Garfield County CO Archives Biographies.....Barthel, Edward G. 1866 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

Edward G. Barthel 
     Edward G. Barthel, now a prosperous and enterprising farmer and stock man
of Garfield county, living in the neighborhood of the village of Parachute, has
had a varied and interesting experience, in the course of which he has dwelt in
a number of places and engaged in several different pursuits.  He is a native of
Ontario, Canada, where he was born in 1866, at the town of Stratford.  His
parents were Louis and Rachel (Kastner) Barthel, both natives of Ontario, where
the father acquired and wrought at his trade as a machinist.  In 1879 they moved
to Colorado and settled in Gunnison county, remaining there until 1887.  At that
time they changed their residence to Garfield county, and there the father died
in 1889, aged fifty-three years.  His widow survived him eleven years, dying in
1900, at the age of fifty-eight.  They were the parents of ten children, and
their son John, the second born, was obliged to begin making his own way in the
world at an early age.  At the age of twelve he became an office boy at Peoria,
Illinois, and three years later came to Colorado, and locating in Gunnison
county, passed several years in mining.  In 1890 he moved to the Parachute creek
country and followed farming in that fertile region.  Several years afterward he
went to Prescott, Arizona, and there clerked in the store of Aitkin & Robinson
four years.  At the end of that time he went into mercantile business for
himself in the gents’ furnishing and haberdashery line, and during the next
three years carried on a flourishing trade throughout a large scope of country.
 Tiring of mercantile life, he returned to Parachute and again engaged in
farming and raising stock, at which he has since been occupied with successful
results.  In 1887 he was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Wilson, a native of
Chicago, Illinois.  They have one child, their daughter Bessie.  In the various
places of his residence Mr. Barthel has won warm commendation for his advanced
ideas, force of character and strong and upright citizenship.  He stands high in
his present community and has hosts of friends.

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

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