Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Richmond, Geo. Q. 1844 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

HON. GEO. Q. RICHMOND.

    George Q. Richmond, a prominent lawyer and the present Mayor of Pueblo, was
born in Kennebec County, Maine, August 4, 1844. When fourteen years of age, he
left home and went to Boston, where he worked for a time, and afterward attended
school. In 1863, he took a trip through the West, spending about a year in
California and Nevada. In the summer of 1864, he returned to Boston and enlisted
in the Sixty-first Massachusetts Infantry. He served in the U. S. Army to the
close of the late war, being commissioned a Lieutenant during the time. After
the war he remained in Washington City, and attended the Columbia College,
graduating in both the literary and law departments in 1868. He practiced law in
Washington for a time, until coming West in 1870. In April of that year, he
located at Pueblo, Colorado, where he has since resided and practiced his
profession. In 1876, he was a candidate for Attorney General of the State on the
Democratic ticket, but was defeated by a small majority. In that year he was a
Centennial Commissioner, by appointment of the Governor of Colorado, at the
National Exposition at Philadelphia. In 1880, he was a candidate for Supreme
Judge, being the unanimous choice of the Democratic convention which met at
Leadville. He was elected Mayor of Pueblo at the last municipal election, which
office he occupies at this time. Mr. Richmond has established a wide reputation
as a lawyer, and is now doing a large and lucrative practice. He was married at
Philadelphia, Penn., October 24, 1878, to Miss Jennie S. Siner.


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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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