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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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A canning company founded in Appleton in 1911 by brothers George and Arthur Currie. It was managed by Allen Holcomb, and canned local produce, especially tomatoes compiled by local farmers for ketchup. According to Bill Nelson, the factory also canned cherries. It was bought out in 1935 by the Loveland based Kuner-Empson Canning Company.
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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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Jene Hicks tells the story of his father’s work as a barber and coal miner, and his mother’s work as a school teacher in early Twentieth century Mesa County, Colorado. He also gives a history of the Cameo Mine and other coal mines in the Bookcliffs. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Bertha Schlegel discusses growing up in Loma, Colorado and helping her family raise beets for Holly Sugar, and making sauerkraut, pickled apples, pickled watermelon and other ethnic food with her mother, who was a German immigrant from Russia. She also remembers her education and school activities throughout her childhood, including field days at the Fruita Central School and Grand Junction High School. She talks about obtaining a teaching degree,...
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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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Florence Walker describes in vivid detail the environment of Glade Park while living and teaching there during the 1916-1917 school year. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Dominick Arcieri talks about the experience of his Italian immigrant family in Mesa County, Colorado, and in general about the immigrant experience there. He also talks about his family's farm and his father's work raising tomatoes in the Las Colonias area for the Curry Canning Company. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado....
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Pearl Porter discusses the history of her father’s optometry practice in Grand Junction, her grade school education, and other aspects of her upbringing in early Twentieth century Mesa County. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Mary Plaisted talks about early days in Mesa County, Colorado, her marriage to Thomas Pierce, a farmer in Loma, and the busy life of a homemaker on the farm. She discusses various locations and institutions around the Western Slope, including the Paradox Valley, the Cowpuncher’s Reunion, and the Little Book Cliff Railway. She speaks about her warm family life as a child in Kansas, and life in Western Colorado after her father’s death. She also...
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Neal Plaisted, an early Mesa County dairy and livestock farmer who started the Mountain View Seed Company, talks about seed processing and about his work as a warehouse foreman for the Grand Junction Seed Company. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
