William F. Geddes, David Duff Seerie, and
Edward R. Ball purchased the Denver Sewer Pipe and Clay
Company in 1892 from James Green, William C. Miller, & George
Steinmitz, who established it in 1889. In 1900 the company added a
brick manufacturing plant. The manufacture of fire brick was
begun in an additional plant in 1910. Denver Sewer Pipe and Clay Company
also produced locomotive arch tile, used in the combustion chambers of
steam locomotives. Denver Sewer Pipe & Clay Company, located at 45th and
Fox Street in north Denver, covering thirty acres, became one of the
largest employers in Denver with 300 employees. Extensive mining
operations to bring in the raw clay for production were
carried on in the areas near Golden, Castle Rock, and the
Moffat Railroad. The Company eventually moved to Castle
Rock in the mid 1980s.
The company has
furnished brick and other clay products for most of
Denver's large buildings, including Daniels and Fisher
Building, Cosmopolitan and Park Lane Hotels, Colburn
Apartments, the South, East, and North high schools, Lake
Junior High School, buildings at Denver University, and
Colorado School of Mines, St. Thomas Seminary, Holy Ghost
Church, several hospitals, including Colorado General and
Porter Sanatorium, as well as materials for many of
Denver's fine residences. The Remington Arms, Kaiser
Plant, Rocky Mountain Arsenal, much of Fitzsimons
Hospital, and the permanent buildings of Lowry Field and
Fort Logan.
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18th & Williams Street
Residence of David Duff Seerie |
Biography of Margaret A. Price
Margaret the daughter of David Price and
Elizabeth, was born December 1866 in Iowa City,
Johnson County, Iowa. Both of Margaret's parents were born in South
Wales.
Margaret attended the University of Colorado. She was the Secretary
Executive of the Board of Lady Mangers and a member of the Woman's club.
Margaret, suffering from tuberculosis, went to California in
January of 1906 in hopes of improving her health. She died February 21,
1906 in Los Angeles at the Good Samaritan Hospital. David and
Margaret had no children.
David Price and wife Elizabeth, natives of South
Wales, were born 1828 and 1831 respectively. The Price family arrived in
Colorado sometime before 1880 and settled in the foothills west of
Boulder in the town of Caribou. David Price and his three sons
John R. Price, Rufus Price, and Edwin Price, miners, purchased the
"Queen of the Valley Lode," in Magnolia, Boulder county September
1880. The Price family moved to Denver in 1882 after selling the
"Queen of the Valley Lode. The eldest daughter Eliza
Price married Thomas J. Davidson and removed to Salt Lake City, Utah
while the youngest daughter Rhoda Price married Harvey George Morgan
and removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
David Duff Seerie built a house at 18th
and Williams in Denver which was valued at $35,000 in 1898.
David served as sheriff of old Arapahoe County, (now Denver County),
Colorado in 1901. Mr. Seerie held the of Vice-president
at Denver Sewer Pipe & Clay Company inn 1913 and was also on the
Board of the Moffat Tunnel Commission. He was a member of the Board of Public Works for
two years and the 14th street viaduct was built while he
was on the board
David began to travel to Great Britain and Europe, after the death of
his wife, Margaret A. Price in 1908. Mr. Seerie traveled extensively in
the 1910s and is found in ship logs visiting Great Britain and Europe.
David Duff Seerie died December 23, 1917 at his home at 1358 High Street
in Denver. He was a 32nd degree mason, a Knight Templar,
a past potentate, El Jebel
Temple of the Mystic Shrine, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, and a
member of the Denver Club, the Overland Club (now the
Lakewood Club) the Country Club and the Denver Athletic
Club. Both Mr. Seerie and his wife Margaret are buried at
Riverside Cemetery.
