Pueblo-Las Animas County CO Archives Biographies.....Berry, Adolphus P. 1848 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

HON. ADOLPHUS P. BERRY.

    This gentleman is the present County Judge of Pueblo County. He was born in
St. Louis, Mo., November 12, 1848. When three years of age his parents moved to
Edwardsville, Ill., where he was raised. He was educated principally at
Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill. When but fifteen years old, in 1863, he left
school and came West. Arriving first at Trinidad, Colo., he went from there to
Elizabethtown, New Mexico, where he followed gulch-mining about a year.
Subsequently, for a number of years, he was connected with enterprises at
various places. He was interested in a saw-mill near Trinidad about two years.
He had mining interests at different points, and spent much of his time in
traveling over the West. In 1868, he assisted in starting the Colorado
Chieftain, now a flourishing newspaper at Pueblo, Colo. He was married at
Trinidad, Colo., January 10, 1870, to Miss Fannie T. Doyle, a daughter of J. B.
Doyle. In the spring of 1870, he and his brother-in-law, James Doyle, opened a
wholesale grocery store and auction and commission house at Trinidad. In 1871,
disposing of his business at Trinidad, Mr. Berry settled upon Doyle's ranch, in
Pueblo County, where he lived about five years. During the time, he held the
office of Justice of the Peace. In 1876, having met with financial reverses, Mr.
Berry disposed of his remaining property and removed to Pueblo, where he has
since resided. He has long figured in the local politics of Pueblo County, and
has held the position of assistant in the different county offices at Pueblo. In
the fall of 1877, he ran for County Judge on the Democratic ticket, but was
defeated. He ran the second time in 1880, and was elected by a nice majority.
The office he now fills with honor and ability, to the satisfaction of his
constituency. The Judge is strong in his political convictions, and ever
sanguine of the success of his party.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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