Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Bogert, Hank August 3, 1868 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Hank Bogert, of near Mesa, is one of the strong-minded, self-reliant and 

hardy men who have been taught by the sharp lessons of adversity and the 

necessity for speedy action how to handle themselves in emergencies, to whom 

the great West is indebted for her opening to commercial and industrial 

importance, and all the blessings of cultivated life.  He was born on Long 

Island, New York, on August 3, 1868, and is the son of Charles L. and Amelia 

(Hamilton) Bogert, both natives of the same state as himself.  The father was 

an architect and well esteemed in his profession.  He served in the Seventh 

New York Volunteers during the Civil war, and after its close returned to his 

home and resumed his professional work to which he adhered until his death.  

His wife died soon after he did and their son Hank was left an orphan at an 

early age and obliged to look out for himself.  He had few advantages of 

schooling except in the hard school of experience, but was always ready for 

any employment he could get, and was never without work.  At the age of 

nineteen he came west to Utah, and in that state he rode the range and herded 

cattle for about fifteen years, then moved to the neighborhood of his present 

home.  He kept a general store at Mesa, in the Plateau valley, for four years, 

and at the end of that time moved to the ranch he now occupies and which he 

has since made his home.  Here he has continued his cattle industry, and in 

the management and expansion of it he has greatly prospered.  In 1893 he was 

married to Miss Adeline Mitchell, and their offspring number six, Bertha, 

Margaret, Virginia, Esta, William and Julia H.  Mr. Bogert has been actively 

connected with the development of this section ever since he came here to 

live, and his worldly wisdom and breadth of view have been of valuable service 

to the community, as has also the influence of his example of industry, 

enterprise and progressiveness.  No man in his neighborhood is more highly 

respected, and none deserves to be.

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

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