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Harold Bryant was born in Pickrell, Nebraska to John Edward Bryant and Anna (Soule) Bryant. US Census records indicate that the family moved to the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1910. There, they homesteaded. Harold Bryant, as the only boy of several children, did much of the farm's labor. His father was a Dunkard (Church of the Brethren) and, according to Al Look, “a tough old religionist.” Harold rejected the...
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Appleton pioneer and rancher. Father of Orlin, Esther, Betty, Edith, and Lelia Corn.
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Early Twentieth century Appleton resident and nurse. Sister of Orlin, Betty, Edith, and Lelia Corn.
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She was born in Fort Collins, Colorado to Daniel M. and Susan R. Click and game to the Grand Valley in 1896. She grew up on a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, and was one of 10 children (US Census records list her residence as Pomona). Her father was a farmer who bought 40 acres and cleared the land, and constructed a dugout for the family residence until he was able to build a 10 bedroom house sometime later. She married Walter Anderson,...
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He was a farmer and early resident of the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado. He was born in Virginia, and was living in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife and family by the 1890's. He moved to the Grand Valley in 1896, where he bought and cleared 40 acres for farming. He constructed a dugout where the family lived for some time, until he was able to build a 10 bedroom house. He was also a rural mail carrier in Appleton.
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Early Twentieth century Appleton resident and teacher. Friend of the Corn family. Her mother was Nancy (Renwick) Saxton.
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Early Twentieth century Appleton resident. Sister of Orlin, Esther, Betty, and Lelia Corn.
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Early Twentieth century Appleton resident. Sister of Orlin, Esther, Betty, and Edith Corn.
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Early Twentieth century Appleton resident. Sister of Orlin, Esther, Edith, and Lelia Corn.
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Early teacher at Appleton School. He also taught at the Heiberger School in Plateau Valley. His father, Ed Currier Sr., settled in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado in the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century.
In addition to teaching, livestock auctioneer Howard Shults states that Lucius continued to ranch in Pomona. He appears eventually to have settled in Plateau Valley, along with some of his brothers.
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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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Early Appleton pioneer and founder of COPECO, a large fruit growing operation. The 1910 US Census lists him as the proprietor of a department store and he was the owner, along with William J. Moyer, of the Fair Store. The land on his farm was used as a picnic ground for the store's employees. He built a lavish house for his family on the property. He died in 1917. Census records show that by 1920 his widow, Lois Craven, had moved to Grand Junction....
