Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Schupp, August 1848 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     August Schupp, a prosperous ranchman living twelve miles north of Gunnison,

Gunnison county, is a native of Germany, born in 1848, and has put in practice

in the land of his adoption the habits of thrift, frugality and persistent

industry which he acquired in that of his birth, and for which the people of his

race are everywhere distinguished.  They are the great and continuous toilers in

any field or mine, whether it be in the physical or the mental world, and they

leave their impression in beneficent results wherever they plant their feet. 

Mr. Schupp’s parents were Christian and _____ Schupp, who were also natives of

the fatherland, where the mother is still living and the father died in 1860,

aged sixty-two years.  He was a blacksmith, and during the whole of his mature

life wrought diligently at his trade, and was much esteemed as a skillful

mechanic and an estimable man.  Their son August was reared and educated in his

native land, and remained there until 1882, when seeing but little chance for

improvement in his prospects there, he determined to join the great army of

industrial progress that America was recruiting for the conquest of her vast

uncultivated regions and their transformation into civilized and serviceable

communities.  In that year he came to the United States, and passing by the

older settlements made his way at once to Colorado, settling at Crested Butte

where he was employed in the coal mines for seven years.  He then embraced an

opportunity to turn his attention to a more pleasing occupation, and taking up a

ranch of eighty acres at East river, settled down to the cultivation of the soil

and the rearing of cattle, in which he is still engaged.  His business is

flourishing and he stands well in the community as a good farmer and a useful

citizen.  

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

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