159:. Van Valkenburg then returned home to Owego for a short period of time, and that April moved to Colorado on account of his worsening health. It was there that he settled in the town now known as Erie, and the house that he built there was the town's first. It was in this house that Van Valkenburg hold Sunday-school to a small number of pupils in his dining room. In Erie Van Valkenburg held many positions and offices, among them a judge, a police magistrate, town postmater, mayor, school board president, and representative to the state legislature from
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