President of a coal company; was said to have been pitched down a mine shaft by business
associates who were embezzling. The truth is less dramatic - he went down one mine too
many and got pneumonia.. Known as Edmund.
From the Shumway Family Genealogy Book 1909
He is President of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company operating coal mines in Colorado; he is also a director in several
other corporations; resides in Denver and is a Knight Templar and Shriner, a trustee of the Y. M. C. A. and the
Denver University, and one of the leading men of Trinity M.E. Church
BURIED: Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, CO
FUEL COMPANY OFFICIAL DIES AFTER EXPLOSION
Denver, Co., Jan 11, - E. E. Shumway, 51, president and general manager of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company, died tonight
from the effects of poisonous gases inhaled in rescue work which resulted from the explosion in the Vulcan mine at New Castle
, Col, Dec 17 last.
SOURCE: No Headline (Mortuary Notice)
Date: 1914-01-12; Paper: The Duluth News Tribune
Steve Shumway - shumways@@petershumway.org
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