Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Stanley, Harvey W. 1867 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Many a man of vigor and enterprise, who is willing to face fate in almost

any field without craven fear of consequences, after being tossed by

circumstances or led by inclination into numerous localities and various

occupations for years, even if commanding them to his advantage, turns at least

with some degree of eagerness to the vocation of the old patriarchs and finds in

it the peace of mind and health of body others have failed to give, and also

sources of fortune’s pleasing smiles.  In this number must be placed Harvey W.

Stanley, of Gunnison county, Colorado, one of the prosperous and contented

ranchmen and stockgrowers of the Western slope, dwelling on his own estate about

nine miles north of Gunnison.  He has tried his hand at several lines of work in

different places, and while a number yielded good returns, he has found in what

now engages him employment best suited to his taste and opportunities for

permanent success and prosperity.  He was born at Whitehall, Michigan, in 1867,

the son of John and Avira L. (Young) Stanley, now esteemed residents of Gunnison

county.  The father was a native of Indiana, and after a short residence in

Michigan, went in 1874 to western Kansas, where he bought a small tract of land

on which he founded the town of Hill City.  He was somewhat in advance of the

tide of emigration and the country was wild and unproductive.  The conveniences

and even many of the ordinary comforts of life were unattainable, and the

necessaries were often scant in volume and unpalatable in condition.  He and his

little band of associates suffered many hardships, and in the spring of 1880 Mr.

Stanley left his venture to its fate and moved to Denver, this state.  Here he

engaged in raising sheep two years, then migrated to Canada where he remained

seventeen years.  At the end of that period he returned to Colorado and settled

permanently in Gunnison county, where he died June 15, 1904.  His wife, who is a

native of Canada, is still living and pleasantly situated after her many

wanderings.  They were the parents of seven children, five of whom are living,

Harvey being the sixth in the order of birth.  His boyhood was passed in

Michigan, Kansas and Colorado, and owing to the circumstances of the family and

their migratory life, his opportunities for attending school were very few and

broken.  At the age of seventeen he apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a

machinist. At the end of his three years’ apprenticeship he located in the

neighborhood of Colorado Springs and turned his attention to raising stock and

ranching, which he followed two years.  After spending six months thereafter in

Gunnison county he took up his residence at Telluride and for three years was in

the employ of an electric company.  Returning to Gunnison county, he engaged in

lumbering four years, then bought the ranch he now owns and on which he has

since made his home.  It comprises two hundred acres, affording an excellent

basis for his stock industry and the farming incidental thereto, being well

fitted for the purpose in location, improvements, state of cultivation and

equipment.  Mr. Stanley was married in 1893 to Miss Elizabeth Stevens, and three

children have come to brighten their household and sanctify their domestic

altar, William A., Grace E. and Thomas E.  

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

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