Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Woll, William W. 1858 - ?Progressive Men of Western Colorado
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     In the veins of William W. Woll, of Tincup, Gunnison county, one of the men

of business capacity and progressive enterprise on whom the commercial welfare

of that portion of the country largely depends, the blood of the sturdy German

and the vivacious Frenchman commingles in harmony and produce a combination of

qualities which off-set and balance one another in an agreeable poise, and form

a character of rare excellence for almost any form of productive energy or

serviceable manly force.  And in his career he has utilized them to great

advantage.  Mr. Woll was born in the state of Indiana in 1858, and is the son of

Lewis and Mary (Barrett) Woll.  His father was a native of Germany and his

mother of France.  They came to the United States in 1848 and settled in

Indiana, where the mother died in 1860, when their son was but two years old,

and the father in 1876 at the age of fifty-two, the son being then eighteen. At

the death of the mother she was about thirty.  They were the parents of three

children, William being the second.  He was reared by his father and given such

educational advantages as the time and circumstances allowed, and after the

death of his father began the work of providing for himself as a furniture

dealer and undertaker in his native place. After following this business four

years he came to Colorado in 1880, and making his headquarters at Gunnison,

prospected and mined in that section until 1887.  He then again entered the

mercantile life by opening a general store at Tincup which he is still

conducting with great enterprise and success, it being one of the best known and

most popular establishments of its kind in the whole section of the state in

which it is located.  He also still holds valuable interests in a number of

mining properties rich in their yield, among them the Imperial Group, the Forest

Hill, the Italian Mountains, The West Gold Hill and the Cross Mountain.  Secure

from adverse winds of fortune by a liberal share of worldly wealth, and firmly

fixed in the regard of his fellow men by his uprightness and usefulness of his

life to the community in which it is passing, Mr. Woll has many elements of

happiness in his lot, and is blessed with a cheerful and sunny disposition that

adds greatly to their value to him and to others.  He was married in 1886 to

Miss Clara Weston, and their domestic hearthstone has been brightened and

cheered by three children, their son Wilford and their daughters Maud M. and

Abbie.  Among the people of the Tincup region no family is held in higher or

more general esteem and good will than this.  Mr. Woll has been one of the

builders and developers of the region and has the meed of his usefulness in the

admiration and appreciation of those who are the beneficiaries of his enterprise

and public-spirit. 

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

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