CROXTON, John H., b 1830; 1905 Bio, Delta County, Colorado

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Donated September 3, 2001

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net> from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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John H. Croxton

	The great state of Ohio, a busy hive of industry and enterprise, having been

won from the wilderness and redeemed from the savage herself, by a race of

heroic pioneers, at once began the work of colonizing other portions of the West

and has contributed essentially and forcibly to the settlement and development

of almost every part of our common country that has been opened to civilization

since her own career of prosperity and power began.  One of her valued and

serviceable contributions to Colorado whose life has been a benefaction to the

state and an ornament to its citizenship, is John H. Croxton, of Delta, a

prominent and successful rancher and professional man.  He was born in Carroll

county, Ohio, in 1830, the son of William and Jane (McGee) Croxton, who were

like himself native in that state and passed their lives there engaged in

farming.  The mother died there in 1846 and the father in 1889, at the age of

eighty-nine, while on a visit to his children in Kansas.  They were the parents

of eight children, of whom their son John H. was the second born.  He was reared

on the paternal homestead and received his preparatory education at the

neighboring public schools.  After completing their course of instruction he

entered Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from

that institution in 1852.  He then adopted the law as his profession and read

one year at Carrollton, in his native county, and one year in the office of Hon.

John A. Bingham at Cadiz, Ohio.  He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and at once

began practicing at Carrollton.  He remained there but a short time, however,

then moved to Nebraska, locating at Nebraska City where he remained until the

Civil war began, when he returned to Ohio and was for a time busily occupied in

securing exemptions from the draft for his former friends and neighbors.  After

the close of the draft he settled again in Nebraska, and practiced law in that

state until 1882.  In that year he came to Colorado and located in Denver where

during the next seventeen years he was engaged in practicing his profession,

having a large and representative clientage and reaching prominence at the bar. 

His health then began to fail and he crossed to the western slope of the

mountains and took up his residence at Delta in the hope of securing desired

improvement.  Here he followed ranching with success and pleasure until he was

appointed police magistrate in 1902, and at the succeeding election he was

elected a justice of the peace, an office he filled with credit to himself and

advantage to the community.  In politics he is a firm and loyal Republican with

a strong devotion to the principles of his party, and always willing to assist

materially in securing their supremacy.  In fraternal life he belongs to the

Masonic order, having been made a Mason in Ohio when he was a young man.  While

neither vacillating nor lukewarm in his political faith, he has at times

supported the People's party in local elections.  But he is recognized as a man

of decided convictions, deeply interested in the welfare of his community, and

performing with fidelity all the duties of citizenship, holding a high place in

the esteem of his fellow men and dealing uprightly and squarely with them all.



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