Ouray County CO Archives Biographies.....Overman, George F.  August 16, 1855 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Pleasantly established on an excellent ranch of eight-five acres three
miles west of Ridgway, and a pioneer of the county who came here in 1877, George
F. Overman is a good representative of the Ouray county farmer, who by thrift
and industry has acquired a competence and is securely fixed in the confidence
and good will of his fellow men.  He is a native of Indiana, born on August 16,
1855, the son of John and Maria Overman, the former a native of Kentucky and the
latter of Indiana.  In early life the father emigrated with his parents to the
place of the mother’s nativity and there grew to manhood, was educated and when
he reached maturity was married.  When their son George was thirteen years old
they moved to Missouri, and after a residence of two years in that state, came
farther west to Kansas.  There George reached years of maturity and completed in
the public schools of that state the education he had begun in those of Indiana
and continued in those of Missouri.  In 1877, at the age of twenty-two, he drove
a band of cattle from Kansas to this state and finding the country promising, he
homesteaded a tract two miles above the land on which he now lives.  In 1887 he
sold that and bought his present place and has since been engaged in the stock
business.  He now has a beautiful ranch of eighty-five acres on which he has
built a comfortable and commodious residence and other necessary buildings, and
which by systematic and skillful labor he has made one of the attractive and
valuable farms of his section.  His stock industry comprises horses and cattle,
and he omits no effort on his part to keep his standards high and the condition
of his stock first-class.  In 1879 his parents also came to this county, and
here the father died in 1897, since which time the mother has lived at Ridgway.
 Mr. Overman was married in 1888 at Portland, Colorado, being united with Miss
Lizzie Hays, a native of Texas, and they have one child, their son Clyde.  In
the affairs of the county, and particularly those of his immediate community the
head of the house takes an active and helpful interest.  In November, 1904, he
was elected a county commissioner, for a term of four years, on the Democratic
ticket.  He has been especially zealous in the cause of public education,
serving for a number of years as a member of the school board.  In all the
relations of life he has lived acceptably and he stands well in the community.  

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

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