Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Elmer, Nicholas April 21, 1866 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Nicholas Elmer, a younger brother of Mathias, a sketch of whom will be

found on another page, was born on April 21, 1866, in Switzerland, the son of

Oswald and Dorothea Elmer, of that country, where his mother died on February

12, 1900, and his father is still living.  Mr. Elmer was educated at the state

common schools and at the age of sixteen began to earn his own living and work

himself forward in a business way.  In 1882, deeming that the opportunities for

a poor man’s advancement were better amid the boundless possibilities of this

country  than in the cramped and crowded conditions of his own, he emigrated to

the United States and located in Green county, Wisconsin, where he worked on a

farm for a year at a meager compensation.  In 1883 he became a resident of

Colorado, taking up his home at Leadville.  Here he worked a year in the

smelter, then in 1884 moved to the Bear river valley, and in the vicinity of

Hayden pre-empted eighty acres of land and took up one hundred and sixty as a

homestead.  Nearly all of his tract of two hundred and forty acres can be

cultivated, and while hay and cattle form his chief reliance, he also raises

good crops of grain and vegetables.  His ranch is six miles northeast of Hayden,

giving him easy access to a good market.  Politically he supports the Republican

party, and, like other progressive and public-spirited men in his neighborhood,

he takes an active part in the progress and development of the region, showing

his interest in its welfare by the improvements he has made on his own wild

tract and the degree of productiveness to which he has brought it by his

industry and skill, and his faith in its future by contributing liberally of his

time and means to all public interests.  

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

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