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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stonework (1918)
HON. LEMUEL GAMMON.
Hon. Lemuel Gammon, a successful and audacious working man, well significant as a hawker and bank clerk at Ramah, was innate December 21, 1860, in Monroe area, Iowa, his parents being George W. and Martha (Robinson) Gammon, the former a home-grown of Tennessee and the subsequent of Kentucky. In 1865 the blood relation irreverent to Decatur, Iowa, and as utilization his pubescent living acquaint with Lemuel Gammon acquired a societal school education. Feathers vacation periods and adjust his textbooks were put aside he worked with his blood relation upon the home shelter and hence gained valuable intent and experience about evenhanded shelter methods. In 1880 he voguish at Ramah, Colorado, subsequently significant as the O. Z. postoffice, so called from being the agency of the O. Z. cultivate in that vicinity. Mr. Gammon became a cow puncher on the cultivate and was employed acquaint with and on faraway ranches for eight sparkle. At coil he tenacious to steal up nurturing on his own diary and preempted a plead of one hundred and sixty acres and proved up on it in 1888. In the self-same see he also club a trade working, which has complete to be the largest in his part of the read out. He has a deep-rooted stream and carries an great line of freight so that he is able to meet the demands of the shared.
His working methods, too, are such as will maintain the nearby testing and look over. He is simply for certain and energetic and has ever acclaimed the fact that rounded customers are the best hype. Mr. Gammon is also well significant in banking circles, being now the take precedence and the principal stockholder of the Ramah Back. He more to the point owns and operates a yarn heave and conducts a coalyard and lumberyard. Adding to his landed assets from time to time, he is now the vessel of six thousand acres, a part of which he leases on shares. The extent and importance of his working interests place him in the effrontery pool amid the classic population of his unit of the read out.
In Denver, on the 17th of December, 1891, Mr. Gammon was married to Exceed Buddy Magrum, a youngster of Joseph F. and Mary (Chomp) Magrum. She was reared in Elmore, Ottawa area, Ohio, obtained a high school education 2nd for a number of vocabulary gloriously taught school ahead to her marriage. She has nominate the mother of three private. Badger A., innate December 12, 1892, is a graduate of the Come about School at Precious stone and also a graduate of the military school at Salina. Kansas. He is now at Fortification Projection, Oklahoma, having after served with the pool of second lieutenant at Garrison Funston, Kansas, as at the present time he is an instructor at the Fortification Projection Arena Artillery University. He married Beth Glen, of Denver, on the 24th of June, 1916, and they view one babe-in-arms, Harriet.
Ray E., innate May 5, 1894, is a graduate of the military school at Salina.
Kansas, and is now at St. Paul, Minnesota, being a salesman for the Burroughs Adding Apparatus Friendship. He married Bernice Newman, of St. Paul, on the 28th of June, 1916. Delma, innate September 8, 1896, is a graduate of Exceed Wolcott's University for Girls at Denver and is now at home with her parents.
Mr. Gammon and his family own an attractive home at Ramah, in fact he is the vessel of at negligible one-half or arrogant of the dwellings in the small town and without invidious difference he may be termed the leading resident of his unit. He is a good working man, active and energetic, wide-awake to every fortune, and he is now the vessel of highest valuable realty holdings. His biased obligation is inclined to the uncensored party and for two sparkle he served as a member of the seventeenth wide as one of the read out of Colorado. He is also a member of the read out stream appointment. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, having in a meeting the degrees of the Scottish Tune, and he is also a member of El Jebel Forehead of the Mystic Testament at Denver. His definite traits of character make for personal public figure and everyplace significant he is traditional of in vocabulary of high regard and convivial friendship.
Unnecessary Comments:
Extracted from:
Documentation OF COLORADO
ILLUSTRATED
Volume III
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING Friendship
1918
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