from A HISTORY OF TEXAS AND TEXANS
George Richardson. Among Texas sheep men and wool growers of the present time there is none whose extended business and success have excelled the record of George Richardson, the well-known wool commission man and sheep raiser at San Angelo. His sheep ranch, located in Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties, has for a number of years borne a high reputation among the sheep men throughout West Texas. Mr. Richardson has jealously guarded the substantial reputation of his flocks, and as a result there are few men in the country who have upheld the standard of the sheep business more uniformly through a course of many years.
George Richardson, like many other successful men, started out on a small scale in West Texas as a sheep grower about thirty-five years ago. He comes from a sheep country, and his father before him was an expert in the industry in Scotland, where George was reared and trained to his future life work. He was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, in 1857. His father, D. B. Richardson, was a sheep raiser and farmer, and one of the most successful in his line in all Scotland. He continued in that industry until his death in 1911. The mother is still living in Scotland.
George Richardson attained his education in the schools of his native land, and his first regular work on his father's farm began at the age of fifteen and he continued until he was thoroughly familiar with all the departments of sheep raising. In 1879 he emigrated from Scotland, and after one year in Uvalde county, Texas, moved out to Eden, in Concho county, where he was among the early settlers, and where he had a sheep ranch for some years until 1887, at which time he transferred his headquarters to San Angelo. In San Angelo, besides being a large producer of wool, he has for many years been engaged in the wool commission business. In West Texas when he made his start he had a flock of about four hundred sheep. Since then he has directed his energies not only to increasing his sheep numerically, but has laid special emphasis on grading up and bringing the flocks to tie highest standard. He has continued this work with great care and efficiency for more than thirtyfive years. The stock to which he has given special attention is the Delaine Merinos, and his ranch is famous all over West Texas for this breed. He now runs ten thousand head of sheep, and his wool clip will average ten pounds to the head. During the years in which Mr. Richardson has been a factor in wool production in West Texas prices have had a great range, from five cents per pound to twenty-five cents per pound. During the Cleveland administration, when wool was placed on the free list, and in consequence of the tariff tinkering of that time, wool prices fell to the lowest known minimum of five cents per pound.
Mr. Richardson, besides his large interest as a wool raiser, is a director in the Concho Valley Loan and Trust Company of San Angelo, and is vice-president and one of the large stockholders in the First National Bank of San Angelo. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and has membership in the Presbyterian church. On November 25, 1890, he married Miss Carrie B. Scudder, of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have three children, two sons and one daughter. D. B. Richardson, the oldest, is now connected with the South Bend Woolen Mills in South Bend, Indiana; Robert S. Richardson is attending the West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio; the daughter, Miss Janet H. Richardson, is in school in San Angelo.
The Richardson sheep ranch is located thirty-five miles northwest of San Angelo, and its fifty thousand acres spread over portions of Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties. It is watered by Rocky Creek, and by twentytwo driven wells, each one equipped with windmill and large water tank. This large acreage is divided into twenty-seven inclosures, and the ranch is equipped with three separate residences, with a shearing shed and all the improvements and facilities for the sheep industry. As a wool grower Mr. Richardson, almost as a matter of course, is a Republican in politics, and thoroughly believes in the protective tariff. He has served as chairman of the Republican party in his home county for eighteen years, and is a vigorous advocate of Republican principles. He is vice-president of the State Sheep, Goat and Wool-Growers' Association of Texas.
Mr. Richardson is a Scotchman and of an old Scotch family, while his wife is of German descent. There were eleven children in the elder Richardson's family, and two of the brothers, James and John, are now both employed on the Richardson ranch in West Texas. Mr. Richardson also has a brother in China .engaged in the banking and shipping business. All the other children of the Richardson family still live in Scotland.
Mr. Richardson believes that the Concho country is the best wool-growing section in the State of Texas, and in the entire Southwest. Its advantages in this regard are increased by the fact that, while essentially a grazing country, it is well watered from subterranean sources, and by drilling from eighteen to one hundred feet below the surface an unfailing supply of pure water can always be obtained. In climate also the country is ideal, and it is a fine place for men of energy to adopt as their home.
George Richardson. Among Texas sheep men and wool growers of the present time there is none whose extended business and success have excelled the record of George Richardson, the well-known wool commission man and sheep raiser at San Angelo. His sheep ranch, located in Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties, has for a number of years borne a high reputation among the sheep men throughout West Texas. Mr. Richardson has jealously guarded the substantial reputation of his flocks, and as a result there are few men in the country who have upheld the standard of the sheep business more uniformly through a course of many years.
George Richardson, like many other successful men, started out on a small scale in West Texas as a sheep grower about thirty-five years ago. He comes from a sheep country, and his father before him was an expert in the industry in Scotland, where George was reared and trained to his future life work. He was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, in 1857. His father, D. B. Richardson, was a sheep raiser and farmer, and one of the most successful in his line in all Scotland. He continued in that industry until his death in 1911. The mother is still living in Scotland.
George Richardson attained his education in the schools of his native land, and his first regular work on his father's farm began at the age of fifteen and he continued until he was thoroughly familiar with all the departments of sheep raising. In 1879 he emigrated from Scotland, and after one year in Uvalde county, Texas, moved out to Eden, in Concho county, where he was among the early settlers, and where he had a sheep ranch for some years until 1887, at which time he transferred his headquarters to San Angelo. In San Angelo, besides being a large producer of wool, he has for many years been engaged in the wool commission business. In West Texas when he made his start he had a flock of about four hundred sheep. Since then he has directed his energies not only to increasing his sheep numerically, but has laid special emphasis on grading up and bringing the flocks to tie highest standard. He has continued this work with great care and efficiency for more than thirtyfive years. The stock to which he has given special attention is the Delaine Merinos, and his ranch is famous all over West Texas for this breed. He now runs ten thousand head of sheep, and his wool clip will average ten pounds to the head. During the years in which Mr. Richardson has been a factor in wool production in West Texas prices have had a great range, from five cents per pound to twenty-five cents per pound. During the Cleveland administration, when wool was placed on the free list, and in consequence of the tariff tinkering of that time, wool prices fell to the lowest known minimum of five cents per pound.
Mr. Richardson, besides his large interest as a wool raiser, is a director in the Concho Valley Loan and Trust Company of San Angelo, and is vice-president and one of the large stockholders in the First National Bank of San Angelo. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and has membership in the Presbyterian church. On November 25, 1890, he married Miss Carrie B. Scudder, of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have three children, two sons and one daughter. D. B. Richardson, the oldest, is now connected with the South Bend Woolen Mills in South Bend, Indiana; Robert S. Richardson is attending the West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio; the daughter, Miss Janet H. Richardson, is in school in San Angelo.
The Richardson sheep ranch is located thirty-five miles northwest of San Angelo, and its fifty thousand acres spread over portions of Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties. It is watered by Rocky Creek, and by twentytwo driven wells, each one equipped with windmill and large water tank. This large acreage is divided into twenty-seven inclosures, and the ranch is equipped with three separate residences, with a shearing shed and all the improvements and facilities for the sheep industry. As a wool grower Mr. Richardson, almost as a matter of course, is a Republican in politics, and thoroughly believes in the protective tariff. He has served as chairman of the Republican party in his home county for eighteen years, and is a vigorous advocate of Republican principles. He is vice-president of the State Sheep, Goat and Wool-Growers' Association of Texas.
Mr. Richardson is a Scotchman and of an old Scotch family, while his wife is of German descent. There were eleven children in the elder Richardson's family, and two of the brothers, James and John, are now both employed on the Richardson ranch in West Texas. Mr. Richardson also has a brother in China .engaged in the banking and shipping business. All the other children of the Richardson family still live in Scotland.
Mr. Richardson believes that the Concho country is the best wool-growing section in the State of Texas, and in the entire Southwest. Its advantages in this regard are increased by the fact that, while essentially a grazing country, it is well watered from subterranean sources, and by drilling from eighteen to one hundred feet below the surface an unfailing supply of pure water can always be obtained. In climate also the country is ideal, and it is a fine place for men of energy to adopt as their home.
from A HISTORY OF TEXAS AND TEXANS
George Richardson. Among Texas sheep men and wool growers of the present time there is none whose extended business and success have excelled the record of George Richardson, the well-known wool commission man and sheep raiser at San Angelo. His sheep ranch, located in Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties, has for a number of years borne a high reputation among the sheep men throughout West Texas. Mr. Richardson has jealously guarded the substantial reputation of his flocks, and as a result there are few men in the country who have upheld the standard of the sheep business more uniformly through a course of many years.
George Richardson, like many other successful men, started out on a small scale in West Texas as a sheep grower about thirty-five years ago. He comes from a sheep country, and his father before him was an expert in the industry in Scotland, where George was reared and trained to his future life work. He was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, in 1857. His father, D. B. Richardson, was a sheep raiser and farmer, and one of the most successful in his line in all Scotland. He continued in that industry until his death in 1911. The mother is still living in Scotland.
George Richardson attained his education in the schools of his native land, and his first regular work on his father's farm began at the age of fifteen and he continued until he was thoroughly familiar with all the departments of sheep raising. In 1879 he emigrated from Scotland, and after one year in Uvalde county, Texas, moved out to Eden, in Concho county, where he was among the early settlers, and where he had a sheep ranch for some years until 1887, at which time he transferred his headquarters to San Angelo. In San Angelo, besides being a large producer of wool, he has for many years been engaged in the wool commission business. In West Texas when he made his start he had a flock of about four hundred sheep. Since then he has directed his energies not only to increasing his sheep numerically, but has laid special emphasis on grading up and bringing the flocks to tie highest standard. He has continued this work with great care and efficiency for more than thirtyfive years. The stock to which he has given special attention is the Delaine Merinos, and his ranch is famous all over West Texas for this breed. He now runs ten thousand head of sheep, and his wool clip will average ten pounds to the head. During the years in which Mr. Richardson has been a factor in wool production in West Texas prices have had a great range, from five cents per pound to twenty-five cents per pound. During the Cleveland administration, when wool was placed on the free list, and in consequence of the tariff tinkering of that time, wool prices fell to the lowest known minimum of five cents per pound.
Mr. Richardson, besides his large interest as a wool raiser, is a director in the Concho Valley Loan and Trust Company of San Angelo, and is vice-president and one of the large stockholders in the First National Bank of San Angelo. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and has membership in the Presbyterian church. On November 25, 1890, he married Miss Carrie B. Scudder, of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have three children, two sons and one daughter. D. B. Richardson, the oldest, is now connected with the South Bend Woolen Mills in South Bend, Indiana; Robert S. Richardson is attending the West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio; the daughter, Miss Janet H. Richardson, is in school in San Angelo.
The Richardson sheep ranch is located thirty-five miles northwest of San Angelo, and its fifty thousand acres spread over portions of Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties. It is watered by Rocky Creek, and by twentytwo driven wells, each one equipped with windmill and large water tank. This large acreage is divided into twenty-seven inclosures, and the ranch is equipped with three separate residences, with a shearing shed and all the improvements and facilities for the sheep industry. As a wool grower Mr. Richardson, almost as a matter of course, is a Republican in politics, and thoroughly believes in the protective tariff. He has served as chairman of the Republican party in his home county for eighteen years, and is a vigorous advocate of Republican principles. He is vice-president of the State Sheep, Goat and Wool-Growers' Association of Texas.
Mr. Richardson is a Scotchman and of an old Scotch family, while his wife is of German descent. There were eleven children in the elder Richardson's family, and two of the brothers, James and John, are now both employed on the Richardson ranch in West Texas. Mr. Richardson also has a brother in China .engaged in the banking and shipping business. All the other children of the Richardson family still live in Scotland.
Mr. Richardson believes that the Concho country is the best wool-growing section in the State of Texas, and in the entire Southwest. Its advantages in this regard are increased by the fact that, while essentially a grazing country, it is well watered from subterranean sources, and by drilling from eighteen to one hundred feet below the surface an unfailing supply of pure water can always be obtained. In climate also the country is ideal, and it is a fine place for men of energy to adopt as their home.
George Richardson. Among Texas sheep men and wool growers of the present time there is none whose extended business and success have excelled the record of George Richardson, the well-known wool commission man and sheep raiser at San Angelo. His sheep ranch, located in Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties, has for a number of years borne a high reputation among the sheep men throughout West Texas. Mr. Richardson has jealously guarded the substantial reputation of his flocks, and as a result there are few men in the country who have upheld the standard of the sheep business more uniformly through a course of many years.
George Richardson, like many other successful men, started out on a small scale in West Texas as a sheep grower about thirty-five years ago. He comes from a sheep country, and his father before him was an expert in the industry in Scotland, where George was reared and trained to his future life work. He was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, in 1857. His father, D. B. Richardson, was a sheep raiser and farmer, and one of the most successful in his line in all Scotland. He continued in that industry until his death in 1911. The mother is still living in Scotland.
George Richardson attained his education in the schools of his native land, and his first regular work on his father's farm began at the age of fifteen and he continued until he was thoroughly familiar with all the departments of sheep raising. In 1879 he emigrated from Scotland, and after one year in Uvalde county, Texas, moved out to Eden, in Concho county, where he was among the early settlers, and where he had a sheep ranch for some years until 1887, at which time he transferred his headquarters to San Angelo. In San Angelo, besides being a large producer of wool, he has for many years been engaged in the wool commission business. In West Texas when he made his start he had a flock of about four hundred sheep. Since then he has directed his energies not only to increasing his sheep numerically, but has laid special emphasis on grading up and bringing the flocks to tie highest standard. He has continued this work with great care and efficiency for more than thirtyfive years. The stock to which he has given special attention is the Delaine Merinos, and his ranch is famous all over West Texas for this breed. He now runs ten thousand head of sheep, and his wool clip will average ten pounds to the head. During the years in which Mr. Richardson has been a factor in wool production in West Texas prices have had a great range, from five cents per pound to twenty-five cents per pound. During the Cleveland administration, when wool was placed on the free list, and in consequence of the tariff tinkering of that time, wool prices fell to the lowest known minimum of five cents per pound.
Mr. Richardson, besides his large interest as a wool raiser, is a director in the Concho Valley Loan and Trust Company of San Angelo, and is vice-president and one of the large stockholders in the First National Bank of San Angelo. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and has membership in the Presbyterian church. On November 25, 1890, he married Miss Carrie B. Scudder, of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have three children, two sons and one daughter. D. B. Richardson, the oldest, is now connected with the South Bend Woolen Mills in South Bend, Indiana; Robert S. Richardson is attending the West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio; the daughter, Miss Janet H. Richardson, is in school in San Angelo.
The Richardson sheep ranch is located thirty-five miles northwest of San Angelo, and its fifty thousand acres spread over portions of Tom Green, Sterling and Irion counties. It is watered by Rocky Creek, and by twentytwo driven wells, each one equipped with windmill and large water tank. This large acreage is divided into twenty-seven inclosures, and the ranch is equipped with three separate residences, with a shearing shed and all the improvements and facilities for the sheep industry. As a wool grower Mr. Richardson, almost as a matter of course, is a Republican in politics, and thoroughly believes in the protective tariff. He has served as chairman of the Republican party in his home county for eighteen years, and is a vigorous advocate of Republican principles. He is vice-president of the State Sheep, Goat and Wool-Growers' Association of Texas.
Mr. Richardson is a Scotchman and of an old Scotch family, while his wife is of German descent. There were eleven children in the elder Richardson's family, and two of the brothers, James and John, are now both employed on the Richardson ranch in West Texas. Mr. Richardson also has a brother in China .engaged in the banking and shipping business. All the other children of the Richardson family still live in Scotland.
Mr. Richardson believes that the Concho country is the best wool-growing section in the State of Texas, and in the entire Southwest. Its advantages in this regard are increased by the fact that, while essentially a grazing country, it is well watered from subterranean sources, and by drilling from eighteen to one hundred feet below the surface an unfailing supply of pure water can always be obtained. In climate also the country is ideal, and it is a fine place for men of energy to adopt as their home.
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