Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Perreault, A.N. 1846 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     A. N. Perrault, the proprietor of the leading hotel at Tincup, has learned

the peculiarities of his fellow man through a long experience in catering to his

wants.  During the greater part of his mature life he has been a hotel keeper,

and in this capacity has been brought into intimate relations with all kinds and

conditions of men.  Probably no occupation in active life enables a man to see

more of the true being and individual characteristics of his fellows than that

of a boniface whose patronage is large and comprehensive.  He has to deal almost

wholly with their physical comfort, and when this is at stake all the true

inwardness of a man is revealed.  It must be said to his credit that Mr.

Perreault has used his opportunities for observation to good purpose, and is

therefore able to understand and properly provide for his guests, and this is

one reason for his popularity as a host.  He is a Canadian by nativity and was

born at Montreal in 1846.  His parents, Joseph and Charlotte (Dannels) Perrault,

were also Canadians, passing the whole of their lives in the Dominion, the

mother dying in 1862, aged seventy, and the father in 1867, aged eight-four. 

Their family numbered eleven children, of whom the subject of this review was

the last.  At an early age he was sent to New York city, and there he grew to

manhood and was educated. At the age of twenty-three he began keeping a hotel in

that city and remained there so occupied until 1875.  At that time he became a

traveling salesman and during the next five years was employed in that

interesting but trying capacity. In 1879 he came to Colorado, and after spending

six months in Denver, located at Tincup where he has since resided.  For some

years he was engaged in prospecting and mining, then again entered the hotel

business, to which he has since adhered, at the same time holding on to his

interests in the valuable mining properties which had become a part of his

possessions, among which the most important are the Wolverine, the Deacon, the

Bulldog-Mingo, the Black Warrior and the Duchess.  The part Mr. Perrault has

borne in the development of the country in which his activities have been

employed is well appreciated by his fellow citizens, and the part he has borne

in ministering to their comfort as a caterer is held also in high regard.  He

has been active in all channels of material improvement, and the community owes

him much in this behalf; and he has as well given serviceable aid to all means

for the increase and improvement of the educational and moral forces of the

district, for which he is equally if not more entitled to respect and admiration.  

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

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