Montezuma County CO Archives Biographies.....Trimble, James October 25, 1855 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The prairies of the Mississippi valley, with their fecundity in

agricultural products, their wealth of wild game, their fruitful rivers, and

their onward stride in the march of civilization and progress, were once the

theme of song and story, and engaged the pen of the historian in recitals of

their wonderful opportunity and promise.  But they have long since given way to

the more thrilling stories of life in the farther West where all that they

offered for admiring contemplation is coupled with a  mineral wealth that

surpasses the wildest dreams of the Arabian Nights in prosaic realities, and

almost staggers the imagination in its untold and perhaps but dimly conceived

magnitude.  In the career of James Trimble, of Montezuma county, who is the

proprietor of an excellent ranch of two hundred and forty acres with an

extensive range for his cattle, about ten miles west of Dolores, the romance and

the reality of the two regions are harmoniously commingled. He was born and

reared in the one, he has thriven and flourished in the other, and he thus

illustrated in a forcible manner the breadth and flexibility of opportunity for

systematic industry in this country, and how the lessons learned in one section

can be profitably applied and usefully employed in another.  He was born in

Indiana on October 25, 1855, and is the son of John and Margaret (Raney)

Trimble, natives of Kentucky.  When he was about two years old the family moved

to Missouri, where he reached the estate of manhood and received his education.

 In 1881 he became a resident of Colorado, and since that time he has been

actively connected with the progress and development of this state.  His

principal industry has been rearing and preparing for the markets a fine grade

of well bred cattle, Herefords and Shorthorns being his favorite strains, and at

this time his enterprise in this line has grown to such magnitude that he

handles annually about one thousand head of these breeds, all of which he keeps

in prime condition.  The fruits of his industry and business capacity are large

and multiform.  He is easily the most extensive cattle owner in Montezuma

county, he stands high in the public regard, not only as a man of enterprise and

progressiveness, but also as a far-seeing and public-spirited citizen, and he

could count to his credit, if his modesty did not forbid, a widely ramifying

source of beneficence to individual industry and ambition, and a voluminous

contribution to the general industrial and commercial activities of the portion

of the country in which he lives and operates.  Of the fraternal societies so

numerous and so justly admired among men, he has favored with his membership but

two, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.  He was married in Clay county,

Missouri, in 1880, to Miss Alice King, a native of that state.  They have four

children, Lottie, John, James and Winnie, and their pleasant and comfortable

home in Dolores is the center of a charming social circle.   

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

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