Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Bosse, Christian 1835 - ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Crook jlcrook@rof.net November 10, 2005, 3:07 pm Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Montrose county Christian Bosse, p. 654 Christian Bosse, one of the prominent and successful ranchmen of Montrose county, with a beautifully located ranch on the California mesa, six miles south of Delta, is a native of Elsas, one of the provinces of Germany which was wrenched from France by the unhappy fortunes of war, and was born there in 1835, the son of Henry and Mary (Madalena) Bosse. His father was a German by nativity, but was a Frenchman in feeling, and served for years on the staff of the great Napoleon, and often regaled the ears of his offspring with thrilling incidents of the wars conducted by that mighty commander. The mother was a thorough Frenchwoman, true to the interests of her country, and filled with admiration of its greatness. She died in 1864, at the age of sixty years. Their son Christian remained at home in his native land until he was ten years old, and in 1846 came to the Untied States to live with an uncle in new York, with whom he remained two years, then went to Philadelphia and learned the carpenter’s trade. That city was his home until the beginning of the Civil war when he enlisted in the Union army as a member of Company B, Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, for a term of nine months. At the end of this term he re-enlisted, becoming a member of Company D, One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, in which he served to the end of the war, being discharged at Washington, D.C., on July 6, 1865. His regiment was in active field service during most of the contest and he saw much of the hardships and suffering of war, and faced death on many a sanguinary field, but escaped without serious disaster. After the war he lived in Ohio for nearly three years engaged in farming, and from there went to Iowa where he worked at his trade for about a year and a half, leaving in 1869 for Colorado. Here he was engaged at carpenter work and farming for about twelve years in various localities. In 1882 he came to Montrose county and settled on the California mesa, where he has since followed ranching with industry and vigor and with gratifying results, and given intelligent and valued aid in developing and building up the section. In politics he is a Republican, but he is not a hide-bound partisan, usually voting in local affairs for the man he considers best fitted for the office. He was married in 1870 to Miss Margaret Jess, and they have two children, William L. and Mary. He and his wife are highly esteemed by a large circle of cordial friends and their home is much sought as a place of pleasant entertainment. Additional Comments: From Progressive Men of Western Colorado. Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb