Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Scott, Theodore W.  June 2, 1861 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Theodore W. Scott, a younger brother of Thomas B. Scott, was born in Grant

county, Wisconsin, on June 2, 1861, and is the son of Frederick and Ann

(Wheeler) Scott, more extensive mention of whom will be found in the sketch of

their son Thomas B., elsewhere in this work.  He grew to the age of fifteen on

the Wisconsin homestead and then, in 1876, moved with the family to Harrison

county, Iowa.  He was educated in the public schools, and remained at home until

1890.  At that time he came to Colorado and entered one hundred and sixty acres

of land six miles south of Steamboat Springs, Routt county.  In addition to this

he bought one hundred and sixty acres, and on these two tracts started an

industry in the stock business which he conducted successfully and profitably

for four years.  He then sold his possessions in that section and moved to Grand

Valley, locating on the farm which is now his home, six miles northwest of Grand

Junction, arriving there in the autumn of 1894.  He bought forty acres of wild

land without improvements, to which he has added thirty of the same kind by a

subsequent purchase.  On this he has established himself and built up a

prosperous and expanding fruit business, improving his place with a good, modern

residence and other necessary buildings, and giving his attention to the

cultivation and enlargement of his orchards.  He has twenty acres in fruit,

which yield large crops of excellent quality, the returns for his labor in 1903

being more than four thousand five hundred boxes of apples and two hundred boxes

of pears.  By his industry and skill he has redeemed his land from the

wilderness and made it productive and smiling with fruits of peaceful husbandry

and made a desirable home of what was before a barren waste.  On July 11, 1899,

he married with Miss Luella Rogers, a native of Harrison county, Iowa, and

daughter of John W. and Sarah A. (Riley) Rogers, natives of Ohio, where they

grew to maturity, were educated and married.  In 1886 they moved to Iowa and

settled on a farm in Harrison county, making the trip overland from their Ohio

home.  John W. Rogers served three years in the Union army during the Civil war.

 He is now a highly respected citizen of Mesa county.  Mr. and Mrs. Scott have

three children, Rex R., Glenn G. and Fred F.  In politics Mr. Scott is

independent, and is always keenly alive to the best interests of the community

in which he lives.  

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

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