Rio Blanco County CO Archives Biographies.....Ferguson, David D.  July 2, 1848 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     David D. Ferguson, of Thornburg, Rio Blanco county, came to Colorado at the

age of thirty, with his faculties fully developed and his mind seasoned by

experience in another part of the continent amid the exacting but invigorating

duties of farm life.  He was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, on July 2,

1848, and is the son of Duncan and Mary (Monroe) Ferguson, and the last born of

their seven living children.  His parents were Canadians by nativity and of

Scotch ancestry.  The father farmed in his native land to the end of his life,

which came in February, 1891, the mother surviving him nearly thirteen years and

dying in December, 1903.  In 1878 Mr. Ferguson came to Colorado and located at

Manitou after the death of his wife at old Thornburg battle ground.  In 1887, he

moved to Rio Blanco county and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land

twenty-three miles northeast of Meeker, on which he has since lived.  He has

increased his land to a body of seven hundred and twenty acres, provided it with

good buildings and brought two hundred acres of it to an advanced state of

cultivation.  He has also built up an extensive and flourishing cattle business,

and established himself in the confidence and esteem of the people as a man of

good business capacity, enterprise and public-spirit, devoted to the welfare of

his country and state and earnest in his support of all that is best in American

institutions.  Fraternally he is connected with the order of Odd Fellows and

politically he is a cordial supporter of the principles of the Republican party.

 In the service of the community or the general public interests of the people

he has never faltered, whether the duty involved has been pleasant or otherwise.

 At the uprising of the Ute Indians, August 9, 1887, he took his place as a

guard in the garrison at Fort Hall for the protection of the community in which

he was especially interested, and in many other ways and lines of service he has

shown his fidelity to duty and the lofty patriotism by which he is impelled.  He

numbers his friends by the host, and is widely and favorably known in all the

relations of life in which he has been found.  December 16, 1904, he married for

his second wife Mrs. L.V. Berry of Boston, Massachusetts.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905



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