Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Sullivan, J.F. July 17, 1847 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The subject of this sketch was born in Wayne county, Iowa, July 17, 1847. 

His parents were Harvy [sic] P. and Eliza (King) Sullivan.  They were born in

Kentucky and died at Centerville, Iowa, October 2, 1853.  At the age of seven

years he was removed to Kentucky by his mother’s parents and lived on a farm

there until he was thirteen years old.  He had but very little schooling up to

that time and had resolved to secure a better education.  He went to

Williamsburg, the county seat of Whitley county, Kentucky, and clerked in a

grocery store morning and evenings and Saturdays to pay his way to school.  He

attended school most of the time after he was thirteen years old up to July 1,

1864, when he left Kentucky and went back to Iowa, where he continued going to

school for the greater part of two years, until he had a fair common-school

education.  Then he rented a farm and on the 7th day of February, 1867, he

married Miss Eliza R. Duncan, and to her is due an equal share of praise, for

her industry and frugality has been one of the main levers to his success.  He

lived in Iowa as a renter for about five years, then bought a farm in Mercer

county, Missouri, where he lived until March 1, 1881.  Then he came to Colorado

for his health, having been bothered with lung trouble for two years, so that he

was able to work on the farm but very little.  As soon as he landed in Colorado

he went to roughing it, prospecting and camping out up to the latter part of

December, 1881, when he landed on Kannah creek, then a sage brush wilderness,

and took up his claim, on which he still lives.  At this time he had regained

his health, so he wrote his wife to sell the Missouri farm and come to Colorado,

for he had found all that he had started out to find—health and good climate. 

She sold the farm and came to this place and they have lived here since.  They

have reared six children, Mary L. (Sullivan) Morrison, William A., John W.,

J.F., Jr., Eliza R. and Susan Ada.  

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

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