Lucius C. Paddock, 10 North 49 West


Grand Rapids, Michigan "Augustus Paddock was a Great Lakes ship captain during the lumbering era. In 1872, he built a magnificent mansion at 1033 Lake Drive, S.E., which was later occupied successively by the Edmund Wurzburg family, the Franciscan Fathers, and Gibson's Restaurant. The avenue running along the west side of his property was named for Mr. Paddock. "

Benjamin Augustus Paddock 1825-1907 is buried in Boulder # 11111048.


1875

1877 Boulder, Colorado "Capt. Paddock has gone to Grand Rapids Mich, and will be gone about two weeks."
"The history of the D&RGWR is found in another collection held in Special Collections: the library of the Paddock family of Boulder— former owners and long-time editors of the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper. The family arrived in Colorado in 1878 when Lucius C. Paddock moved here from Michigan. Lucius first worked as a reporter for the Boulder News and then founded his own newspaper, the Sentinel. After selling the Sentinel, Lucius worked as a reporter in Leadville and Aspen before he and his father-in-law purchased the Daily Camera in 1892. The family owned the paper until 1969, when it was sold to Ridder Publications, and a Paddock family member remained in the position of editor until Laurence T. Paddock retired in 1983. "

In 1880 Leadville, Colorado, Augustus Paddock is a mine owner, 55, with Esther 53, both born in New York. Charles E. is 23 a silver miner, Lucius 21 is a publisher, and they have a Mrs. Kate Stewart 32 and her daughter Carry 3.
October 21, 1880 "Mr. L. C. Paddock, a young gentleman well known in Leadville, was united in marriage yesterday, to Miss Arlene C. Butsch, at the residence of the bride's parents, Pleasant View, Boulder county. The many friends of the young couple wish them unbounded prosperity."

Lucius claimed a quarter in section 3, 10N 49W, Logan County, Colorado, in 1888.


June 1884 "Mr. L. C. Paddock, late editor of Boulder Banner and Mr. Geo. W. Newland recently connected with the Buena Vista Democrat, are about to establish a democratic paper in Boulder. The type, presses and all the material required have been purchased new , right from the dealers, and the paper will all be printed at home. It is to be called the Sentinel."

1886 "The Boulder Sentinel has increased its dimensions from a seven column to an eight column folio , and is vastly improved in other respects. Paddock is one of Colotado s brightest journalists , and his evident prosperity gladdens the hearts of a multitude of friends."

1888 Aspen, Colorado "L. C. Paddock, recently associated with these columns, went over to Breckenridge to-day, and with Hon. I. L. Johnson, of this city, will address the voters this evening."

December 11, 1898 Leadville "Mrs. J. C. Paddock, wife of the justice, yesterday received a telegram apprising her of the sad news of the death of her father, George Spencer Harvey, at Hunson, Mass., on last Friday noon. Mr. Harvey had advanced to the ripe old age of 89 years. About a year ago Mrs. Paddock received a telegram advising her then of her father's illness and she hastened home to find to her relief that there was a chance of recovery. Mrs. Paddock stayed in attendance on her father for three months, and when she started back to her home in Leadville, he was in fairly good health. His demise this winter was doubtless hastened by the recent rigorous weather. Mr. and Mrs. Paddock have the sympathy of a wide circle of acquaintances in their bereavement."

1893

1894 Boulder Daily Camera


1894 Boulder

Meanwhile, the social reformers (many of them women) continued to work to clean up their town. Their slow-but-steady progress got an unexpected boost from one of their own when a "respectable" Boulder woman murdered one of Kingsley's prostitutes, a girl named Trixie Lee.

As the story unfolded, a resident named Fred Hawkes entered his Boulder home on a hot August night. According to the Camera, he was said to have shamefully abused his wife and mother-in-law. The noise woke Fred's brother-in-law who told him to find some other place to "raise a rumpus." Fred then "tanked up and shortly found his way among the rapid women of Railroad Street."

Meanwhile, Maud Hawkes, Fred's wife, had secured a room in the Boulder House, a frame hotel which stood on the northeast corner of 11th and Pearl streets. While Maud sat on the front porch, Trixie Lee and Fred Hawkes drove by in a carriage, flaunting their affair. Trixie Lee was said to have given Maud "an insulting look and yell."

The Camera was of the opinion that the husband and the prostitute "were drunk and made a very bad show of themselves upon the streets." Maud then armed herself and told the hotel proprietor that she was going to kill someone. Several people tried to talk her out of it, advising her that she shouldn't dirty her hands, and that the courts would be on her side. Maud turned a deaf ear to those who offered to help her. Supposedly, she sat in the hotel lobby and read a book. Then she told the hotel proprietor of her troubles and said they were so great she couldn't even cry over them. She also spoke of the neglect and beatings by her husband and said a stone "was pressing coldly against her heart." The hotel proprietor took Maud seriously and notified Officer Ed Knapp that she was armed and suggested he keep an eye on her.

At seven o'clock that evening, while editor L.C. Paddock stood in front of a Pearl Street store, Maud and her mother walked by. Paddock overheard Maud's mother say, "You go and get your gun loaded and give her all that's in it." Maud was said to have replied, "I'll do it. You don't have to tell me." A few moments later, Maud and her mother walked down 11th Street and confronted Trixie Lee and Fred Hawkes. Instantly, Maud started firing. A flash of five shots in rapid succession was seen from the steps of the Camera office.

The slain "member of the demimonde," also identified as one of madam Kingsley's girls, fell into a clump of high weeds behind Metcalf and Hocking's Meat Market. Trixie Lee's slight body "shook with the tremor of death while blood oozed from several gaping wounds in the body." A bystander drew Fred Hawkes back into the weeds where they hid until Maud walked away.

After the shooting, Maud and her mother continued to walk unrestrained along 11th Street. Maud admitted to the gathering crowd, "There she is down there. She's got five bullets in her."

As the two women reached the corner of Pearl Street, Maud's mother stated, "Just hold onto that gun. Don't give it up, but go and get it loaded for the other one."

Just then, someone rushed up to the crowd and said that Trixie Lee was still alive. Maud instantly jumped forward and said, "Alive is she! Well, I've got some more balls for her." At that point, Marshal Metcalf (who may have witnessed the shooting) decided it was time to interfere and grabbed the revolver from her hand.

According to the newspaper reports, Trixie Lee "breathed but a few minutes when death came." When Officer Knapp arrived at the scene, he escorted Maud and her mother to jail pending an inquest. Editor Paddock deemed the errant husband's affair with Trixie Lee an "outrageous escapade" and called Maud Hawkes an "offended wife." The next day's headline read, "Maud Hawkes was jealous; And she armed herself and slew her husband's paramour."

Two months later, Paddock declared, "Mrs. Hawkes goes free." Once her trial had started, the jury quickly arrived at the verdict of "not guilty," even though there were dozens of witnesses and Maud had admitted that the murder was premeditated.

After the trial, Paddock wrote of both Maud and her mother, "They had been freed from all blame for the taking of that little human life, and the world had again been admonished by an American jury that the life of a scarlet woman weighs nothing in the balance as against the avenging right of a woman wronged."

In 1900 Boulder, Colorado, L.C. Paddock born August 1859 in Michigan, is a newspaper editor, marrid 19 years to Lena Dec 1859 Indiana. Edna Oct 1881, Percy Dec 1883, and Alva A. Oct 1887 were all born in Colorado.

July 1903 "A Republican special from Boulder says: Valentine Butsch. of the Daily Camera, and his wife celebrated Tuesday the fifty-first anniversary of their marriage, and their son, Charles A. Butsch. also of the Camera, and his wife, who is the daughter of the late pioneer. Marinus J. Smith, celebrated the first anniversary of their marriage. They were tendered a dinner at the home of L. C. Paddock, editor of the Camera, and son-in-law of the senior Mr. Butsch. Sixteen of the family were present, among them being Mrs. M. M. Blake and Mr. Blake of Denver, daughter and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Butsch."

1903 Fort Collins "Miss Edna Paddock, daughter of L. C. Paddock, editor of the Boulder Camera, is the guest of Miss Margie Webb."

1927 "'Gov.' Paddock, of the Boulder Camera was injured recently by the editorial shears. His illustrious dad will never suffer that way, as the colonel prefers the typewriter."

October 1927 "L.C. Paddock, editor of the Camera, arrived in Boulder this afternoon from where he spent two weeks with his brother, Dr. C. B. Paddock. They visited at Dr. Paddock’s summer home at South Haven, Michigan, and together visited Newago, their birthplace, Grand Rapids and other points in Michigan.—Boulder Camera.

Lucius Carver Paddock 1859-1940 is buried in Boulder, Colorado # 11111050.
July 31, 1940 "Col. L. C Paddock, 81, editor of the Boulder Camera, died in Boulder early this morning. His death came directly as the result of a heart attack although the aged newspaper man was suffering from a broken shoulder sustained about a week ago in a fall. • col. Paddock was editor of the Camera for many years and his sparkling comments, local, state anc, national were widely copied among the newspapers of the state where he was an acknowledged leader."

Lena C. (Butsch) Paddock 1859-1937 is buried in Boulder # 11111049.
# 11111051 says their son Percival Butsch Paddock 1882-1946 is also buried there.
Alva Adams "Gov" Paddock 1887-1961 is buried in Boulder # 11111052.

"When Laurence "Laurie" Paddock, now 86, was a young boy in the early 1930s, he and his mother often visited the Camera's newsroom. Laurie would nibble on chocolates at his great-aunt's desk, then climb onto the lap of his grandfather, L.C. Paddock. Seated nearby, Laurie's father, A.A. Paddock, knocked out stories on a big green manual Oliver typewriter. The Boulder Daily Camera, as the newspaper was called at the time, was a family-run business, with a Paddock as editor for 100 years. Because of the Paddocks, the newspaper became the first depository for the preservation of items of Boulder's past. "My father infected me with his interest in Boulder history, and there's no cure," Laurie said in a recent interview. Nor is there any way to separate the histories of the Paddock family, the Camera and Boulder. They are all intertwined. "



"Alva A. (A.A.) Paddock was the son of Lucius Carver (L.C.) Paddock (1859-1940), editor and publisher of the Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. from 1892 until 1940. He was named for his father's friend Alva Adams, a Pueblo businessman and Democrat who served three terms as governor of Colorado. A.A. Paddock joined the staff of the Daily Camera in 1910. Following the death of his father in 1940, he succeeded as editor and publisher of the paper. In the 1920s, after he returned from fighting in World War I, Paddock started accepting "anything anyone would give him." He collected photographs and other materials relating to Boulder, Colo. history. In the 1930s, the Daily Camera library was established when Paddock began clipping articles from the newspaper to save. He helped form the Boulder Historical Society in the 1940s with the materials he had been collecting. A.A. Paddock retired as editor for the Daily Camera in 1960, but remained as publisher until his death in 1961."

Edna H. Paddock married Charles A. Monroe, 25 on October 28, 1906 in Boulder.

Edna Helen (Paddock) Monroe 1882-1966 # 87492371 is buried in Denver, with a Boulder dentist Charles A. Monroe 1881-1967.

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