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She was born to John Frank Sleeper and Louise Amelia (Sieber) Sleeper in the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. Her father was a cattle rancher and surveyor. Her mother was a homemaker. Her ancestors were Glade Park pioneers on both sides of the family. Her father’s family owned the 2-V Ranch with the Elas, and her mother’s family, the Siebers, owned the S-Cross Cattle Company.
She went to Grand Junction High School. She married John...
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Owner of the Sleeper Ranch in the Pinon Mesa area.
He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire to Charles Wesley Sleeper and Sarah E. (Peavey) Sleeper, both native New Hampshirites. His father was a blacksmith, cattle raiser, and railroad engineer. His mother was a homemaker.
John attended Dartmouth College from 1884 to 1886. It appears from his listing in the Non-Graduates section of the Dartmouth College 1910 catalog that he did not graduate,...
63) George Tufly
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He was born in Missouri in 1851, the child of Swiss and German immigrants. He married Minnie (Curtis) Tufly, and together they farmed in Iowa and began a family. Around 1910, they traded their farm in Iowa for a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado. He and Minnie separated sometime between 1910 and 1920, and he began homesteading in Glade Park. Father of Arthur J. Tufly.
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During episodes of the radio show Pioneer Reviews, which aired on KFXJ in the 1960’s (now KREX), Mesa County farm agent and host Dick Woodfin speaks with several Western Slope residents about pioneer history. Interviewees include Catherine (Saxon) Moore of Glade Park, Evelyn Hawthorne of Grand Junction, and Ben T. Wright of Whitewater. These broadcasts are made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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He was born in Elgin, Illinois. He was a miner and ranch worker in Ridgeway, Colorado before moving to Glade Park, Colorado with his family in 1912. There, he tried raising corn and hogs.
According to Silmon Laird Smith, Wood also traded in animal hides. Wood accompanied Smith on a bear hunting trip to the Grand Mesa in the early 1900's. The two succeeded in trapping a large grizzly bear, but were unsuccessful in selling the hide.
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Joe Peep (born Joseph Pepe to Italian immigrant parents) was an early Fruita farmer, cowboy, rodeo rider, and horse enthusiast. With his brothers, he competed in several of the rodeo competitions at Fruita's Cowpuncher's Reunion and won the bronc riding competition. He rode as a cowboy for Albert Turner on his Grand County ranch. He then farmed in Glade Park, and briefly on a failed homestead on Pinon Mesa before he bought land in Loma, where he...
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She was born in Unaweep Canyon to Joseph Rawlings, a railroad conductor, and Emma Rawlings, a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows her living at 8 Pitkin Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado at the age of 12. She married Ellwood Brouse on December 24, 1906. Beginning in 1915, they homesteaded, farmed, and raised children on Glade Park. She was a homemaker.
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In the early Twentieth century, country schools from Mesa County gathered in Lincoln Park to hold a field day, with graduation ceremonies following in the Lincoln Park Barn. According to oral history interviewee Bertha Schlegel, attendees included students from schools in Pomona, Plateau Valley, Molina, Collbran, Loma, Mack, the Redlands, Clifton, Orchard Mesa, Escalante and Glade Park. Schlegel attended her field days in the 1920's.
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He met his wife Addie (Russell) Maynard while attending school in Missouri to get their medical degrees, and got married in Kirksville, Missouri in December of 1927. They were both osteopathic doctors who practiced in the Grand Valley for many years. According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, he was also a family doctor who practiced in Glade Park during the Depression.
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Bernice Carney tells the story of her German immigrant parents and their homesteading life in Kansas and Collbran, Colorado. She also discusses her life growing up on a ranch, teaching in Glade Park, and her nurse’s training. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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He was born in Winfield, Kansas to Jasper Files and Lillian Grace (Thirsk) Files. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He had three brothers. He attended Frog Hollow School in Winfield, Kansas. He completed an 8th grade education and took some correspondence courses. He also studied some engineering at a college in Manhattan.
The family moved to Lamar, Colorado in 1914, via covered wagon, when he was fifteen years old. They homesteaded...
72) Charles Duvall
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He may have been the first homesteader on Glade Park, Colorado. He was a sheep rancher on Glade Park and Pinon Mesa in the early Twentieth century. He was born in North Carolina to Elijah and Rachel Duvall. Census records show them living in Fruita, Colorado with in 1900, when Charles was eighteen years old. He married Stella Jane Cosler that same year. She divorced him in 1923. They had five daugthers.
In the 1920’s, he married Etta Grace (Griffith)...
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Early pioneer of Glade Park area and mayor of Grand Junction, Colorado from 1897-90.
He was born in New Hampshire to Jacob Hart Ela and Abigail Pearson (Kelley) Ela. His mother’s name as listed in birth records is Abigail Pearson Moore, indicating that she may have been married once before her marriage to Jacob Ela. Wendell’s father was a printer and publisher, a depot master, the US Representative for New Hampshire’s First Congressional...
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A Glade Park and Mesa County sheepherder, sheep rancher, government trapper, National Park Service and Civilian Conservation Corps employee and road builder, and apple farmer.
He was born in Iowa to Warden S. “Ward” Thompson and Etta Grace (Griffith) Thompson. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Clifton, Colorado in 1907, shortly after Kenneth’s birth. In Mesa County, the family farmed fruit. His father...
75) John Beard
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He was born in Indiana to James Beard, a physician, and Rosa Beard, a homemaker. US Census records show him living in Fruita, Colorado by 1900, where he was married to Anna Maud (Innes) Stout. She passed away in 1901.
John remarried in 1906 to Grace E. Curtis. They were married in Butler, Iowa. They returned to Mesa County and homesteaded in Devil’s Canyon. US Census records list him in 1900 as a druggist, in 1910 as an electrician, in 1920 as...
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John Collier explains his childhood growing up as a homesteader in Pinon Mesa and the Glade Park area, and living in a tent until a cabin could be built. He talks about how his father made money in real estate, farming hay, selling horses, selling lumber for corrals, raising sheep and cattle, and skating on the frozen Redlands Canal. He mentions important landmarks and buildings in and around Grand Junction, Colorado. The interview was conducted by...
77) Bernice Carney
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She was born in Argentina to missionary parents. Doctors advised her mother to move to a dry climate for her health, and so the family moved to Collbran, Colorado, where her uncle already lived. Her father, Kris Lutey, was a German immigrant who had lived previously in Colorado. He ranched and sold milk. Bernice’s mother briefly ran a bakery. Bernice Carney taught school in Glade Park, and later received nurse’s training in California. After marrying...
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A country nurse in Mesa County who worked at St. Mary's Hospital in the early 1900's. She was a very large woman, and people loved her because, according to Dr. Everett "E.H." Munro, she had a heart as big as the rest of her. Later, she was a school nurse in the Glade Park area, and was very good with children. According to oral history interviewee Ruth Tilton, she also served as the librarian in the Palisade Public Library. She was the successor...
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Dewey Miracle lived at Miracle Ranch on Glade Park, Colorado. He moved to the area from Kentucky in 1921 with his wife, Rachel China Miracle, and their children.
According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, he was blind and had three children who were also blind. The children’s teacher, Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, encouraged David and his wife to send their children to the Colorado School for the Blind in Colorado Springs. As a result, both daughters...
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Florence Bryant Walker graduated from Appleton Consolidated High School in 1915 and took teacher training courses at the Hoel Business College (which later became Ross Business College). According to Walker, at the age of 18, she took her first teaching job, and spent the 1916-17 school year teaching up at the Coates Creek School in Glade Park, Colorado. During the Women of Western Colorado presentation at the Palisade Library on June 24, 1982, presenters...
