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An inventor, early miner, and processor of oil shale in Western Colorado. He was born in Heights Town, New Jersey to George Edward Brown and Sarah Catherine (Stoney) Brown. His father was a blacksmith and his mother was a homemaker. He married Penelope Chase Hamilton on April 18, 1908. They had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry.
The 1910 US Census shows him working as a tobacco salesman. According to his daughter Penelope, he then owned a...
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He was born in Morristown, Ohio on March 28, 1866. He came to Colorado in 1887 and was married in 1896 to Jennie L. Harris. Joseph worked as a carpenter building houses and started a store for the railroad in De Beque.
He ranched on Plateau Creek beginning in 1904, purchasing the homestead of his father-in-law, John Jackson. Their land later became known as the Harris Ranch. The ranch was a farm, a ranch, inn, restaurant, and place to rest teams...
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He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Harry Lewis Brown and Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown. His father was the owner of a Wrigley chewing gum factory and his mother was a homemaker and later worked for the family business. The family moved to the Roan Canyon area near De Beque in 1921, where his father owned and operated the Index Oil Shale Company. He graduated from high school in Denver and later worked as an analyst for the company. He had a cabin...
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He came to Grand Junction in 1882 or 1883. Despite being young, jobless, and broke, Edwin Price offered him a job with his newspaper, the Grand Junction News. Quickly, Kingsley became the newspaper's editor. He married Mary Kingsley, daughter of the president of the New York Life Insurance Company. His father-in-law offered him a position at the New York Life Insurance Company, and he later became president of New York Life, a position he held...
45) Glen Edwin Brunk
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He was born in Missouri to Charles Assa Brunk and Minnie Alice (Weaver) Brunk. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Mesa County, Colorado and settled in Orchard Mesa in 1908, when Glen was six years old. There, the family farmed fruit.
Glen attended Grand Junction High School. He then received education in highway engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geometrical drawing from his positions with...
46) Dave Knight
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According to oral history interviewee Charles Burg, who broke horses with Knight and camped with him, Knight’s mother was a Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma, and he continued with many traditional ways, including use of the soap weed’s root as a dishrag, and the use of a “stockade” corral constructed from horizontal and vertical poles. He also used Mormon Tea to brew a kind of tea. Burg describes Knight as tall and dark with black hair. He probably...
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He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Charles and Susan M. Burg. His father was in a US Army regiment stationed in Montrose, Colorado to monitor the Ute in the late 19th century, and Charles Edward grew up hearing stories about the Ute. He grew up on a cattle ranch on the Roan Creek, near De Beque, and later became a cowboy and horse breaker himself, working with people such as Dave Knight and his half-brother, Charley Chittenden. He also bought...
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She was born to David J. Hamilton and Alice E. (Willett) Hamilton in Perth Ambry, New Jersey and baptized on March 5, 1899. Her father was a broker and later, a telegraph man for the railroad. Her mother was a homemaker.
She married Harry Lewis Brown on April 18, 1908. They moved to Glen Reach, New Jersey where they had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry. They moved to Colorado in the early part of the 1920’s, following her husband, who...
49) John Jackson
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He was born in Iowa. Around 1856, he took a job driving a stagecoach between Independence Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He joined the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment in 1861, under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington. During his tenure in the regiment, Jackson took part in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and also fought in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, where he engaged the Confederates at Apache Canyon. He moved to...
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She was born in Buena Vista, Colorado to Thomas Henry Price and Flora (Hill) Price. Her father was a Union veteran of the Civil War, house painter, and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker and an accomplished seemstress who made all of the family’s clothes.
The family moved to New Castle, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1903. The family stayed in New Castle for two years, then moved to De Beque, where they lived on a 160 acre homestead....
51) Hugh R. Jones
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He was born to William William Jones and Jannie E. (Sluder) Jones in Bucklin, Kansas. His father was a farmer and Welsh immigrant. His mother was a homemaker born in Missouri. He attended the Eagle School in Bucklin from grades 1 to 8. He later received his GED in Sterling, Colorado.
Because of the Dust Bowl, he moved to the Roan Creek area in August 1938, when he was about 21 years old. The 1940 US Census shows him living in Garfield, County....
52) Pete Lapham
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A De Beque resident who worked in the cattle business. According to oral history interviewee Morgan Goss, Lapham had a feud with a man named Hiram, and Hiram shot him in the jaw at a pool hall on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado.
According to rancher Donald “Don” Rogers, Lapham’s beef was actually with a man named Irey Walck. Lapham threatened to kill Walck when they saw each other in the Pastime Café on Main Street in Grand Junction....
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She was born to Harry Lewis Brown and Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown in Newark, New Jersey. Her mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that her father was a tobacco salesman and a manager. He also owned a Wrigley’s chewing gum factory.
Penelope went to high school in Glenn Ridge. She married Joseph Eberhart on March 23, 1929. According to the 1930 US Census, he was a motorman for the local street railway while she was a homemaker with...
54) Charley Redd
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Owner of La Sal Livestock in the La Sal, Utah. He bought the Pittsburgh Cattle Company from J. M. Cunningham and Carpenter in 1914. Redd worked in the livestock trade from at least 1936-1973. According to livestock auctioneer Howard Shults, Redd owned 1,200 commercial cattle, ran sheep, and had 65 employees in 1970, when he was in his early seventies. He based his operations in La Sal, but also had a ranch in Snowmass, Colorado, with 200 head of cattle...
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He was born in Meeker, Colorado to Eben Lafayette “Son” Massey Jr. and Lillian (Hall) Massey. His father was a rancher and his mother was a homemaker. His parents ran a ranch in Gateway, to which he moved at the age of three or four. He spent the summers there, while spending the school years in Grand Junction. He also spent some summers in De Beque, where his uncle owned a ranch, working as a ranch hand and helping him put up hay.
He graduated...
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He was born in Ashe County, North Carolina and came with his parents to De Beque, Colorado in June 1918, when he was 16 years old. His parents were John Rufus Latham and Annie Latham. J.W. was the nephew of J.A. Wilcoxon, an early rancher. Although J.W.'s father was also a rancher, he had four brothers and there was not enough work for all of them, so he became a cowboy for Dan Burns, and then worked for an oil shale survey gang. He attended grade...
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She was born to Joseph Elvain Harris and Jennie Laura (Jackson) Harris in De Beque, Colorado. Her family moved to what became known as the Harris Ranch on the Grand Mesa in 1904, when she was two. The ranch was located on land her grandfather John Jackson had homestead in the 1880's, near Plateau Creek. During the events of the Meeker Massacre in 1879, Josephine Meeker and her children were held on what later became the Harris Ranch.
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He was born to Sidney Lloyd and Jessie Irene (Knusen) Lloyd in Palisade, Colorado. His parents came from Overland, Kansas and settled in Palisade in 1887. His father was a fruit farmer and, reputedly, a horse trader. His mother was a homemaker. Dick had two brothers: Merle and Sidney.
His family moved frequently. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Goshen, Utah on a fruit farm, when Dick was two. According to the article, “History rides...
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He was born to Walter Stokes and Catherine (Dewar) Stokes, Scottish immigrants, in Coal Creek, Colorado. His family moved to Pear Park sometime around 1890 and he attended the Pear Park School, where his father tried his hand at farming. US Census records show that Walter had lived in Mesa County with his mother where he worked as a farm laborer in 1900. Sometime shortly after that, the family moved to Palisade. There, they ran the Stokes Coal Mine,...
60) Charlie Glass
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An African-American cowboy (though he was reputed to be half-Cherokee) who worked for the S-Cross Cattle Company in Mesa County, for Marsh Nuckles near De Beque, and for the Turner Ranch. He was born and raised in Oklahoma, where his uncle was a cattleman. His father was a cowboy in Oklahoma, and was killed by U. S. Deputy Marshals. Glass came from Texas, and was said to be the foreman of the Knuckles Meat Packing Company in Pueblo, Colorado prior...
