Rio Blanco County CO Archives Biographies.....Belot, Adolphe May 1, 1849 - 
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Source: Progressive Men of Western Colorado
Author: Museum of Northwest Colorado

Since the age of fourteen a resident of the Northwest, and during the last
twenty-six years living in Colorado, Adolphe Belot, of Rio Blanco county, with a
good ranch in the favored region which borders Piceance creek, has had good
opportunities to acquire and the ability to use a thorough knowledge of the
various industries of the state, and by so doing to aid in advancing its welfare
along with his won, and become fully imbued with the spirit of its people and
its institutions.  He was born on May 1, 1849, in the province of
Alsace-Lorraine, which the fortune of war wrested from France, and is the son of
Xavias and Celetine (Belot) Belot, of the same nativity as himself, who
emigrated to the United States in 1853 and settled in Jefferson county, Iowa,
where they passed the remainder of their lives as farmers, both dying a number
of years ago.  They had seven children, of whom Virginia and Honorine are dead
and Louis, Amelia, wife of Leon Piquette, Eugenia, wife of T. Turck, Adolph and
Victoria, wife of Joshua Monti, are living.  Adolphe received a common-school
education, and in 1863, when he was but fourteen years old, came west to
Virginia City, Montana, where he mined for wages eight months and then moved to
Auburn, Oregon, being in the employ of the Oregon-Baker Company as a purchasing
agent of mining claims.  After two years in the service of that company he
returned to Iowa and engaged in farming and raising stock until 1877.  He then
disposed of his interests there and again came west, locating in the Black
Hills, where he was successful at mining, and discovered a number of valuable
mining properties, among them the Homestake.  In 1888 changed his residence to
Leadville, this state, and after prospecting and mining there for a time,
started the first transfer line in that place which he operated until 1884.  In
that year he moved to his present locality and pre-empted a ranch on Piceance
creek, on which has since lived and to which he has added until it comprises two
hundred acres, of which one half is under cultivation.  The cattle industry and
raising horses are his principal resource for revenue, but he also conducts a
general ranching business with profit.  He supports the Democratic party in
political matters.  On November 29, 1902, he was united in marriage with Miss
Daisy Mundlein, who was born at Granite, Colorado, and is the daughter of John
and Charlotte Mundlein, early settlers in this state, and now among its most
influential and highly respected citizens.

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