HENRY, Edward, b 1843; 1905 Bio, Mesa County, Colorado

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Donated August 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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Edward Henry

	Almost every clime and tongue on the face of the globe has contributed to the

growth and development of this country, all in fact except the benighted savages

of several parts of the world which are still under the dominion of absolute

barbarism.  Edward Henry, a prosperous and enterprising stock-grower and farmer

of Mesa county, living seven miles northwest of Grand Junction, is a

contribution from Persia, where he was born in 1843.  He is the son of Frederick

and Eliza Henry, of that country, who were occupied there in tilling the soil. 

In 1851 they emigrated to the United States and settled at Sheboygan, Wisconsin,

where the father was engaged in farming until his death, in 1891, at the age of

seventy-four.  The mother died three years before him, passing away in 1888, at

the age of seventy-two.  Their offspring numbered eight, of whom Edward was the

third.  He was eight years old when he accompanied his parents to this country

and became a resident of Wisconsin.  He remained in that state until he was

thirteen, beginning to earn his own living when he was eleven by working in the

copper mines and continuing this occupation for two years.  At the beginning of

the Civil war he enlisted in the Union army as a member of Company I,

Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and in that command he served five years and

three months.  After the close of the war he was employed as a sailor on the

great lakes for five years.  In 1874 he went to Alaska in search of gold and was

successful in his effort, remaining in that country three years and finding a

goodly store of the precious metal.  From Alaska he went to California and for

three years in that state was occupied in raising sheep.  He then came to this

state and settled on a ranch nine miles east of Grand Junction.  On this

property he lived and prospered for a period of twenty years.  At the end of

that time he moved to where he now lives and has since made his home.  In 1883

he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza E. Bussall, and they have four

children, Dollie M., Laura E., Fred and Eddie.  Mr. Henry is a Republican in

politics and is earnestly devoted to the interests of his adopted land.



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