Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Moore, Otis July 19, 1876 - ?
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Progressive Men of Western Colorado



     Otis Moore, of Gunnison county, whose ranch of four hundred and eighty

acres, lying five miles north of Gunnison, is one of the best and most highly

improved in the county, is a native of Colorado and has passed almost the whole

of his life so far in the county of his present home.  He was educated in its

public schools, began his life work on its wide domain in the business in which

he is now engaged, and has devoted all his energies to the development of its

interests.  He was born at River Bend, ninety-eight miles east of Denver, on

July 19, 1876, and is the son of William B. and Jennie (Davis) Moore, the former

born in West Virginia and the latter in Missouri.  The father was a pioneer in

Colorado, conducting a post for trading with the Indians at River bend at an

early day.  He now lives in Gunnison county, where the family settled when the

son was about four years old.  He was reared on his father’s ranch to the age of

fifteen and attended the public school at Gunnison.  When he reached the age of

fifteen he began to earn an independent living by working on ranches by the

month, which he continued to do for eight years.  In 1897 he bought one hundred

and sixty acres of land about two miles north of where he now lives, which he

sold in 1901 and bought his present place of four hundred and eighty acres on

Ohio creek.  This is a very productive tract of land and is devoted almost

wholly to hay, of which he cuts an average of five hundred tons a year, but he

also raises some grain.  Ever since his childhood he has been connected more or

less with raising cattle and other stock, and since he left home at the age of

fifteen has been actively employed in that industry.  Very early in his

independent career he began to get cattle together for himself, and knowing the

business thoroughly in all its bearings, he has made a success in his efforts to

gather large herds of superior breeds about him, now owning four hundred to

seven hundred head, the size of his ranch, the number of his cattle and the

magnitude of his operations making him one of the extensive stock men of this

part of the state.  He is earnestly interested in the progress and improvement

of his county, and although not ostentatious in his public-spirit, he is always

active and helpful in the exercise of it.  Politically he is a Republican, but

not often an active party worker.  On February 9, 1897, he was married to Miss

Alice McMillan, a native of Mitchell county, Kansas, a daughter of Horace and

Caroline (Baxter) McMillan, who were born and married near Sigourney, Iowa, and

became early settlers in Cloud county, Kansas.  The father is living on a farm

near Concordia, that state, and the mother died there some years ago. Mr. and

Mrs. Moore have three children, Arthur H., Gail H. and Dora V.  It is a matter

of historic interest that the home ranch of the Moores was originally taken up

by Louis Arns, one of the very early pioneers in this section.  There is a cabin

still standing on it which was built by him in the ‘seventies, most of the work

being done by Indians who were then numerous in the neighborhood.  In addition

to this ranch on Ohio creek Mr. Moore owns six hundred and forty acres of

pasture land. 

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

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