Burial Plot: grave 5.
Isaac Newton Chatfield married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Mead on February 1, 1877, in Bonfield, Illinois. The couple resided in the family stone house for 13 years, managing their farm.
Newton and his family moved to Littleton, Colorado, in 1890, where Newton purchased a grocery store downtown shortly after their arrival. Newton operated his grocery store for 10 years, a community leader and trustee of the Littleton Presbyterian Church before moving north to Fort Collins at the turn of the century, where Newton served as Colorado Agricultural College's custodian of the Chemistry Department for the next 21 years. Lizzie died in Fort Collins on May 25, 1918. In 1921, while attempting to board a trolley, Newton, then 72 years old, fell and broke his hip. Two years later he left Fort Collins to live with his daughter Laura in California. Laura had earned her Master's Degree and was teaching school in Woodland, California.
"Dec 22, 1921: Fort Collins Courier, Larimer Co., Colorado:
Chemistry Building at College Destroyed by Fire Early this Morning; Origin Unknown.
Fire that broke out shortly after 2 o'clock gutted the old Chemistry building on the [Colorado Agricultural] college campus Thursday morning, leaving it a mash of smoldering ruins….Chemicals stored in the building caught fire and burned with celerity; combustibles cracked and popped, the brilliant scene holding the attention of more than 100 spectators who gathered within a few minutes. Flames of every color were discernible…. Uncle I.N. CHATFIELD, who has been caretaker of the Chemistry building at the college since it was built 23 years ago, is mourning the burning of the building and the loss of all the valuable things contained therein, like unto a father mourning for his firstborn. In the basement where many cans of samples of different things, all number, so that the professors could say, "Uncle, get a sample of number so and so," and Uncle Chatfield could locate the required sample from his orderly rows and cans without a moment's hesitation. Valuable papers and priceless data, the result of years of research were also burned."
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United States Census, 1900
Name Isaac N Chatfield
Event Place Precinct 8-12 Fort Collins, Timnsth Fort Collins city Ward 1-4, Larimer, Colorado
Gender Male
Age 50
Marital Status Married
Race White
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Years Married 23
Birth Date Jul 1850
Birthplace Ohio
Marriage Year (Estimated) 1877
Father's Birthplace Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace Connecticut
Isaac N Chatfield Head M 50 Ohio
Lizzie A Chatfield Wife F 50 Pennsylvania
Eunice P Chatfield Dau F 23 Illinois
Leslie M Chatfield Son M 18 Illinois
Laura A Chatfield Dau F 16 Illinois
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United States Census, 1910
Name Isaac N Chatfield
Event Place Fort Collins Ward 3, Larimer, Colorado
Gender Male
Age 61
Marital Status Married
Race White
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Birth Year (Estimated) 1849
Birthplace Ohio
Father's Birthplace Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace Connecticut
Sheet Letter B
Sheet Number 2
Isaac N Chatfield Head M 61 Ohio
Lizzie A Chatfield Wife F 63 Pennsylvania
Eunice P Chatfield Dau F 30 Illinois
Laura A Chatfield Dau F 25 Illinois
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United States Census, 1920
Name Isic N Chatfield
Event Place Fort Collins Ward 3, Larimer, Colorado
Gender Male
Age 70
Marital Status Widowed
Race White
Can Read Yes
Can Write Yes
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Own or Rent Own
Birth Year (Estimated) 1850
Birthplace Ohio
Father's Birthplace Connecticut
Mother's Birthplace Massachusetts
Sheet Letter B
Sheet Number 7
Isic N Chatfield Head M 70 Ohio
Laura E Graves Dau F 35 Illinois
Leonard Graves Grandson M 4 Idaho
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