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In the 1920's, Charles Schoening owned a fruit platform in Fruitvale, Colorado, where bands would play.
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Robert Ross was born in Iowa and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1905, after receiving his degree from the University of Colorado. He taught in the Pomona School upon his arrival. He married Pearl S. Smith in 1908. They settled on a ten-acre farm in the Fruitvale area in 1912, on the east end of North Avenue, where they farmed fruit. He was the principal of the Fruitvale School in early Fruitvale, Colorado. He was elected to the Fruitvale School...
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A Hopi Indian boy who lived at the Teller Institute, and helped the Nichols family with their fruit orchards in Fruitvale. Later, he was adopted by the Nichols family.
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She was born on the southwest side of downtown Chicago. She moved with her husband and family to a farm in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1902.
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He was born in Wisconsin. Following his parents, who had relocated previously to the Grand Valley, he moved with his wife and family in the Fruitvale are of Mesa County, Colorado. He was a farmer.
6) Flora Eaton
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She was the founder of the AOOF Club (Ancient Order of Fools) in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. This all-women’s club was started during the Depression to help alleviate gloomy or pessimistic moods.
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He was born in Illinois. He and his wife settled briefly in Ovid, Colorado, and lived with their children in California before settling in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. He was a fruit farmer.
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She was born in Illinois. She lived with her husband in Ovid, Colorado and California before they settled in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. She was a homemaker on a fruit farm and had two daughters.
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Daily Sentinel columnist and early Fruitvale, Colorado farmer. Also a founder of 4H in Colorado, mother of Velma E. (Borschell) Budin and wife of William Henry Borschell.
10) Neil Straayer
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He was an immigrant from the Netherlands who came to the Grand Valley in 1911. He was a fruit grower and farmer, working for himself and others, in the Hunter District, Appleton, Fruitvale, and other areas of the Grand Valley.
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She was born and raised on a small farm in Fruitvale, Colorado. She had a twin brother who died in a fall on Serpent’s Trail on the Colorado National Monument. She taught English at Grand Junction High School.
*Photo from the 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
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She was born in Eaton, Colorado and lived there most of her young life. She moved to Grand Junction with husband Levi Morse on April 18, 1924. Though her degree was in English, she taught Latin and history at Fruitvale High School.
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He first arrived in Grand Junction, Colorado in January 1905 when he was around ten years old. The family moved from Red Oaks, Iowa and briefly settled in town before moving to the Fruitvale area on what was then East Grand Avenue. He attended the Allen School in Fruitvale and then Grand Junction High School. He lived for a time on the Colorado plains, where he met his wife, Elizabeth June (Eaton) Morse, before returning to the Grand Valley in 1924....
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He moved with his parents to Grand Junction in 1895. He was the custodian of First United Methodist Church in Grand Junction, Colorado, and he was on the board that laid out the Grand Mesa Institute grounds for the Grand Mesa Christian Association. He was also a salesman in the shoe business. With his wife, Edith Jaynes, he purchased an orchard in Fruitridge, and later at 2878 Orchard Avenue in Fruitvale.
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She was born to Chalmer and Mabel Hargis in Ovid, Colorado. The family moved to California shortly after her birth, but missed true winters and so returned to Colorado. Margaret grew up in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County. She attended the Fruitvale School and graduated from the Ross Business College. She became a bookkeeper for Up-To-Date Cleaners, a job she kept for 40 years. U.S. Census records from 1940 show her occupation as housekeeper. She...
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Social worker, 4H participant, and early Twentieth century resident of Fruitvale, Colorado. She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to William Henry Borschell and Edith Eliza (Jaynes) Borschell. US Census records indicate that the family had moved to the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1910, when Velma was seven years old. There, they lived on and ran a fruit farm. She grew up helping her father in the orchards.
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She was born in Tennessee to Joseph K. Brunner and Ida May (Dunn) Brunner. According to her son, Laird, Joseph and Ida lost their plantation when it was taken by the Union Army during the Civil War. They later moved to Colorado from Atlanta. The US Census shows that the family had moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado by at least 1900, when Lina was 14. There, her father was a mine broker and her mother was a homemaker.
Joseph died of Tuberculosis...
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She was born in Edwards, Nebraska. As a child, she spent the school year in Fruitvale, Colorado and attended the Fruitvale School. Her father bought a ranch on Coates Creek, and she had fond memories of spending summers there and playing in the creek. She married James Brouse in 1937. Together they lived in Nevada, where he was a miner, and then returned to Mesa County, living first in Whitewater and then Grand Junction. She was a homemaker.
19) Frank Nisley
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He was born in Pennsylvania. By 1910, he was a teacher and superintendent of schools for Collbran School District #6 in Mesa County, Colorado. During that time, he grew cane sorghum in the Sunnyside area north of Collbran, from which he made mollasses. He later lived and taught in Fruitvale, where he was also superintendent. According to Ina Dyer, a teacher in both Collbran and Fruitvale, he was one of the only teachers who allowed prayer in school,...
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He as a former Union soldier who, in 1905, hired parties to survey the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado for possible settlement. E.L. Morse, a civil engineer who had settled in Fruitvale, did some of the surveys, and was accompanied by his nephew Levi Morse.
