The following excerpt is from the July 5, 2012 edition of the Denver Post.
The man who has helped safeguard many of Colorado’s most historical documents for nearly a half century has retired from state government.
State Archivist Terry Ketelsen, who had worked for the state for 45 years, retired last week at the age of 67.
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Ketelsen’s job included maintaining documents as rare and valuable as the state 1876 constitution to tomes of records from courthouses. The state archives were created in the 1940s when then-Gov. Ralph Carr and his staff found documents collecting dust in the basement of the state Capitol and decided they needed to be preserved as a historical record.
Ketelsen’s work has brought him in contact with rare and interesting documents ranging from a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a territorial governor and a letter from President Franklin Roosevelt after the start of World War II declaring tire rationing.
