MORGAN, Stephen: 1905 Bio, San Miguel County, Colorado

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Donated June 2004

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net> from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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Stephen Morgan



	This prosperous and successful farmer and stock man of San Miguel county, who 

is comfortably settled on a fine ranch of one hundred and sixty acres one mile northeast 

of Norwood, is one of the progressive and enterprising citizens of his section of the state, 

developing and building up his own business with commendable energy and skill, and 

aiding in pushing forward the community and county in which he lives to their highest 

and best development.  He was born in 1858 in Texas, whither his parents, Seth and 

Martha Morgan, moved soon after their marriage from their native Tennessee.  He 

remained at home until he reached the age of seventeen, assisting in the farming and 

stock industry in which his father was engaged, then in 1875 began life for himself in the 

same business, locating for the purpose near Las Vegas in New Mexico, where he 

remained until 1880.  In that year he went to Wyoming where he continued his operations 

in the same line until 1885.  He then came to Colorado and located the land on which he 

now lives and of which he has made a beautiful home.  Here he has conducted a thriving 

stock industry on an expanding scale of volume and profits, and has become well 

established in the respect and good will of his fellow citizens.  He has a herd of two 

hundred and fifty well-bred cattle of high grades and all kept in prime condition.  In the 

social and fraternal life of the community he is active and influential, being a prominent 

member of the order of Odd Fellows, and occupying a leading place in the general public 

life around him.  In 1886, in the county of his present residence, he was married to Miss 

Laura Southard, a native of England.  His pleasant home is a center of generous and 

considerate hospitality, where the numerous friends of himself and his wife are always 

cordially welcomed and bountifully entertained.  It is high praise to say of a man that he 

has met every duty in life with a proper spirit and conducted all his operations on a high 

plane of regard for the rights and feelings of others, but it is due to Mr. Morgan to state 

that this is his record by the voluntary and cheerful testimony of all who know him well.



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