CONE, George H., b 1850; 1905 Bio, Delta County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/delta/bios/conegh.txt --------------------------------------- Donated September 7, 2001 Transcribed by Judy Crook from the book: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill. --------------------------------------- George H. Cone For nearly half his life George H. Cone has been a resident of Delta county, living all the while on the ranch which is now his home on Ash mesa, eight miles from Delta, and during all of this period he has been actively engaged in farming and improving his property, and also helping to build up and develop the neighborhood in which so long ago and in primitive times he cast his lot. The benefits of his labor are seen around him on his own place and in the general state of advanced cultivation and improvement of the whole section of the country in which he lives. He is a native of Genesee county, Michigan, where he was born on August 27, 1850. His parents, Norman and Sarah (Adkins) Cone, were born, reared and married in Connecticut. They moved to Michigan when young and there they lived on one farm for over fifty years. Their family comprised three sons and one daughter, of whom only two of the sons are living. One of these was a soldier in the Civil war and saw plenty of hard service in the field and on the march. George was reared on the Michigan homestead and in the district schools near his home he received a limited education. When he reached the age of twenty-one, in 1871, he left home and went out into car shops to learn the trade of car repairing. After working at this three years he bought and settled on a farm in Osceola county, in his native state, on which he lived until 1881. In the fall of 1882 he became a resident of Colorado, and the next fall settled on the place he now owns and occupies and which has been his home continuously since that time. It comprises one hundred and forty-nine acres, which he took up as a pre-emption claim, and he has greatly improved it and by judicious husbandry has brought the land to a high state of productiveness. Five acres of the tract are in fruit, his being the first orchard planted on the mesa, and the rest is in alfalfa and other general farm products. The land is very abundant and he is quite prosperous in his enterprise, every branch of it yielding good returns for the time and labor expended on it. He also stands well in the general estimation of his fellow citizens as a progressive and public-spirited man, a good neighbor, a faithful friend and a sterling, upright citizen. On February 7, 1886, he was married to Miss Parthenia Kerr, who was born in Arkansas on June 18, 1850. Her parents were Wade and Nancy (Reed) Kerr, natives of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Cone have one daughter, Ida, now sixteen years old. Mr. Cone belongs to the order of Odd Fellows, and in political belief he is a Socialist. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.