Newspaper Publisher. After working in banking and real estate, he moved to Denver in 1895 and, with Harry Heye Tammen, purchased the “Evening Post”, renaming it the “Denver Post”. With a theatrical approach to journalism, they made it one of the most sensational newspapers in the country. In 1900, both Bonfils and Tammen were seriously wounded by a lawyer who took issue with their attacks on public figures and officials. At the time of his death, he was engaged in a libel suit against Roy W. Howard’s rival “Rocky Mountain News”. (bio by: Garver Graver)  Family links:  Parents:  Eugene Napoleon Bonfils (1829 – 1914)  Henrietta Bacon Lewis Bonfils (1833 – 1910)  Spouse:  Belle Barton Bonfils (1867 – 1935)*  Children:  Mary Madeline Bonfils Stanton (1883 – 1962)*  Helen Gilmer Bonfils (1889 – 1972)*  Siblings:  Eugene N. Bonfils (1857 – 1861)*  William D. Bonfils (1858 – 1932)*  Frederick Gilmer Bonfils (1860 – 1933)  Henrietta Lewis Bonfils Walker (1865 – 1953)*  Mary Eugenia Bonfils (1867 – 1869)*  Charles Alden Bonfils (1871 – 1955)* *Calculated relationship