the Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4. He died in 1894 in Denver, Colorado after being run over by a horse and buggy and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery (Wheat Ridge) in Jefferson County, Colorado. Personal life Gilpin was married to Julia Pratte Dickerson, a widow from St Louis. Together, they were longtime employers of Julia Greeley, also from Missouri, who later became one of the world's few venerated African-American Catholics. See also History of Colorado Law and government of Colorado List of governors of Colorado Territory of Colorado References External links The Governors of Colorado @ Colorado.gov Biography of William Gilpin @ Colorado.gov William Gilpin @ PBS.org University of Virginia: Untrasacted Density: William Gilpin 1813 births 1894 deaths Military personnel from Philadelphia United States Military Academy alumni Colorado Mining Boom Futurologists Gilpin family Governors of Colorado Territory People from Colorado Oregon pioneers University of Pennsylvania alumni Colorado Republicans Missouri Republicans 19th-century American politicians United States Army officers