Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Linton, Harry  1845 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Harry Linton, an enterprising farmer and stock-grower of Gunnison county,

with a fine ranch of two hundred and eighty acres located seven miles northeast

of the county seat, was born in Pennsylvania in 1845, and was reared to the age

of nine years amid the seething and intense activities of that great

commonwealth.  At that age he moved with his parents, George and Susan (Folk)

Linton, to Iowa, where he grew to manhood and received a common-school

education.  His parents were both natives of Pennsylvania, born just when the

eighteenth century, glorious in its achievements for the elevation of mankind,

was surrendering the scepter of power to its young and ambitious successor, and

they passed their lives in that state, until 1854, prosperously engaged in

lumber pursuits, then moved to Iowa where they ended their days, the father

dying in 1863, aged sixty-one, and the mother in 1895, aged ninety-two.  They

were of old colonial stock of Revolutionary fame, the father of English and the

mother of Welsh ancestry.  At the age of eighteen their son Harry began life for

himself, learning the carpenter trade and working at that and farming until

1883, when he emigrated to Colorado and settled at Mount Carbon, Gunnison

county.  There for five years he worked at his trade, finding great demand for

his mechanical skill amid the growing energies of the place, and prospering in

the use of it.  In 1890 he moved to Denver and started a real estate business,

which he carried on successfully for two years.  He then returned to Iowa and

settled at Des Moines, where he remained five or six years.  Then coming back to

Colorado, he settled on the beautiful and fertile ranch of two hundred and

eighty acres which he now occupies on Gunnison river.  This has since been his

home, and here he has conducted an up-to-date and progressive ranching and stock

industry of good proportions and elevated character.  Mr. Linton was married in

1889 to Miss Louisa Pennington, a native of Pennsylvania and at the time of her

marriage a resident of Gunnison, where the marriage was solemnized.  They have

three children, George C., Helen H. and Edith Elnoria, who died on April 16,

1905.  Mr. Linton is a Republican in politics, and is active in the service of

his party at all times.  He is also devotedly attached to the section in which

he lives and zealous in promoting its welfare and advancement by all means at

his command. 

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

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