1901 Bio - Eidson, Samuel, Larimer County, Colorado Transcribed by Marta Norton February 6, 2000 The Berthoud Bulletin Newspaper Saturday, September 7, 1901 (The following is a small portion of a big news article about Berthoud. I am only transcribing the bio part). In the following columns we are pleased to give the pictures and personal sketches of a number of the people who assisted in making this beautiful and prosperous county what it is: Samuel Eidson The subject of this sketch was born in Adams County, Illinois, March 26, 1850. There he was raised and educated. In September of 1871 he moved to Colorado, settled and farmed several years in the St. Vrain country above Longmont. He homesteaded three miles northeast of Berthoud in February 1878, where he has lived ever since. It was settling in a desert at that time, for about could be seen only the bare prairie. But the Handy Ditch had already been surveyed and Mr. Eidson took out stock in the company. The following summer the ditch was constructed. About four years later the Home Supply Ditch was built and he transferred his stock to that company. He also helped to build the ditch and Mary Ann Lake. Mr. Eidson has done his part in transferring this section of the country from raw prairie land to its present delightful appearance, and today Lakeview Fruit Farm, as it is known, is among the beautiful places of the country, paying its owner a handsome income each year. It harbors a happy, contented family. In October 1881, Mr. Eidson married Miss Carrie Ackerman, near Longmont. Mrs. Eidson was born and raised in Dodge County, Wisconsin - born October 21, 1857. She came with her parents to Colorado with the Chicago-Colorado Colony and settled at Longmont, helping to found the town. Her youngest sister was the first child born at the place and she was named Etta Longmont Ackerman. Afterwards the town donated a residence lot to the young lady. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Eidson are Otto J., aged twenty year; Elmo W., aged nineteen years; Carl M. aged sixteen; Lester S., aged twelve; Jean R., aged ten; Gladys C., aged six; Teddy D., aged three; Josephina R., aged nine months. In 1887 one child, Irwin, was drowned in the Home Supply Ditch near the home. Another child was in 1893 only to live eleven days. Mr. Eidson's farm comprises 100 acres just across the line in Weld County. He has always devoted some attention to fruit, but lately he has made it a specialty and about fifteen acres are now set to a variety. He has 600 apple trees bearing; last spring he put out 500 more. Then there are prunes, plums, cherries, peaches, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries, wheat, alfalfa and beets are his regular crops, and this year all are good. Mr. Eidson has had an even tenor of life. His home and family are all in all to him. But he is not slow to enlist in any public enterprise and he takes in interest in all thing calculated to benefit the community or country in general. He has been in the state about thirty years. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.