Alamosa-Archuleta County CO Archives Biographies.....Mollette, A.R. March 31, 1868 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Among the progressive lawyers of this state none is more universally

esteemed than A. R. Mollette, of Alamosa, the county attorney of Archuleta

county, who was born on March 31, 1868, in Wisconsin, the son of Jacob S. and

Annie (Grandaw) Mollette, who lived for a time in Missouri but made their home

finally in Denver, Colorado, coming to this state in 1879.  Their marriage

occurred on May 1, 1867, in Wisconsin.  The father was a native of Pennsylvania,

and by trade a wagonmaker and millwright.  In his younger manhood he was a

Democrat, but the Civil war made him a Republican.  For that memorable contest

he enlisted in Company F, Thirty-second Wisconsin Infantry, and served to the

close of the war.  He was the father of six children, five of whom are living,

A.R., George, Edward, Mrs. E.C. Schutt and Emily, the last named living in

Nebraska, the others in this state. 

     A. R. Mollette is a self-educated man, earning by hard labor in the mines

the money wherewith to pay his expenses at school and through the law department

of the Denver University, from which he was graduated with honors and the degree

of Bachelor of Laws.  For a time after his admission to the bar he practiced in

Denver, and later was associated in practice with Ben Wade Ritter, of Durango,

the foremost lawyer in southwestern Colorado, then moved to Pagosa Springs,

Archuleta county, where he resided until June 1, 1904, when he removed to

Alamosa.  He has a large general practice and has been connected with some of

the most important mining cases in the state, among them the late suit of Sadie

C. Smith against the Commodore Mining Company, of Creede, involving seventy-five

thousand dollars damages, and in which he was counsel with Wolcott, Vaile &

Waterman, of Denver.  He is local attorney for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad

and also for the Pagosa Lumber Company in Archuleta county.  For two years he

was connected with the office of George D. Johnstone, district attorney for the

ninth judicial district, at Aspen, and made a good reputation in all his

official transactions.  He has one of the largest law libraries and best

appointed offices in the San Luis valley, and in all his forensic efforts shows

that he has it for use and uses it.  In 1902 he was appointed county attorney

for Archuleta county, and to this office he has been twice appointed since, the

last time after his removal from that county, which speaks well for his

administration of that office.  He was also city attorney of Pagosa Springs for

two years. Fraternally he is a Mason of the Knights Templar degree and a

Shriner, and politically an ardent Republican.  On May 13, 1891, in Denver, he

was married to Miss Rose M. Graham, a native of Illinois reared in Kansas.  They

have two children, their daughter Netta M. and their son Wallace G.  

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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