Delta County CO Archives Biographies.....Ellington, L.C. August 18, 1848 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Fortunate in a large measure in the character of her soil and the

conditions of life upon it after it became somewhat settled and developed, and

rich in nature’s bounty in every way, Colorado is scarcely less highly favored

in the character of her early settlers, the men of brain and brawn who accepted

nature’s tender in good faith and went to work to build up the empire here which

was waiting for their enterprise and foresight to call it into being and deck it

with all the concomitants of cultivated life.  Among the men who came into the

state early and turned their attention to the development of its resources, was

L.C. Ellington, who is now one of the leading and representative citizens of

Delta county, where he has an excellent ranch of eighty acres, four miles and a

half northwest of Hotchkiss, on which he has a flourishing orchard of forty-five

acres of superior fruit and ten acres of alfalfa from which he gets fine crops

of first-class hay, averaging about six tons to the acre and worth five dollars

a ton.  He is also engaged extensively in dairying and the cattle industry,

producing large quantities of butter for market and raising numbers of the best

cattle.  Mr. Ellington was born in Platte county, Missouri, on August 19, 1848,

the son of Alpheus and Tabitha (Oldham) Ellington, who were born in Kentucky and

came to live in Colorado in 1865.  Mr. Ellington, their son, began his business

career in 1871 as a cattle man in El Paso county, this state, on the frontier,

where he remained until 1880, then moved to White Pine, Gunnison county, where

for eight years he carried on a livery business and did some mining.  In 1888 he

moved to Colorado Springs, and during the next two years was engaged in the

transfer business there.  Then losing his health, he sold his outfit and bought

the ranch on which he has since had his home.  This comprises eighty acres, with

forty-five in fruit, all in good bearing condition and very profitable, yielding

an annual revenue of about $300 an acre.  He also has ten acres, bountiful in

alfalfa, from which he gets nearly enough hay for his cattle, and in addition

conducts, as has been stated, a flourishing dairy business.  On September 13,

1876, he was married to Miss Eva Terrell, a native of Iowa, a daughter of Amos

H. and Mary T. (Hutchins) Terrell, who were also born in Iowa.  The father was a

cattle man, and died in 1903 at Colorado Springs, this state, where the mother

is now living.  Mr. Ellington was one of eleven children born to his parents,

and his wife was one of three born to hers.  They have had three of their own,

two of whom are living, Rollin T. and Alva E.  Their father is a Democrat in

politics and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church.  In 1891 he built the

first irrigating reservoir ever put up in this part of the country.  This was

the Miller reservoir and he afterward built the Crater reservoir, being the

pioneer in constructions of the kind here.  He has since sold his interest in

one of these for the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars.  Always

enterprising and public-spirited, he has borne his full share of labor and care

in helping to develop the country, and stands well in the regard of the people

in consequence.  

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

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