Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Port, John A.  January 20, 1868 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Pleasantly located on a small fruit and a larger grain and hay ranch about

three-fourths of a mile west of Palisades, Mesa county, and there carrying on a

prosperous fruit and general ranching industry, John A. Port has not

miscalculated his chances for advancement in a worldly way in this part of

Colorado, but has accepted his opportunities with the determination to make the

most of them, which he has done.  He is a native of Linn county, Iowa, born on

January 20, 1868, and the son of John and Catherine M. (Armstrong) Port, the

father born in England and the mother in the state of New York.  Early in their

married life they moved to Linn county, Iowa, where the father died in 1880 and

the mother is now living.  Four of their seven children are living, of whom John

is the youngest.  He remained at home and worked on the farm until he was

twenty, then after working two years in different parts of his native state as a

carpenter, he came to Denver, Colorado, in 1890, where he spent five years in

the employ of the street car company.  In 1895 he moved to the vicinity of

Palisades and bought fifteen acres of new land, ten acres of which he prepared

with care and set out in fruit trees of different varieties, but principally in

peaches and apples.  Two years later he planted the rest of the tract in fruit

of the same kinds, but more peaches than anything else.  In 1902 he sold five

acres of this place, and in 1903 he realized three thousand two hundred dollars

from the fruit raised on the other ten.  He has also bought additional land to

the extent of one hundred acres, of which he has sold twenty acres for two

thousand two hundred dollars, it being raw and unimproved.  The eighty acres

which he still owns of this parcel are worth about twenty-eight thousand seven

hundred dollars.  On January 6, 1896, he was married at Denver, this state, to

Miss Theresa Callahan, who was born in England in 1871, and three children have

blessed their union, Melvin C., Dorothy W. and Katie M.  Mrs. Port’s parents are

Matthew and Winifred C. Callahan, the father born in Ireland and the mother in

England.  In politics Mr. Port supports the Republican party and in church

relations he and his wife are Methodists.  He belongs to the Woodmen of the

World and takes an active interest in the proceedings of his camp in the order.

 Throughout the section in which he lives he is well thought of and has a host

of friends. 

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

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