Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Keller, Alfred  1859 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Alfred Keller, who during the last eighteen years has been a resident of

Colorado and one of the esteemed citizens of Montrose county, living on a large

and well improved farm about four miles from the county seat, is a  native of

Sauk county, Wisconsin, where he was born in 1859, and is the son of Fredonia

and Rosena (Stuckey) Keller, of that state, where their lives were passed in the

peaceful pursuits of agriculture, the father dying in 1881, at the age of

seventy, and the mother at the same age in 1889.  Four sons and four daughters

comprised their family, Alfred being the youngest of the sons.  He was reared on

the homestead and educated in the district schools, remaining at home until he

was twenty years old, then going out to learn his trade as a miller.  After

completing his apprenticeship he worked at the trade three years in Grant

county, the same state, then came to Colorado in 1885 and locating in Montrose

county on a portion of the extensive body of land which he now owns, gave

himself up wholly to the leading industry of the section, ranching and raising

cattle.  He acquired the land by purchase and proceeded to improve it and bring

it to fertility.  This industry he has continued until he has raised it to a

high degree of productiveness and provided it with comfortable and commodious

buildings of every kind needed for the business he conducts on it.  The home

place contains two hundred and forty-five acres, and he has three hundred and

twenty more in other tracts, also well improved.  He raises cattle and horses of

good breeds and takes every care to keep them in first-class condition.  In the

fraternal life of the community he is affiliated with the Ancient Order of

United Mechanics, belonging to the lodge at Montrose.  And while he has never

married he has shown a good citizen’s helpful interest in the welfare of the

county and town, and been a substantial aid to all good projects for its

promotion.  He has a fine apple orchard of fifty acres on the home farm, and in

addition to his land in the country owns valuable town property at Montrose.  

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

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