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21) Manus McGinley
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Early Grand Junction and Fruita resident. His father, William McGinley, was one of the founders of Grand Junction.
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Early Grand Junction and Fruita resident. Her father, William McGinley, was one of the founders of Grand Junction.
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Early Mesa County resident, fruit farmer, and cattle rancher. He was born in Blackhawk, Colorado to Michael Egger, an immigrant from the Germanic Tyrol region, and Josephine (Hime) Egger from North Carolina. In 1891, when he was ten years old, his parents settled the area just northeast of Grand Junction, where they planted fruit trees. The 1900 United States Census shows the family living in the Allen area (Fruitvale). As a child he herded the family's...
24) Orson Adams
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Orson Adams was a Utah rancher in the early 1880's, and an early resident of Grand Junction. He was the head cashier at the Mesa County State Bank, and eventually became the bank president. He was instrumental in establishing the Interurban line from Grand Junction to Fruita. He was convicted of embezzlement in [1913?] and sentenced to prison.
D.A. Brockett. Wicked Western Slope: Mayhem, Mischief & Murder in Colorado. Charleston: The History Press,...
25) Nathan Turner
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He was born in Tennessee and came to Mesa County, Colorado from Huerfano, Colorado with his wife Catherine in 1887. They located near Fruita, Colorado and Cisco, Utah, where they owned cattle ranching operations.
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A Fruita, Colorado cowboy and husband of Marie (Becker) Young. He was born in Utah. He was a widower with four children when Marie (Becker) Young first met him. When they married in 1924, near, Moab, Lew was 43 years old and Marie was 19. They moved back to Mesa County, Colorado four years later. Lew was described as a hard worker who loved to have fun. He worked as a cattle rancher until his death in 1961.
Brother of Ed and Lafe Young.
27) Shorty Goss
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He was an early Twentieth century Mesa County, Colorado cowboy. After retiring, he lived in a trailer in Fruita.
28) Henry R. Rhone
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An early Mesa County pioneer who owned a small dairy at the corner of 12th Street and White Avenue. His cinder block house still stands in that location. He invested in the Rhone Fruit Land Company east of Fruita, and the Rhone area took his name.
His son, Bayard Rhone, became a Deputy Attorney General of California.
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He was born in Fruita to John G. Beard and Grace Emily (Curtis) Beard. His father worked as a druggist, electrician, coal loader and later raised goats on a homestead in Devil’s Canyon. His mother was a homemaker and school teacher. He had a twin brother, Wallace, and a sister, Roseltha. He attended the Hunter School and then Fruita schools. He also helped his father with homestead work. He attended Mesa College and the University of Colorado.
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Mesa County pioneer, poet, and the founder of Fruita, Colorado.
He was born to Alexander and Mary Ann Pabor in Harlem, New York. US Census records list his father as a gardener, which might help explain the younger Pabor's later interest in fruit growing and horticulture.
By 1854, at the tender age of nineteen, Pabor became the editor of the Harlem Weekly Times (source: National Endowment for the Humanities). Pabor also found early success for...
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She was an early Twentieth century Grand Junction, Colorado and Fruita resident. She was also a childhood friend of Emma (Berg) Nagel. Their fathers worked together as ditch riders.
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Apple farmer and early Fruita, Colorado settler. Colorado State Representative. Father of Helen (Page) Swanson.
34) Emmett Elizondo
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Basque sheepherder and co-founder of the Fruita State Bank. He ran his own sheep ranching outfit. He was born in Sumbilla, Spain to Basque father and mother Jose Antonio Elizondo and Juana Martina Errandonea Elizondo. Emmett was one of ten children.
He came to the United States with two brothers in 1915, when he was about 18 years old. His first sheepherding job in his new country was in Buffalo, Wyoming for $40 a month. He then went to Ogden,...
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A Twentieth century Western Slope sheep rancher. He was born to Florenz Aubert and Grace (Larralde) Aubert in Price, Utah. His parents were both immigrants from France. His father was a sheepherder and his mother was a homemaker. In 1926, Florenz homesteaded land on Pinon Mesa in Mesa County, Colorado. The family spent the summers there, where they grazed sheep, and returned to Utah in time for the children to start school in the fall. They attempted...
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Early 20th century Fruita and Mesa County, and Garfield County resident. She owned the Atchee general store, referred to by Atchee resident Elizabeth Angus as the Luton store. Ute people would sometimes come into the store to trade. She and other people from Atchee would often sit and visit with the Ute when they were in town.
37) Frank Merrill
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U. S. Government surveyor and engineer. Early Twentieth century Mesa County resident who lived in Fruita, Colorado and knew Monument Canyon "like the back of his hand". Was called upon to help assess the potential of Rim Rock Drive in the beginning stages.
38) C.S. Saxton
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Early 20th century resident of Mesa County's Hunter District, east of Fruita, near 21 and J Roads. He and his wife Nancy (Renwick) Stanton grew apples.
39) Charlie Glass
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An African-American cowboy (though he was reputed to be half-Cherokee) who worked for the S-Cross Cattle Company in Mesa County, for Marsh Nuckles near De Beque, and for the Turner Ranch. He was born and raised in Oklahoma, where his uncle was a cattleman. His father was a cowboy in Oklahoma, and was killed by U. S. Deputy Marshals. Glass came from Texas, and was said to be the foreman of the Knuckles Meat Packing Company in Pueblo, Colorado prior...
40) Lee Hampden
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Lee Hampden/Hampton was the superintendent of Glade Park School District 14. She was an early Fruita, Colorado schoolteacher who taught eighth grade. Darwin Burford, a former student of hers, remembers she was strict.
