Pikes Peak. The “Penrose and Tutt” folder contains the manuscripts Criticism of Will Rogers Tower by Talbot Hamlin and Spencer Penrose and Charles L. Tutt Senior: A Brief Biography by J. Arthur Connell. Also included is a toast presented by John Slothower at a cocktail party of the El Paso Club. The “Photographs” folder houses images of: Prof. Woodhave, Countess Pourtales, Glen Eyrie entrance, Glen Eyrie exterior, Union Printers Home entrance, Ghost Town Club members in 1951, Stevens Mine, Pikes Peak Cog Rail, and Garden of the Gods. RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsThe collection is open for research. Copy RestrictionsThe researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection. Preferred CitationJohn Lipsey Papers, 1890-1966. MSS 0304. Pikes Peak Library District Special Collections Processing InformationThis collection was processed by volunteer, Edna Wallace in October 2009. Amy Ziegler wrote the finding aid in October 2009. Related MaterialCA 12 War Price and Rationing Board 4 of El Paso County CU 39.108 John Johnson Lipsey by Julia Lipsey Box and Folder List
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