Progressive Men of Western Colorado

This distinguished lawyer, business man, legislator and publicist, who is now (1904) a resident of Glenwood Springs, and forty-six years of age, has passed just half his life in Colorado, and has had among her people a career which is an impressive lesson and an inspiration. He was born on a farm near Metamora in Woodford county, Illinois, on June 19, 1858, and there he acquired habits of useful industry along with independence of spirit and self-reliance. His father, Hon. Henry R. Taylor, a native of England, was brought by his parents in his infancy to Morgan county, Illinois, and […]

Edwin H. Strouse, a successful and prosperous ranchman and mechanic of Garfield county, with a pleasant and productive home one mile and a half due west of Newcastle, was born near Des Moines, Iowa, on January 28, 1859, and brought by his parents to this state when he was about one year old. He had but little education in the schools, being obliged from an early age to work on the farm in the interest of his parents, who had a large family to support and slender means to do it on. When he reached the age of twenty-one he

Martin H. Streit, of Parachute, Colorado, who has during the last nine years faithfully and capably discharged the duties of postmaster of this progressive and enterprising little town, is a native of Erie county, New York, and was born in 1845. He is the son of Michael and Magdalena (Ley) Streit, natives of Lorraine, one of the provinces wrested by fortunes of war, from France by Germany, who came to the United States about the year 1840 and settled in New York, where they remained until 1852, then moved to Indiana. There the father was a prosperous farmer and died

Although made an orphan at the age of seventeen by the death of his father, Mr. Staton did not experience the hardships often incident to that condition, for his father had been thrifty and was able to leave enough for the support and education of his children, and so they were properly prepared for the battle of life, and he received careful rearing at the hands of his mother. He was born in Wayne county, Illinois, on March 14, 1844, and is the son of Wesley and Elizabeth (Cisna) Staton, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of

Born and partially reared on an Illinois farm, educated in the public schools, migrating to this state a number of years ago and here engaging in a number of different pursuits, ranching, freighting, raising stock, and doing other useful and profitable things, Frank D. Squire, an esteemed citizen of Garfield county, living in the neighborhood of Rifle, has had much variety in his career and has seen human life under many different circumstances. His life began at Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois, on November 25, 1858, and he is the son of Reuben and Mary E. (Simpson) Squire, natives of the

Since 1864 Mr. Smith has been a resident of Colorado, working at its various industries, enjoying and promoting its progress and through effort and vicissitude, through triumph and defeat, through trial and privation, winning his way by a varied course to final success and prosperity. He is a native of Kentucky, born on November 13, 1840, and the son of Robert and Sophornia (Lewis) Smith, natives of that state who emigrated to Iowa in 1849. They remained in that state until 1867, at which time the father came to Colorado, where he joined the Second Colorado Battery against Price. He

The native persistency and productive energy of the German people, which never flags in its efforts, and never fails in accomplishing worthy results, which has made their land great at home and respected abroad, and has done so much for other lands where they have settled, especially in the United States, in whose development in times of peace and defense in times of war have been so materially aided by them, is well illustrated in the career of George Sievers, of Garfield county, this state, where he is universally recognized as one of the leading stock-growers and ranchmen of the

Born and reared to the age of seventeen in the Green Mountain belt of Vermont, and coming from there as a youth to the mountains of Colorado, Marcus L. Shippee, a successful and progressive ranchman and cattle-grower of Pitkin county, living in the neighborhood of Emma, has not greatly changed his surroundings, as far as natural appearances go, but finds himself in a very different state of the farming interest from that which he was used to in his native section of the country. Still, his general ability and adaptiveness, coupled with his self-reliance and intelligence in observation soon made

Robert L. Sherwood, of Carbondale, Garfield county, this state, is a product of the West, and he has tried many of its various lines of usefulness with varying success, sometimes on the crest of an advancing wave of prosperity and again in the trough of a sea of deep adversity. But by persistent effort and natural ability he has at length steered his barque to a safe harbor and is securely anchored to a substantial prosperity and an elevated place in the regard of his fellow men. He was born at Helena, Montana, on April 14, 1865, where his parents

Born and reared in Connecticut and endowed by nature with the native ingenuity, thrift and shrewdness of the New Englander, Benjamin Sherwood by his advent into this state brought a valuable addition to the resources and mechanical skill of her then small and scattered population, and his career here has not disappointed the promise of his early manhood or the hopes of his usefulness cherished by those who knew him in youth. He was born at Danbury, Connecticut, on January 16, 1847, the son of Albert and Eleanor (Turkington) Sherwood, natives of the same state as himself. The father was