Montezuma County CO Archives Biographies.....Brown, Robert September 16, 1854 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Robert Brown, senior member of the firm of Brown, Berquin & Company,

prominent business men of Dolores and Dunton, and active in the general public

life of Montezuma county, is a native of Georgia, born in 1854, on September 16,

and a pioneer of Colorado of 1879.  He is the son of James W. and Catherine

(Baumgartner) Brown, the father a native of South Carolina and the mother of

Georgia.  He grew to manhood in his native state, remaining at home until he was

nineteen.  In 1873 he migrated to Texas and there became a range rider and later

served as deputy sheriff.  In 1879 he came to Colorado and located on the Las

Animas river, removing from there to Rico in 1880.  Here he engaged in mining

and continued his operations in this line for four years, then occupied himself

in mercantile business until 1897.  In that year he bought the place on which he

now lives, ten miles west of the village of Dolores.  This ranch comprises three

hundred and twenty acres and is in a well improved and highly cultivated

condition.  He also owns a leading interest in a first-class liquor

establishment at Dolores and in one at Dunton.  All his business operations are

conducted on a high plane and with a good citizen’s interest in the welfare of

the community in which he lives.  Mr. Brown is one of the leading men of the

county, active in all good works for the improvement of his section and zealous

in stimulating others to the same energy and public-spirit.  He was married at

Rico on December 19, 1891, to Miss Katie Lincoln, a native of Colorado Springs,

this state.  They have two children, their sons Robert Boyce and Miller. 

Although a native of the South, and reared amid the traditions and customs of

its older civilization, Mr. Brown is fully in touch with the spirit of the West

and in close sympathy with the aspirations and impulses of its people.  This he

has shown by his active interest in every commendable undertaking for the

advantage of his locality and every element of progress and greatness in his

section of the country.  With laudable breadth of view he sees in the West great

possibilities of good for the whole country, and is doing his part to make them

operative and effective.

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



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