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He was an immigrant from the Netherlands who came to the Grand Valley in 1911. He was a fruit grower and farmer, working for himself and others, in the Hunter District, Appleton, Fruitvale, and other areas of the Grand Valley.
2) Emily Hunter
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Homemaker on the Hunter Ranch, which she settled with her husband, James "J.B." Baker Hunter. The Hunter Ranch was on an area east of Fruita that later became known as the Hunter District.
3) C.S. Saxton
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Early 20th century resident of Mesa County's Hunter District, east of Fruita, near 21 and J Roads. He and his wife Nancy (Renwick) Stanton grew apples.
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He moved with his family from Florida to land east of Fruita in [1881?], where they established the Hunter Ranch. The area comprising the Hunter Ranch later became known as the Hunter District. He and his grandson developed a vein of coal near Mt. Garfield that he could see from his home on the Hunter Ranch. The mine that he developed was called the Hunter Mine.
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Her parents Annie and John McGinley homesteaded in the Hunter District outside of Fruita, Colorado in the late 19th century. After her mother passed, she worked as homemaker, and then as a clerk for the Fair Store in Grand Junction. She also worked at the Sears Store in Grand Junction and at J.C. Penney. She kept house for a woman named Virginia Wallace for several years. She was married in 1926.
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An early 20th century resident of Mesa County's Hunter District and of the Appleton area. She appears to have been born in England as Ana Jane Renwick to parents James Douglass Renwick and Mary Renwick. The 1891 England Census, taken when Nancy was not yet one year old, lists her father’s profession as Fruiterer. Immigration records show that she arrived in Canada with family members in 1906, at the age of sixteen. The family emigrated to the United...
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She grew up on the Hunter Ranch, established by her grandparents in 1880 near Fruita, Colorado (this area later became known as the Hunter District). She pursued a college education at different institutions over many years, and received her AB Degree from Western State College.
While her husband served in the Army during World War I, she improved on their mining claim in the Gateway area. She also assisted her father with the management of...
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A California inmate in San Quentin Prison who was paroled by his mother into the supervision of Charles Lumley in Mesa County. With the help of two fellow parolees, Tommy Humotoff and Otis Slane, he started the COPECO dance hall in the 1920s, in an old barn and packing shed owned by his mother. The facility had been used previously by Elmer Craven for his COPECO fruit growing business in the Hunter District (According to D.A. Brockett, Sadler ran...
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Early Twentieth century Appleton resident and teacher. Friend of the Corn family. Her mother was Nancy (Renwick) Saxton.
