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18261. Chester Fred "Chet" Crowley
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He was born to Chester F. Crowley Sr. and Gladys K. (Haynes) Crowley in Birmingham, Alabama. The family moved to Western Colorado in 1936, when he was about seven years old. The 1940 US Census shows Chet, his younger sister and brother living alone with their mother in De Beque. She later remarried. He attended the Palisade School and later obtained his US Army GED.
He served in the US Army from May 19th, 1948 until 1968. He enlisted in Denver,...
18262. Randall Fosburgh
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A participant in a discussion of Plateau Valley history during a panel discussion sponsored by the Mesa County Historical Society in Collbran, Colorado on July 24, 1983.
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18264. Darrell Claire Maluy
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He was born in Mesa County, Colorado to Mary Christine "Nanny” (Darrow) Maluy and Clement Maluy. He was raised on a homestead in the New Liberty area. He attended the New Liberty School and Fruita High School, where he was a track athlete. He also ran track and played football at Mesa College and Colorado School of Mines.
His military draft notice shows that by 1940, he was living at 825 E. Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, California, where he...
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A local branch of the national organization that develops youth into leaders in the agricultural industry.
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A country club that owned and operated a club house and nine-hole golf course from August 1921-1937 on the Redlands at 2463 Broadway. When the organization dissolved during the Great Depression, the buildings were sold to Redlands Women's Club, who raised the money to do so through bake sales and other fundraisers.
18269. Pepi Gramshammer
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Nannie Blaine Underhill was the first teacher in Grand Junction, Colorado. She was born to Eleam and Clarissa Blaine in Illinois, and the 1870 US Census shows her living in Astoria with her family at the age of 7. According to the 1880 US Census, the family had moved to Fremont, Colorado by 1880, when Nannie was 17.
In June 1882, she was hired to teach as the first teacher in Grand Junction. Her schoolhouse was a picket house with a dirt roof and...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to George Washington Gordon and May Alveretta Foy. Her grandfather, his wives, and children settled Grand Junction soon after its founding. Her uncle, John Gordon, built and ran Gordon’s Ferry across the Colorado River, and Gordon’s Toll Road up to Pinon Mesa. Her father was a cowboy and rancher. Her mother was a homemaker.
She grew up in Grand Junction and on Glade Park, where her family owned the Picture...
18272. George Washington Gordon
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A rancher from a pioneering Mormon family in Mesa County, Colorado. He was born in Adin, California to Patrick Henry Gordon and Caroline Elizabeth (Vanover) Gordon. According to John Gordon’s daughter, Dorothy (Gordon) Mahoney, Patrick Mahoney, his two wives, and their children first came to Grand Junction, Colorado while driving cattle from California to Texas in early 1881. They came through Moab and decided to stay in Colorado, remaining on the...
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Elocution teacher at the Sleeper School, a private school in Glade Park that she founded with George Gordon. Mother of Catherine (Saxon) Moore. Wife of John Frank Sleeper. She was an early pioneer in Glade Park and with her husband, part of a prominent ranching family.
According to Dorothy (Gordon) Mahoney, telephone service was brought to Glade Park thanks to the efforts of Louise Sleeper and rancher George Washington Gordon.
18274. Rachel S. (Gordon) Graham
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She was the first white woman married in Mesa County, Colorado. According to Dorothy Alveretta (Gordon) Mahoney, grandaughter of pioneering Mormon settler Patrick Henry Gordon, Rachel was one of Patrick Gordon’s daughters. The Grand Junction News mentions her marriage in its Local Affairs column on March 24, 1883: “The first marriage license issued in Mesa County was taken out Tuesday, March 21st, by Moses Graham and Rachel Gordon.” Mayor Charles...
18275. John S. Gordon
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A Grand Junction pioneer who built the first crossing over the Colorado River in town, Gordon's Ferry, and the first road to Pinon Mesa, known as Gordon’s Toll Road. The road ran from Grand Junction and opened to traffic in 1883. The ferry was moored on the south side of the Colorado at the mouth of the Gunnison River.
Colorado State Census records indicate that he was born in Missouri, and that he was 37 years old in 1885. According to Dorothy...
18276. Elmo Lewis
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Elmo Lewis was born on July 2, 1907 in Lafayette, CO to Welsh parents. Elmo went into the service for four years. After the service, he went to college in Denver and finished with a degree in accounting and finance and went to work for Delco as a Delco Engineer. Then, in 1948, Elmo began work for the Federal Housing Administration. He worked there for 25 years and was instrumental in securing the grant to build the Senior Citizen Center in Lafayette....
18277. Phyllis Smith
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Phyllis Smith was an English teacher and regional historian of Colorado and Montana. She published eight books and contributed to many articles in her lifetime, many of which studied coal mining, agricultural, and environmental history.
18278. C.C. "Clancy" Waneka
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Clancy Waneka worked as a teacher, dairy farmer, and with the Department of Agriculture (1932-1952) in Lafayette, Colorado. He earned a degree in biology from Colorado State University in 1933.
18279. Jacob Weiler
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Jacob Weiler was born in Germany and moved to Lafayette, Colorado in 1911. He worked as a miner in the Lafayette area for 54 years.
18280. Norma Ross
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