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Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado to Orus Bonham Trumbo of Indiana and Maude Tillery of Kentucky. According to information presented by David Sundal, who had conversations with Trumbo, his Great Grandfather Tillery was an early day Montrose sheriff. His family moved to Grand Junction in 1908, when Trumbo was four. He grew up in a house at 1124 Gunnison Avenue that was torn down and replaced by a newer home in 1929. He grew up attending...
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Mother of Dalton Trumbo. She was an active member of Grand Junction's First Church of Christ, Scientist. With her husband, Orus Trumbo, they raised children at 1124 Gunnison Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado from 1908-1925, when they left for Los Angeles after Orus lost his job at Benge's shoe store.
According to local historian David Sundal, she was an active citizen in the community. She belonged to several community groups and took active leadership...
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A Grand Junction High School graduate in the same class as Dalton Trumbo. He became a congressman and a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. He also served as the Attorney General for the State of Minnesota and a US representative for Minnesota.
*Photograph from the U.S. House of Representatives.
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She was a classmate of Dalton Trumbo at Grand Junction High School. She also attended the Hoel Business College. She married Robert Lannon and they had one son, James “Jim” Lannon. The 1940 US Census shows her as divorced from Lannon, living in Grand Junction and working as a timekeeper.
*Photograph from the 1924 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
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Dalton Trumbo’s father. He was born to James and Sarah Trumbo in Indiana, a farmer and a homemaker. He went to a normal school and a “top school.” According to local historian David Sundal, he was an intelligent man who had trouble making money. US Census records show him living in Montrose, Colorado and working as a farm laborer by 1900. By 1910 he was married to Maud Tillery and living in Grand Junction with their four-year-old son Dalton....
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A lawyer in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was born in Ohio to William A. Mast and Elizabeth Mast. US Census records show the family living in Grand Junction, Colorado by 1920, when Gene was 13. The family lived at 1045 Grand Avenue. Gene's father was the minister of the First Presbyterian Church at 606 White Avenue.
Gene attended Grand Junction High School, where he was in the Latin Club, the marching band, and on the debate team with Dalton Trumbo....
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She was born in Kansas to Burton “Bert” Cunningham and Marguerite “Maggie” (McCartney) Cunningham. Her father was a locomotive engineer and her mother, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, was a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Grand Junction, Colorado at least by 1910, when Isabella was four years old. Her father died in 1911. Her mother remarried to Walter Rodabaugh, a foreman on the railroad, in 1914, when Isabella...
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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...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Hugh E. Soule and Anna (Olston) Soule. Her father was a salesman in a general store. Her mother was a homemaker. Elberta was a distant relation of Silas Stillman Soule, an abolitionist on the underground railroad and the commander of Company D in the 1st Colorado Cavalry (in this capacity, he refused to allow his troops to fire on defenseless Cheyenne people during the Sand Creek Massacre, and later testified...
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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...
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She was born to Guy L. McQueen and Emma E. (Barker) McQueen in Missouri. Her father was a time keeper and clerk for a railroad in Texas, and later the owner of a paint store in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her mother was a homemaker.
Ruth grew up in Texas and in Grand Junction. She attended one year of high school in Palestine, Texas and finished school at Grand Junction High School. While in high school she was in the Glee Club, was the treasurer...
