Dolores County CO Archives Biographies.....Hunter, Pendleton August 12, 1846 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     From the mountains of West Virginia to the mountains of Colorado is a long


leap in climatic and social conditions, although both localities involve much of


personal daring and self-reliance, and require of those subjected to them stern


endurance and a readiness for emergencies that are likely to be met with at any


time.  It is one of the characteristics of American manhood that individuals and


classes are adaptable to all conditions and superior to every environment.  This


leap has been taken by Pendleton Hunter, of Rico, Dolores county, and this


adaptability has been shown in a marked degree by him.  Wholly unacquainted with


western life, except in a general way, when he came here, he yet met its


requirements and overcame its exactions in a masterful way, and in the course of


his life in this section of the county has shown that he would have done well


under any circumstances and won his way to success and consequence over any


difficulties.  He was born in West Virginia on August 12, 1846, and is the son


of Moses H. and Catherine (Hammond) Hunter.  His father was a native of Virginia


and his mother of Ohio, she being the daughter of Charles Hammond, the founder


of the Cincinnati Gazette.  While he was yet very young his parents moved to


Michigan, where he reached man’s estate and was educated.  After leaving school


he served as paymaster’s clerk in the United States navy and was in the service


during the Civil war.  In 1868 he received a commission in the Eighth United


States Cavalry, and as such served until February, 1871, when he was discharged.


 He was with General Crook in Oregon in the campaign against the Indians in


1867-8, and in that campaign was wounded while in pursuit of the savages, and


was honorably mentioned for bravery.   He was also in Indian wars in Nevada.  In


1871 he came to Colorado and first located at Kit Carson, in what is now


Cheyenne county.  Soon afterward he moved to Las Animas, in the present county


of Bent.  Here he engaged in surveying government land and hunting buffalo.  In


1878 he moved to the San Juan country and occupied himself in mining, milling


and surveying.  He was one of the first arrivals at the Rico camp, and in all


the stirring scenes of its earlier history he bore an important and prominent


part.  In 1901 he was elected surveyor for Dolores county, and since then he has


been discharging his official duties with capacity and skill, and with a


conscientious devotion to the general welfare of the county and due


consideration for the rights of individual citizens.  Among the officials of the


county he has a high rank for fidelity and fairness, and as a citizen and man of


progressive and public spirit he is universally esteemed.  His work in his


office has been of great benefit to all concerned, and by its correctness and


excellence many causes of controversy have been removed and the public good has


been greatly promoted and advanced.

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

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