Ouray County CO Archives Biographies.....Hotchkiss, Charles R. 1857 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Charles R. Hotchkiss, one of the prominent and successful stock-growers and
farmers of southwestern Colorado, whose postoffice is Colona, Ouray county, near
the Montrose county line, is a native of Michigan, born in 1857, and came to
this state as a pioneer in 1878.  He is one of the two sons of Roswell and Jane
(Cobb) Hotchkiss, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this work.  While
he was yet quite young his parents moved to Nebraska and soon afterward to
Dakota, where they lived until 1878, when they settled in this state.  He was
twenty-one at the time, and had been reared to a life of useful industry on the
farm, and received his education in the district schools in the various
localities where the family lived.  On his arrival in Colorado he settled near
the town of Montrose, and there he was engaged in freighting until 1889.  He
then moved to the Norwood mesa, where he took up a homestead and engaged in
farming and raising stock.  In 1901 he sold this property and moved to his
present location, purchasing one hundred and twenty acres of superior land, and
continuing thereon his industry as a stock man from that time until the present.
 He has a large herd of fine cattle and a good-sized band of horses of excellent
grades and desirable breeds.  He is one of the prosperous and progressive men of
the section, conducting his business with vigor and skill, and giving his active
aid to every commendable enterprise in the community.  Fraternally he is
connected with the order of Odd Fellows.  In Nebraska, on June 22, 1877, he was
united in marriage with Miss Mary J. Manley, a native of Texas.  They have five
children, all sons, Fred, Frank, Roy, Eugene and Clyde.  The father of Mr.
Hotchkiss, who is one of the leading men of Ouray county, is a prominent
merchant at Ridgeway, and his brother Virgil, the only other son and child, is
like himself, an enterprising and successful farmer and stock-grower in Montrose
county.  Father and sons have done much for the development of this section, and
are held in the highest esteem.  They are men of enterprise and high character
with breadth of view and public-spirit.  

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

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