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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....
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A California inmate in San Quentin Prison who was paroled by his mother into the supervision of Charles Lumley in Mesa County. With the help of two fellow parolees, Tommy Humotoff and Otis Slane, he started the COPECO dance hall in the 1920s, in an old barn and packing shed owned by his mother. The facility had been used previously by Elmer Craven for his COPECO fruit growing business in the Hunter District (According to D.A. Brockett, Sadler ran...
3) M.A. Glascoe
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According to oral history interviewee Richard Williams, Glascoe was an early resident of Mesa County and a part owner of the COPECO fruit growing operation, which he bought into after its sale by the original owners Elmer Craven and William Moyer. He worked as a dealer for the Conoco Oil Company and later as a realtor.
According to local historian Bill Nelson, Glascoe, who apparently belonged to the nascent First Baptist Church in Grand Junction,...
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He was born in Ohio to Richard and Rebecca (Ervin) Tope. US Census records show him living in Harrison, Ohio and teaching by the time he was 24, in 1900. He married Elizabeth Jones in 1903, and together they moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where Richard served as the principal of Grand Junction High School from 1911 to 1918.
In 1918, he became the superintendent of schools for Grand Junction School District 1, a position he kept until 1938....
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He was born in New York to Rachel (Hotaling) Williams and David Williams. His father was a farmer and his mother a homemaker. He grew up in Guthrie Center, Iowa. He attended High Park College and later worked in a bank in Guthrie Center. He married Edna Bonebreak in 1905. They moved to Grand Junction, Colorado at the behest of the Guthrie Center bank’s owner, who wanted him to look after people from Guthrie Center who had moved to the Western Slope.
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William J. Moyer was the Vice President of Grand Valley National Bank and the owner, along with Elmer Craven until his death, of the Fair Store in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to David Sundal, Moyer first settled in the town of Socorro, New Mexico and opened a Fair Store there before abandoning the store and town for Grand Junction. There, his store went from a small hole in the wall to a large enterprise.
He walked to the Fair Store from...
