Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Hepburn, George W. 1836 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

GEORGE W. HEPBURN.

    This gentleman came West at an early day. He was born in Pottsdam, N. Y., in
1836. When sixteen years of age he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he learned to
be a printer, living there about three years. The winter of 1854 and 1855, he
spent in Washington City, acting as reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In
the spring of 1855, he went to Omaha, Neb., where he bought a half-interest in
the Nebraskan, a newspaper then published at that place. In 1857, disposing of
his interest in the Nebraskan, he purchased the Times, which he also sold a
short time afterward. In 1858, awakened by the gold excitement in the Rocky
Mountains, Mr. Hepburn made his way to Pike's Peak, and spent some time
prospecting for mines. He returned East in 1859, and came to Colorado again in
1860. At the breaking-out of the late war, he enlisted in the New Mexican Fourth
Cavalry, and served in that about a year, after which he entered the Government
employ as a millwright, and continued in that capacity to the close of the war.
After the war, he engaged for a time in the cattle business. In 1867, he located
at Pueblo, where he has since resided. In 1868, 1869 and 1870, he engaged to a
considerable extent in mining and milling. In 1871, he started at Pueblo a
newspaper called the People, which he conducted himself about a year. He was
elected Probate Judge of Pueblo County in 1871, which office he held two years.
During that year, he was married in Pueblo County to a Miss Dotson. He was
elected a County Commissioner in 1874, and filled the office three years. Since
1877, Mr. Hepburn has devoted his attention especially to mining. He now has
valuable interests in various camps, some of which he is operating vigorously.
Mr. Hepburn's sociable manners, and his many years of Western life, have won for
him hosts of acquaintances and warm friends, who delight to take him by the hand.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

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

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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