YEATON, Arlie B., b 1862: 1905 Bio, Mesa County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/mesa/bios/yeatonab.txt --------------------------------------- Donated September 13, 2001 Transcribed by Judy Crook from the book: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill. --------------------------------------- Arlie B. Yeaton Born and reared in Franklin county, Maine, farming and raising stock and also merchandising for years in Nebraska, and now raising fruit extensively and profitably in Colorado, Arlie B. Yeaton, of Mesa county, living three and one-half miles east of Grand Junction, has had a wide and varied experience in the longitudes, climates and farming conditions in this country, but his natural adaptability and readiness of resourcefulness has made him equal to them all and successful in all. His life began on August 14, 1862, in Franklin county, Maine, and he is the son of Elias and Sarah (Stoddard) Yeaton, natives of the same county, where the father was a farmer. In 1883 the family moved to Burt county, Nebraska, but nine years afterward the parents returned to Maine where the mother died within a short time after their arrival at their old home, and there the father is still living. Their family comprises six sons and one daughter and all the sons are living. Arlie was the second born of the family. He was reared in his native state and there received a common-school education. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years old, then accompanied his parents to Nebraska, where a year later he rented land and carried on a general farming industry in Burt county, continuing his expectations in this line eleven years except one, during which he was in the stock business and one which he passed in a store at Omaha. In the spring of 1894 he came to this state and located in Mesa county, having purchased twenty acres of raw land the year previous in that county with a view to converting it into a fruit farm. In the spring of 1895 he built a dwelling on this land and planted the whole twenty acres in fruit trees. He then had the usual experience of waiting for the trees to bear without income except from hard work in other capacities. For seven years he worked at various places and kinds of employment in the valley, but when the orchard began to bear his labor and his long patience was amply rewarded. In 1902 he had one thousand nine hundred boxes of apples, besides other fruit from his trees and realized over one thousand one hundred dollars of net profit from the yield. In 1903 his crop was three thousand one hundred and fifty boxes of apples, two thousand eight hundred and forty boxes of which graded fancy, four tons of prunes and three hundred boxes of pears, and his net profits for the year were two thousand three hundred dollars from the crop. The prospects for a large increase in these figures for coming years are very good. On December 5, 1888, Mr. Yeaton was married to Miss Hattie R. Wright, a native of Lewis county, New York, and daughter of John W. and Mariette (Loomis) Wright, both natives of New York, the former of Lewis county and the latter of Jefferson county. The father was a farmer and a railroad man, and for four years during the last administration of President Grant he was doorkeeper of the United States house of representatives at Washington. In 1881 he and his family moved to Burt county, Nebraska, where he died on his farm on November 6, 1895. Since then Mrs. Wright has been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Yeaton. Mr. and Mrs. Yeaton have two children, Gladys W. and Grace C., twelve and ten years old, respectively. Mr. Yeaton is a Republican in politics, and a member of the United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen in fraternal circles. He and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church at Grand Junction. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.