Jefferson County Illinois Biographies

Source: Progressive Men of Western Colorado
By A.W. Bowen & Co
Submitted By: Cindy Ford

Lemuel L. Breeze, scholar, school teacher, lawyer, and now 
a progressive and successful ranch and cattle man of Routt county. living 
near Craig, who has tried his hand at several vocations and won success in 
greater or less degree in all, was born in Jefferson county. Illinois, on 
June 18, 1852. He received a good scholastic and professional education, 
attending the public schools, the Southern Illinois Agricultural College, 
Butler University in Indiana, Hanover College in the same state, and the 
State University of Iowa, being graduated from the law department of the 
last named. In order to get this full measure of collegiate education he 
taught school in Illinois and the state of Washington, and after completing 
the law course at the Iowa University he practiced his profession in Illinois. 
In 1881 he became a resident of Colorado, and here he practiced law in Summit 
county three years. In 1883 he located his present ranch, three miles southeast 
of Craig. The water supply is sufficient to make a large acreage tillable, and 
he raises good crops of the usual farm products in the neighborhood. He takes 
an active interest in the fraternal life of the country as a Freemason and an 
Odd Fellow, and in its political life as an earnest working Republican. 

On May 18. 1891, he united in marriage with Miss Rosella Teagarden. They have 
one child, Willard L. Mr. Breeze is the son of Robert and Martha J. (Downs) Breeze, 
who were born in Indiana and were among the earliest settlers in Jefferson county, 
Illinois, locating there when almost the whole county was a wilderness. There the 
mother died on April 14, 1882, and soon afterward the father moved to Colorado, 
taking up his residence in the vicinity of Craig, Routt county. He was an ardent 
Democrat until the beginning of the Civil war. He then became a Republican and 
followed the fortunes of that party to the end of his life, which came on 
February 19, 1897. He was a man of prominence and influence in Illinois and also in this 
state. Both parents were members of the Christian church. They had nine children, of 
whom Charles, Nancy, Robert and Mrs. W. W. Wayman are dead, and Lemuel L., John M., 
Lewis H., Mrs. Henry Lucas and Mrs. Sallie C. Jackson are living. 



 


 



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