Pitkin County CO Archives Biographies.....Steward, John Henry July 15, 1860 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The present accommodating and well qualified postmaster at Snow Mass,

Pitkin county, who is also interested extensively in mining, became a resident

of Colorado in 1881, and since then has been devoted to the improvement and

development of the state and the progress and welfare of its people. He is a

native of Nova Scotia, born on the 15th day of July, 1860, where his parents,

John S. and Catherine (McClain) Steward, a sketch of whom appears on another

page of this volume, were also born and reared.  He remained with his parents,

attending the public schools and aiding in the farm labor until he reached the

age of fourteen, then he began to earn his own living by working on neighborhood

farms and doing other work that was at hand.  In 1881, when he was about

twenty-one, he came to Colorado and settled at Leadville, where he followed

mining for two years.  In 1883 he returned to his old Canadian home, and during

the next seven years conducted the operations of his father’s farm.  In 1890 he

came back to this state and located at Aspen, and until 1899 working in Percy

mines.  He then took up a part of his present ranch, a homestead claim of one

hundred and seventy-eight acres.  This he has since increased to three hundred

and eighty-three acres by purchase of an additional quarter section.  About half

of his land is under cultivation and yields excellent crops of good grain and

hay.  In 1901 he was appointed postmaster at Snow Mass, and is still filling the

office with credit to himself and satisfaction to its patrons.  He is also

interested in mining, and in politics is a faithful Republican.  Successful in

business and influential in local affairs, he is easily one of the leading

citizens of the town, and as such is universally esteemed.  

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

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