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A former outlaw who worked as a rancher in the Kannah Creek area in the early Twentieth century.
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A resident of Kannah Creek in Mesa County, Colorado, and member of the Mesa County Historical Society panel who discussed the history of the area on July 24, 1978.
3) Louis Farmer
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A resident of Kannah Creek in Mesa County, Colorado, and member of the Mesa County Historical Society panel who discussed the history of the area on July 24, 1978.
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She was born and raised in Mesa County, Colorado. There, she was a school teacher at the Pomona, De Beque, and Kannah Creek Schools before marrying and becoming a housewife.
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Husband of Elizabeth Anderson. Early 20th Century Mesa County, Colorado rancher who lived in the Whitewater, Kannah Creek area.
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A school-teacher in the early 20th century. The first school she taught at was up at Escalante, about 28 miles from Delta, and she only had two students. She was from Kannah Creek.
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She was born in Missouri to French immigrants. She married John W. Cox and together they moved to Canon City, Colorado (US Census records show them living there by 1900), where she worked as a housekeeper. Sometime between 1900 and 1903 they moved to Kannah Creek, Colorado, where they homesteaded and raised cattle. She was a homemaker.
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From Illinois. He worked at the offices of the International City Manager’s Association before serving as city manager for Grand Junction, Colorado from 1945 - 1948. He was let go by the city council because of the great expense of his expansion of the Kannah Creek water supply system.
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She was born in Utah and moved as a young girl to Grand Junction with her parents. She grew up in Grand Junction, where her father was involved in several enterprises, and in Kannah Creek, where her parents homesteaded. As a child, she belonged to the First Methodist Church in Grand Junction. After she married a sheep rancher named Walter Farmer, they lived in several locations in the Kannah Creek area, struggling to get by until Nevada separated...
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His father was a German immigrant and his mother was from Nebraska. He was born in South Dakota, and his family moved shorty after to Leadville, Colorado, where his father ran a butcher shop. His family came to Mesa County in 1907 and settled in Kannah Creek. He attended the Purdy Mesa School through the 10th grade. He was a child during World War I and experienced discrimination from a teacher and classmates because his father was from Germany....
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He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Fred Simineo and Josephine (Vincent) Simineo. His father was a cattle rancher and his mother was a homemaker. At his birth, the family lived in a log cabin near the Colorado River. They moved shortly after to Whitewater, where his parents rented a cattle ranch. He attended the Whitewater School and also high school. He purchased a ranch in Kannah Creek Canyon and US Census records show him living there by...
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Ica Click was born in the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado to John W. Cox, a cowboy, and Clementine C. Fox, a homemaker and the daughter of French immigrants. When she was 5 years old, the family moved to its own homestead, near the city of Grand Junction's water intake on the creek. There, they had a ranch, orchard, and small farm. She married Fred Click, who was a rancher.
13) Jacob J. Raber
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Born in Germany, he was a butcher by trade and lived for a time in South Dakota before coming to Leadville, Colorado. There, he supplied miners with meat. When the Homestake Mine closed, many miners left, and Jacob took his family to Mesa County in search of more gainful employment. They settled on a ranch in the Kannah Creek area in 1907, where Jacob tried and failed to grow fruit trees. He ended up ranching cattle instead.
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Grand Junction settler who owned a meat market on Main Street and who opened the first slaughterhouse in town. According to Bowman's grandaughter, Edith Marie (Huffer) Sisac, the slaughterhouse was located directly across from the Durham Stockyards on River Road. He ran the business for over fifty years.
According to oral history interviewee Walt Simineo, Bowman also owned his own cattle ranch, which may have been in Kannah Creek or further up...
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He was a Canadian and Grand Junction pioneer who moved to the area in 1882, shortly after the town's founding. United States Census records list him working in multiple occupations, including: cigar merchant, miner, and contractor. His daughter Nevada Burford's oral history recounts his involvement in some important early town enterprises. For instance, he contracted with the Denver and Rio Grande to build fills for railroad lines, moved fertilizer...
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She was born into a Mormon family in Utah, but never embraced the faith. She became a pioneer who moved to Grand Junction shortly after its founding, and worked in the Brunswick Hotel, where she met her husband William Albion Lynch. Though she was involved in a Presbyterian study group, her husband was a Methodist and the family did not embrace any one faith. She was a homemaker who often cooked and served for several people who stayed in the family's...
17) John W. Cox
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He was born in Iowa. According to his daughter, Ica Click, he came to Meeker, Colorado as a US Army scout as a young man, responding to the Meeker Massacre and Ute uprising. He stayed in Meeker and South Park, where he was a cowboy. He returned to Iowa, married Clementine C. Fox and went to Cañon City, where US Census records show him living by 1900. Sometime between 1900 and 1903, he and Clementine moved to the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County,...
18) Bruce Claybaugh
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A rancher near Kannah Creek in Mesa County, Colorado who owned the Cross-Bar-Cross Ranch. He made his money digging the grade for a Denver & Rio Grande rail line. The line was located near Mack, and never used. After digging the grade in the late 1910’s, he had enough money to purchase the Cross-Bar-Cross.
He partnered with Charley Hollenbeck. They owned a “dredger” on the headwaters of the Arkansas River that was used to mine for gold. He...
19) Henry Herrick
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He and his wife Maggie Herrick were settlers in the Kannah Creek, Colorado area. In 1883, she left her him during a domestic squabble, and went to her parents’ house in Albuquerque. She later returned, only to find Henry in a carriage with a woman named Margaret Thompson. Maggie shot and killed Margaret, whom Henry had employed as a housekeeper. Accompanied by Sheriff Martin Florida, Maggie went to retrieve livestock that belonged to her, but she...
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He was born in Illinois. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War, and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in order to recover from a war injury sometime between 1900 and 1904. There he met his future wife, Alice Coombs, who was teaching in Kannah Creek. They married in Salt Lake City in 1904, and lived in Park City for a time. In 1906, he bought a ranch on Salt Creek, near Collbran, where they lived with their child. The family moved again when...
