GIBSON, George, b 1864: 1905 Bio, Mesa County, Colorado

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Donated October 3, 2001

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net>  from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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George Gibson

	In the veins of George Gibson, of Mesa county, who constructed and now owns and

operates a saw-mill near Plateau City, the blood of the southern cavalier of

this country mingles with that of the sturdy Scotch Highlander, his father,

James R. Gibson, being a native of North Carolina, and his mother, whose maiden

name was Mary Mearns, of Scotland.  The father left his native heath when he was

young and became a pioneer in Illinois; and his mother came to this country with

her parents in early life and found a new home in the same great state.  There

they became acquainted and were married, and there their son George, who was the

fourth of their eight children, was born in 1864.  In 1882 the family moved to

Kansas, where both parents died in 1898.  George was eighteen years old when he

became a resident of Kansas, and although before that event for about two years

he had been shifting for himself, he accompanied his parents thither, and during

the first two years thereafter was engaged in farming in that state.  He had

received a common-school education in his native place, and was well prepared

for the industry with which he has been largely connected since reaching his

maturity by practical training on his father's farm and others in Illinois.  In

the spring of 1890 he settled in the Plateau valley, in this state, and in that

section he has since continuously resided, prominently connected with its

development and deeply interested in a practical and leading way in its enduring

welfare.  In this part of the state he first located near the village of Vega,

and there for some years carried on a flourishing business as a rancher and

stock-grower.  Later he moved to that vicinity of Plateau City and built a

saw-mill which he has since been operating greatly to the advantage of the

community and his own profit, through it furnishing a much-needed commodity for

multitudinous uses in the surrounding country, and reaping the rewards of his

enterprise in a large and expanding patronage.  While neither ostentatious nor

self-asserting, he bears an important part in the public life of his section,

and is highly esteemed as a citizen of lofty tone, breadth of view and

progressive ideas.



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