Ouray County CO Archives Biographies.....Gould, Alec February 23, 1852 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     With a fine valley farm of one hundred and fifty-four acres and a
flourishing stock business, located in a good section of the country, a mile and
a half south of the town of Ridgeway, Ouray county, Alec Gould has won out of
the difficult conditions of the far western life a good estate and a substantial
comfort which expands with the flight of time through his own efforts and
becomes more firmly established as the application of his systematic industry
and fruitful labors continue.  He is a pioneer of 1881 in this state, but a
native of Canada, where he was born on February 23, 1852.  His parents were John
and Margaret Gould, also native in the dominion, where he was reared and
received a district school education.  In 1870 he came to Nevada, and six years
later moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he remained a short time, then went to
the Black Hills and engaged in mining.  In 1881 he came to Colorado and,
settling at Ouray, again went to mining, and a short time afterward bought the
place on which he now lives and turned his attention to farming and raising
stock.  To this business he has since devoted himself with regular and close
application, studying its development with care and thoughtfulness, and applying
the results of his study and observation with judgment and discrimination.  His
ranch is one of the best and most promising in his neighborhood and his business
is growing with gratification, steadiness and healthy progress.  Mr. Gould is
not married, but he is none the less deeply and intelligently interested in the
welfare of his community and none the less active in promoting it by substantial
aid to every good enterprise.  He is a man of breadth of view and experience,
having seen much of the country and his native land, and has been taught by
association with men in various pursuits and under a wide range of circumstances
that the real prosperity of a country depends upon the prosperity and
intelligence of the great body of its people, and not on the showy acquisitions
of any particular class.  He is well esteemed throughout his district as a
useful citizen, an industrious and far-seeing man, and a force for good in the
section of the country where he lives.  

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

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