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Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., formerly Cliffs Natural Resources, is a Cleveland, Ohio-based company that specializes in the mining, beneficiation, and pelletizing of iron ore, as well as steelmaking, including stamping and tooling. It is the largest flat-rolled steel producer in North America. (From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland-Cliffs)
In Western Colorado, Cleveland-Cliffs was involved in oil shale mining for TOSCO and was one of...
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He was born to John Lawrence and Kate P. Young in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was an Irish immigrant and naval Civil War veteran. His mother was a homemaker. He worked as a machinist and commanded high wages due to the quality of his work. He married Emily Scatliff on November 13, 1898 in Chicago. They moved to Cleveland, Ohio, Denver, Colorado, Barberton, Ohio, and back to Cleveland. He fathered two sons, Willard and Art, and a daughter,...
23) Sylvia Ruland
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She was an historian who wrote the book The Lion of Redstone about John Cleveland Osgood (founder of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company). In accordance with her research into Osgood, she became very knowledgeable about the Colorado coal strikes of 1913-14, and about the Ludlow Massacre. According to the American Heritage Center in Wyoming, which owns her papers, she was a speech therapist before becoming a freelance writer.
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She was born in Chicago, Illinois to David Scatliff, a clerk, and Emily Scatliff, a homemaker. She was raised as an Episcopalian. As a child she took care of her mother and sister, who were both in poor health. She completed high school and some business college, and worked as a stenographer before she was married. She also took many odd jobs during hard times for the family (e.g. was washerwoman to the town of Hotchkiss, Colorado during the early...
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He was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Albert and Elizabeth Medesy, both Hungarian immigrants. His father was an iron worker and his mother was a homemaker. The 1940 US Census shows him living with his wife, Geraldine, and working as a government or wage worker. He served as a captain in the US Army during World War II. An Associated Press file index notes that Medesy was named director of the Long Island Agricultural & Technical Institute in Farmingdale,...
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He was born to Samuel Frederick Kiefer and Maude Marie (Hummel) Kiefer in Yakima, Washington and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was a saleman, broadcaster, and broadcast writer. His mother was a homemaker. Warren was working for the railroad by at least 1940, when the US Census lists him as a “wayo maintenance” worker in railroad construction. It also shows that he had attended a year of college.
He was hired as a fireman on the...
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Doctor in Fruita, Colorado in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. His office was in Cleveland, a small town adjoining Fruita on the southeast. He made his office in his home, where he also had a drug store and a small hospital. He later helped to establish and run the Fruita Community Hospital and, according to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, was also a surgeon for the Unitah Railway.
He attended his house calls by horse and buggy. When...
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She was born in Cilli, Austria in the late 19th century and grew up there in poverty. She was the fifth of seven children. Her father was a wagon maker. She came to the United States with her husband and they moved to Cleveland, where she worked for Josef & Feiss in manufacturing. He left soon after to fight in World War I, where he died. She had tuberculosis and moved to Colorado for her health. She moved to Paonia, where she had Austrian friends....
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Founder of Development Engineering, which later became the Paraho Development Organization. He was the co-inventor of the Gas Combustion Process for oil shale retorting, which was later modified into the Paraho Process. He spent some time in Brazil under Petrobrass to develop their oil shale industry, and named Paraho after the Portuguese words for “for mankind” (para homem). In the mid-1960s, he enlisted the help of Adam Reeves, who was an acquaintance...
30) Robert Brickell
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Robert V. Brickell December 17, 1927 - October 29, 2011 Robert Brickell, age 83, died October 29th, 2011 at Raleigh Health and Rehabilitation Center. Bob was born December 17, 1927 at St. Pauls Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He was son of the late Vreeland and Louise Brickell. Bob was preceded in death by his wife of 45 years, Corrine S. Brickell and grandson, Robert Turner Brickell. He is survived by his sister, Linda Knapp, SantŽ Fe New, Mexico; children,...
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Fruita's first hospital was located near the mortuary and run at first by the doctors James Moore Beard and Porter. Doctors White and J.S. Orr ran the hospital at a later date. It received funding from Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel, and others.
According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, who was friends with Dr. Beard, he ran a small hospital from his home in Cleveland, the town that adjoined Fruita, in the late Nineteenth and early...
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Owned Steamboat Ski area from 1969 - 1979. Known locally as LTV.
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Helen Johnson talks about gardening, methods of preserving food, and other aspects of rural life in Hotchkiss, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. She talks about her mother, Emily (Scatliff) Young, and the jobs she took to support the family after the loss of their life savings due to her father’s bad investment. She discusses the family’s religious observances and the history of churches in Hotchkiss. She talks about her abusive father-in-law...
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Josephine Biggs discusses her memories of Cross Orchards and owner “Colonel” Bill Cross, horseback riding excursions, and the LaCourt Hotel. She also talks about her work with the YWCA during a time when many young girls were “getting out of hand with all the boys coming home” from World War I, Lincoln Park and Lincoln Park School, her husband’s development of the Lincoln Park Neighborhood, and some details of the home they lived in there....
