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He was a coal miner from Scotland who settled in the Rockville, Colorado, where he was a coal miner. US Census records indicate that he came to the United States in 1882, when he was 25. As a union member, he became involved in a fiercely contested strike between workers, non-union workers, and the CF&I Railroad, owners of the coal mine. As his daughter-in-law and oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes tells it, a “Ludlow kind of massacre”...
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She was born to Chalmer and Mabel Hargis in Ovid, Colorado. The family moved to California shortly after her birth, but missed true winters and so returned to Colorado. Margaret grew up in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County. She attended the Fruitvale School and graduated from the Ross Business College. She became a bookkeeper for Up-To-Date Cleaners, a job she kept for 40 years. U.S. Census records from 1940 show her occupation as housekeeper. She...
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Husband of Lucy (Ferril) Ela.
Wendell Dennett Ela was born at 640 Rood Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado to Wendell Phillips Ela and Lucy Abby (Drake) Ela. His first childhood home, adjacent to the Excelsior Laundry, was later sold to the Daily Sentinel and torn down, although the pear tree the family had planted stayed alive for many years.
His father was an early pioneer of the Glade Park area, the mayor of Grand Junction, and a longtime...
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She was born in Nebraska to Frank A. Berg and Mary Berg, Swedish immigrants. They moved to a homestead in the Highpoint area north of Fruita, Colorado in 1894, just after the Panic of 1893. Emma was two years old. Her father planted fruit orchards.
In addition to their fruit orchard, her family had dairy interests and delivered butter to various customers. Nagel also sold butter from a milk-products cart (25¢ per pound of butter or gallon of buttermilk)....
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He was born to Sidney Lloyd and Jessie Irene (Knusen) Lloyd in Palisade, Colorado. His parents came from Overland, Kansas and settled in Palisade in 1887. His father was a fruit farmer and, reputedly, a horse trader. His mother was a homemaker. Dick had two brothers: Merle and Sidney.
His family moved frequently. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Goshen, Utah on a fruit farm, when Dick was two. According to the article, “History rides...
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Howard M. Shults was born, along with his identical twin Harold, in a log cabin north of Loma in 1905. His parents, James F. Shults and Daisy G. (Hosey) Shults, had come to the Grand Valley in 1902 after graduating from a teacher college in Springfield, Missouri. They married in Clifton, Colorado in 1904. They taught in the Pear Park School before moving west in the Grand Valley. His father eventually became involved in the auctioneering business.
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