Jane Lloyd-Crawford reports,

Joseph Henry Forrester was born 3 April 1832
in Ridgebury, Connecticut to William Forrester and Susan Bailey. The reason and date for the move from the Ridgefield area to Elmira, New York is not yet discovered.
Nor has the date and place of the first marriage of Joseph “Henry” been located. The birth of their children is documented by family records, censuses and directories.
According to the 1871 Elmira City Directory Joseph Henry was employed as a “drayman” for the firm of Forrester and Cowell. The owner, George R. Forrester was, no doubt, his grandfather or an uncle…
By 1875 J. Henry (aged 40) was working as a salesman/traveling agent for the wholesale grocery…
In the census of 1880 we have the only official record of the marriage of Joseph Henry and Margaret Putnam and of the birth of Lena May. The household is listed as:

Henry Forister age 45 agent for groc. house
Ella wife age 28 keeps house
Mary daughter age 20 single
Edward son age 18 clerk-dry goods store
Lenna daughter 5 months old born in January

It seems clear that J. Henry moved his family to Denver as a medical solution for his weakened lungs.
He went to work as a real estate salesman… in the fall of 1890.
By 1891 J. Henry had become a dealer in wholesale teas and spices…
We have no record of the family until the marriage of their daughter, Lena May, to Howard Wayne Lloyd in late December 1899.
Joseph Henry communicated [read contracted] pneumonia during the severely cold January and died on 1 February 1900 with [the] complication of a tubercular lung.114