Pitkin County CO Archives Biographies.....Sewell, Charles B. 1851 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Losing his father by death when he was sixteen years old, Charles B.

Sewell, of the Thompson's creek region, with a fine ranch and home in Pitkin

county, but having his post-office at Carbondale, Garfield county, began life

for himself at an early age and has had to make his own way by arduous effort

and his own capacity ever since.  He was born in 1851 in Erie county,

Pennsylvania, and is the son of Robert and Caroline (Baker) Sewell, of that

county, where the father passed his entire life as a farmer, dying in 1867, at

the age of fifty-three.  The grandfather on the paternal side, Ebenezer Sewell,

was a native of Vermont and a veteran of the war of 1812.  He died in 1868, at

the age of ninety-two.  Mrs. Sewell, the mother of Charles B., was born and

reared in Connecticut and now lives in Erie county, Pennsylvania, aged

eighty-three.  Her father, Samuel Baker, was a direct descendant of one of the

Pilgrim fathers who came over in the "Mayflower."  He died in 1850, past seventy

years of age, at Cleveland, Ohio, where he was one of the earliest settlers and

a veritable pioneer.  Charles B. Sewell remained at home and was sent to school

until the death of his father.  He was well educated, completing his course at

the excellent seminary then conducted at Northeast, in his native county, in

1868.  His father's death, which occurred a few months before, made it necessary

for him to go to work at once, and he turned his attention to the oil fields of

Pennsylvania as a promising place of operation.  He continued to operate in this

region with varying success until 1880, when he came to Colorado and locating in

Custer county, followed blacksmithing for a period of two years.  From there he

moved to Silverton, San Juan county, where he remained until 1886 engaged in

mining and blacksmithing.  He then moved into Pitkin county, a distance of some

two hundred miles, and bought the ranch he now owns and occupies in Crystal

River valley, on Thompson's creek, and since then he has devoted his time and

energies to ranching and raising stock, and has succeeded well in the business.

 He was married in 1888 to Miss Clara M. Thompson, a daughter of Myron P.

Thompson, one of the first ranchers in this valley.  They have two children,

Robert O. and Caroline A.

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

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