Ouray County CO Archives Biographies.....Slick, B. B., Dr.  September 6, 1867 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Active in several lines of life, Dr. B. B. Slick, one of the leading
professional men of Ouray county, one of its prominent physicians and surgeons,
and a noted hunter throughout a wide scope of the western country, illustrated
admirably the versatility and general adaptiveness of American manhood and its
indifference to circumstances as a controlling force in any essential way.  He
was born in Washington, D.C., September 6, 1867, and is the son of Dr. Josiah
and Caroline (Ferris) Slick, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter
of Fairfax Court House, Virginia.  When he was yet very young his parents moved
to Iowa, and from there soon afterward to Albion, Nebraska, then to Gibbon,
Nebraska, where the Doctor received his scholastic training in the public
schools.  After leaving school he was for a number of years a range rider.  In
that dangerous and invigorating life he gained strength and suppleness of body
and independence of spirit, with reliance on himself for almost any emergency
and a resourcefulness that made him ready for it.  In 1887 he began the study of
medicine at the Gross Medical College in Denver, and was graduated from that
institution in 1891.  He then settled at Minturn, Eagle county, and engaged in
the practice of his profession there until 1892, when he came to Ridgway [sic],
where he has since been similarly occupied.  Here he has become well established
in the profession and also in the public life of the community.  He has built up
a large and lucrative business in his chosen line which numbers among its
patrons many of the leading and most representative citizens of the county.  In
his professional work he makes a good use of the natural good judgment with
which nature has endowed him in applying the results of his careful and
systematic study, and has withal a wide and accurate knowledge of human nature
which is of very material service in his practice.  But devoted as he is to his
profession, and exacting as he finds it, he is still able to indulge and
cultivate his taste for outdoor manly sports, and continues in the maturity of
his manhood the habit of hunting which was one of the acquisitions of his early
life; and as Nimrod he has a wide and well-earned reputation both for his
general knowledge of the sport and his success in the enjoyment of it. He is
also interested in mining to good purpose. In 1891, at Minturn, he was married
to Miss Lela M. Palmer, a daughter of Dr. N.E. Palmer, of Iowa.  They have five
children, Nelson Earle, Bee, Bessie, Bruce and Dorothy.   

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

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