Excerpt from "Progressive Men of Western Colorado", Chicago, Bowen, 1905, Page 236 - 237

"Archie McLachlan"

Mr. McLachlan, who is one of the prosperous and progressive ranch, cattle and business men of Routt County, is a Canadian native, born in the province of Nova Scotia on February 28, 1847, and the son of William and Jane McLachlan, who were born in Scotland and emigrated in early life to Canada. The father farmed in the land of his adoption until the discovery of gold in California led him to the land of promise in 1849. He made a good strike there and while on his return home in 1852 was murdered for his money. The mother came to Colorado with the subject and died near Golden, this state, on October 10, 1893. Both parents were members of the Presbyterian Church. Their son Archie had almost no opportunity for schooling. From the age of eight to sixteen he worked on farms and then was put to work to learn his trade as a millwright, and he worked at this until he reached his legal majority. Then in 1868, he moved to Boston and later to Chicago, and in these cities he did carpenter work and contracting until 1872, when he became a resident of Colorado. Locating then at Golden City, he established a saw-mill nine miles west of the town, which he conducted with varying success for a period of ten years. In 1883 he moved to Bear River, a region at that time wholly unsettled, and here he located a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, one of the first six ranches taken up in that section. He now owns also another ranch of one hundred and sixty acres in the same vicinity, and on the two has two hundred and forty acres under cultivation. he raises cattle and horses extensively, and had good crops of hay, grain, vegetables and small fruit. he has in addition valuable real estate at Craig and runs a sawmill on a tract of fine timber land twenty-five miles northeast of the town. This engages him in an extensive and profitable lumber business which gives him prominence in commercial circles as well as in the stock industry. He is a chapter Mason in fraternal life and an ardent Democrat in politics. On May 26, 1895, he was married to Miss Cora E. Ranney, a native of Michigan, born in Ionia County. They have four children, Audrey, Archie H., Cora A., and Edwin. When their father came to Colorado he was without capital and wholly unacquainted with the people. He accepted with cheerfulness and alacrity the opportunities for useful labor and advancement which came to him, and by his own efforts he has risen to good financial and business standing prominence in local public esteem. He has been successful in all his undertakings here and, being by his long residence in the state thoroughly imbued with the spirit of its people and sympathy with their interests, he is generally regarded as one of the most useful and representative citizens in his community.

Excerpts from "The Trail", Vol. 9, No. 11 April 1917

A pioneer of Moffat County and at one time its representative in the state legislature, died at Craig Colorado from the infirmities of old age. He had just returned from a visit to the Pacific coast in the hope of improving his health condition, which had been poor for several months. He was born in 1848 and had been a resident of Routt County from the pioneer days.