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She was born to David and Elizabeth Schlegel in Denhoff, Russia, a descendant of Germans who had settled in that area in the 1700’s, near the Volga River and the Ukraine. She learned the German language in school. Her family farmed sugar beets. According to the 1920 US Census, she immigrated with her family to the United States in 1912, when she was 8 years old. The family moved to Windsor, Colorado, where a cousin of her mother lived. David Schlegel...
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He was born to Catullo Guccini and Maggie (Zucca) Guccini, Italian immigrants, in Illinois. The 1920 US Census shows the family living in the town of Hall, where Lou’s father worked as a coal miner and his mother was a homemaker. His family left Illinois and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1921, when Lou was about five years old. They lived in Loma, where his father ran sheep of his own and as part of the Fitzpatrick outfit.
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He was born to Orlo David Williams and Edna (Bonebreak) Williams in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father owned the Independent Abstract Company and the Mesa County Abstract Company. His mother was a homemaker. He grew up in the 1100 block on Ouray Avenue and the 800 block on White Avenue.
He attended the Lowell School for the first five grades and was allowed to skip the second grade because of his abilities as a student. He attended the Hawthorne...
364) Glenn W. McFall
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Glen McFall was born in Nebraska to Elmer McFall, a rancher, and Clara (Jordan) McFall, a school teacher and homemaker. He attended grade school in Nebraska and then moved to Clifton, Colorado at the age of six, after Clara McFall separated from Elmer. He attended eighth grade at the Clifton School, and then bicycled to school at Grand Junction High School until his family moved into town. In his youth, he worked in Clfiton's Hornbecker Store, measuring...
365) Harold V. Zimmerman
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He was born to Charles and Nettie Zimmerman in McPherson, Kansas in 1903. Charles was a farmer and Nettie a homemaker. The family moved to the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1907, when Harold was four years old. The family then moved to Clifton in 1913, near the Cross Ranch, and lived there until 1919. During that time, he attended the Clifton School. He worked on his family’s farm and those of others, picking and packing apples, and...
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He was born in Colorado to Charles Albert “Charlie” Rump and Viola Anna (Steinbach) Rump. His father was a civil engineer and farmer. His mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows Charles and Viola living in Denver, Colorado, prior to the birth of William. William was born in Denver and spent some of his childhood in Louisiana before moving with his parents to Mesa County in October of 1919, when he was seven years old.
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Frosty Tilton was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. Because of a bad heart, he was unable to do farm work. His brother Archie Tilton, who had homesteaded in Eastern Colorado, contacted him regarding a position at a bank in Holyoke. So Frosty moved to Holyoke, Colorado in 1917 when he was 16 years old and began working in the bank as a janitor. On top of that, he did any other job that...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to William Wesley Taylor and Helen (Booker) Taylor. Her father was one of the main caretakers and officials of the Handy Chapel, Grand Junction's historically Black church. Her mother was a homemaker. 1930 US Census records indicate that they lived at 817 Kimball Avenue in the Las Colonias neighborhood, when she was six. The same census shows her father working as a porter in a barber shop. Josephine attended...
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She was born to Danielle and Harry Butler at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her father worked in hydrology before becoming Grand Junction’s first African-American city councilman and Mesa County Valley School District 51 board member. Her mother is retired from St. Mary’s Hospital, where she was a supervisor of medical records for many years.
Her grandfather was Joseah Butler, a road worker for the WPA, and her grandmother...
370) Earl Keen Laycock
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He was born in a log cabin in Georgetown, Ohio to Peter Laycock and Mary Belle (Evans) Laycock. His father was a tobacco farmer and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records show the family living in Pleasant, Ohio in 1900, when Earl was five years old.
In 1904, his family and other local farmers joined the American Society of Equity, an association of small tobacco farmers that had formed previously in Kentucky and Tennessee to fight the monopolistic...
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He was born in Steamboat Springs, Colorado to Samuel McCullough Colman and Nellie Elizabeth (Eckhardt) Colman. His father was a Spanish American War veteran who had served with the Colorado volunteers. Samuel was a forest ranger and later a bookkeeper for the mining industry. The 1920 US Census indicates that he worked as a janitor in a Denver office building for a time. Nellie Colman was a homemaker.
The family moved back and forth among Western...
372) Paul Henry Prinster
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With his three brothers, one of the owners of City Market grocery stores. He was born in La Junta, Colorado to Joseph Frank Prinster and Millie (Kroboth) Prinster. His father was the owner of a meat market and grocery store. His mother was a homemaker. Different US Census records give the country of Joseph’s birth as Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. New York ship passenger arrivals show that he arrived from Germany on February 21, 1883, and that...
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He was born in Spearfish, South Dakota to William F. Hartman and Madora Mae (Ricks) Hartman. The 1910 US Census shows that his father worked as a clerk in a grocery store. His mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Bayard, Nebraska around 1915, when William Jr. was five years old. His mother died there in 1916, and the 1920 Census shows that William Sr. was a widower working as a laborer in a sugar factory.
The 1930 Census shows William Jr....
374) Earl Frederick Land
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He was born to John Conrad Schwabenland and Dorothea (Miller) Schwabenland in Denver, Colorado. His parents were Russian German immigrants. His father, a preacher who worked in German-language churches, came to the United States in 1891. His mother came to the United States in 1886. She was a homemaker. German and English were spoken in the home, and Earl learned both.
As a child, Earl lived in Denver; Lodi, California; Portland; Windsor, Colorado;...
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A longtime Fruita Monument High School teacher and coach. He was born to Louis Griebel and Annie (Reikauff) Griebel in Warrensburg, Missouri in 1889. Ships passenger lists show that his father arrived in New York from Germany on June 25, 1868, when he was 25 years old. His occupation was listed as shoemaker. His mother was an immigrant from Switzerland and a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Warrensburg, Missouri when Philip...
376) Basil T. Knight
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He was born in Ontario, Canada to Henry Knight, a Scottish immigrant and farm laborer, and to Selena Jane (Lucas) Knight, a homemaker. They moved in 1903 to an island in Michigan at the mouth of Lake Erie named Gross Isle, where he helped his family set up a small farm. He attended school at Michigan Agricultural College and studied agriculture and education. He joined the ROTC while in college and his unit was called to active service during World...
377) Leo Gerald Prinster
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With his three brothers, an owner of City Market grocery stores. He was born in La Junta, Colorado to Joseph Frank Prinster and Millie (Kroboth) Prinster. His father was the owner of a meat market and grocery store. His mother was a homemaker. Different US Census records give the country of Joseph’s birth as Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. New York ship passenger arrivals show that he arrived from Germany on February 21, 1883, and that he was...
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He was born to Wendell Dennett Ela and Lucy Brainerd (Ferril) Ela in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father was a bank vice president and the son of Mesa County pioneer Wendell Phillips Ela, early Pinon Mesa rancher and Grand Junction mayor. His mother was a homemaker, the sister of Colorado poet William Hornsby Ferril, a member of the Grand Junction School Board and Colorado State School Board, and active in many other community organizations. His...
379) Harry Lewis Brown
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An inventor, early miner, and processor of oil shale in Western Colorado. He was born in Heights Town, New Jersey to George Edward Brown and Sarah Catherine (Stoney) Brown. His father was a blacksmith and his mother was a homemaker. He married Penelope Chase Hamilton on April 18, 1908. They had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry.
The 1910 US Census shows him working as a tobacco salesman. According to his daughter Penelope, he then owned a...
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A Glade Park and Mesa County sheepherder, sheep rancher, government trapper, National Park Service and Civilian Conservation Corps employee and road builder, and apple farmer.
He was born in Iowa to Warden S. “Ward” Thompson and Etta Grace (Griffith) Thompson. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Clifton, Colorado in 1907, shortly after Kenneth’s birth. In Mesa County, the family farmed fruit. His father...
