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During 1980’s annual meeting of the Last Squad Club, an organization of World War I veterans, Al Look reads the memorial service and former U.S. Representative Wayne Aspinall gives the keynote address. The club remembers deceased members and friends of the club. 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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Penelope Eberhart talks about her father Harry Brown’s introduction to oil shale while on a family vacation in Denver in the 1920’s, his subsequent move to the De Beque area on the Western Slope, and his early business venture in oil shale with the Index Oil Shale Company. She speaks about the mining and milling process for shale, and about a biproduct of the milling process marketed as plant fertilizer called Index Soil Vitalizer. She talks about...
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A small school district with boundaries between the Clifton and Palisade School Districts. It was formed in 1898, before the consolidation of districts and the formation of Mesa County School District 51 in 1951. It administered the Mt. Lincoln School, of which Wayne Aspinall was an alum. Aspinall later served as a teacher in the district. Frank Roe and A.E. Martin were early members of the board, and Roe was the primary force behind the funding and...
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A public servant from Delta County, Colorado. According to the University of Colorado archives, Rockwell was born in New York state. After attending Princeton, University, he moved to Paonia, Colorado in 1907, where he became a fruit farmer and cattle rancher.
He served as Lieutenant Governor and State Senator in Colorado before being elected to the U.S. House or Representatives during a special election in 1941 (after the death of his predecessor,...
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In a three-part interview conducted over three days, Luisa Landini describes her childhood in Montale, Italy and her life after immigrating to the United States. In part one, she talks about life in Italy, working on a farm and in the fields, and her immigration to the United States via ship at the age of twenty-two. She talks about coming to America to marry Pete Landini and her homesickness for Italy when she arrived. She speaks about the family’s...
26) Jack House
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He was the hereditary chief of the Ute Mountain Utes. According to US Representative Wayne Aspinall, House would often accompany him on campaign trips around the state. Although he spoke English, House refused to speak in any language but Ute. The speeches he gave during campaign stops were also in Ute. His Wikipedia article calls him the last traditional leader of the Ute Mountain Ute. He died in 1971.
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A Palisade chapter of P.E.O., an organization for women, began in 1928. Original members included Ruth Tilton, who was selected as guard, and Julia Aspinall. According to Tilton, the Grand Junction P.E.O. would not sponsor the Palisade women who were trying to begin their own chapter and dismissed the Palisade members as “Just a bunch of farm women.” The CD Chapter sponsored the Palisade Public Library.
According to the website of P.E.O., the...
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He was born to John E. Best and Sara J. Best in North Dakota. His parents were immigrants from Canada. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Walhalla, North Dakota, where John Best was a farmer.
By 1910, when Frank was 16, the US Census shows them living in Palisade, Colorado, where John was a fruit farmer. There, he grew up with friend Wayne Aspinall and the two of them attended the University of Denver together.
Best became the proprietor...
29) Roy Chapman
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He owned a stationary store between 5th and 6th Streets on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. A World War I veteran who lost his eyesight when he was gassed, he was known for being blind. Later, he ran for the Colorado State Senate and was elected in 1934, serving until 1938 when he lost to Wayne Aspinall. Afterward, Chapman was appointed to the Board for the Blind and got a job as the head of the State Blind...
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She was born in Union City, Indiana to Frank Roe and Mattie (Cobleny) Roe. Her father was a teacher and her mother was a homemaker. Her father intended to move the family to Oregon, but was persuaded by a Grand Junction real estate agent to purchase a peach orchard in Palisade instead. US Census records show the family living in Palisade, Colorado by 1910, when Velma was fifteen. She attended high school at the Mt. Lincoln School, where her classmates...
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He was born to Daniel Hulburt and Lizzie (Watkins) Hulburt in Wisconsin. The family moved to West Palisade, Colorado in 1909, when Fred was fourteen years old. There, his father was a fruit farmer and the mailman for Vineland and areas east of Palisade.
He attended the Mt. Lincoln School with fellow pupil and future U.S. Congressman Wayne Aspinall, and went to high school at Palisade High School. He worked as a mail delivery boy, a fruit farmer,...
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He was born to William Wesley Taylor and Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Austin) Taylor in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was an editor for an African-American newspaper, the Utah Plain Dealer, and his mother was a homemaker. He was 15 when his father passed in 1907. He became the provider for the family. He helped his sister and his brother Booker Thomas Washington Taylor get their college educations.
He served in the Army during WWII and was honorably...
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He was born in Iowa to Elsie Verness (Forrest) Carhartt, a homemaker, and James Seth Carhartt, a farmer. He moved to Ogden, Utah in 1914, where he lived with his grandparents. There, he joined the Utah National Guard. He received a scholarship to the University of Denver and was classmates with Wayne N. Aspinall. While on tour with the DU Glee Club, he received a telegram ordering him to mobilize for the Guard. His guard had been converted to an...
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Edwin Johnson was a Democrat from Kansas who moved to Colorado seeking a dry climate as treatment for tuberculosis. He settled near Craig on a homestead. He served in the Colorado House of Representatives for four terms, beginning in 1923. He became Lieutenant Governor in 1931, and Governor in 1933. He served three terms as U.S. Senator for Colorado between 1937-1955. According to the Colorado State Archives, Johnson's rustic reputation helped his...
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Head engineer for the construction of the Highline Canal in Mesa County, Colorado. He was descended from a a line of New England whaling captains, but was born and raised in Nebraska. In 1908, he graduated from the University of Nebraska as a civil engineer and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1909. After buying land at 28 1/2 and C Road, he grew peaches and apples on 40 acres. He began working on the Grand Valley Project for the Bureau of Reclamation...
36) Herman W. Kluge
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A town founder of Palisade, Colorado. According to US Census records, he was born in Illinois to John and Mary Kluge, both Prussian immigrants. He married Anna "Annie" (Doyle) Kluge in Denver, Colorado in 1890 (she was also from Illinois, and the daughter of Irish immigrants), and they were living in Boulder, Colorado by 1900. There, census records list him as a coal miner.
He was living in Palisade by 1910, and census records show his occupation...
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Born in Basalt, Colorado, he attended school in Leadville and Cardiff (a division point on the Colorado Midland Railroad) as a young boy. His parents divorced when he was still at home, and he was on his own to a large degree from the age of 14. Dudley went to high school in Grand Junction, but failed to graduate. He knew Dalton Trumbo well as a fellow student. After Trumbo moved away, they corresponded over the years.
While in school, he unloaded...
38) Cecilia Cardman
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She was born in Italy as Cecilia Cardamone to Santo “Samuel” Cardamone and Maria Angela “Mary” (Mendocino) Cardamone. Records of US Passenger ships show that she arrived with her family in the United States aboard the ship Finland in 1915, when she was nine years old. The family moved first to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended grade school and learned English at the age of ten.
The US Census indicates that by 1920, the family lived...
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Colorado Mesa University was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1925. It began as Grand Junction Junior College and was established with the support of Colorado State Representatives Sterling Lacy and Ollie Bannister, who worked with representatives from Trinidad and Pueblo to secure colleges for all three areas.
During its first years of existence as Grand Junction Junior College, classes were taught in the old Lowell School, which had been...
40) Howard M. Shults
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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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