Oral history interview with Virginia Forbess Banks, 2000

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Title: Oral history interview with Virginia Forbess Banks, 2000
Date: 2000
Call Number: OH0974-V
Summary: Development of Colorado economy in late 1800s.
Goss School.
Hygiene Home (sanitarium).
Immigration of Forbess family to Colorado Territory in 1873.
Sale of Seborn Forbess property in 1913.
Threshing business.
Boulder Feed Mill at 20th and Pearl Street operated by Gyeer Hall.
Churches (Brethren, Dunkard, First Congregational of Longmont, Methodist Episcopal).
Deaths of Florence and Susie Forbess.
Diphtheria epidemic of 1885.
North and South Side cemeteries.
Pella School.
St. Vrain River crossing.
Children of Seborn and America Forbess.
Forbess' house.
Goss schoolhouse.
Runyon Ditch.
Tuberculosis.
Includes 7 videographed photographs of: 1. Seborn and America Forbess (1905), 2. 1910 photo of their children: Alvin, Cordelia Frances, George Madison, Marietta, Minta, William Benjamin and William Carroll, 3. John and Bertha Goss, 4. Thella Dowling Laycock, 5. Home built by Seborn and America Forbess in Hygiene circa 1874, 6. Home bought by George Madison Forbess built circa 1902, 7. Home built by George Madison Forbess in 1902.
Terms of Use: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Oral histories may be used for non-commercial purposes, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder.
Format: Oral histories.
Author/Donor: Banks, Virginia Forbess
1911-2009
Robertson, Kira
Subjects: Banks, Virginia Forbess, 1911-2009
Brand, Frank
Forbess, America Wilkes
Forbess, Alvin
Forbess, George Madison
Forbess, Seborn A
Forbess, Ben (Benjamin)
Forbess, Florence
Forbess, Minnie Davis
Forbess, Susie
Forbess, Seborn
Forbess, William Carroll
Hall, Cordelia (Delia), Frances Forbess
Goss, John
Goss, Bertha
Laycock, Thella Dowling
Hall, Gyeer
McCaslin, George M, 1894-1982
McCaslin, Matt, 1862-1936
McCaslin, Mollie Montgomery, 1867-1956
Moran, Loreen Kramer
McCaslin, Lillian Meader
Shell, Bert
Goss School (Boulder County, Colo.)
Pella School (Boulder County, Colo.)
School District No. 9 (Boulder County, Colo.)
Boulder (Colo.)--History
Collection: Maria Rogers oral history collection
Note: This interview was originally recorded on 11 videotapes, and has been converted to 4 DVDs. This is DVD 1, which contains videotapes 1-3.
Supplementary material available in OH file includes a letter, a genealogy, a CU Library collection guide.
A typewritten summary of the interview is available.
Statement of Responsibility: interviewed and filmed by Kira Robertson,