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18303. Luella Frances (Muth) Morgan
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She was born in Rifle, Colorado to Martin Muth, a farmer, and Edith Fredricka (Bahr) Muth, a homemaker. Her parents were both the children of German immigrants. When her uncle gave her the opportunity to work in the National Bank of Glenwood Springs at the age of fifteen, she took it, beginning in 1916 when she was fifteen years old (during a Women of Western Colorado Presentation in 1982, she recounted that she was ten years old at the beginning...
18304. William Bowie "Bill" May
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The owner of Bar S Bar Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Bill's parents, Fred and Anna May, were both from Iowa. His father taught school in Iowa before homesteading in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, sometime between 1900 and 1910. He married Anna in 1917 and together had 5 children. Bill was their first son born in 1928.
He grew up in Steamboat Springs on the ranch and later inherited it. He served as a corporal in the US Army during the Korean...
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While it is not known what became of Grand Junction’s first attempt to organize a public library (a meeting of the Grand Junction Library Association in January 1883), we do know that an effort in 1897 was successful. When Grand Junction was sixteen years old, members of two women’s clubs, the Grand Mesa Club and the Grand Junction Womens Club, united as the Woman’s Library Association in 1894. The goal of the association was to establish a...
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An organization founded in 1895. It was a predecessor to The Twentieth Century Club and other women’s organizations. Among its accomplishments, the club organized a small subscription library in a building on Main Street where the Avalon Theater now stands. The library was established entirely with donated books. At first, the library was open only to members of the Women’s Club, but then was opened to for the use of anyone in the public “whose...
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A women’s club begun by Harriette (Dyke) Ottman, who had moved to the Pomona area from the Midwest by 1900. Lucy (Ferril) Ela states that the club began around 1901. It disbanded after a short time and several members later became members of the Reviewers Club.
While professor Don MacKendrick maintains in his lecture on Grand Junction's cultural history that the Twentieth Century Club assisted in the creation of the Grand Junction Public Library,...
18313. Rod Slifer
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Past Mayor of Vail.
18314. Charlie Hopton
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Everyone who is anyone in Aspen knows Charlie Hopton. He’s one of those people who landed in Aspen in the early 60’s with little more than enough loose change for a beer at the Jerome Bar in his pocket. It just so happened that Aspen’s intrepid Dutchman, Jack de Pagter was the bartender. The next thing you know, Jack took Charlie under his wing and introduced him to the likes of Fred Braun and Ralph Melville among others. It was among this band...
18315. John Francis Goulet
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He was born to Francis Adrian Goulet and Anne Elizabeth (Sheahan) Goulet in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The 1910 US Census record shows that his father was a cutter in a shoe shop, and that his mother was a presser in a shoe shop. His father’s background was French Canadian. His mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants.
Massachusetts death records show that John’s mother died in 1928, when he was seventeen or eighteen years old. The 1930...
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18317. James E. Freld
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A priest who served at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to parishioner John Francis Goulet, Freld was the assistant priest there from 1953 to 1960. He also recorded a Christmas message on local KREX.
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According to William McHarg Ela, the cattle ranch was begun by his great-uncle Charles “Charley” Ela, who had come from New Hampshire in 1881 to the Little Dolores River while working for the Palisade Land and Cattle Company. He seems to have died around 1883 and his brother Wendell Phillips Ela arrived to take his place in the business.
The Sleeper family eventually took over ownership of the ranch. It was co-owned by John Frank Sleeper, a...
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