Frederick Gilmer Bonfils (Frederick Gilmer Bonfils)
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Newspaper Publisher. After working in banking and real estate, he moved to Denver in 1895 and, with Harry Heye Tammen, purchased the “Evening Post”, renaming it the “Denver Post”. With a theatrical approach to journalism, they made it one of the most sensational newspapers in the country. In 1900, both Bonfils and Tammen were seriously wounded by a lawyer who took issue with their attacks on public figures and officials. At the time of his death, he was engaged in a libel suit against Roy W. Howard’s rival “Rocky Mountain News”. (bio by: Garver Graver) Family links: Parents: Eugene Napoleon Bonfils (1829 – 1914) Henrietta Bacon Lewis Bonfils (1833 – 1910) Spouse: Belle Barton Bonfils (1867 – 1935)* Children: Mary Madeline Bonfils Stanton (1883 – 1962)* Helen Gilmer Bonfils (1889 – 1972)* Siblings: Eugene N. Bonfils (1857 – 1861)* William D. Bonfils (1858 – 1932)* Frederick Gilmer Bonfils (1860 – 1933) Henrietta Lewis Bonfils Walker (1865 – 1953)* Mary Eugenia Bonfils (1867 – 1869)* Charles Alden Bonfils (1871 – 1955)* *Calculated relationship
Born
- December, 21, 1860
- USA
Died
- February, 02, 1933
- USA
Cemetery
- Fairmount Cemetery
- Colorado
- USA