Colorado Biography

Online Resources

 * Encyclopedia of biography of Colorado: history of Colorado ($)
 * County and Town Histories, with biographies.
 * Representative men of Colorado in the nineteenth century, e-book
 * Representative women of Colorado, e-book
 * Progressive men of western Colorado e-book
 * Portrait and biographical record of the state of Colorado, pt. 1, e-book, and pt. 2

The best collection of published biographies in Colorado is at the Colorado Historical Society. They also have a biographical vertical file and the Bromwell Index (Family History Library ), which is a five-volume alphabetical list of prominent people in Colorado up to 1933.

Two representative biographical encyclopedias are:

Stone, Wilbur Fiske. History of Colorado. Four Volumes. Chicago, Illinois: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1918-19. (Family History Library .) Volumes 2-4 contain biographies.

Portrait and Biographical Record of the State of Colorado. . . . Two Volumes. Chicago, Illinois: Chapman Publishing Company, 1899. (Family History Library .)

Other Resources


 * Mardos Memorial Library, Colorado Selections
 * Colorado State Archives, Colorado Biographies
 * State Biographies, Colorado from GeneaSearch