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Early Grand Junction druggist, pioneer, and businessman who founded the C. D. Smith Drug Company. He was born in Las Animas, Colorado on August 22, 1879 to Burrel and Amelia (Reynolds) Smith, who traveled from Oberlin, Ohio in 1865. His father was listed by the US Census as a stock-grower and also served as postmaster. In 1882, his father sold some 3,000 head of cattle and his ranch located in the San Luis valley and moved to Gunnison.
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She was born in Toppenish, Washington. She was sickly as a child, so her family moved to Colorado in 1908, when she was three years old. The family homesteaded near Whitewater Creek, between Whitewater and Purdy Mesa, until 1929. During her youth, she travelled from Whitewater to Grand Junction via horse and wagon, approximately three times a year. She was schooled in Whitewater through 8th grade (which she completed in 1919). She went to Grand Junction...
63) Basil T. Knight
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He was born in Ontario, Canada to Henry Knight, a Scottish immigrant and farm laborer, and to Selena Jane (Lucas) Knight, a homemaker. They moved in 1903 to an island in Michigan at the mouth of Lake Erie named Gross Isle, where he helped his family set up a small farm. He attended school at Michigan Agricultural College and studied agriculture and education. He joined the ROTC while in college and his unit was called to active service during World...
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She was born in Miami, Ohio to Samuel J. Hamilton and Martha Evelyn (Newberry) Hamilton. Her father was a house painter and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker. Cordelia was a sibling to Margaret, Robert, Jeanette, Margaret, Martha, Harvey, Margery, and William Hamilton. Her paternal half-sibling was Edna Hamilton.
The family moved to Fruita, Colorado in 1904, when Cordelia was about four years old. Cordelia’s parents and maternal grandparents...
