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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

Richard H. Andrews

   Since 1882 Richard H. Andrews, one of Gunnison county’s most prosperous and

progressive ranch and stock men, has been a resident of Colorado, and during all

but two years of the time of the county which now has the benefit of his

productive industry and elevated citizenship.  He is an older brother of George

W. Andrews, of the same county and neighborhood, a sketch of whom appears

elsewhere in this work in which the family record will be found.  Mr. Andrews

was born in Canada on December 26, 1860, and when he was but little over eight

years old moved with his parents to Buena Vista county, Iowa, where he was

reared on a farm and received a common-school education.  He remained with his

parents during his minority, then in January, 1882, came to Colorado, and during

the first two years of his residence in this state worked with a pack train at

the mines near Durango.  He then became a range rider in the southern part of

the state, and in this employment became thoroughly familiar with the stock

business in every detail from its foundation through all the gradations of its

interesting and multiform extension.  In 1885 he moved into Gunnison county, and

after two years of faithful and efficient work on ranches for other men, bought

for himself the one on which he now lives, a tract of raw land without

improvements of any kind and lying in its state of primeval nature as it had for

uncounted ages, a portion of it being secured on a desert claim.  He set to work

diligently to make it habitable and productive, and now has it practically all

under irrigation, supplied with commodious and comfortable buildings and the

other structures necessary for his business, and yielding annually four hundred

tons of good hay.  On this ranch he carries on an extensive and profitable

cattle industry, owning five hundred to six hundred first-rate cattle which he

keeps in good condition with every consideration for their comfort and the

maintenance of the high standard his output has in the markets.  It may be

truthfully said that his prosperity is the result of his own industry and

thrift, coupled with his business capacity and knowledge of the work in which he

is engaged.  He has paddled his own canoe from his early manhood, and has

steadily advanced it through troubled waters and over dangers until it is fairly

afloat on the smooth, pleasant surface of a large and well sustained success. 

Politically he is independent, and fraternally is connected with the order of

Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World at Gunnison.  As a citizen he is well

esteemed and one of the men to be depended on whenever any good undertaking is

on foot for the improvement of his county or the comfort and advantage of its

people.  On February 14, 1889, he was married to Miss Anna Perkins, a native of

Franklin county, Kansas, the daughter of Eli Perkins, a prosperous farmer of

that state.  They have two children, their son Ray R. and their daughter Mabel.

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

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