Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Carle , William Warren September 28, 1835 -
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

    Prominent and successful in many lines of industrial and productive life in
this state, William Warren Carle, of Yampa, during the forty-four years of his
residence on its soil, has been a substantial contributor to the growth and
development of the state, and both in private and official life has exhibited
all the commendable elements of an upright, progressive and useful citizenship.
 He was born at Owego, Tioga county, New York, on September 28, 1835, and is the
son of Aaron and Susan E. (Ogden) Carle, who were also born and reared in the
state of New York.  The father was a cabinetmaker and farmer, and prospered in
both lines of his industry.  Twelve children were born in the household, four of
whom are living,  Mrs. Phidelia Stage, Mrs. Charles Andrews, Phebe Stage and
William.  The father died in 1841 and the mother in 1889.  Both were devout
Baptists, the father being for long years a deacon in the church.  In political
faith he was an ardent Democrat.  The son, William Warren Carle, received a good
common-school and college education, attending the college at Kalamazoo,
Michigan, he having become a resident of Kalamazoo in 1852, when he was
seventeen years of age.  After leaving the university he taught school in
Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri until 1860, when he became a resident of this
state.  While in Minnesota he laid out a town near St. Paul, which has long
since been absorbed into that progressive city.  His town was named Nineger. 
There he engaged in mercantile pursuits, as he did also at Kalamazoo, in
partnership with his brother J.H. Carle, and taught school at the same time.  He
was successful in his business and as a school teacher he was highly esteemed. 
On his arrival in Colorado, in 1860, he located at Gregor, Gilpin county,
whither he journeyed from Missouri by way of Atchison and the Smoky Hill route,
his company bringing a wagon train loaded with supplies and provisions.  These
they traded for mining property in Gilpin county.  The goods were in an
excellent state of preservation although six months had been consumed in their
transportation across the plains and over the mountains, and many obstacles and
difficulties had to be passed on the way.  Mr. Carle followed mining until late
in 1861, owning and occupying the first and only two story dwelling at Gregor
during his stay there.  In the fall of 1861, in partnership with his brother, he
traded mining properties for ranch land near Boulder, and during the next four
years he devoted his attention to ranching on this land.  In 1865 he made a trip
to Virginia City, Montana, during the prevalence of the excitement over the
discovery of gold at that place, and for a time he mined there with good
results.  Returning to his Colorado ranch, he remained on it until 1868, then
made a trip to his old home in Michigan.  Concluding to remain in that state, he
located at Big Rapids and opened a wholesale and retail furniture establishment,
which he conducted until 1878, then sold the business.  Two years later he came
again to Colorado and took up his residence near Montezuma, Summit county, where
he expended considerable money and labor in trying to develop mining properties
but without profit.  He abandoned mining after a time, but he still owns his
Summit county properties.  In 1880 he moved to Routt county and through a
homestead claim secured a good ranch near Yampa, being among the first settlers
in that vicinity. He has enlarged his ranch by subsequent desert claims to three
hundred and twenty acres, and by his own efforts he made two hundred acres of it
fit for cultivation and generously productive.  Here he gave his attention to
ranching and raising stock until 1901, when he turned the management of the
ranch over to this son-in-law, Charles Neiman, and purchasing a store at Yampa,
became a merchant and the postmaster there.  In 1903 he resigned the office and
since then he has dealt extensively in real estate, and has also conducted a
first-class bowling alley in the town.  Since 1894 he has served as a justice of
the peace, and he has also filled a similar office six years in Summit county. 
He is a gentleman of wide acquaintance and high standing in the state, and in
every place of his residence has given his influence and his personal prowess
and energy in the defense and promotion of public order and the general welfare.
 In Colorado he belongs to the Home Guard, under the command of Col. David
Nichol, and while living in Montana he took part in numerous skirmishes with the
Indians. Mr. Carle was married in October, 1870, to Miss Lucy E. Pierson, who
was born in Franklyn, Delaware county, New York, February 1, 1844, and who
taught in No. 1 Primary school, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for five years.  They
have had three children, one of whom, a son named Ernest, died in 1882.  The two
living are Mrs. Charles Neiman and Mrs. Benjamin F. Rice.

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

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