With his brother Phidelah "P.A." Rice, he established Mesa County's first lumber mill, located by Enoch Lake on Pinon Mesa, in 1883. He later lived in the Pomona area, on or near Third Fruitridge. There, he farmed. His wife was Mary E. (Gover) Rice.

A builder and contractor who also planed his own lumber. He was born in Ohio to Samuel Maurice Winterburn, a carpenter, and Emma J. Winterburn, a homemaker. He married Olive Mussellwhite in 1896. Together they lived in Kansas and then in Otero, Colorado before moving to Mesa County. In his shop between 7th and 8th Streets on the north side of Main Street, he built all the windows, doors, staircases and other parts of the homes and buildings that he...

She was from Kentucky. She was the wife of Daily Sentinel owner and publisher Walter Walker, whom she married in 1903. While Walter Walker was reputed to be reserved in his personal and family life, Kathie was more outgoing and, at least outwardly, in control. She was a doting mother who gave her attention to her only son, Preston Walker. She often drove Walter Walker home in the evening because he did not drive. According to Daily Sentinel employee...

Early Twentieth century resident of the Grand Valley. She moved with her husband Alston P. Drew from New England in 1902. Was active in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.

He was born in Ada, Oklahoma to George W. Hinkle and Kansas E. (Morris) Hinkle. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. Dawes census records show that his mother was a member of the Choctaw Tribe, but that she lived on the Chickasaw reservation. George Hinkle also lived on the Chickasaw reservation prior to their marriage. Census records indicate that Dave completed the 8th grade. He came to Colorado by the early 1920’s, when...

He was born to William Harrison Jackson and Hazel Edith (Thompson) Jackson in Blackfoot, Idaho. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Cedaredge, Colorado in 1925, when Dwain was one year old. They came to Delta County in order to be closer to Dwain’s grandfather, Tommy Thompson, who had settled in the area in 1893. He grew up on his grandfather’s land three miles north of Cedaredge, near Young’s Creek. His...

She was born in Colorado to John Giblin, an Irishman who was born in England, and to Eva Giblin of Nebraska. She attended Mesa College in the late 1930's, where she worked on the Criterion student newspaper under faculty advisor William Hartman. She began working for the The Daily Sentinel newspaper in 1941 and worked with Walter Walker for 15 of those years. She wrote on women’s issues, something she was not all that interested in, and also on...

An early Mesa County pioneer who owned a small dairy at the corner of 12th Street and White Avenue. His cinder block house still stands in that location. He invested in the Rhone Fruit Land Company east of Fruita, and the Rhone area took his name. His son, Bayard Rhone, became a Deputy Attorney General of California.

He was born in Russia, near the Volga River, to Fred Schultz and Amelia (Groff) Schultz. His family were Germans living in Russia. In the early Twentieth century, they fled persecution against Germans and went to France, where they worked to gain money for passage to the United States. They came to the United States on a cattle boat. They stopped in Baltimore for six weeks before making their way to Susank, Kansas, where they lived in a German...