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HEODORE NOTT, of Hazeltine, is said to have the best farm in the state; certainly the place would be a credit to any community. It is well irrigated and kept in the best of order; the buildings are all good and a look of neatness and order prevails that is refreshing to the eye. Mr. Nott was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., August 8, 1842, and there grew to manhood on a farm. He attended the district schools, and afterward the academy, beginning to work for himself when about nineteen. For about four years he ran a stage line and carried the mail between Antwerp, Jefferson and Ogdensburg, N. Y., and the next year conducted a livery barn in Carthage, that state. The following four years he carried on the same business at Antwerp. He then decided on locating in the west and took passage, by rail, to Cheyenne, in the spring of 1869, coming from there to Denver by stage. Here he engaged in the dairy business, with a brother, in the vicinity of Blackhawk and Central City, remaining about four years.

October 11, 1865, Mr. Nott married Miss Carrie P. Proctor, of Antwerp, N. Y., and in the fall of 1869 his family followed him to Colorado. After leaving his ranch in Jefferson County, he went to


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Denver and ran a dairy for three years more, and then moved into the country in Arapahoe County, thirty-two miles east of Denver, where he began raising sheep. He was extensively engaged in this business for seventeen or eighteen years, and made quite a handsome profit from it. This money he invested in Denver real estate, which was then having a boom, and when the collapse came, most of his money was lost. In 1892 he traded for one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 6, township 2, range 67, upon which he now lives. They had six children, viz.: Edward, who married and lives in Denver; Maud, who married Edward Clay, a railroad man, and has one child, Dorothy; Ernest, who lives at home; Reuben, who is married and lives in Arapahoe County, where his father formerly had his sheep ranch; Stella, who died in 1891, and is buried in Fairmont Cemetery; and Fred, who lives as home.

Formerly Mr. Nott was a Democrat, but since coming to this state he has joined forces with the Republicans. He has been an earliest supporter of superior school advantages, and has probably done more for the cause of education than anyone else in the county. He has been school director fully four-fifths of the time since coming to the state.