Delta County CO Archives Biographies.....Farmer, Samuel H. 1863 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Samuel H. Farmer, owner and manager of the properties formerly belonging to

the Delta Orchard Company, located two miles and a half south of Delta, where he

has one hundred and eighty-five acres of good land and extensive and thrifty

orchards, all in a state of abundant productiveness, is a native of Marysville,

Tennessee, where he was born in 1863, and is the son of Joseph and Angeline

(Henry) Farmer, who were like himself natives of that state.  The father was a

farmer until the breaking out of the Civil war, and during his residence in the

county was elected sheriff.  When the war began he enlisted in the Union army

and was stationed at Unity in western Tennessee, where he remained during the

term of his enlistment.  When returning home after his discharge he was drowned

in the Mississippi river in 1866, at the age of thirty-four years.  Soon after

his widow moved with her family to Kansas, where she died in 1879, at the age of

thirty-five, and was buried in Cherokee county, that state.  Their son Samuel

passed his school days at Melrose, Kansas, and at the age of seventeen started

in life for himself, going to the Indian Territory and there working at day

labor.  In 1881 he received an inheritance, a part of which he invested in a

livery business at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, which he conducted until August,

1883, then sold out a month later and entered college at Glasgow, Missouri,

where he remained two years, and being taken ill then was obliged to return to

his Arkansas home at Siloam Springs.  After remaining there a year he came to

Pueblo, Colorado, in June, 1887, for his health and remained there until the

following September, when he hired to the Knight-Basic Cattle Company, with

which he remained until November 1st.  After that he worked for A.L. Bonney for

a year herding cattle.  The next two years were passed by him in improving

property on the California mesa in Delta county.  In the fall of 1890 he began

ranching for himself and in the next three seasons raised over eighteen thousand

bushels of grain on the California mesa.  In the fall of 1893 he moved to

southwest Missouri where he remained eighteen months engaged in the grocery

business, returning to Delta, this state, in the spring of 1895.  During the

next six years he was employed in contract work in ditching and planting

orchards, and followed that until February, 1891, at which time he bought out

the Delta Orchard Company, securing a tract of one hundred and eighty-five acres

of land which was well improved and had fine and productive orchards already on

it, but which he has since made much more attractive and valuable with the

improvements he has added, and far more fruitful by the attention he has given

the orchards and the additions he has made to them.  He is recognized as one of

the leading fruit-growers of this section of the state, and raises also large

quantities of grain and general farm produce.  On January 1, 1893, he was united

in marriage with Miss Susie M. Dunlap, at their present home, and six children

have blessed their union, J. Floyd, Elison Lester, Chester H., Helen A., Joseph

S. and Harold P.

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

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