Berthoud Weekly Surveyor August 8, 2013 Page 5 The historical society and Mark French are interested in obtaining and copying old photos from Berthoud’s past. Please contact Mark at 532-2147 if you have any photos you would like to share.
A LOOK AT BERTHOUD
Rev. Elkanah Lamb’s Little Thompson Valley mission I n 1878 the Little Thompson Valley was home to a handful of people. A few dozen farms dotted the countryside, and the settlement of Berthoud consisted of the homestead cabin of Surveyor Lewis Cross, Columnist a stagecoach barn, a boxcar that served as the Colorado Central train depot, and a log building that doubled as a school house and church. In 1878 the Mark Reverend French Elkanah J. Lamb was a circuit-riding preacher who had been assigned to what his United Brethren church identified as its “Little Thompson mission.” That mission was not a building but an organized undertaking to bring religion to the valley’s isolated homesteaders who lacked opportunities to practice their faith. Lamb was born in Indiana in 1832. As a youth he watched his father operate a station on the Underground
Railroad where escaped slaves were hidden on their journey north from South Bend to the free state of Michigan. When Lamb was a young man he worked as a barrel-maker or “cooper” before he moved to Iowa where he married and became a farmer. In 1857 Lamb migrated to Linn County, Kan., where he continued farming and remained with his wife and children until the spring of 1860 when he was drawn to the gold fields of the Rocky Mountains. After arriving in Denver Lamb bounced around the gold camps of South Park for the summer before he returned to his life in Kansas. Following the Civil War Lamb and his family continued their westward migration to Nebraska where they engaged in farming and raising livestock before Lamb followed a calling to the ministry. In 1867 Lamb’s two young daughters died only to be followed by their mother, who passed one year later. Lamb married again in September 1868 and, in April 1870, was ordained as a minister of the United Brethren church. In May 1871 he was sent to the Colorado Territory to join Rev. St. Clair Ross in “the upbuilding of our cause in Christ’s name and the glory
of God in those far off mountains and vales.” Leaving his wife in Nebraska to tend to their affairs, Lamb took the train to Denver, riding with several passengers who made a pastime of firing their guns at buffalo herds grazing along the tracks. In 1871 Lamb and Ross erected the first United Brethren church building in Colorado at a location between Denver and Brighton and along the Denver and Cheyenne railroad. In June of that year, after the church was completed, Lamb and Ross traveled up and down Boulder, St. Vrain, Left Hand, Little Thompson and Big Thompson creeks to minister to settlers. The preachers relied on the homesteaders to provide them with food and lodging and donate money for their living expenses. In 1871 Lamb, who was a life-long lover of nature, also made the ascent of Longs Peak. In 1877 the United Brethren church appointed Lamb to its Big Thompson mission. In 1878 Lamb was assigned to the Little Thompson mission, but a grasshopper plague had reduced the farmers’ income to the extent that there was meager financial support for the minister. Lamb soon relocated his family and ministry to Estes Park where he
established a dairy business and collected a small income guiding parties to the summit of Longs Peak. Lamb’s mountain home was 35 miles from the nearest post office or store. Later in his career Lamb accepted other ministerial assignments in Colorado, but eventually returned to Estes Park where he shared a love of nature with his close friend Enos Mills. The Little Thompson Valley was just beginning to fill with homesteads in 1878 when Lamb was assigned to the Little Thompson mission. While a devastating grasshopper plague forced him to relocate to Estes Park, another United Brethren minister was assigned to the mission the following year. The Little Thompson mission continued until the fall of 1886 when the United Brethren erected the first church building in the town of Berthoud at the northeast corner of the intersection of Fourth Street and Turner Avenue. The author thanks Karen Bennett who recently donated Elkanah Lamb’s autobiography, “Past Memories and Future Thoughts,” to the Berthoud Historical Society. Information from the book that was published in 1905 was used in this article.
Past Memories and Future Thoughts. United Brethren Publishing House. 1905
Rev. E.J. Lamb was assigned to the United Brethren church’s Little Thompson mission in 1878. The mission was not a building but an undertaking to provide early settlers with religion.
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Public Star Night By Meinte Veldhuis Little Thompson Science Foundation Public Star Night at the Little Thompson Observatory, will be held on Friday, Aug. 16 from 7 to 11 p.m., 850 Spartan Ave. at Berthoud High School (park east of the high school; directions are posted on our website, www.starkids.org). Our guest speaker is John Stocke, astronomy professor in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the title of his talk is “Native American Star Knowledge.” Native American star and constellation myths, including the story of the creation of stars, will be explored. The talk, based in part on Stocke’s interviews with two Navajo medicine men several years ago, includes excerpts from taped conversations with the men and delves into the Navajo relationship between the cycle of life and the rhythm of the heavens. “It’s an interesting look at a culture that isn’t too far from here,” Stocke said. Stocke interviewed the medicine men at Gates Planetarium in Denver dur-
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ing the late 1970s as part of a research project he undertook while teaching at the Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Ariz. While Stocke’s current research focuses on the observation of distant objects, he believes people need to connect with the stars and the sky in other ways too. “Many people in the Western world today are disconnected from the environment,” Stocke said. “Because of their circumstances, living in remote areas, many native people are still much more connected to the environment, including the sky. “Looking at these traditions allows us a different perspective.” Stocke is a Professor of Astrophysics and Space Astronomy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His teaching interests include astronomical observations and instrumentation, general astronomy and ancient astronomy. His research interests include the evolution of quasars and BL Lacertae objects; the structure of extended radio galaxies; the environment of active galaxies and its effect in the active nucleus of these galaxies; isolated galaxies; x-ray emission from quasars, Seyferts, BL Lac objects, and normal stars; and Herbig-Haro objects as interstellar shock fronts and tracers of bipolar outflows from young stars. Stocke is an extragalactic observer who uses all manner of space-based and ground-based telescopes to study normal and active galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and intergalactic gas. His primary interests have been in using
the Hubble Space Telescope’s spectrographs to discover, inventory and study intergalactic gas clouds and to figure out their relationship to galaxies. This study has led to the first-ever detection of matter in voids. Professor Stocke is a member of the science team building the COS Colorado University and Ball Aerospace. The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the presentation will start at 7:30 p.m. Weather permitting after the presentation (around 8:30 p.m.), visitors will be invited to observe various celestial objects through our six inch AstroPhysics Refractor, and 18” Tinsley and 24” Cole Reflector telescopes. Public star nights at LTO are held the third Friday of each month (except July, when we are closed for annual maintenance). No reservations are necessary for these nights. Just come and join us for the talk and some observing afterwards. If you have any questions, please call the observatory information line at 970-613-7793 or check the LTO website at: www.starkids.org. Public Star Nights at the Pioneer Museum, 224 Mountain Ave. in Berthoud, home of the historical six inch Brashear Refractor from John Bunyan, are held on the first Friday of each month. If you have any questions, please call the Bunyan observatory information line at 970-532-2147 or check the museum website at: www. berthoudhistoricalsociety.org/bunyan. htm.
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