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Note: N5719 !Name from marriage record, Muscatine Co., IA.
!1/19/1886: Land Patent for Theresa M. Chinn, Clarence Stephens and Charles C. Welch under authority of 26 Jul 1866: Mineral Patent-Lode (14 Stat. 251). 0 Acres in the Hugo Lode, Clear Creek Co., CO. Section 26, Township 3-S, Range 74- W, Meridian 6th PM and Section 35, Township 3-S, Range 74-W, Meridian 6th PM. Document Number 10299, Accessiona and BLM Serial Number COCOAA018707
!1/19/1866: Land Patent for Theresa M. Chinn, Clarence Stephens and Charles C. Welch under authority of 26 Jul 1866: Mineral Patent-Lode (14 Stat. 251). 0 Acres in the Highland Chief Lode, Clear Creek Co. CO. Section 26, Township 3-S, Range 74- W, Meridian 6th PM and Section 35, Township 3-S, Range 74-W, Meridian 6th PM. Document Number 10300, Accession and BLM Serial Number COCOAA018708.
!1870 Census: Colorado, Jefferson County, Golden City, page 347. Rolly W. Chinn, 44, Teaming, Birthplace KY; Theresa M., Housekeeping, Birthplace Prussia; Sophia, 17, Ohio; Richard, 12, Missouri; Mary, 10, Missouri; Susan, 8, Missouri; Howard, 4, Colorado; Cuthbert, 9/12, Colorado; Susan, 74, Kentucky, father of foreign birth.
!16 Nov 1889: Mr. John H. Bowman, a former resident of this place but now of Georgetown, has sued the Two Sisters Mining company of Silver Creek for $10,000 damages and costs. The plaintiff says he leased Jo Reynolds No. 4 lode from Joseph Reynolds and Johanna Daily in September 1889, for one year, also the Native American lode from H. K. Miller, Elias Wold and Theresa Chinn for two years in July, 1888. The defendants are accused by him of forcibly taking possession of the mines and have been mining them, and they are doing so clandestinely. Curiously enough, the respondents deny everything charged by the plaintiff and have filed a counter petition to that effect. They further affirm that the vein over which the dispute is, was discovered by them, and that their claim has the prestige of age. By a ruling of the court Monday the plaintiff has been allowed to extract ore from the mine and deposit the proceeds in the registry of the court, thus modifying a preceding order of October 29. L. C. Rockwell and J. H. Brown are attorneys for the plaintiff, and R. S. Morrison, Wells, McNeal and Taylor and Charles J. Hughes for the defendants. The Silver Standard, Volume IV, Number 37, November 16 1889. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
!12/26/1890: Land Patent for Theresa M. Chinn, H. K. Miller and Elias Wold under authority of 26 July 1866: Mineral Patent-Lode (14 Stat. 251). 2.5 Acres in Native American, Clear Creek Co, CO. Section 26, Township 3-S, Range 74- W, Meridian 6th PM Document Number 16918, Accession and BLM Serial Number COCOAA018982.
!24 Dec 1912: Another Colorado pioneer is dead. Death came to Raleigh Washington Chinn on December 24, 1912, at 11:30 p.m., after an illness of only three days. Apoplexy (a stroke) was the cause of death. Mr. Chinn was more than 85 years of age. Internment was in the Dumont Cemetery. He is survived by his wife Theresa and five children Richard P. Chinn (first Dumont mayor) Mrs. J. F. Gregg, Mrs P. R. Stanhope, Dr. Howard Chinn and Cuthbert H. Chinn. Mr. Chinn had hundreds of friends in Denver and in every part of the state. He was one of the oldest Masons in the state, a member of the Royal Arch Lodge no. 2. in Golden. He was a kindly, pleasant man whose friends delighted in listening to his stories of the early days of the West, and often his home was the scene of gatherings of old friends who called to listen to the humorous and sad tales he could tell. Mill Creek Valley Historical Society Newsletter, April 2012, Dumont, Colorado. Online.
!17 Jan 1915: The death of Mrs Chinn occurred January 17, 1915, when she had reached the age of eighty years. History of Colorado, by Wilbur Fisk Stone, Volume 111, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1918, p. 294.
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