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Stoddard, George 1862 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     George Stoddard, of near Mesa, Mesa county, Colorado, who is successfully

engaged in ranching and raising cattle, is a native of California, born at San

Bernardino in 1862.  His parents were Rufus and Martha (Weaver) Stoddard, the

father a native of Canada and the mother of Missouri.  In 1849 the father made a

trip to California and finding the country agreeable and the conditions of life

favorable, he decided to remain, and engaged in the cattle industry there for

many years.  He is now a retired ranchman living in Utah.  His wife, whom he met

and married in California, is a native of Missouri, and is still living, having

her home with him in Utah.  Their son George was but a child when they moved

from California to Utah, and he passed the greater part of his boyhood and youth

in the latter state.  At the age of fourteen he began to help to earn his own

living by herding horses near Salt Lake City.  After spending about a year in

this employment, he was connected with the cattle industry about four, then

followed mining until 1882, when he came to Colorado and settled on the land on

which he now resides, and where he has a comfortable home, a well-cultivated

farm and a growing stock business.  He was married in 1887 to Miss Susie

Buzzard, and they have two children, Ethel, aged thirteen years, and Hazel, aged

six.  Mr. Stoddard has been frugal and industrious through life, and has

realized the reward of his course.  Realizing early that his success must be

wholly the result of his own efforts, he lost no time and wasted no energy, but

made every hour and every faculty count to his advantage.  His example in this

respect has been a stimulus to others, and has opened to more than one

despondent or indifferent fellow worker a new door of hope and opportunity.  

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

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