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1) Frank Peep
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He was born Frank Pepe to Italian immigrant parents. Early Twentieth century cowboy and rodeo rider.
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She was born in Whitewater, Colorado to Swedish immigrants, August Johnson and Olga (Anderson) Johnson, in 1901.
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An English immigrant to Grand Junction, Colorado. He farmed in the First Fruitridge area. He was born in London.
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He was born First Fruitridge in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father was an immigrant from England.
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A Swiss immigrant and maid who lived in Colorado. She married Joseph Balliger in Montrose in 1886. They lived in Telluride.
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A Danish immigrant to Colorado. He bought the garbage contract for the city of Grand Junction from Howard Shults in the late 1930s.
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Along with his brother, he was a Western Slope sheepherder and rancher. Both were Basque immigrants to Western Colorado.
8) Tom Welch
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An Irish immigrant who was killed in a shootout over homesteading rights for a claim straddling the Gunnison and Delta County lines on the East Muddy Creek on August 5, 1890.
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He was born in Millard, Nebraska to Dahma Broderson (a German immigrant) and Julius Broderson (from Denmark). He worked as a farmer and rancher.
10) Olga Johnson
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Swedish immigrant and settler of Whitewater, Colorado. Mother of Effie (Johnson) Silzell and Ida May (Johnson) Smith. Also the wife of August Johnson.
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He was born in Colorado to Italian immigrant parents. He was a laborer in the steam railroad shop for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Grand Junction.
12) John Rozman
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Parents immigrated from Yugoslavia, John was born in Crested Butte in 1910, married Mary "Mitzi" Sedmak in 1938. Together they have 3 sons, Johnny, Richard, and Rudy. (source: Newspaper Clipping "Following family tradition on the range")
13) 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 in Fairplay, Colorado and lived in Denver, Colorado before coming to Grand Junction, where she married William J. Peacock in 1907. Her parents were immigrants from England.
15) Paul Taramarcaz
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Parade Marshall, Cattlemen's Days 2014, father immigrated from Switzerland in the early 1900's and homesteaded in Doyleville area. Raised large ranching family that still ranches in the area.
16) August Johnson
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A Swedish immigrant who bought a homestead from a previous settler, and farmed the Whitewater area in the late Nineteenth century. Father of Effie (Johnson) Silzell and Ida May (Johnson) Smith. Also the husband of Olga Johnson.
17) James McConnell
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He was born in Ohio to an Irish immigrant father and German immigrant mother. Along with Mr. Lowe, he was the owner of the McConnell-Lowe shoe store in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was Glenn McFall’s boss, and a devout Catholic, which at the time caused him trouble from the Ku Klux Klan. Their discriminatory practices adversely affected his business.
18) Carl Stranger
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He was an Italian immigrant, one of several who lived on Pitkin Avenue in the early Twentieth century. He was the owner of Stranges Grocery on 232 Pitkin Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to US Census Records, he was a night watchman at the Denver and Rio Grande Roundhouse in 1900. By 1910, he was a grocer. Ship passenger lists show him arriving in the United States in 1898 under the name Carl Stranges. He was married to Sarah Stranger,...
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She was born in Italy and immigrated to America with her mother and older brother in 1911 (meeting up with the father), when she was about eleven years old. She had eight siblings in total. The family settled in Grand Junction, Colorado.
She attended the Emerson School from ages 4-11, where she learned to speak English. She married Frank Simonetti Sr., an Italian immigrant, on June 1, 1919. She was a homemaker.
20) John Peep
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He was born John Pepe to Italian immigrant parents. He was an early Twentieth century cowboy and rodeo rider. He worked on Joe Pace's ranch at Westwater on Pinon Mesa. Brother of Joseph "Joe" Peep. Son of Giuseppe "Joseph" Pepe.
