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Harold Bryant was born in Pickrell, Nebraska to John Edward Bryant and Anna (Soule) Bryant. US Census records indicate that the family moved to the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1910. There, they homesteaded. Harold Bryant, as the only boy of several children, did much of the farm's labor. His father was a Dunkard (Church of the Brethren) and, according to Al Look, “a tough old religionist.” Harold rejected the...
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She was born in Nebraska to John Edward Bryant and Anna (Soule) Bryant. US Census records indicate that they moved to Mesa County, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1910, when Dorothy was between 1 and 11 years old. There, the family homesteaded and raised cattle. She attended college and was a nurse. She married fish and wildlife game warden John Duncan Hart on June 7, 1934 in Glenwood Springs. According to John Hart, Dorothy was an accomplished...
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She was a New Yorker and business woman who married the artist Harold Bryant and helped his career. She had been a WAVE in the Navy and he was a World War I veteran. They met in a saloon in New York at midnight and began seeing each other. When he moved back to Colorado, she followed him. They eventually married. She was responsible for the sale of his paintings to a calendar company.
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He was born in Indiana to John Strange Byrant, a farmer, and Rachel Elvira Bryant, a homemaker. Indiana marriage records show him marrying Susan Warthen on September 24, 1872, when he was 22 years old. US Census records show them living in Gage County, Nebraska by 1880, where John was a farmer. Susan died in 1889 and John subsequently remarried to Anna Soule. US Census records show them living in Nebraska in 1900. By 1910, they lived in the Appleton...
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He was born on a farm north of Princeton, Missouri. When he was ten years old his family moved to Egypt, where his father was a missionary. They later returned to Missouri and farming. He came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1937. He worked as a carpenter and helped build several Grand Valley buildings before retiring in 1964. He was also a gunsmith who specialized in making muzzle-loading guns. During World War II, he worked in the Remington Arms...
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He was born in Nevada, Missouri. He lost his father, an Irish immigrant and devout Catholic named Mike Hart, when he was very young. Gertrude (Duncan) Hart, his mother, was a devout Methodist. His maternal grandfather was a cattle rancher and former Confederate soldier who was buried in his Confederate Army uniform. Sometime soon after his father's death, John's mother married William A. Lowe, who was also from Missouri. They moved to Grand Junction,...
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She was born in Oklahoma to Robert W. Ramsay from Scotland and Mary E. Ramsay from Illinois. Her father was in the dry goods business. She attended Smith College in New England. Josephine came to the Grand Junction area in November of 1920. She had been working as the YWCA national secretary (Young Woman’s Christian Association) in Denver and was sent to Grand Junction to found a local YWCA. When interest in founding a local chapter fell through,...
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He was born in Nebraska, and raised in Lincoln and in Stockton, Kansas. His father was Albert Look and his mother Marie Look. Both parents were the children of German immigrants. They ran a grocery store, a dry goods store, and then a creamery. While in high school, he was active in theater productions, sang bass in a local barbershop quartet, and sang in the Methodist choir. He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he studied journalism,...