Centennial Farms & Ranches
Kinzie-Lippitt Farm
Logan County
In early 1910 Theodore Congdon Lippitt moved to Colorado from Iowa with his wife and three sons. By March he had begun cultivating land he bought northwest of Fleming, where he built farm buildings and a house.
Following his wife Laura’s death in 1919, the farmland was gradually distributed among his sons Crit, Burwell, and Irvil. For the next three decades, Burwell and his wife Lillian lived on the farm, where they raised their four children, including Carol who was born in the farmhouse in 1929, as well as horses, wheat corn oats, and Lippitt potatoes. During the 1950s, the family raised hogs, milk cows, and cattle.
After Burwell’s death in 1951, his daughter Carol Lippitt Kinzie and her husband Bud Kinzie moved to the land, where they farmed and raised their family, too. Soon Bud switched to tractors and larger implements and the major crops have been dry land wheat and corn. In 2006 Carol died in the same farmhouse in which she was born. Bud has spent most of his life on the farm and though he is no longer actively farming today, at age 90 he continues to take care of the farm and supervises operations.