Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Fitzpatrick, Peter  1836 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Born and reared on a farm in Ireland, and having there acquired a taste for

tilling the soil and a thorough knowledge of business, Peter Fitzpatrick, of

Montrose county, on his ranch just south of Cimarron, near the Gunnison county

line, has returned to the occupation of his young manhood and of his father’s,

after passing many years in mining and various other occupations of promise and

profit.  His life began in county Down, Ireland, in 1836, and he is the son of

Owen and Catherine Fitzpatrick, who were well-to-do farmers in that country and

whose families had been engaged in that line of activity for many generations. 

The father died in 1883, at the age of sixty-five, and the mother in 1891, aged

sixty, and their bones rest with those of their ancestors in their native soil.

 Seven children were born to them, of whom their son Peter was the third.  He

remained at home until he reached the age of twenty, and had the advantage of

such educational facilities as were available to one in his station and

locality.  In 1856 he came to the United States and went to mining in

Pennsylvania, remaining there so occupied eight years.  During the next sixteen

years he was in a number of different places and engaged in a variety of

vocations.  In 1880 he settled in Colorado, and after remaining a few months at

Alma, Park county, spent two years at Del Norte at different kinds of work.  In

1883 he moved to Cimarron, and pre-empting a part of the place which he now owns

and occupies, began farming and raising cattle in which he is still engaged,

improving his land and increasing his acreage by additional purchases as time

passed.  His ranch is a large and valuable one, well located and completely

equipped for the business in which he is engaged, and as a progressive and

enterprising farmer and also as an influential and broad-minded citizen, he

enjoys in a high degree the respect and good will of the whole surrounding

country.  In 1871 he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza McClan, a daughter

of Patrick and Sarah J. (Bannon) McClan, natives of Ireland, where she also was

born.  Her mother died in 1886 and her father in 1896.  Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick

have had seven children, Helma, Patrick, Kate, Peter (deceased), James, William

and Sarah.  Mr. Fitzpatrick is well established in his business and conducts it

with success and enterprise, and is also actively interested in the progress of

the community.  

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

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