Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Powell, Arnold  October 20, 1864 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Prominent and useful in his citizenship, popular and highly esteemed in all

parts of the county, and for several years a valued official as a county

commissioner, Arnold Powell, of the Yampa valley, Routt county, has found in

this state a fruitful field for his enterprise and suitable opportunities for

engaging his faculties with success and profit.  He was born in London, England,

on October 20, 1864, and is the son of George H. and Mary R. Powell, the father

a native of England and the mother of Scotland.  The father was a successful

merchant in his native land and there both parents died, the mother in 1885 and

the father in 1890.  After receiving a good education their son Arnold started

to make his own way in the world at the age of seventeen, and in this effort

secured employment at office work in his native city until 1887, when he came to

the United States and located in Colorado near Florissant, Teller county, where

for three years he was unprofitably engaged in ranching and raising stock.  In

1890 he moved to the Yampa valley in Routt county, where he now has two distinct

ranches comprising together six hundred and forty acres, and carries on

extensive ranching and cattle-growing operations.  One-half of his land is

tillable and he produces large quantities of excellent hay, grain and hardy

vegetables.  Hay and stock are his main reliances and in the latter he gives

special attention to raising Shorthorn cattle and fine grades of horses.  Taking

an active and helpful interest in the progress of the county, he served as

county commissioner from 1899 to 1901 inclusive, and performed his official

duties greatly to his own credit and the benefit of the people.  He was married

on July 10, 1889 to Miss Edith M. Sumner, a native of Buckinghamshire, England.

 They have one daughter, Edith Netta.  It is the great benefaction of this

country that it has afforded ample opportunity for occupation and fortune to

hosts of the citizens of other lands overcrowded with a redundant population and

gladly welcomed them hither to enjoy that benefaction.  And it is the glory of

our immigrant population that it has embraced the opportunities here afforded

them, and entering full into the spirit of the times and country, have coalesced

with the rest of the people and united in the stern and intense endeavor to make

the best of the situation and bring forth for the use and blessing of mankind

the boundless wealth of the domain, at the same time helping to weld around

their new home a chain of civilizing and elevating agencies, so that while the

material wealth of the country has been developed its moral and social welfare

has not been neglected.  In this work Mr. Powell has cheerfully borne his share

and to its progress and full fruition has, in his day, contributed all the force

of his active and inventive mind and the vigor of his tireless energy.  The

result is his high standing as a wise and useful citizen and a leading and

representative man in his section of the county in which he has cast his lot.  

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

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