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Boulder County
Colorado Biographies
BLEECKER, Warren
Bio of Warren Floyd Bleecker
He was educated in the public schools of Pueblo, the
University of Colorado, and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and
Sigma Xi fraternities. He worked as a newspaperman and
for three years as a professor. He became nationally
known as an inventor. He developed processes for the
extraction of Radium and designed the first and largest
plant in the world for producing Radium.
He was an inventor of many patented processes and
apparatus used by industry. During World War I he
operated Tungstan mines and an electric smelter in
Boulder County, Colorado and did much metallurgical and
chemical research work. He invented an Electric Furnace
U.S. Patent number 1,469,033 dated September 25, 1923
which he turned over to the Tungsten Products Mining
Company. Since 1923 he has been President and manger of
Bleecker and Co., Inc., Manufacturer of Zero Hour
Electric Bomb which he invented with William J. Cheley
(U.S. Patent numbers 1,541,790 dated June 16, 1925, and
1,832,924 dated November 24, 1931 which became generally
used in the oil industry. He was elected to the state
legislature in Colorado in 1928 and served as chairman
of the Finance and the Ways and Means Committees. While
there, he became President of the Colorado Tax Council.
Sources:
1. Colorado State Business Directory 1919 - 1921 for
Tungsten Products Mining Company. (#4 Williams
Building).
2. 1923 listed in the Colorado State Business Directory
for Bleecker Mining Co., located at 2031 12th St.
Boulder, Colorado.
3. 1928 in the Colorado State Business Directory, listed
under Bleecher and Co., Inc. at 301 Arapahoe, Boulder,
CO. referencing Oil Well Torpedos. It is also listed in
1929 but not in 1930. (We think Bleecher is a typo and
should be Bleecker)
4. Patents information was found in Colorado and it's
People, Vol 2, Pg 504
5. Genealogy Files of Sara Hemp: Born: October 19, 1877
Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois; Died: June 1936
Boulder, Colorado; Buried: Green Mountain Cemetery,
Boulder, Colorado; Parents: Martin Colbow Bleecker &
Helena Olive Taggart; Grandparents: John J Bleecker I,
MD & Roseanna "Annie" Bader; Benjamin F Taggart &
Rebecca M. Hill.
Submitted to Genealogy
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