Person:Klaas Wildeboer (3)

In the 1850 census Klaas Wildeboer appears to be a member of the household of Rev. A.C. van Raalte.

1. ↑ Notice of Final Settlement and Notice of Determination of Heirship, in The Pueblo Indicator
   30 Oct 1937.
2. ↑ Pueblo Chieftain.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Klass Wildeboor, Sr, in Find A Grave.

   Gravestone photo

4.   Semi-Centennial History of the State of Colorado, vol. II, (1913)
   pg 339.

   "Klaas Wildeboor, coming to southern Colorado in pioneer days, has been prominently connected with the development of the natural resources of the country, aiding largely in the reclamation of its wild lands and in transforming its uncultivated districts into a region of productiveness. He is now largely living retired in the enjoyment of well earned rest. Although a native of New York, he was taken to Michigan in his infancy, the family home being established in Allegan county. His birth occurred September 9, 1844, his father being Rev. Klaas Wildeboor, a minister of the Presbyterian faith.
   
   Spending his boyhood days under the parental roof, Mr. Wildeboor of this review pursued his education in the public schools of Allegan county and worked at farm labor during the summer months. At nineteen years of age he went to Illinois and settled in Greene county, where he engaged in teaching through the cold seasons of the year and in the summer was connected with agricultural pursuits. A resident of that state until the spring of 1865, he then went to Missouri, where he carried on general farming until 1868. The 9th of April of the latter year witnessed his arrival in Denver, whence he afterward came to Pueblo and traded for a preemption claim, on which he began farming. He also had a stage contract, operating the stage line from Pueblo to Fair Play and Canon City. When he began his operations in farming he controlled one hundred and sixty acres of land, but from time to time acquired other land about sixteen miles from Pueblo, where he was entensively [sic] engaged in raising hay on a tract of fifteen hundred acres. He prospered in his undertakings and eventually sold out to the irrigation company. His ranch was laid out as an addition to the city of South Pueblo and subdivided into town lots. Mr. Wildeboor built the first house on the south side of the river and it is still standing, constituting a portion of his present residence.
   
   In 1872 occurred the marriage of Mr. Wildeboor and Miss Philinda M. Granger, a native of Michigan, who died in 1906. They had two children, Carl L. and Maud M., the latter the wife of John C. Salisbury, of Pueblo."

5. ↑ Geboorte, in Zuid-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Burgerlijke Stand
   akte 65, 1842.
6.   http://www.kmitch.com/Pueblo/roselawn/30-261.jpg
7.   http://www.kmitch.com/Pueblo/papa.html
8.   http://www.kmitch.com/Pueblo/pathbreakers.html
   In April, 1868, steps were taken toward the erection of the first church building. Church services had been held by various denominations in the old court house at Third and Santa Fe. The Episcopal Church continued its efforts until the organization known as St. Peter's Church, had been effected and sufficient funds raised to warrant the erection of a church building. The project was placed in charge of the following committee : George A. Hinsdale, Wilbur F. Stone, H. C. Thatcher, J. W. Snyder, F. W. Walker, Jas. Rice and Klaas Wildeboor; the building committee being composed of Messrs. Hart, Young and Weston. The building was constructed of adobe bricks and still stands at the corner of Seventh and Santa Fe. At the time it was erected it was in the outskirts of the town, there being but two buildings beyond it.
   
   A tower, ten feet square, was erected upon the church from which was suspended a bell. A member of the committee states that on a certain beautiful Sunday morning, when for the first time the old bell pealed out in clear tones its call to worship, — tones which were strange, indeed, to the ears of these isolated westerners — tears came to the eyes of more than one person whose soul was stirred by the memory of a little church back in the "states," from which he had been separated for so many years.