Rio Blanco County CO Archives Biographies.....Lunny, Owen H.  May 26, 1866 - 
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Source: Progressive Men of Western Colorado
Author: Museum of Northwest Colorado

The blessing of a free and unsettled country like the United States to the
overcrowded populations of other lands, and which has aptly been called the
great charity of God to the human race, can be fully estimated only by those who
have experienced them and their benefits, and cannot be overestimated by
anybody.  Their voice has been loud and persuasive for several hundred years,
and has been heeded by uncounted millions, who have come hither to secure and
enjoy them, and in doing so have not only found wide and multiform opportunities
for their own advancement, but have also helped to magnify in volume and
increased in value their service to the race.  Among the men of thrift and
substance, who in their youth sought the benefits thus offered and have used
them to their own advantage, is Owen H. Lunny, of Rio Blanco county, this state,
who came to our shores when he was a boy of fifteen, and has since been diligent
in employing his opportunities for is own good and the good of the country
itself.  He is a native of Ireland, born on May 26, 1866, and the son of Owen
and Ella Lunny, natives of that country and belonging to families resident there
from time immemorial.  The father was an industrious farmer and raised cattle
for market on a small scale.  There were nine children in the family, seven of
whom are living, Mary, Ella, Owen H., Peter H., James, Hugh and Edward.  The
father has been dead a number of years and the mother is still living in her
native land.  Owen attended the common schools in the vicinity of his home when
he could, which was but seldom and not long at a time, for the energy of every
member of the family was required to aid in the work on the home farm.  When he
reached the age of fifteen he emigrated to the United States, and after
remaining in the state of New York two years, engaged in any occupation that
offered, he came to Colorado, arriving in 1883 and locating at Leadville,  Here
he mined for wages and under lease, and also at times served as engineer in
running a steam pump.  In 1885 he moved to Rio Blanco county and pre-empted one
hundred and sixty acres of land on Coal creek, which he at once settled on and
began to improve.  As time passed and he prospered in his enterprise, he added
to his domain until he now owns one thousand, five hundred acres of land and has
three hundred of it under cultivation.  He started early in the stock business
and has increased the scope of his interests in it to its present extent, which
is one of large proportions and leading importance in his neighborhood.  As a
helpmate in his labors and a participant in his success he secured by marriage
on July 2, 1893, Miss Anna S. Meagher, his devoted wife and the mother of his
one child.  They have lived prosperously and happily in their new home, which
has been improved and developed by their own efforts, and  they enjoy in a
marked degree the confidence and esteem of those who know them throughout the
community in which their useful lives are passing.

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