Frederick Aderhold was born in April 1851 in Saxony, Germany. He immigrated to America in 1879 and was enumerated as a blacksmith in the household of Charles Kretschmer in Pueblo in 1880, who was also a blacksmith from Prussia. He married Anna M. in about 1882, and they lived in Animas Forks in 1883 and 1884, where he had taken over the blacksmithing business there from Jake Lush. Ann was born in in Germany in April 1859 and arrived in America in 1880. By 1885, they had moved to La Plata County, where he continued to work as a blacksmith. He obtained a 160-acre Homestead Entry Patent on land along the Los Pinos River north of Bayfield on March 3, 1893; it required five years of residency on the land to obtain a Homestead Patent, so was on the land by late 1887 or early 1888. In order to obtain the Homestead, he became a naturalized citizen in Durango on March 9, 1892. By 1900, they had moved to Telluride, where Fred continued his occupation as a blacksmith. In July 1900, he bought the Telluride Shoeing and Carriage Shop from Cyrus Eggleston (San Miguel Examiner [Telluride], July 14, 1900:3). With a partner named Cummings, they expanded the business to include painting, paper hanging, and sign work (San Miguel Examiner [Telluride], July 27, 1901:3). His father, Christian Aderhold, who had been born in Germany on April 7, 1818, immigrated to America in 1886, and had moved in with Fred and Anna in 1899 from Durango, died on February 16, 1906 (Daily Journal [Durango], February 17, 1906:3). Soon thereafter, they sold their property in Telluride and moved to New York in September 1906; they returned to Telluride in early 1907, not having liked New York (Daily Journal [Durango], September 22, 1906:2; San Miguel Examiner [Telluride], January 19, 1907:9). Aderhold continued his occupation as blacksmith in Telluride into 1920. In April 1920, they moved to Montrose, but still maintained a home at Ophir Loop (Montrose Daily Press, April 9, 1920:3, April 12, 1920:5; May 4, 1921:3). While living in Montrose, he immediately came under surveillance and, two years later was arrested at his house for bootlegging on April 13, 1923 with co-conspirator Tom Meador. Aderhold was unrepentant, said that he had been raised on whiskey and couldn’t get along without it, and had planned to take it to Telluride. He was fined $300 and sentenced to 90 days in jail. To satisfy his craving, Anna brought him a cup of coffee that was half whiskey when visiting him in jail. She was apprehended and fines $103.75. A few days later, Fred was released from jail on the advice of his doctors (Daily Journal [Durango], April 16, 1923:3, April 18, 1923:4; April 20, 1923:4). They then seem to have returned to Telluride where they were enumerated in 1930. Both he and Anna died there in 1935.