Huerfano-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Sporleder, Fred C. 1884 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 January 5, 2009, 12:35 am Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918) FRED C. SPORLEDER. There has been nothing spectacular in the life record of Fred C. Sporleder, but his course has been that of a substantial citizen and his fellow townsmen, recognizing his ability and worth, have called him to the office of county treasurer of Huerfano county, in which capacity he is now serving. He was born on the 29th of February, 1884, in Walsenburg, where he yet makes his home, a son of Louis B. and Louisa (Unfug) Sporleder. The family came to this state in 1871. settlement being made at Walsenburg, where the father engaged in commercial pursuits and also in ranching. He was likewise prominent in political circles in the early '90s and was a candidate for office. He has had not a little to do with shaping public thought and action in the community and is yet a valued resident of this section of the state, as is his wife. Fred C. Sporleder is the eldest in a family of five children, three sons and two daughters. He acquired a public school education, completed by graduation from the high school with the class of 1900, and later he entered the State University of Colorado at Boulder, in which he studied for a year. He then returned home but after two years went to California, where he resided for a year. He left the coast to become connected with his father in the grain business at Walsenburg and as the years have passed he has figured prominently and actively in connection with business affairs in his native city. He has also been general manager of the Midwest Mercantile Company, a wholesale grocery house, which was organized on the 1st of January, 1915. He likewise organized the Walsenburg Mercantile Company in 1906 but withdrew from active connection therewith in 1912. His business interests are now largely concentrated upon the former organization, but much of his time and attention at the present are given to the discharge of the duties of the office of county treasurer, to which he was elected in 1916 for a two years' term. At the present time, in the summer of 1918, he is a candidate for reelection. On the 1st of June, 1910. Mr. Sporleder was married to Miss Carolyn Jones, of Pueblo, and they have two children, Lydia A. and Freda C. Mrs. Sporleder is a representative of an early pioneer family of Colorado. Her grandfather, who was a lawyer by profession. settled in this state in the early '60s, living here before the town was started. He is a descendant of Daniel Boone. Fraternally Mr. Sporleder is connected with the Woodmen of the World. He is fond of fishing and.various phases of outdoor life, to which he turns for rest and recreation, but he never allows anything to interfere with the faithful performance of his duties as a business man and as a public official. In fact, the community recognizes him as one of its most public-spirited and progressive citizens and his labors in behalf of the general welfare have been far-reaching and beneficial. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/huerfano/bios/sporlede237nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb