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18181. Gilbert Riley "Gil" Wenger
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An expert on the archaeology of Mesa Verde. He was born to Martin G. Wenger and Annie (Ebersol) Wenger in Grand Junction, Colorado. He grew up in Grand Junction and in Salt Lake City. He served in the US Air Force during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart.
He attended the University of Denver, where he received a B.A. and Master’s Degree, before launching his career with the National Park Service. He worked at several national parks...
18182. David Leach
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An authority on the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Mesa County, Colorado.
18183. Alexander R. "Alex" Bauer
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He was born to George Bauer and Katherine “Katie” (Hosseiler) Bauer in Morganthau, Russia. His family belonged to a community of Germans living there. Fearing revolution, his family immigrated to the United States in 1913, when Alex was four years old.
His father found work as a blacksmith in Kansas and then with the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Idaho in 1917. His mother was a homemaker. Alex and his siblings could not speak English when they...
18184. Lulita Crawford Pritchett
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18186. Minnie May (Welch) Crawford
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18188. Donald Melvin "Don" Rogers
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He was born to John Wesley Rogers and Anna Rebecca (Bowman) Rogers in Mesa County, Colorado. His parents farmed in Appleton, where they had moved just before 1900. They moved to Fisher, on the Redlands just over the Black Bridge from Orchard Mesa, when Don was not yet six years old. They ranched cattle on the Redlands and on East Creek on Pinon Mesa.
Don grew up attending Grand Junction schools and graduated from Grand Junction High School, where...
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The Grand Junction and Grand River Valley Railway Company provided the Interurban streetcar route from Fruita to Grand Junction, Colorado. It was run by the Public Service Company. The line in Grand Junction ran from 3rd and Main Streets, where there was a platform behind the Public Service Company building, down Main Street to 2nd Street, down 2nd Street to South Avenue, on South Avenue to 12th Street, on 12th to North Avenue, and then on North...
18190. William Clarence Kurtz
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The millionaire and owner of lumber yards in Montrose and Grand Junction, Colorado, including the Independent Lumber Company, in the early to mid-Twentieth century. Along with Clyde Biggs, he purchased and first developed the land just east of 12th Street and south of Lincoln Park in what was known as the Lincoln Park Addition. He and his wife Edna located their home at 1259 Gunnison Avenue, across from the then Mesa County Fairgrounds (now Lincoln...
18191. Harvey Mills Tupper
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He was born in Illinois to Henry Tupper, a lawyer, and Clara M. Tupper, a homemaker. The US Census shows the family living in Grand Junction, Colorado by 1910, when Harvey was seven, and practicing medicine by 1930. He served as a doctor at Mrs. Comb’s nursery, delivering children. He was married to Barbara Grace Tupper.
According to William "Bill" Rump of the Redlands, Tupper was the Secretary of the Redlands Company, the organization primarily...
18192. Mason "Grandpa" Mowry
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He ran the Sunday school that held classes in the old Redlands School building in the Redlands area of Mesa County. According to information from Viola Rump, a longtime Redlands resident, he was one of the early settlers. He was also one of the first school bus drivers in the Redlands.
18193. Henry Clay Schneider
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An early schoolteacher in the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado. He had a talent, particularly, for winning respect from his young, male students. William Rump, who went to the Redlands School and had Schneider as a teacher, gave this description of him:
“Probably he was well liked by, particularly, the boys. He was a real athletic sort of a fella. In fact, he was the one that was involved in giving those kids all of the lickings. There...
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A social and charitable organization founded in part by Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel newspaper.
According to Grand Junction Lions Club founder Silmon Smith, the Rotary Club came into existence when the original Grand Junction Lions Club folded in 1922, with some Lions members joining the Rotary.
According to William "Bill" Rump, whose father Charles Rump was a charter member, the Grand Junction Rotary was an early proponent...
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A utility service that generates distributes and sells electricity in Colorado. Currently, it's a subsidiary of Xcel Energy.
According to William "Bill" Rump, his father Charles Rump served as the local manager in the 1920's or 1930's. According to longtime employee Robert Gustafson, the company consisted of different divisions organized by region. By 1945, when Gustafson was office manager of the Grand Junction division (formed in the late 1920’s...
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It was established in 1913 as The Redlands Realty Company by Albert J. Schwartz, W. C. Osborne, and R. J. Bardwell. It was preceded by the Redlands Water and Power Company, which was organized in 1905. The history of the two companies intertwines, with the Water and Power Company conceived of as a means to bring to fruition the broader development and sale of real estate on the Redlands. According to William Rump, whose father Charles Rump was involved...
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Originally called the Redlands Irrigation and Power Company in 1905, it was created to run irrigation operations on the Redlands area and run a hydro-electric plant. Currently, it's called the Redlands Water and Power Company and is a non-profit organization.
The company was conceived as a way to provide the Redlands with the necessary utilities for growth as a community. It was organized in 1905 and incorporated in 1906 by F.C. Keifer, A.J. McCune,...
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