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She was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland to James Irvine and Elizabeth (Murray) Irvine. She first came to the United States with her sister in 1910, when she was 20. Her sister’s husband was a miner in Raton, New Mexico, and the two sisters lived with him there for two years. Snook returned to Scotland in 1912. She could not stand the rain, and came back to the United States before World War I. She married Guy Snook, son of William and Clara Snook,...
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She was born in Utah to William Asbury and Priscilla Park. She married William Tunis Snook, and by 1885, the Colorado State Census shows them living together in Mesa County. They moved subsequently to Montrose County, where their son Guy was born. According to their daughter Della (Snook) Mack (as related in her letter read by Della's niece and oral history interviewee Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner), the Snooks were back living on the Brink place in Fruita...
63) Guy V. Snook
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He was born in Olathe, Colorado. According to his sister Della (Snook) Mack, he and his family were living in the town of Fruita by around 1896, when Guy was 8. They moved to what became known as Snooks Bottom, originally a homestead established by his parents William T. Snook and Clara P. Snook, in 1900. Della, in a letter read by her niece and oral history interviewee Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner, described Guy as a "big, strong boy" who would help...
64) Ina Dyer
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An Ohio native who came to Mesa, Colorado in 1910. Because she came just before the end of her senior year, she finished high school by correspondence. A few years later, she attended teaching certificate courses at the Hoel-Ross Business College in Grand Junction. She was hired to teach in Mesa School District #9 for $45 a month. After some time in Mesa, she taught for two years in Collbran, and then in the Fruitvale School. She attended Western...
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A Lions Club, based in the Orchard Mesa area of Mesa County, which has served the population of Orchard Mesa and the county since its incorporation in 1971. Founding members include Mesa County Oral History interviewee Dale Luke.
In order to fund their charities, they worked the concession stand at the Mesa County Fairgrounds (then Uranium Downs) with the Fruitvale and Redlands Lions (collectively known as the Tri-Lions) during the 1980’s. They...
66) Madge E. Davis
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She was born in Michigan to Gardner and Anna Davis and attended some school there. Her family came to Colorado in 1904 because her brother had asthma, and it was thought that the region’s drier air would improve his health. When she was a child, her father settled in the area north of 31 ½ Road and F Road in Clifton, Colorado, where he tried to farm fruit, but the Stubb Ditch proved to be an unreliable source of water. She attended the Fruitvale...
67) Laird Key Smith
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He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to prominent water law attorney Silmon Smith and homemaker Lena B. Smith. He grew up at 1030 Chipeta Avenue and on an apple orchard in Fruitvale.
He attended Grand Junction High School. After his graduation from high school, he attended Grand Junction Junior College for one year before transferring to Colorado College, where he majored in English. At Colorado College he was involved in Phi Gamma Delta, The...
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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...
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She was born to Silmon Laird Smith and Lina (Brunner) Smith in Grand Junction, Colorado's St. Mary’s Hospital. Her father was one of the foremost water law attorneys in the United States. Her mother and father also ran a family fruit farm.
She grew up in Fruitvale, where the family had an apple orchard and raised all of its own food. They had no electricity or plumbing, and so relied on kerosene lamps for light and on a cistern to pump water...
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He was born in Saskatchewan, Canada to American citizens Frank Oscar Cary and Louise Pamela Cary. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Grand Junction, Colorado by 1920, when Joseph was seven years old. The family lived with extended family at 626 North 7th Street, with his father Frank working as a vulcanizer in his own shop. By 1930, the family had moved to Fruitvale, where they...
71) Glen Edwin Brunk
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He was born in Missouri to Charles Assa Brunk and Minnie Alice (Weaver) Brunk. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Mesa County, Colorado and settled in Orchard Mesa in 1908, when Glen was six years old. There, the family farmed fruit.
Glen attended Grand Junction High School. He then received education in highway engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geometrical drawing from his positions with...
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The Red Cross Land and Fruit Company managed the Cross Orchards, located at what is now 3073 F Road in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado. Cross Orchards was the largest fruit growing operation in the county for many years. It was founded by Isabel Cross and later owned by her younger brother, Walter Bigelow Cross. Isabel (shown living with Walter as children in Vermont in the 1860 U.S. Census), apparently bought the land on which Cross...
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He was born to Freeman Snook and Lydia (Soule) Snook in Clay, New York, near Syracuse. US Census Records from 1870 list his name as Judge Snook (The nickname "Judge" would seem to be derived from Judson, which was his given name according to his daughter Della (Snook) Mack). According to the 1875 New York State Census, he was married to Jane Snook, but the 1880 US Census shows Jane and their four children living by themselves in New York (though the...
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She was born in Miami, Ohio to Samuel J. Hamilton and Martha Evelyn (Newberry) Hamilton. Her father was a house painter and wallpaper hanger. Her mother was a homemaker. Cordelia was a sibling to Margaret, Robert, Jeanette, Margaret, Martha, Harvey, Margery, and William Hamilton. Her paternal half-sibling was Edna Hamilton.
The family moved to Fruita, Colorado in 1904, when Cordelia was about four years old. Cordelia’s parents and maternal grandparents...
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He was born in Winfield, Kansas to Jasper Files and Lillian Grace (Thirsk) Files. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He had three brothers. He attended Frog Hollow School in Winfield, Kansas. He completed an 8th grade education and took some correspondence courses. He also studied some engineering at a college in Manhattan.
The family moved to Lamar, Colorado in 1914, via covered wagon, when he was fifteen years old. They homesteaded...
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He was born in Iowa to Franklin R. "Frank" Smith and Mary Anna "Minnie" (Laird) Smith. When he was three years old, the family moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and again to Grand Junction in 1895, when he was six. The family moved several times within Grand Junction, living at one time next to a saloon at 4th and Main Streets, behind the Brownson’s store. Their first “real” home in town was at 444 Rood Avenue, on or near the site of the...
77) Milo M. Morse
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He was born in Illinois. He moved with his two brothers, wife and family from Red Oaks, Iowa to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1905. He was a farmer, and hardware and farm implement dealer.
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Summer Fun, about...
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Helen Johnson talks about helping teach a WPA-funded dance class during the Great Depression. She speaks about other government programs, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, and how they helped the people of Mesa County, Colorado during the Great Depression. She describes working for Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles to manufacture airplanes during World War II, where she became the lead in her section. She talks about her brief career teaching...
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Eva Wood Leslie discusses her family’s farm life on Pinon Mesa, Colorado, sheep farming, chores done around the home, and school teaching in Mesa County. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
