Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Donlavy, Frank  ? - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Frank Donlavy, one of the prosperous and enterprising farmers of Montrose

county, living on his highly improved and well tilled ranch one mile north of

Olathe, is a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, and is the son of John and Anna

(Long) Donlavy, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Ireland.  His

father was a well-to-do farmer in Ohio, remaining there until 1868, when he

moved his family to Kansas, and there he passed the remainder of his life, dying

in 1895, at the age of sixty-two.  His wife also died in that state, passing

away in 1876, aged forty-nine.  Their son Frank was reared to habits of industry

on the farm, and began his education in the district schools of Ohio and

completing it in those of Kansas, removing to that state with his parents when

he was twelve years old.  He remained at home until he was fourteen and then

came to this state, settling at Denver where he was employed as a cowboy until

1875.  In that year he went back to Kansas and was married to Miss Lizzie Witt.

 After his marriage he returned to Colorado and worked in logging camps until

1881, when he settled at Olathe and was there employed in a sawmill until a few

years later, at which time he formed a partnership with Preston Hotchkiss for

the purpose of carrying on a cattle business.  They continued this enterprise

until 1885, the partnership being then dissolved and Mr. Donlavy going to

farming on the place which he now occupies and owns, and which comprises one

hundred and ninety-seven acres of excellent land.  His household has been

blessed with four children, three boys and one girl.  They are John H., Jesse

E., Morton A. and Anna G., all living and at home.  Mr. Donlavy’s farm is in an

excellent condition of development and cultivation and is well improved with

good buildings, much the result of his own energy and skillful industry; and his

career illustrates forcibly the possibilities of American manhood and the

opportunities open to thrift, capacity and enterprise in this western world.  He

came to Colorado without a dollar in money and with little else besides the

clothes he wore, and is now well fixed as to worldly comforts; and what he has

acquired by his own efforts without the aid of adventitious circumstances or the

favors of fortune.  He is also well established in the confidence and good will

of his fellow citizens, being a man of public spirit and deeply and serviceably

interested in the welfare of the community.  He has been connected with many

undertakings for the general good, and is now one of the eleven directors of the

water association of Montrose county.  

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

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