TEACHOUT, Henry W., b 1804; 1905 Bio, Delta County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/delta/bios/teachouthw.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. --------------------------------------- Henry W. Teachout From the peaceful pursuit of agriculture in Vermont and western New York to a wild mining camp in Nevada involves a fair flight in distance and conditions but it is one that many men have taken to their own advantage and for the benefit of the country. Among the number was Josiah Teachout, the father of the subject of this brief review, who was born in Vermont in 1804 and died at Austin, Nevada, in 1864. His wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Huskins, was also born in Vermont, her life beginning there on September 20, 1812. She survived her husband thirty years, dying in Colorado on December 16, 1894. The father was a tanner and early in his married life moved to Lyons in Wayne county, New York , where he worked at his trade and did some farming. In 1858 the family moved to Alexandria, Missouri, and in 1863 to Austin, Nevada, where the father ended his life. Their son Henry, who now lives at Eckert, Delta county, this state, ten miles from the county seat, where he has a fine little fruit ranch and is prosperously engaged in managing it to the best advantage, started in life for himself in 1860, when he was nineteen years old, having been born at Lyons, New York, on April 25, 1841. He was living in Missouri when he began business working at his trade as a shoemaker and carrying on a store in the same line. In 1863 he sold his business and started overland for California, but concluded to stop at Austin, Nevada, where he remained until June, 1867, then returned overland to Missouri in company with his three brothers. On the way west they had a train of sixty-seven wagons, but on the return trip only three wagons and twelve men. On the way to Nevada the party met Brigham Young, who talked to them about his religious belief and also the nature of the country through which they were passing. On their return they had three hundred horses. Some of these were stolen by Indians, who, however, gave the train no farther trouble. When they arrived at Boulder, this state, they determined to remain there awhile, and passed the winter of 1867-68 there, going the next spring to Monument on the divide, where they engaged in ranching. Here Mr. Teachout and his brothers divided their live stock and he took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which he devoted his energies to raising grain and potatoes, and also engaged in a dairy business, making that place his home until 1879, when he moved to Gunnison. Here he pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land and conducted a stock and hay ranch until the spring of 1885. In that year he moved to Delta county, buying a place on which he lived until 1901, then sold it and purchased the ranch of eleven acres on which he now lives, eight and one-half acres of which are in thrifty fruit trees which bring him in a comfortable income. Mr. Teachout was married on November 22, 1860, to Miss Mary Edwards, a native of Illinois, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Reid) Edwards, the former born at Wheeling, West Virginia, and the latter in Ohio. The father was a soldier in the Civil war, belonging to Company I of the Twenty-first Missouri Infantry. He became ill in the service and passed a few weeks in a hospital. At the end of his term he returned to his family in Missouri and died at Memphis, that state, on April 19, 1872. He was through life a farmer. The mother died on February 28, 1860, also at Memphis, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Teachout have seven children, Minnie B., Annetta A., Frank, Leafy, Daisy, Mamie and Lucy, all living in Colorado and all married but two. Fraternally the father is a Freemason and politically he is a Republican. =================================================== 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.