GEORGE H. ADAMS OF DENVER IS DEAD
June 15--George H. Adams, millionaire cattleman and owner of the Adams hotel In this city died of heart disease today after three years' illness. He was 59 years of age.
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One of the most remarkable instances of the adaptation of Colorado the cattle industry may be found in the business career of Mr. Adams, who is prominent among the citizens of Denver. Embarking in business as a stock-raiser in 1869, he then bought the two first thoroughbred Shorthorn bulls ever in the San Luis Valley. He has been a pioneer in the introduction of Herefords, to which exclusively his ranch has been stocked since 1878, and he has paid as much as $2200 for a bull and as high as $1500 for a two-year-old heifer of that breed.
The Adams Hereford ranch covers more than four townships of land, embraces twelve and one-half miles and in extent comprises one hundred thousand acres, watered by eleven streams and lakes, and bordering on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range.
The entire tract is fenced in pastures with eighty miles of substantial fencing, while one hundred and forty miles of ditches furnish water for the irrigation of hay and the range. The herd consists of four thousand head of pure-bred and high-grade Hereford cattle.
From the ranch, cattle are sold and shipped to Old Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Kansas and Nebraska for breeding purposes.
Mr. Adams was born in Milwaukee, Wis., the only child of George and Agnes J. (Lace) Adams, natives of Rochester and New York City respectively.
His father removed to Milwaukee in 1836 and engaged in the mercantile business there until his death.
His widow, who still resides there, was a daughter of John Lace, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and settled in New York City, where he owned a mercantile store. Our subject was educated in the schools of Milwaukee. In January, 1863, when only seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, for one hundred days, but continued in the service, in the Army of the Cumberland, until September, 1863, when he was honorably discharged as corporal.
Again, soon afterward, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Forty-seventh Wisconsin infantry, and served as first sergeant and sergeant-major until September, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Nashville.
Returning to Milwaukee, Mr. Adams became money receiving clerk for the United States Express Company, which, in 1867, sent him to Kansas as messenger between Kansas City and Fort Ellsworth, the terminus of the Kansas Pacific. In the spring of 1868 he returned to Milwaukee, where he was superintendent of the Goodrich Express Company until 1869, when he resigned to come to Colorado. The trip to the west he made via Cheyenne to Denver and from this city went to California Gulch (now Leadville), where he engaged in prospecting for two months, but in December went to the San Luis Valley.
A pioneer in that section, he entered one hundred and sixty acres on Rio Alto Creek and embarked in the stock business. In 1871 he entered the employ of a cattle company as foreman on Baca Grant No. 4, and later became proprietor. In 1878 he brought to his place eighty full-bred Hereford bulls and has since devoted his attention to the raising of pure-bred and high-grade Herefords.
He has been a director in the American Hereford Association, is a member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' and National Stock Breeders' Associations, and, under appointment by Governor Pitkin, served for eight years as a member of the State Cattle Inspection and Roundup Boards.
In April, 1895, Governor Mclntire appointed him president of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, to serve for six years.
In Wisconsin, August 27, 1878, Mr. Adams married Miss Addie J. Bertschy, of Appleton, a graduate of the university at that place. They have one child, Florence P.
In politics Mr. Adams supports the silver branch of the Republican party. He has frequently been delegate to conventions, has served as a member of the state Republican committee, and while in Saguache County held the office of county clerk for one term and was also justice of the peace and sheriff of the county. By service upon the school board he advanced the educational interests of his community.
Shortly after his return front the army he became identified with Post No. 9, Wisconsin G. A. R., as one of its charter members. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
There have been so many successful cattlemen in Colorado that it may not be considered a more than ordinary statement to speak of Mr. Adams as one of the most successful, as he is also one of the most extensive.
But when we consider that he came to the state with comparatively little capital and with no experience in the cattle business, his present position is remarkable. By dint of industry, executive ability and determination, he has risen to rank among the foremost cattle breeders of the state and may appropriately be termed the "Hereford king" of the west.
June 15--George H. Adams, millionaire cattleman and owner of the Adams hotel In this city died of heart disease today after three years' illness. He was 59 years of age.
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One of the most remarkable instances of the adaptation of Colorado the cattle industry may be found in the business career of Mr. Adams, who is prominent among the citizens of Denver. Embarking in business as a stock-raiser in 1869, he then bought the two first thoroughbred Shorthorn bulls ever in the San Luis Valley. He has been a pioneer in the introduction of Herefords, to which exclusively his ranch has been stocked since 1878, and he has paid as much as $2200 for a bull and as high as $1500 for a two-year-old heifer of that breed.
The Adams Hereford ranch covers more than four townships of land, embraces twelve and one-half miles and in extent comprises one hundred thousand acres, watered by eleven streams and lakes, and bordering on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range.
The entire tract is fenced in pastures with eighty miles of substantial fencing, while one hundred and forty miles of ditches furnish water for the irrigation of hay and the range. The herd consists of four thousand head of pure-bred and high-grade Hereford cattle.
From the ranch, cattle are sold and shipped to Old Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Kansas and Nebraska for breeding purposes.
Mr. Adams was born in Milwaukee, Wis., the only child of George and Agnes J. (Lace) Adams, natives of Rochester and New York City respectively.
His father removed to Milwaukee in 1836 and engaged in the mercantile business there until his death.
His widow, who still resides there, was a daughter of John Lace, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and settled in New York City, where he owned a mercantile store. Our subject was educated in the schools of Milwaukee. In January, 1863, when only seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, for one hundred days, but continued in the service, in the Army of the Cumberland, until September, 1863, when he was honorably discharged as corporal.
Again, soon afterward, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Forty-seventh Wisconsin infantry, and served as first sergeant and sergeant-major until September, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Nashville.
Returning to Milwaukee, Mr. Adams became money receiving clerk for the United States Express Company, which, in 1867, sent him to Kansas as messenger between Kansas City and Fort Ellsworth, the terminus of the Kansas Pacific. In the spring of 1868 he returned to Milwaukee, where he was superintendent of the Goodrich Express Company until 1869, when he resigned to come to Colorado. The trip to the west he made via Cheyenne to Denver and from this city went to California Gulch (now Leadville), where he engaged in prospecting for two months, but in December went to the San Luis Valley.
A pioneer in that section, he entered one hundred and sixty acres on Rio Alto Creek and embarked in the stock business. In 1871 he entered the employ of a cattle company as foreman on Baca Grant No. 4, and later became proprietor. In 1878 he brought to his place eighty full-bred Hereford bulls and has since devoted his attention to the raising of pure-bred and high-grade Herefords.
He has been a director in the American Hereford Association, is a member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' and National Stock Breeders' Associations, and, under appointment by Governor Pitkin, served for eight years as a member of the State Cattle Inspection and Roundup Boards.
In April, 1895, Governor Mclntire appointed him president of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, to serve for six years.
In Wisconsin, August 27, 1878, Mr. Adams married Miss Addie J. Bertschy, of Appleton, a graduate of the university at that place. They have one child, Florence P.
In politics Mr. Adams supports the silver branch of the Republican party. He has frequently been delegate to conventions, has served as a member of the state Republican committee, and while in Saguache County held the office of county clerk for one term and was also justice of the peace and sheriff of the county. By service upon the school board he advanced the educational interests of his community.
Shortly after his return front the army he became identified with Post No. 9, Wisconsin G. A. R., as one of its charter members. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
There have been so many successful cattlemen in Colorado that it may not be considered a more than ordinary statement to speak of Mr. Adams as one of the most successful, as he is also one of the most extensive.
But when we consider that he came to the state with comparatively little capital and with no experience in the cattle business, his present position is remarkable. By dint of industry, executive ability and determination, he has risen to rank among the foremost cattle breeders of the state and may appropriately be termed the "Hereford king" of the west.
GEORGE H. ADAMS OF DENVER IS DEAD
June 15--George H. Adams, millionaire cattleman and owner of the Adams hotel In this city died of heart disease today after three years' illness. He was 59 years of age.
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One of the most remarkable instances of the adaptation of Colorado the cattle industry may be found in the business career of Mr. Adams, who is prominent among the citizens of Denver. Embarking in business as a stock-raiser in 1869, he then bought the two first thoroughbred Shorthorn bulls ever in the San Luis Valley. He has been a pioneer in the introduction of Herefords, to which exclusively his ranch has been stocked since 1878, and he has paid as much as $2200 for a bull and as high as $1500 for a two-year-old heifer of that breed.
The Adams Hereford ranch covers more than four townships of land, embraces twelve and one-half miles and in extent comprises one hundred thousand acres, watered by eleven streams and lakes, and bordering on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range.
The entire tract is fenced in pastures with eighty miles of substantial fencing, while one hundred and forty miles of ditches furnish water for the irrigation of hay and the range. The herd consists of four thousand head of pure-bred and high-grade Hereford cattle.
From the ranch, cattle are sold and shipped to Old Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Kansas and Nebraska for breeding purposes.
Mr. Adams was born in Milwaukee, Wis., the only child of George and Agnes J. (Lace) Adams, natives of Rochester and New York City respectively.
His father removed to Milwaukee in 1836 and engaged in the mercantile business there until his death.
His widow, who still resides there, was a daughter of John Lace, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and settled in New York City, where he owned a mercantile store. Our subject was educated in the schools of Milwaukee. In January, 1863, when only seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, for one hundred days, but continued in the service, in the Army of the Cumberland, until September, 1863, when he was honorably discharged as corporal.
Again, soon afterward, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Forty-seventh Wisconsin infantry, and served as first sergeant and sergeant-major until September, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Nashville.
Returning to Milwaukee, Mr. Adams became money receiving clerk for the United States Express Company, which, in 1867, sent him to Kansas as messenger between Kansas City and Fort Ellsworth, the terminus of the Kansas Pacific. In the spring of 1868 he returned to Milwaukee, where he was superintendent of the Goodrich Express Company until 1869, when he resigned to come to Colorado. The trip to the west he made via Cheyenne to Denver and from this city went to California Gulch (now Leadville), where he engaged in prospecting for two months, but in December went to the San Luis Valley.
A pioneer in that section, he entered one hundred and sixty acres on Rio Alto Creek and embarked in the stock business. In 1871 he entered the employ of a cattle company as foreman on Baca Grant No. 4, and later became proprietor. In 1878 he brought to his place eighty full-bred Hereford bulls and has since devoted his attention to the raising of pure-bred and high-grade Herefords.
He has been a director in the American Hereford Association, is a member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' and National Stock Breeders' Associations, and, under appointment by Governor Pitkin, served for eight years as a member of the State Cattle Inspection and Roundup Boards.
In April, 1895, Governor Mclntire appointed him president of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, to serve for six years.
In Wisconsin, August 27, 1878, Mr. Adams married Miss Addie J. Bertschy, of Appleton, a graduate of the university at that place. They have one child, Florence P.
In politics Mr. Adams supports the silver branch of the Republican party. He has frequently been delegate to conventions, has served as a member of the state Republican committee, and while in Saguache County held the office of county clerk for one term and was also justice of the peace and sheriff of the county. By service upon the school board he advanced the educational interests of his community.
Shortly after his return front the army he became identified with Post No. 9, Wisconsin G. A. R., as one of its charter members. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
There have been so many successful cattlemen in Colorado that it may not be considered a more than ordinary statement to speak of Mr. Adams as one of the most successful, as he is also one of the most extensive.
But when we consider that he came to the state with comparatively little capital and with no experience in the cattle business, his present position is remarkable. By dint of industry, executive ability and determination, he has risen to rank among the foremost cattle breeders of the state and may appropriately be termed the "Hereford king" of the west.
June 15--George H. Adams, millionaire cattleman and owner of the Adams hotel In this city died of heart disease today after three years' illness. He was 59 years of age.
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One of the most remarkable instances of the adaptation of Colorado the cattle industry may be found in the business career of Mr. Adams, who is prominent among the citizens of Denver. Embarking in business as a stock-raiser in 1869, he then bought the two first thoroughbred Shorthorn bulls ever in the San Luis Valley. He has been a pioneer in the introduction of Herefords, to which exclusively his ranch has been stocked since 1878, and he has paid as much as $2200 for a bull and as high as $1500 for a two-year-old heifer of that breed.
The Adams Hereford ranch covers more than four townships of land, embraces twelve and one-half miles and in extent comprises one hundred thousand acres, watered by eleven streams and lakes, and bordering on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range.
The entire tract is fenced in pastures with eighty miles of substantial fencing, while one hundred and forty miles of ditches furnish water for the irrigation of hay and the range. The herd consists of four thousand head of pure-bred and high-grade Hereford cattle.
From the ranch, cattle are sold and shipped to Old Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Kansas and Nebraska for breeding purposes.
Mr. Adams was born in Milwaukee, Wis., the only child of George and Agnes J. (Lace) Adams, natives of Rochester and New York City respectively.
His father removed to Milwaukee in 1836 and engaged in the mercantile business there until his death.
His widow, who still resides there, was a daughter of John Lace, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and settled in New York City, where he owned a mercantile store. Our subject was educated in the schools of Milwaukee. In January, 1863, when only seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, for one hundred days, but continued in the service, in the Army of the Cumberland, until September, 1863, when he was honorably discharged as corporal.
Again, soon afterward, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Forty-seventh Wisconsin infantry, and served as first sergeant and sergeant-major until September, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Nashville.
Returning to Milwaukee, Mr. Adams became money receiving clerk for the United States Express Company, which, in 1867, sent him to Kansas as messenger between Kansas City and Fort Ellsworth, the terminus of the Kansas Pacific. In the spring of 1868 he returned to Milwaukee, where he was superintendent of the Goodrich Express Company until 1869, when he resigned to come to Colorado. The trip to the west he made via Cheyenne to Denver and from this city went to California Gulch (now Leadville), where he engaged in prospecting for two months, but in December went to the San Luis Valley.
A pioneer in that section, he entered one hundred and sixty acres on Rio Alto Creek and embarked in the stock business. In 1871 he entered the employ of a cattle company as foreman on Baca Grant No. 4, and later became proprietor. In 1878 he brought to his place eighty full-bred Hereford bulls and has since devoted his attention to the raising of pure-bred and high-grade Herefords.
He has been a director in the American Hereford Association, is a member of the Colorado Cattle Growers' and National Stock Breeders' Associations, and, under appointment by Governor Pitkin, served for eight years as a member of the State Cattle Inspection and Roundup Boards.
In April, 1895, Governor Mclntire appointed him president of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, to serve for six years.
In Wisconsin, August 27, 1878, Mr. Adams married Miss Addie J. Bertschy, of Appleton, a graduate of the university at that place. They have one child, Florence P.
In politics Mr. Adams supports the silver branch of the Republican party. He has frequently been delegate to conventions, has served as a member of the state Republican committee, and while in Saguache County held the office of county clerk for one term and was also justice of the peace and sheriff of the county. By service upon the school board he advanced the educational interests of his community.
Shortly after his return front the army he became identified with Post No. 9, Wisconsin G. A. R., as one of its charter members. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
There have been so many successful cattlemen in Colorado that it may not be considered a more than ordinary statement to speak of Mr. Adams as one of the most successful, as he is also one of the most extensive.
But when we consider that he came to the state with comparatively little capital and with no experience in the cattle business, his present position is remarkable. By dint of industry, executive ability and determination, he has risen to rank among the foremost cattle breeders of the state and may appropriately be termed the "Hereford king" of the west.
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