Professor Henry Carver

Professor Carver lived in Denver for several years after his time in Bloomsburg, serving for a year as the superintendent of the Denver School System in the 1870s. For much of his time in Denver he lived with his oldest daughter Sarah and her husband, Hiram G. Wolff, in their home in the Highland neighborhood.

Bloomsburg University’s first president, Henry Carver, died in Denver, Colorado, in 1889. He is buried in an unmarked grave at Riverside Cemetery in Denver. The Bloomsburg University Alumni Association and the Friends of the BU Library are donating a headstone for Carver’s grave to commemorate his legacy.

On August 22nd, 2009 at 2:15pm the Bloomsburg Alumni Association will be dedicating a monument to Professor Carver at Riverside (Block 4, Lot 73). For more about the luncheon, presentation, and dedication, visit the Bloomsburg Alumni Website.

The Drake Cabin is very cool and was made, I believe, in a stone studio at 36th and Blake. The caption of the photo posted here reads:

“In the older part of Riverside Cemetery is a small replica of a log cabin complete with the needs of that day, shovel, pick-axe, etc. It was carved by a well-known early Denver sculptor, Norwegian born Ole Rustad. His niece, Bertha L. Baerresen, says she remembers when it was delivered to Riverside on a flat-bed wagon. It was cut from a large rock and very heavy, of course, and as it was being unloaded, one of the men who was helping stumbled, throwing much of the weight onto her uncle injuring his back. As a result of the accident, her uncle (her mother’s brother) died a short time later. Miss Baerresen, standing beside the cabin in the upper left picture gives an idea of the size of the cabin. The other photo shows the chimney at the back.”