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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,...
18664) Roy Frederick Schumann
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He was born in Montrose, Colorado to John Schumann and Anna Katherine (Weidenkeller) Schumann. His parents were Germans from Russia who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890’s. Anna’s family lived in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood and were also farmers in Eastern Colorado. John’s family purchased land in Eastern Colorado. Anna and John married in Loveland in 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them farming in Weld County with their...
18665) Edward Farrington Carpenter
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*His restricted signed release allows for his oral history interviews (conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project) to be used inside the Museum of the West or the Mesa County Libraries Central Library only.
18666) George Wallace Bowman
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An important early Palisade fruit grower. He was born in Ohio to Alexander and Jane Bowman, Scottish immigrants and farmers. The 1860 US Census shows them living in Ruggles, Ohio, when George was five years old. By 1870, the census shows them living in Jackson, Iowa, when George was sixteen. His memoirs, located in the Palisade Branch Library, indicate that he first came to Colorado around 1880, and that he headed to Leadville in January of that year....
18667) Mary Jane Rait
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One of the founding teachers of Grand Junction Junior College, (now Colorado Mesa University). She was born in Kansas to Alexander Rait and Charlotte (Cutter) Rait. She grew up partly in Palisade, Colorado, where her family were fruit farmers. She graduated from the Mt. Lincoln School in 1912. She attended the University of Colorado, where she received her Bachelors and Masters degrees.
She taught first in Palisade, then at Grand Junction High...
18668) Ira James Caley
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He was born in Joplin, Missouri to James W. Caley and Myrtle M. (Mixson) Caley. His father was a Native American from New Mexico and his parents were farmers. He had two younger sisters and a younger brother. The family moved to Cave Junction, Oregon in 1947, when he was about a year old. There, he grew up on a farm and in a farm house that lacked running water or electricity. He was in charge of much of the farm work during this time, as his father...
18669) William J. Moyer
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William J. Moyer was the Vice President of Grand Valley National Bank and the owner, along with Elmer Craven until his death, of the Fair Store in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to David Sundal, Moyer first settled in the town of Socorro, New Mexico and opened a Fair Store there before abandoning the store and town for Grand Junction. There, his store went from a small hole in the wall to a large enterprise.
He walked to the Fair Store from...
18670) Clyde Hunter Biggs
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He was born in New Mexico to parents Clinton A. Biggs and Frances W. Biggs. They moved to Canon City, Colorado when Clyde was of school age. He grew up there and in Denver. In Denver, he attended East Denver High School but was forced to leave the school after an incident. He graduated instead from a private school. He went to Yale University, where he seems to have graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1915, when he was about 22 years...
18671) Aubrey Fenton "Jack" Smillie
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He was born in Colorado to John W. Smillie and Christina (Trenholm) Smillie. Marriage records indicate that his parents, both born in Canada, were married in Iowa prior to moving to Colorado. His mother studied music in Montreal prior to marrying his father. According to Jack Smillie, his father came to Denver to work as a surveyor on an irrigation project near present-day Eaton. He was paid both a salary and given 160 acres of land for his work....
18672) Samuel H. "Sam" McMullin
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He was born in Pennsylvania to Samuel H. McMullin, a minister, and Isabella McMullin, a homemaker. US Census records show him living in Grand Junction, Colorado by 1900, when he was thirty-two. There, he lived with his wife, Rella (Hall) McMullin and their children. According to local historian and professor Don MacKendrick, McMullin was an attorney who practiced in town by the 1880's.
For a time he served as the District Attorney for Mesa County...
18673) Edwin A. Haskell Jr.
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He was the manager of the Park Opera House in Grand Junction, Colorado, which opened in 1892 and closed sometime around 1910. According to local historian and professor Don MacKendrick, Haskell struggled for the opera house’s financial survival for virtually his entire tenure as manager.
18674) Donald "Don" Mackendrick
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A long-time professor of history at Colorado Mesa University, where he taught from 1956 to 1990. He also served as Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences from 1977 to 1990. He specialized in local history, and wrote many articles and gave many speeches about local history topics. He was the editor of Journal of the Western Slope, an academic history journal published at CMU. He also served on the Grand Junction Public Library board for...
18675) Robert Clement "Bob" Klenda
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A saddlemaker in Plateau City, Colorado. He was born in Kansas to Clement and Emma Klenda. His parents were farmers. The 1920 US Census shows Bob living at home with his parents and working as a “Farm Boy” at the age of thirteen.
He learned leather crafting in the US Army. He learned saddlemaking in a shop in Yakima, Washington, where he acquired the basics and his teacher stressed quality. He moved to Utah in 1957, where he ranched and learned...
18676) Leta Ruth (Funk) Benson
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She was born in Russell, Kansas to Bertha Luella (Brown) Funk and Carl Funk. Her father was a farmer and her mother a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to a farm in West Cheyenne Wells, Colorado by 1920, when Ruth was ten years old.
She graduated from the University of Colorado Normal School in Boulder, where she was involved in the Girl Reserve, Glee Club, Denver Chorus, Trio, Chimes of Normandy, Pinafore, Ermine, and...
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He was born on Parachute Creek, in Garfield County, Colorado, to Arcadeous Benson and Bertha (Gardner) Benson. His father was born in Kentucky and his mother in Wisconsin. They had both moved to the Western Slope by at least April 28, 1895, when Colorado marriage records list their marriage. They were farmers.
When Charles was ten years old, his father acquired a homestead “on the mountain” (possibly on Battlement Mesa). Charles grew up in...
18679) Philip Louis "Dutch" Griebel
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A longtime Fruita Monument High School teacher and coach. He was born to Louis Griebel and Annie (Reikauff) Griebel in Warrensburg, Missouri in 1889. Ships passenger lists show that his father arrived in New York from Germany on June 25, 1868, when he was 25 years old. His occupation was listed as shoemaker. His mother was an immigrant from Switzerland and a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Warrensburg, Missouri when Philip...
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The first Christian Science church in Grand Junction, Colorado was founded by Susan Etta (Lewis) Carpenter in the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century. Originally called Carpenter Hall, it was initially located on North First Street. The church then moved to 535 N 7th Street, a building they occupied for many years before selling it in the 2010's.
The church maintained a reading room at 113 N 6th Street in the 2000's before moving both the...
