Pueblo-Conejos County CO Archives Biographies.....Tibbetts, Edgar A. 1848 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

EDGAR A. TIBBETTS.

    Edgar A. Tibbetts was born at Brookfield, Carroll County, New Hampshire,
December 8, 1848; but Wisconsin, where he was moved at the age of six years, is
entitled to the credit of being the State in which he did his studying. He early
developed an insatiable love for the study of languages and mathematics, and in
whatever situation, under favorable or unfavorable circumstances, he has been
placed in life, he has not failed to add to his knowledge of his favorite
studies. He began the study of German at fourteen years of age, without an
instructor, and is now the master of seventeen different languages-among them
Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Sanscrit. He was a student of Ripon College, but
left it before graduating. After beginning life for himself, he followed various
occupations-teaching, clerking in a lumber-yard, farming, and finally commencing
business at Ida Grove, by dealing in farming implements and grain, which he
discontinued in 1880, to come to Colorado. He founded the Conejos County Times,
disposing of which, he bought the South Pueblo Banner of A. J. Patrick, and is
now the able editor of the latter-named paper. He is a close student, and
familiar with the works of many of the great authors of the world.


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

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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