Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Rausis, Herman 1871 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The Rausis brothers, Herman and Henry, ranchers and general farmers of

Gunnison county, with a fine farm of four hundred acres which they own in

partnership and conduct together, learned much of the business in which they are

engaged in their native land of Switzerland, whose stock industry is extensive

for the size of the county, and whose dairy products are known and enjoyed in

all parts of the world.  Herman was born in that country in 1871 and Henry in

1875.  They are the children of John and Pauline Rausis, who were also Swiss by

nativity, and who passed their lives in Switzerland industriously engaged in

farming, the mother dying at the age of thirty-five in 1881, and the father at

that of sixty-four in 1893.  They had four children, of whom Herman was the

first born.  At the age of seventeen, Herman, having secured a fair education in

the state schools and acquired a good knowledge of farming as it is carried on

in his home country, emigrated to the United States, willing to accept its

larger conditions and eager to embrace its larger opportunities.  He came at

once to Colorado in 1888, and located at Gunnison where he began to put into

practice in the service of others the practical knowledge of agriculture and

raising stock which he had gained at home.  He was, however, looking out for his

own chance for preferment, and being joined by his brother Henry in 1895, they

together bought their present valuable property and turned their attention fully

to its development and improvement, realizing that if, while working for others

with machinery and on land in which they had no interest, they could earn a

subsistence, scanty and precarious though it might be, should they work for

themselves with machinery and on land which they owned, they might hope for

better pay, more steady employment and larger prospect of improvement.  In their

stock industry their favorite production is a high grade of pure bred Durham

cattle for which they have an established reputation and in handling which they

have done much to raise the standard of cattle in their own and adjoining

counties.  They have also shown commendable enterprise with reference to the

public life of the community and its most judicious progress and development,

taking an earnest interest in all matters of general public advantage, and

giving to local governmental concerns a close and intelligent attention although

themselves not political partisans in any ardent way.  The brothers are not

married and are wanting in the higher enjoyments of domestic life, yet they are

not lonely and do not long for the blandishments of society.  They have plenty

to occupy their minds and engage their faculties in their work and the interests

they have in charge, and in the beauty and variety of the country around them

nature opens a theatre of boundless and satisfying entertainment, holding forth

a cup brimming with redundant pleasure from which the mind properly attuned may

fearlessly drink, and gain new vigor and a heightened zest with every draught

and find no dregs of bitterness at the bottom.  



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

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