Boettcher family of Denver, Colorado
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Boettcher family of Denver, Colorado
Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
|  William Trigg Pigott (1861-1944) — of Virginia City,MadisonCounty, Mont.; Great Falls,CascadeCounty, Mont.; Helena,Lewis andClark County, Mont.Born in Boonville,CooperCounty, Mo.,November3, 1861.Democrat.Lawyer;bankdirector;justice ofMontana state supreme court, 1897-1902, 1918; appointed 1897,1918; district judge in Montana 1st District, 1934; defeated, 1892.Member,American BarAssociation.Died in Helena,Lewis andClark County, Mont.,March18, 1944 (age82 years, 136days).Interment atForestvaleCemetery, Helena, Mont.
| Claudius Kedzie Boettcher (1875-1957) — also known asClaude K. Boettcher — ofDenver,Colo.Born in Boulder,BoulderCounty, Colo.,January10, 1875.Republican.Packingbusiness;banker;major in the U.S. Army during World War I; chairman, Denver andIntermountainRailway;president, Brown PalaceHotel;director, Great WesternSugar Co.;director, DenverDry GoodsCo.; vice-president of severalelectricutilities; delegate to Republican National Convention fromColorado,1936(member,Committeeon Rules and Order of Business),1944.Episcopalian.Germanancestry.Died inDenver,Colo.,June 9,1957 (age82 years, 150days).Interment atFairmountCemetery, Denver, Colo.
| Anna Lou P. Boettcher (1903-1941) — also known asAnna Lou Pigott — ofDenver,Colo.Born in Helena,Lewis andClark County, Mont.,October29, 1903.Delegateto Colorado convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.Female.Died from aself-inflictedgunshot,inDenver,Colo.,September17, 1941 (age37 years, 323days).Entombed in mausoleum atFairmountCemetery, Denver, Colo.
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