Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Lando, G.H. 1836 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     A man who has had extensive experience in various lines of activity, and

whom emergencies have frequently thrown on his own resources without previous

notice or warning, if he have spirit and self-reliance, can be depended on to

turn every situation to his advantage in at least enduring with commendable

fortitude adverse circumstances and overcoming them to the extent of securing

his own temporary welfare and future good.  This is forcibly illustrated in the

career of G.H. Lando, a prominent and prosperous rancher and stock man of

Gunnison county, with three hundred twenty acres of superior land located four

miles and a half from the town of Gunnison, on which he carries on a thriving

farming and stock industry which is one of the leading enterprises of its kind

in this part of the state.  He began life’s duties for himself at the age of

sixteen as a prospector and trader in the wilds of Michigan along Lake Superior,

and since then has been a soldier in the Civil war, a miner, an earnest worker

in industrial and commercial lines, and a successful and progressive leader in

the business in which he is now engaged.  Mr. Lando first saw the light of this

world in 1836 at the little village of Essex, New York, which is beautifully

located on Lake Champlain in the midst of a historic region in which have been

fought some of “the big wars that make ambition virtue,” it being about half way

between old Fort Ticonderoga and the city of Plattsburg.  His parents were

Francis and Elizabeth (Morris) Lando, the former a native of France who came to

that portion of New York when a young man and there lived the remainder of his

days, prosperously working at his trade as a shoemaker.  The mother was born and

reared in Canada and when she reached years of maturity moved to New York where

she was married and where she also lived out her earthly existence, dying in

1877, at the age of seventy-six, and leaving ten children as her best legacy to

mankind.  The father passed away in 1856.  The subject was the fourth of their

children, and remained at home until he reached the age of sixteen, attending

school as he had opportunity and aiding his father in his work as he could. 

When he determined to look out for himself he came west to the shores of Lake

Superior, and in the then almost unsettled wilds of northern Michigan busied

himself in trading with Indians and the scattered whites, and in exploring the

country in search for mineral pine lands.  He remained there so occupied for

nearly ten years.  In 1862, in response to one of the stirring calls of the

President for volunteers to defend the Union, he enlisted in Company B,

Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry, and thereafter was with that regiment through

the thick of the war, serving three years and being mustered out at Louisville,

Kentucky.  He remained in that state, located at Lexington, until the spring of

1871, when he moved to Kansas City and until 1880 he was in business in that

then young but aspiring western metropolis.  In 1880 he came to Colorado, and

the next three years were passed by him at Gunnison in various occupations.  He

then bought a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres which, with a homestead of

equal extent taken up at the same time, constitutes his present fine country

estate and the seat of his extensive and flourishing stock business and general

farming industry.  He was married in 1871 to Miss Fannie E. Porter, a native of

Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  

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

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