Pitkin County CO Archives Biographies.....Young, George Ludington November 19, 1875 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     The breadth and variety of American life afford scope for all sorts of

abilities and opportunities to give every capable and energetic man an opening

whatever his circumstances.  Born to excellent educational advantages and

intended for advanced scholarship, yet driven by failing health to an outdoor

life in the dry atmosphere of the Rocky Mountain region, George Ludington Young,

of the Thompson creek section of Pitkin county, this state, has become one of

the extensive and successful stockmen and ranchers of this part of the country,

and conducts his operations on a scale of magnitude which would probably have

astonished him to contemplate in his earlier years and ambitions.  He was born

on November 19, 1875, the son of George and Jennie (Ludington) Young, the former

a native of New York and the latter of Chicago.  The mother died in 1902, aged

fifty, at Chicago, and the father now has his home there.  George is their only

child.  He passed his boyhood in Chicago, and his education was carefully

attended to.  After completing preliminary courses of study in good schools, he

was graduated at the Phillips-Andover Academy, and entered Yale University in

1896, but on account of his health he was obliged to leave the university in

1898.  He then came west and remained a short time in Wyoming, but soon

afterward came to Colorado and purchased what is known as the Swan ranch on

Thompson creek in Pitkin county.  It comprises about seven hundred and fifty

acres, of which he has two hundred and fifty under irrigation and the rest in

course of rapid improvement for cultivation.  He runs about eight hundred cattle

and has produced six hundred and fifty tons of alfalfa, two thousand, three

hundred bushels of grain and eight thousand, five hundred sacks of potatoes in

one season.  He is easily one of the most enterprising and extensive farmers in

his part of the state, and one of the most representative and highly esteemed

citizens.  To abandon the empire of letters is not pleasant when the taste for

it is decided, and to win an empire in industrial and commercial life is not

always easy.  Mr. Young has done both to his credit under a sense of duty, and

is probably winner in both directions. 

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

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