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She was born in Montrose County, Colorado. By 1896, when she was six years old, she and her family were living on the Brink place in Fruita. They moved to what became known as Snooks Bottom around 1900, named for the homestead founded there by her parents William Tunis Snook and Clara Zillah (Park) Snook. The family lived there until 1910, when a reservoir constructed by resident families burst. They moved back to Fruita, where William purchased and...
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She was born in Princeton, Kansas. After high school, she received a scholarship for a business school in Topeka. During that time, her parents moved to Fruita, Colorado to escape the Dust Bowl. After finishing school, she followed and took her first job in the law office of Silmon Smith in Grand Junction. She then took a job as a secretary in the office of Western Slope Wholesale Grocers. After marrying James “Jim” Kyle in Los Angeles on November...
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He was born in Columbia, Missouri to Leonard Haseman, a professor at Columbia University, and Elosia Belle (Fish) Haseman, a homemaker. He attended David Henry Hickman High School, where he was in the Latin Club, the orchestra, and the all-state orchestra. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Missouri. There, he was in Lamda Chi Alpha, played football, and was in the Stripes and Diamonds and the Pistol Club. He received a science...
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She was born in Montale, Italy to Carlo and Carmelina Tonelli Duranti. Her Italian birth and baptismal record from the Pontremoli Diocese shows that she was born on May 6, 1900, while later records in the United States show a date of May 15th. The same baptismal record lists her birth name as Virginia Mistica Luigia. She attended school until part way through second grade, when she had to quit so that she could help her family when her mother got...
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Early Grand Junction druggist, pioneer, and businessman who founded the C. D. Smith Drug Company. He was born in Las Animas, Colorado on August 22, 1879 to Burrel and Amelia (Reynolds) Smith, who traveled from Oberlin, Ohio in 1865. His father was listed by the US Census as a stock-grower and also served as postmaster. In 1882, his father sold some 3,000 head of cattle and his ranch located in the San Luis valley and moved to Gunnison.
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Pharmacist at Fruita Drug Store. Mesa County pioneer. Larkin graduated from the College of Pharmacy at Valparaiso University and worked as a druggist around Indiana for two years. He moved to Colorado for health reasons around 1903, and to Fruita, Colorado around 1906. He owned and operated a fruit farm for three years before resuming his career as pharmacist, first in Las Animas, New Mexico, then back to Fruita, where he managed a store for C.D....
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An Irish immigrant who came to Fruita, Colorado in the 1880's. He settled Fruita's Star District between 19 1/2 and 20 Roads and L and M roads, next to the homestead of his brother William McGinley. He married Annie in the [St. Malachy?] Catholic Church of Fruita in 1894. The couple homesteaded together on J Road between 20 and 20 1/2 Roads. He worked with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad while it was being constructed to Grand Junction. In 1882,...
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Her parents, Annie and John McGinley, homesteaded in Fruita in the late Nineteenth century. She attended Fruita High School for three years, and went to Ross Business College for her fourth year. She was an elementary school teacher in Mesa County, Colorado for 43 years. She taught at the rural Hunter School for 24 years, and then in Fruita for her last 13 years. She never married.
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He was an Irish immigrant who homesteaded in Fruita, Colorado in the 1880's, and was one of the founders of Grand Junction, Colorado. With J. Clayton Nichols and O.D. Russell, he came into the Grand Valley directly after the Utes had been forcibly removed by the United States Army in 1881. He settled Fruita's Star District on 19 Road, next to the homestead of his brother John McGinley. He was a Denver & Rio Grande Railroad engineer in Gunnison,...
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Early Twentieth century Grand Junction and Fruita resident, cowboy and rancher. He was born a few miles north of Fruita, Colorado, as the youngest of 13 siblings (6 brothers and 7 sisters). He began cowpunching when he was 12 years old in the Douglass Pass area, on a roundup for a man named John White. He quit after five years, when his parents became ill. At that point, he had 110 cattle of his own, which he sold. Morgan met his wife at the Cowpuncher’s...
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Early Twentieth century resident of Fruita and Loma, Colorado. Sister of John Sylvester Long.
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An immigrant from Canada who came to Mesa County, Colorado with her father in 1882. The family homesteaded between what is now 19 and 19 1/2 Roads on J Road. She married John McGinley in the [St. Malachy?] Catholic Church of Fruita in 1894. She homesteaded with John on J Road between 20 and 20 1/2 Roads.
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She was born in Fruita at 609 Tabor Street. to Eliza E. (Dawald) Raber and Larkin L. Raber. Her father was a pharmacist who owned his own drugstore in town and her mother was a homemaker. Her sister Marjorie was also a pharmacist.
She attended Fruita High School before going to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she majored in Pharmacy. While in college she was involved in the Mortal and Pestle club and the Little Symphony Orchestra....
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Nora (McGinley) Flynn was an early school teacher in Mesa County. Her father, William McGinley, was one of the founders of Grand Junction. She was an early resident of both Fruita and Grand Junction.
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Her parents Annie and John McGinley homesteaded in the Hunter District outside of Fruita, Colorado in the late 19th century. After her mother passed, she worked as homemaker, and then as a clerk for the Fair Store in Grand Junction. She also worked at the Sears Store in Grand Junction and at J.C. Penney. She kept house for a woman named Virginia Wallace for several years. She was married in 1926.
20) Manus McGinley
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Early Grand Junction and Fruita resident. His father, William McGinley, was one of the founders of Grand Junction.
