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18641) Archie "Arch" Tilton
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He was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. He homesteaded near Holyoke, Colorado and then came to Palisade, Colorado sometime between 1917 and 1924. With George Bowman, he participated in the establishment of the Palisades National Bank and hired his brother, Forrest Tilton, as a cashier. He also had fruit orchards, ran a fruit association, and worked as a depot agent/station master for...
18642) Ruth Bereman (Zingg) Tilton
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She was born to Ottway C. Zingg and Bernice Kina Mowry in Holyoke, Colorado. Her father was from a Swiss-American family. He was a history professor and a band director. Her mother was a teacher and principal from Iowa. She grew up in Holyoke and in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she attended high school. After graduating from high school around 1918, she became a teacher. She taught in country schools outside of Holyoke. She met Forrest L. “Frosty”...
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A bank that operated from roughly 1918 until 1922. At that point, its owners bought out the competing Palisades National Bank, and the two institutions merged. The name Palisades National Bank was used, and the Producers Exchange name was discontinued (information from the oral history of Luella (Muth) Morgan).
*Image of the bank courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
18644) Helen (Hawxhurst) Young
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Daughter of George Hawxhurst. Collbran musician and early Plateau Valley resident. She supported plays that were put on by Mesa County teachers and literary societies in the 1930's.
She was born in Plateau Valley, Colorado to Alexander Percy Hawxhurst and Margaret “Maggie” (Koch) Hawxhurst. Her father was born in South Park, Colorado and her mother was a German immigrant. Margaret had been married and divorced previously to Theodore Pfeiffer...
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A volunteer for the Mesa County Oral History Project and local historian. She was the author of Mesa County, Colorado: A 100 Year History.
18646) Howard Roland
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He was a long-time auctioneer in Mesa County, Colorado and on the Western Slope. He ended his thirty-seven year auctioneering career in 1983.
18647) Joseph Woodrow "Joe" Collier
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He was born in Dukedom, Tennessee. According to Montana marriage records, his father was James Collier of Tennessee. The US Census shows him living in Ada, Montana in 1910, where he was a farmer. He married Leota Pearl on October 22, 1913 in Big Sandy, Montana. The 1920 Census shows them living in Red Wing, Montana, where they farmed and had a daughter, Dortha.
According to the nephew of Joe Collier, John Collier, he served as the Sheriff in Mesa...
18648) Scott Jackson Walck
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He was a farmer near the town of Collbran in Mesa County, Colorado. He was born to Cecil Oliver Walck and Harriet Joanna (Long) Walck in Colorado. His parents were farmers. He married Winona June Kitson in 1949. They had one child. He died at the age of 84 and is buried in Collbran’s Eagalite Cemetery.
18649) Eleanor Mae (Barr) Harris
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A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927. She worked as the head nurse at the Plateau Valley Hospital.
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He was born to Warren and Louise Ruth (Percell) Westcott in Mojave, California. His father was a prison road camp warden and his mother was a homemaker. He had two brothers and two sisters. When the family’s home burned down, they moved to Hollywood. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles and then to Lakewood. He attended Stephen Foster Elementary School and Roosevelt Junior High School in Lakewood. His high school years, 1956-1960, were split between...
18653) 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...
18654) 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...
