Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....McConnell, Albert H. December 25, 1862 - ?
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Progressive Men of Western Colorado



     Amid the many gainful occupations of Colorado, which include almost the

whole range of productive human activities, none is more entitled to the

considerate and careful attention of its people and its governing powers than

the ranch and stock industries which form so large  part of its material wealth

and employ comfortably and contentedly so many of its citizens.  The men who

conduct these industries and keep them vigorous and prosperous are for the

greater part men of brain and brawn, independent in thought and action, forceful

and energetic as promoters of the public weal and with an interest in the soil

that makes them devotedly patriotic to the state.  One of this class who is

worthy of honorable mention in any compilation of the doings of the progressive

men of the state is Albert H. McConnell, of Gunnison county, whose ranch of one

thousand acres and herd of six hundred cattle, one mile and a half east of

Doyleville, are valuable additions to the agricultural and stock interests of

the county, while the manner in which they are managed is an example of thrift

and business capacity well worthy of emulation.  Mr. McConnell was born at

Marysville, California, on December 25, 1862, and is the son of David and Mary

E. (McMath) McConell, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of

Michigan (see sketch of them on another page).  When the son was ten years old

the family moved to Marquette, Michigan, and three years later to Missouri.  In

the fall of 1877 he came to Colorado and took up his residence in Hinsdale

county, where his father had preceded him.  In 1879 the family moved from

Missouri to Gunnison county and located in the Tomichi valley near Doyleville. 

Here they were pioneers, finding more Indians in the valley then than there are

white people now.  In 1884 Mr. McConnell took up land near Parlin, which he

improved and lived on until 1892, then sold it, and bought his present ranch

which comprises one thousand acres and is all under irrigation and in an

advanced stage of development.  It yields six hundred tons of good hay a year

and comfortably supports his large herd of six hundred cattle, besides grain and

other crops, there being considerable of this land set apart for pasture.  He

for a number of years had an average of eight hundred cattle, but has found it

judicious to diminish the number recently, for a time at least.  He carries on a

brisk and flourishing business of his own, and gives to the local affairs of

public interest around him the same careful and energetic attention he bestows

on his business, being one of the progressive, public-spirited and enterprising

men of the county, with an abiding care for its welfare and a breadth of view

highly commendable in applying his efforts.  In political faith he is a stanch

and serviceable Republican.  On October 25, 1901, he was united in marriage with

Miss Marie (Johnson) Bracewell, who was born in Virginia and is the daughter of

John and Virginia (Elliott) Johnson, also natives of the Old Dominion, where the

father died in 1884.  After that event the mother moved to Wayne county, Iowa,

where she still lives.  Mr. and Mrs. McConnell have one child, their son Harry

Alexander.  

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

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