“Biographical Record of the State of Colorado,” published by Chapman Publishing Company in Chicago in 1899
Ancie Everett, engaged in the meat business at Lamar, Prowers County, came to this town in the fall of 1886, a few months after the village had been laid out. At once opening a meat market, he has since carried on business at this point, and in addition to his retail trade he is engaged in the wholesale dressed-meat business and also ships livestock. Besides the building in which he has his market and other town property, he is the owner of two hundred and eighty acres situated adjacent to the town and watered by Bed Rock ditch, for the use of which he has a two hundred acre water right.
A son of John and Anna (Smith) Everett, the subject of this sketch was born in Washington County, Ohio, on May 29, 1847. When he was seven years of age, he accompanied his parents to Lawrence County, Ohio, and afterward remained on his father’s farm until 1864. From the age of fourteen he has been self-supporting. On removing to Kansas in 1864, he began to take contracts to cut timber for the railroad, and from that time, he followed contracting in Missouri and Kansas until 1874.
Meantime he was married, in Lawrence County, Ohio, on November 3, 1868, to Miss L. C. Daly, a native of Noble County, Ohio. As a contractor he was fairly successful, but the illness of his father caused him to return to Ohio in 1874, and he took care of his father until the latter’s death the following year. His next venture was as proprietor of a general store in the country near the old homestead, where he continued until his mother’s death in 1885.
He then left Ohio and drove west through the Mississippi Valley and into Colorado, looking for a healthful location, as his wife was in poor health. Arriving in Lamar he concluded to settle here, and at once began in the meat business. In 1895 he erected the brick store building, which he has since occupied. He is also the owner of residence property in the town.
The various important local enterprises (mill, hotel, etc.) have all received his assistance. He is a public-spirited citizen, ready to help in any measure that promises to advance the interests of his town. Mr. and Mrs. Everett became the parents of four sons: J. E., M. E., and A. E. (twins) and Orion. The eldest son, who was born in Wyandotte, Kan., married Miss Hattie Cummings in Lamar on September 28, 1892, and they have three children, Frank E., Margaret L., and William A. M. E., who was born at Orrick, Ray County, Mo., was married at Lamar to Miss Madge Bradley, by whom he has three children. A. E. is unmarried and resides in Lamar, as also does the youngest son, Orion, who was born in Lawrence County, Ohio.
Together with two of his sons, Mr. Everett is connected with Lamar Camp No. 36, Woodmen of the World, in which he has been an officer and active worker. He has never cared for office, his tastes not running in the line of politics, but he believes in Democratic principles and may be relied upon to support them at the polls.
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