FOGG, George, b 1833 1905 Bio, Delta County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/delta/bios/foggg.txt --------------------------------------- Donated September 11, 2001 Transcribed by Judy Crook from the book: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill. --------------------------------------- George Fogg George Fogg, of Delta county, lived continuously on his ranch of three hundred and twenty acres two miles and a half northwest of Eckert during the last twenty-two years, and until recently was never out of the county beyond some little distance into the adjoining one of Montrose. He has devoted his time and energies wholly and sedulously to the development, cultivation and improvement of his property and the management and expansion of his business. Mr. Fogg brought to his understanding here the characteristic ingenuity, thrift and resourcefulness as well as the steady industry of the New Englanders, he having been born at Bridgewater, Connecticut, on July 4, 1833. His parents were Joseph and Susanna Quiner (Hilbert) Fogg, the father a native of Berwick, Maine, and the mother of Marblehead, Massachusetts. The father was a manufacturer of shoes at Bridgewater, Connecticut, and conducted a factory there in which he employed an average of sixty persons. After his death, March 5, 1858, his widow sold the business and moved to New York city, and died near there at Port Chester in 1852. They had five children, all of whom are living, George being, however, the only one residing in Colorado. When he was sixteen, three years before the death of his mother, having completed his education according to his opportunities, he left home and apprenticed himself to a carpenter at Waterbury, in his native state, to learn his trade. He remained in that city and worked at his craft until 1868, then moved to Johnson county, Missouri, where he bought three hundred and eighty acres of land which he farmed until 1880. In the spring of that year he came to Colorado, and taking up his residence at Silver Cliff, found plenty to do in his chosen line of employment. Being a millwright as well as a general carpenter, he was soon called upon to build a two-hundred-thousand-dollar stamp mill at Ruby, Gunnison county. On completing this he moved to what is now Delta county, the territory being then a part of Gunnison county, but erected into a separate county in the following year, 1883. Here he pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land and bought as much more. His thrifty and prolific orchards cover thirty acres, and the other body of one hundred and fifty acres which he has under cultivation is given up mainly to the production of alfalfa. From the orchards he has realized a net income of one thousand dollars a year, and the hay from the rest has brought three thousand dollars a year for a number of years. The extent and value of each of these products has steadily increased, the first general fruit crop yielding about six hundred dollars. From 1884 to 1903 he was also in the dairy business at a profit of about one hundred dollars a month, and during that period he had in addition three hundred stands of bees, from whose product he received a revenue of one thousand three hundred dollars in one year. He has recently sold his bees and cattle and one hundred and twenty acres of his land and located at Delta, where he bought a comfortable home. Having labored faithfully for many years, without evasion of duty or effort at recreation, he has determined to take life more easily in future, and among the first pleasures he promised himself was a visit to his old home in Connecticut during the year 1904. Mr. Fogg was married on December 31, 1856, to Miss Helen J. Allen, native in the same state as himself, the daughter of Noble and Sallie (Lambert) Allen, whose lives were passed in useful labor as farmers in their native state, Connecticut. They had eight children, three of whom are living. The father died in 1869 and the mother in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Fogg have five children, Montford A., George F., Noble A., Howard C., deceased, and Hilbert L. All are living in Colorado but one. Mr. Fogg is a Republican in politics. =================================================== 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.