Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Stolze, August F. 1873 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     August F. Stolze, of Mesa county, this state, whose excellent ranch on the

Mormon mesa in Plateau valley, in its present condition of advanced improvement

and high cultivation, is the product of his industry and judiciously applied

skill in husbandry, is a native of Germany, where he was born in 1873.  He is

the son of Henry and Dorothy (Wickman) Stolze, also natives of Germany, who came

to the United States in 1881 and settled in Illinois, where they lived until

1889, when they came to where their son August now lives.  Here the father died

on May 24, 1900, and here the mother now lives, making her home with her son. 

He lived with his parents at their Dundee (Illinois) home until he was

seventeen, and was educated at the public schools of the neighborhood.  At that

age he went to Chicago and during the next five years worked at the butchering

business, learning both the mechanical and the commercial parts of it

thoroughly.  He then returned to Dundee and, after remaining there a few years,

came to Colorado and took up his residence in Mesa county on the ranch which is

now his home, and since then he has devoted himself to farming and raising

stock.  His farm is one of the attractive and valuable rural homes of the

neighborhood, and he has given to its development and improvement all his energy

and the knowledge acquired in a varied experience and attentive study and

observation, bringing it from a state of wildness to its condition of fertility

and fruitfulness.  He was married in 1889 to Miss Anna Heiden, a native of

Germany.  They have had three children, of whom their son Martin and their

daughter Nettie are living, and Alma died in childhood.  While unostentatious

and unassuming in his daily life, Mr. Stolze has manifested a healthy and

intelligent interest in the welfare of the county, and has aided in its

development by every proper means at his command.  He is ardently devoted to the

interests of his adopted land and overlooks no element of merit in his county,

state and country, and is at the same time earnest against all dangers that

threaten their enduring prosperity.  

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

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