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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. C. D. Smith...
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Early 20th century Palisade fruit farmer. Son of James Allison Clark and Phoebe Jane Clark, Palisade homesteaders and fruit farmers who came to the Palisade area from southeastern Kansas when Levi was 11 years old. Sibling of Harry, James and Bertha Clark. *Photograph from the 1909 Palisade High School yearbook.
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Wayne Aspinall was a U.S. Congressman from Palisade, Colorado. He was a Democrat who represented Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District from 1949-1973. He was the head of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959-1973. His accomplishments included the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, which he initially opposed. He also actively promoted water reclamation projects in Colorado and throughout the West, including Glen Canyon...
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Early 20th century Palisade resident and Collbran schoolteacher. Her parents, James Allison and Phoebe Jane Clark, moved from southeastern Kansas to homestead the Palisade area in 1900. Sister of Levi, James, and Harry Clark.
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Early 20th century Palisade fruit farmer. His parents, James Allison and Phoebe Jane Clark, moved from southeastern Kansas to homestead the Palisade area in 1900. Sibling of Levi, James, and Bertha Clark.
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Early 20th century Palisade resident. His parents, James Allison and Phoebe Jane Clark, moved from southeastern Kansas to homestead the Palisade area in 1900. Sibling of Levi, Harry, and Bertha Clark.
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Palisade homesteader and fruit farmer. Together with her husband James Allison Clark, son Levi Clark and other children, she moved from southeastern Kansas to settle the Palisade area in 1900.
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Palisade fruit farmer and homesteader. Together with his wife Phoebe Jane Clark, his son Levi Clark and other children, he moved from southeastern Kansas to settle the Palisade area in 1900.
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Early 20th century Palisade resident. Wife of Levi Allison Clark.
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According to oral history interviewee Charles Burg, who broke horses with Knight and camped with him, Knight’s mother was a Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma, and he continued with many traditional ways, including use of the soap weed’s root as a dishrag, and the use of a “stockade” corral constructed from horizontal and vertical poles. He also used Mormon Tea to brew a kind of tea. Burg describes Knight as tall and dark with black hair. He probably...
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Prominent early Grand Junction resident who built the Canon Block at Fourth and Main Streets. He was also one of the founders of Palisade, Colorado, and platted its streets. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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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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A Twentieth century Western Slope sheep rancher. He was born to Florenz Aubert and Grace (Larralde) Aubert in Price, Utah. His parents were both immigrants from France. His father was a sheepherder and his mother was a homemaker. In 1926, Florenz homesteaded land on Pinon Mesa in Mesa County, Colorado. The family spent the summers there, where they grazed sheep, and returned to Utah in time for the children to start school in the fall. They attempted...
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Early pioneer of Glade Park area and mayor of Grand Junction, Colorado from 1897-90. He was born in New Hampshire to Jacob Hart Ela and Abigail Pearson (Kelley) Ela. His mother’s name as listed in birth records is Abigail Pearson Moore, indicating that she may have been married once before her marriage to Jacob Ela. Wendell’s father was a printer and publisher, a depot master, the US Representative for New Hampshire’s First Congressional...