Delta County CO Archives Biographies.....Doughty, Carl September 11, 1864 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

    Farm hand, mechanic, clerk and bookkeeper, and ranchman, Carl Doughty, of

Delta county, Colorado, has tried his powers in a variety of occupations in

different states and has won success of greater or less degree in all.  He was

born on September 11, 1864, in Pepin county, Wisconsin, the son of Henry and

Christiana (Cook) Doughty, the former a native of Long Island, New York, and the

latter of Ohio.  The father was a wagonmaker and worked at his trade from his

young manhood until 1894.  He found it a profitable occupation during the whole

of his residence in Wisconsin, where he and his wife settled soon after their

marriage.  The son remained at home until he was fifteen and received a good

public-school education.  In 1879 he started in life for himself, becoming a

hired hand on farms in the neighborhood of his home, and continuing at this

occupation until 1890.  He then went into a flour mill to learn the trade of

milling, the mill being located in South Dakota.  After passing five years in

the business and mastering every detail of the craft, in 1895 he came to

Colorado and took up a ranch in Delta county.  On this he spent a year in hard

work, improving the property and preparing the land for cultivation, then went

into the mountains as a time and bookkeeper for a large lumber and mercantile

company.  He remained with the company two years, and in 1898 returned to his

ranch on which he has since resided and employed his energies.  It comprises

eighty acres, the greater part being under cultivation.  Here he raises good

crops of hay, grain and vegetables for market and runs a large herd of cattle. 

His business is well conducted and vigorously pushed for the best results, and

Mr. Doughty finds it steadily growing in magnitude and increasing in profit.  On

February 9, 1895, he united in marriage with Miss Addie L. Gilbert, a native of

Olmstead county, Minnesota, the daughter of O.D. and Cornelia (Saxton) Gilbert,

who were born and reared in the state of New York and moved to Minnesota when

young, and came to Colorado later.  The mother died in this state on February 2,

1901, and the father is still living here.  Mr. and Mrs. Doughty have one child,

their son Gilbert H., now (March, 1904) nine months old.  Mr. Doughty is a

Republican in politics and a member of the Masonic order in fraternal life.  He

has given much time and effort to the development and improvement of the section

in which he lives, and is accounted one of the reliable and useful citizens of

his part of Delta county.

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

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