Florence Dauth (birth-name Yeaton) was born in 1878 in the small farming town of Bancroft, Nebraska. After graduating high school she began working in a millinery parlor in Omaha, Nebraska before…

In 1878 Frank Marvin, the trapper of Idlewild, was tending to his traps in the Buckhorn canyon when he came across a mule. Not seeing anyone about he took the mule back to his camp, and was…

One of the first persons to be documented living in the Big Thompson Canyon was a trapper by the name of Frank Marvin. Frank was born in Ohio around the year 1829. At the age of 29 he made his first…

Before Idlewild was officially platted as a subdivision and parceled into recordable land plots, a number of individuals, aside from Ella Van Bramer, were living here. The 1910 sub division plat…

George Dauth was born in Westhofen, Germany on October 24, 1868. At the age of 15 he immigrated to the United States to join his siblings who were living in Colorado. When he arrived he started…

Harvey Witwer was the son of Elizabeth Studebaker and nephew of John Mohler Studebaker of the Studebaker Automobile Company. Harvey first worked for the family business by selling wagons and horse…

The story of Idlewild begins with Ella. She was the daughter of Frank Bartholf, a businessman of Loveland, who was developing the land around the confluence of the Big Thompson and the North Fork,…