Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Choate, Mark December 28, 1861 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Coming to Colorado in 1883, when he was but twenty-two years of age, and

without capital except his natural endowment of pluck and enterprise, his

clearness of vision and alertness in seizing opportunities and turning them to

his advantage, Mark Choate has established himself well and firmly in this

state, and is carrying on an extensive business in ranching and raising stock in

Routt county on a good ranch of five hundred and forty acres, a part of which he

acquired as a homestead and the rest by purchase.  His ranch is one of the best

fenced and most highly improved and cultivated in his portion of the county. It

is six miles north of Yampa, and is well supplied with water from ditches

belonging to it.  It was covered with wild sage when he located on it, and all

that it is now in the way of improvement and productiveness is the result of his

continued and wisely applied industry and taste.  Two hundred acres of the tract

are tillable and in an advanced state of cultivation.  Here Mr. Choate raises

large quantities of hay, grain and vegetables, and numbers of well-bred and

valuable cattle and horses.  The draft stallion Prince, of the Percheron strain,

which is celebrated throughout all this section, belongs to him.  Mr. Choate is

altogether a self-made man, and one of the leading citizens of the county.  He

was born in Dade county, Missouri, on December 28, 1861, and secured a very

limited education in the common schools near his home.  Until he reached the age

of twenty-three years he assisted his parents on the homestead, taking his place

as a full hand on the farm at an early age and maintaining his place among the

men until he left the place.  His parents, Huston and Nancy (Parala) Choate,

were born and reared in Tennessee, and after farming in that state a number of

years, moved to Dade county, Missouri, where the mother died in July, 1894, and

the father is still living.  The father is a farmer there as he was in his

native state, and he also raises stock in large numbers.  He is a Democrat

politically.  He was a soldier in the Civil war and saw much service in that

memorable contest wherein American valor was put to its severest test and

gloriously justified all the encomiums that have been passed upon it.  Three

children survive the mother, Alexander, Mrs. Amelia Faulx and Mark.  The last

named was married on  May 6, 1890, to Miss Anna Brown, a native of Illinois, and

has three children, Ella R., Lewis M. and Anna D.

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

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