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21) Dominick Arcieri
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He was born in Italy to James and Rosa Arcieri and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1913, at the age of 10. The family settled in the Pomona area, where his father had a greenhouse and farm. They then moved to 1037 North Avenue in Grand Junction, where they built a home, but found the land unsuitable for farming.
They sold the house after a year and bought land at the corner of 7th Street and Struthers Avenue, near the current location of Edgewater...
22) Jene Ellis Hicks
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He was born and raised in Palisade, Colorado. His mom, a school teacher, gave him his first schooling while they lived near the McGinley Mine. He later went to the Pomona and Hunter Schools, and attended Fruita Union High School. His mom died when he was 12 years old, in 1937, and according to US Census records, he went to live with Luther and Jennie O’Connor (his aunt and uncle) on the Rhone Plateau for at least a time. He married Joyce (Israel)...
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She was born in a German community in Nicoliaska, Russia. Her father, John Geier, was a blacksmith. Her mother, Katherin Elisabath Zitterkopf, was a homemaker. She lived in Russia until the family moved to the United States in 1912, when she was twelve years old, and rented a home in Lincoln, Nebraska. She left school at age 16 to work; her jobs included those at a dime store, a cigar factory, and multiple sugar beet fields. She met her husband...
24) Henry Spomer
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He was born to a German farming family in Vidak, Russia, the youngest sibling of five children. Henry left Russia to avoid serving in the army before the Russian Revolution, and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to live with his sister in 1913, when he was 18 years old. There, they lived in a community of Germans from Russia. His parents, Pete Spomer and Mary Margaret (Georg) Spomer, refused to move and lived in Russia until their death. In Lincoln, Henry...
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She was born in Windsor, Colorado to German immigrants from Russia. She was one of eight children. The family moved to Loma when she was a young girl to raise sugar beers for Holly Sugar. Bertha worked in the fields, thinning and raising beets. Their family raised most of their own food and were big into pickling watermelons, apples, and dill pickles. The family later lived on a farm in Pomona, in the location of the current Mesa Mall. While in grade...
26) Orin H. Judson
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He was born in Iowa to William A. Judson and Phoeby Judson. His father was a farmer and his mother a homemaker. William Judson died in a granite stone processing accident in 1922
Orin married Carrie Amelia Smith in Barre City, Vermont on June 24, 1896, when he was 26 years old. The US Census record shows them and their son Verle living there in 1900, with Orin working as a stone polisher. Due to Carrie’s poor health, the family moved to Mesa...
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She was born in Mesa County, Colorado to Giuseppe S “Joseph” Chiaro and Rosina “Rose” (Paola) Chiaro, Italian immigrants. She grew up on the family’s truck farm along River Road in the Pomona area. She went to school through the 12th grade and graduated from Grand Junction High School. She married Charles J. Colosimo on December 17, 1934. The 1940 US Census shows them living in Fruita, where Mary was a homemaker and her husband managed a...
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She was born to unknown parents in 1893. The 1900 US Census lists her birth place as Colorado, while later censuses list her birth place as Missouri. According to a record on the website Find a Grave, she was born to Nicoll Champlin Johnson and Dorothy (Cook) Johnson in St. Joseph, Missouri, but this information seems to lack official documentation. Nicoll and Dorothy Sr. died in 1896 and 1897, respectively.
The 1900 US Census shows Dorothy Jr....
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He was born in Barre, Vermont to Orin Judson and Carrie Amelia (Smith) Judson. His father worked as a stone polisher in Vermont. His mother was a homemaker. The family lived briefly in Iowa and then, due to hopes that the climate might improve his mother’s help, moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1904, when Verne was about five years old.
They settled in the Pomona area, where they farmed and he attended school. He began irrigating at the age...
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He was born in Lyons Station, Pennsylvania. His father died young of tuberculosis, putting a great strain on the rather large family he left behind. At the age of thirteen, William was sent to be reared by his uncle, William Moyer, in Grand Junction, Colorado. He attended public school in Grand Junction through high school and went on to Colorado College and received his degree in 1898 (he was a classmate of Grover Rice). He graduated from Stanford’s...
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He was born in Colorado to John Arthur Kreps and Dorothy Mary (Tufly) Kreps. His parents were homesteading on Roan Creek when he was born. According to Kreps, the family left the homestead and moved to the Appleton area of Mesa County to stay with his mother’s parents while his father went to Atchee to look for mining work. The 1920 US Census shows the family living in Pomona, Colorado, when Frank was nine years old. The boys attended the Appleton...
32) Mr. Byerly
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A farmer in Pomona. Children walking to school used to cut through his orchards. He gave the children apples, and let them warm themselves in his house on cold winter days.
33) Frank J. Chiaro
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The son of Italian immigrants and the oldest of nine children. He grew up on a farm in Pomona, on River Road near the Colorado River. He did not speak much English when he began his education at the Hunter School. He later attended the Pomona School, Grand Junction High School, and the Ross Business College. After his father died, he took over the family farm, helping his family earn money during the Depression. He also helped build the Monument Road...
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He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to John Howard Litton and Jennie P. Litton. He grew up on a farm in Pomona and attended Grand Junction High School, where he belonged to several clubs and served in student government. He was drafted by the US Army in 1942, and was listed as working for the J.W. Milne Transfer company at that time. He later purchased Milne Transfer, and renamed it first Litton's Warheouse, and then Litton's Moving and Storage....
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She was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States as the mail order bride of Giussepe S. “Joseph” Chiaro. She arrived in New York on the Princess Irene on June 27, 1913, and was married to Joseph in Grand Junction, Colorado on July 30, 1913. Together they lived on a truck farm in river bottom land along River Road. They had nine children. After his death, her children worked on the farm and elsewhere to support the family.
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John Hart talks about his childhood in Grand Junction, Colorado, his bout with polio that left him lame, and his early career with the Colorado Department of Fish and Game. He recounts some history of the department and speaks about aspects of his career, including encounters with Native Americans. He also describes encounters with poachers, cattle rustlers, and bootleggers. He speaks about his family history. He describes training US troops in survival...
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Albert Rood describes the life and community involvements of his step-father William Weiser (nephew of William Moyer), his childhood in the Third Fruitridge area and the people who lived there, and stealing watermelons and floating them in the Grand Valley Canal. He also talks about his education at Mesa Junior College, and his work in the field for a Bureau of Entomology laboratory dedicated to eradicating a sugar beet pest. The interview was conducted...
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Dominick Arcieri talks about the experience of his Italian immigrant family in Mesa County, Colorado, and in general about the immigrant experience there. He also talks about his family's farm and his father's work raising tomatoes in the Las Colonias area for the Curry Canning Company. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado....
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Jene Hicks tells the story of his father’s work as a barber and coal miner, and his mother’s work as a school teacher in early Twentieth century Mesa County, Colorado. He also gives a history of the Cameo Mine and other coal mines in the Bookcliffs. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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This interview features Joe Peep, an early Fruita farmer, homesteader, and horse enthusiast. He also worked as a cowboy on Albert Turner’s ranch, and won the horse riding competition at Fruita’s Cowpuncher’s Reunion. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
