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He was born to John Witt Collier, a cattle rancher, and Margaret Almeria "Maggie" (Howell) Collier in Grand Junction, Colorado on a farm at 9th Street and Chipeta Avenue, across from the first Grand Junction High School. US Census records indicate that his father was from Tennessee and his mother from Iowa. His father was a farmer who sold hay and raised horses, and later became a cattle rancher. His mother was a homemaker.
The family moved to...
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She was born in Crawford County, Missouri to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. In 1895, when she was about 13 years old, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus homesteaded and ministered.
She married John George Roehm, a German immigrant, in Grand Junction on September 17, 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them living in Orchard...
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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,...
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She was born in Oregon to David Eachus and Sarah Eachus. Her father was a farmer and Methodist minister and her mother was a homemaker. When Lilly was two years old, in about 1895, the family moved to the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. There, David Eachus ministered and the family homesteaded.
The 1910 US Census shows the Eachus family living in Orchard Mesa, when Lilly was 16 years old. Lilly’s occupation is listed as None, with her...
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Elocution teacher at the Sleeper School, a private school in Glade Park that she founded with George Gordon. Mother of Catherine (Saxon) Moore. Wife of John Frank Sleeper.
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Postmistress of the first Glade Park post office, which was established in 1910. The post office itself was located in what Eva (Wood) Leslie called a "little tar roofed clam shack", which was a little West of where the Glade Park Store currently stands. [Teresa?] lived in a small home next to the post office and eventually sold the post office to the Lawrences, who continued to run it from the same building. She was also the originator of the...
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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...
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Early farmer and rancher on Glade Park. He was born in Delta, Colorado and moved to Glade Park, Colorado with his parents and siblings to cattle farm and homestead in April 1912.
9) Novie Wells
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A sheep rancher in the Glade Park/Pinon Mesa area in the early Twentieth century. He also worked as a powder man who helped to build Rim Rock Drive over the Monument.
10) Burt Charles
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He was an early resident of Pinon Mesa in Mesa County, Colorado. He helped drill the well near Griffin Place that George Vernon "Vern" Wood utilized as his water source. Burt also acted as postmaster in Glade Park, Colorado.
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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...
12) 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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She was born in Miami, Ohio to Samuel J. Hamilton and Martha Evelyn (Newberry) Hamilton. Her father was a house painter and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker. Cordelia was a sibling to Margaret, Robert, Jeanette, Margaret, Martha, Harvey, Margery, and William Hamilton. Her paternal half-sibling was Edna Hamilton.
The family moved to Fruita, Colorado in 1904, when Cordelia was about four years old. Cordelia’s parents and maternal grandparents...
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He was born in Canon City, Colorado and raised in Grand Junction and Glade Park, Colorado. He was the son of prominent citizen and pioneer Phidelah "P.A." Rice, who owned the county's first lumber mill and a lumberyard in town. P.W. worked in the lumberyard as a young man. He also attended the Leland Power’s School of Elocution and would often practice dramatic readings of Hamlet and other works in the woods by their home in Glade Park, Colorado,...
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The one-time District Foreman of the Mesa County Road and Bridge Department (circa 1950). He was born to Elwood and Edith Brouse on a farm in Glade Park, Colorado.
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Early longtime resident of Glade Park and wife of George Vernon "Vern" Wood. She was a school teacher who taught at the West End School.
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Early Twentieth century Glade Park resident. Wife of Wendell Ela. Sister of Denver poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. She was born to William C. "Will" Ferril and Alice (McHarg) Ferril in New York State. According to US Census records, her father Will was a journalist from Kansas whose own father had been a preacher. According to Lucy, Will was well known as a journalist, was the owner and editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald (the oldest weekly newspaper...
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A member on a Mesa County Historical Society panel that spoke about Glade Park, Colorado history at a program in the 1970’s.
