Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Spiers, Jacob Z.  July 16, 1868 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Jacob Z. Spiers, of Montrose county, living two miles from Olathe on a fine

fruit and hay ranch which he redeemed from the wilderness and has made fruitful

with the products of cultivated life, and in a good modern dwelling which he has

recently erected, was born in Harrison county, Missouri, on July 16, 1868.  His

father, Samuel Spiers, was a native of Kentucky, born in 1822, and his mother,

whose maiden name was Sarah C. Bell, was born in Tennessee in 1842.  They moved

with their parents in childhood to Missouri, and there they were reared and

married.  There also they passed the rest of their lives prosperously engaged in

farming.  The father died on March 21, 1884, and the mother on April 1, 1903. 

Their son Jacob grew to the age of twenty on the Missouri farm and was educated

in the neighborhood district schools.  In May, 1888, he came to Colorado and

located in Montrose county in company with C.C. Christie, who is now his

brother-in-law.  For a time after his arrival in this state he worked out for

wages, then in partnership with the Christie boys he bought the C.E. Church

ranch on which he lived one year.  In 1892 he purchased the ranch on which he

now lives, comprising one hundred and twenty acres of which he has since sold

forty acres.  After making this sale he built a new house on another part of the

ranch, and in that the family have since had their home.  A portion of his

eighty acres is in hay and the rest in general farm products except one acre and

a half which he has recently planted in fruit, the orchard on the place when he

bought it having gone with the forty acres he sold.  He also has a herd of good

cattle on the range in the hills in summer but sheltered in winter.  On October

15, 1891, he united in marriage with Miss Lizzie Christie, a native of Missouri,

born on May 13, 1870, the daughter of Henry B. and Martha E. (Burton) Christie,

and a sister of Charles C. Christie, a sketch of whom will be found on another

page of this work.  Mr. and Mrs. Spiers have four children, Ethel, Earl, J.

Everett and Mary F.  They have lived in this neighborhood ever since their

marriage, and from the time when they purchased their present home they have

devoted their time and efforts to its improvement and development, working to

good advantage and steadily gaining ground in the accumulation of worldly wealth

and the good will and respect of those around them.  Mr. Spiers is a faithful

Democrat in political affiliation, and he and his wife are loyal members of the

Baptist church.  

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

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