Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Christie, Charles C. December 12, 1859 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     This industrious, enterprising and progressive ranch and stock man of

Montrose has passed almost the whole of his life on the frontier and has aided

in the development and improvement of two or three portions of the country in an

efficient and serviceable way.  He was born in Daviess county in northwestern

Missouri on December 12, 1859, and there he was reared to the age of thirteen,

when he left home and went to work for himself as a farm hand in Harrison county

adjoining his native one on the north.  His parents were Henry B. and Martha E.

(Burton) Christie, the former born in Kentucky on June 2, 1839, and the latter

in the same state on August 21, 1843.  The father was brought to Missouri at the

age of ten, and after he grew to manhood he taught school in the winter and

farmed in the summer for a number of years.  He has retired from active pursuits

with a good estate and is now living in the town of Hampton, Missouri.  Twelve

children were born in the family, of whom nine are living, three of them in

Montrose county, this state.  Charles left home in 1872, when he was but

thirteen, and began making his own living working for wages on farms in Harrison

county, in his native state, where he remained until 1888.  Then, in company

with a party having five teams, he came overland to Colorado and located in the

vicinity of Olathe.  In 1890 he bought the place on which he still lives, which

he had previously rented for two years.  This is favorably located one-fourth of

a mile west of Olathe and comprises one hundred and sixty acres.  He has an acre

and a half in fruit and produces some of the best of this commodity raised in

the county, but his enterprise in this line is only for his own use.  His

principal crops are grain and hay, and these he produces in abundance and

first-class condition.  He also raises large quantities of potatoes, to which

the soil of his farm seems well adapted.  Mr. Christie has been a farmer all his

life and makes no pretention [sic] to extensive learning outside of his

business.  He knows that well, however, and he applies to its operations the

knowledge he has, conducting them with skill and wisdom, and securing the best

results in his efforts.  He carries on a general farming industry and also has a

herd of good cattle on the hills in summer which are properly sheltered and

cared for in winter.  When he moved into this locality the house in which he now

lives was the only frame building in the valley, the others being all rude log

cabins.  To the development and improvement of the section he has given ready

and efficient aid, and its present state of advancement is largely due to his

work and the stimulus of his example on others.  On February 22, 1872, he was

married to Miss Julia Spiers, a native of Missouri, daughter of Samuel and Sarah

(Bell) Spiers, of that state, and a sister of Jacob Z. Spiers, in whose sketch

on another page of this work the family history is recorded.  In the Christie

family three children have been born.  The oldest is nineteen years of age and

the youngest fifteen.  Mr. Christie and his wife are members of the Baptist

church.  He is an earnest Democrat in political allegiance, and has served his

party well in public office and his private station. He was general road

overseer two years and has been school director six.  He is also one of the

trustees of his church.

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

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