Ted colson biography

Edmund Albert Colson , by unknown photographer. Educated at Yatina Public School, Ted became a voracious reader and developed a retentive memory. In he and his father sailed to Western Australia and walked miles km to the Norseman goldfields. Ted stated that he was a contractor when he married a domestic servant Alice Jane Horne on 7 December at the Christian Chapel, Kalgoorlie, with the forms of the Churches of Christ; they were to remain childless.

He took a job at Brunswick Junction in the south-west of the State before moving in to Victoria, where he worked on the construction of the Maroondah dam and in began a motor transport service between Healesville and Melbourne. Next year he was employed in extending the railway north of Oodnadatta, South Australia. In he leased Blood Creek station at Abminga, north-west of Oodnadatta; there he ran sheep, tended the government bore and kept a store.

In Colson had explored west of the Goyder River for miles km beyond Mount Irwin station.

Ted colson biography: Edmund Albert "Ted" Colson

He was cameleer and guide on Michael Terry's expeditions to the Petermann and Tomkinson ranges, and conducted A. Elkin on his anthropological investigations west of Charlotte Waters. Colson understood the rites, customs and dialects of several Aboriginal tribes. Over camp fires he sang, told yarns and indulged his talent for mimicry.