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He was born in Italy and came to the United States in order to marry Susie Mendicelli in an arranged marriage. They lived in Pueblo where her family was, and then settled in Grand Junction, Colorado. He had been an officer in the Italian Army, where he was paid 3 cents a day. He worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad as a stationary engineer, for the Public Service Company, the Uintah Railway, the Juanita Flour Mill, and the Mendicelli Bakery....
42) Albert Humeston
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He was born in Humeston, Iowa. He married Ida Van Derley on June 25, 1902, and they moved to Collbran, Colorado in February of 1903. He worked as a merchant with Emerson Collins, where he hired a freighter to bring regular shipments of stock from the DeBeque railroad station to his shop. He also worked as the postmaster of Collbran (a post he held for 28 years -- 1913-1941). He was a member of the Disciples of Christ, and a member of a barbershop...
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She was born in Unaweep Canyon to Joseph Rawlings, a railroad conductor, and Emma Rawlings, a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows her living at 8 Pitkin Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado at the age of 12. She married Ellwood Brouse on December 24, 1906. Beginning in 1915, they homesteaded, farmed, and raised children on Glade Park. She was a homemaker.
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She was born in New York to Jeremiah Joseph and Anna R. Sullivan. US Census records show that her father was an airbrake inspector on a steam railroad. Her mother was a homemaker. She married William Lorenzen in Iowa in 1943. They moved to Palisade, Colorado after purchasing the Palisade Tribune in 1953. With Lorenzen, she ran the Palisade Tribune newspaper for twenty-six years (beginning in 1953). She helped William sell advertising and split reporting...
45) 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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He was born in southern Italy and immigrated with his brothers to America in 1914, when he was about 17 years old. He lived and worked in Sudbury, New York before moving to Grand Junction, Colorado in November of 1914. He worked on the construction of the Highline Canal, returned to New York in spring of 1915, worked on the railroad between Little Platz and Sudbury, New York, spent 1916 working in Sheffield, Pennsylvania, moved to Chicago for February...
47) Lew Parcell
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He was born in Centerville, Ohio to William and Nellie Parcell. He came to Telluride, Colorado in 1909, when he was 21 years old. There, he worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He moved to Silverton in 1913 in order to work for the Western Colorado Power Company. He later ran a garage and a grocery store. He purchased the Grand Imperial Hotel in 1958 and ran it for five years. He married Elva Glanville of Silverton in 1914. He was the Democratic...
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He was born to Roland "Tank" Burford and Caroline (Newton) Burford in Fresno, California. His father was an attorney and his mother was a homemaker. He became a Mesa County, Colorado pioneer. In the early 1880's, he arrived in Fruita, Colorado on the narrow gauge railroad. He took a job with the Thompson brothers, who had a cattle ranching outfit on Pinon Mesa. According to Lawrence Aubert, a longtime sheep rancher, the Burford family was also involved...
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He was born in Dukedom, Tennessee. His application for social security benefits gives his parents at James H. Collier and Fountain Ella Hughes. According to his obituary in the Daily Sentinel, which also confirms the location of his birth, he was born on March 17, 1873.
He came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1899 and began working as a fireman for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He married Margaret Almeria “Maggie” Howell in Grand Junction...
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She was born to John Byrd Dow and Elizabeth (Owen) Dow in Cookeville, Tennessee. The 1910 US Census shows her father working as a lumber manufacturer in Tennessee, when Elizabeth was seven years old. Her mother was a homemaker. Her mother died in 1916, and the 1920 census shows Elizabeth living with her father and five siblings in Cookeville, with her father working as the postmaster in the post office and her eldest sister working as a music teacher.
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He was born to George Bauer and Katherine “Katie” (Hosseiler) Bauer in Morganthau, Russia. His family belonged to a community of Germans living there. Fearing revolution, his family immigrated to the United States in 1913, when Alex was four years old.
His father found work as a blacksmith in Kansas and then with the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Idaho in 1917. His mother was a homemaker. Alex and his siblings could not speak English when they...
52) John McGinley
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An Irish immigrant who came to Fruita, Colorado in the 1880's. He settled Fruita's Star District between 19 1/2 and 20 Roads and L and M roads, next to the homestead of his brother William McGinley. He married Annie in the [St. Malachy?] Catholic Church of Fruita in 1894. The couple homesteaded together on J Road between 20 and 20 1/2 Roads. He worked with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad while it was being constructed to Grand Junction. In 1882,...
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He was a Canadian and Grand Junction pioneer who moved to the area in 1882, shortly after the town's founding. United States Census records list him working in multiple occupations, including: cigar merchant, miner, and contractor. His daughter Nevada Burford's oral history recounts his involvement in some important early town enterprises. For instance, he contracted with the Denver and Rio Grande to build fills for railroad lines, moved fertilizer...
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He was born in Morristown, Ohio on March 28, 1866. He came to Colorado in 1887 and was married in 1896 to Jennie L. Harris. Joseph worked as a carpenter building houses and started a store for the railroad in De Beque.
He ranched on Plateau Creek beginning in 1904, purchasing the homestead of his father-in-law, John Jackson. Their land later became known as the Harris Ranch. The ranch was a farm, a ranch, inn, restaurant, and place to rest teams...
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He was a National Park Service engineer in charge of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Colorado National Monument camp (1930's). He was sent out from Seattle to survey and build Rim Rock Drive over the Colorado National Monument after helping to build the Alaska Railroad. Civilian Conservation Corps commanding officer Marshall “Mike” Revelle Douglass was brought in to counter the influence that Secrest had on the CCC men under his command, and...
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He was one of three children born to Italian immigrants John Colosimo, a coal cutter for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and Angelina Letizia Colosimo, a homemaker. He was born and grew up on Hale Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado’s Riverside neighborhood. As a young man he worked in Grand Junction’s movie theaters. He married Mary Louise Chiaro in 1934. After a brief time in Fruita, where Mary was a homemaker and he managed a theater, they...
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He was born in Missouri. US Census records show him living with his uncle James Taylor and aunt Taylor in 1880, at the age of eight.
According to Patricia LeMaster, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis and obtained his medical degree. The 1900 census record shows him living in Grand Junction, Colorado. He became an early Mesa County, Colorado doctor and a physician for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad....
58) Joe Alvin Roice
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He was born in Kansas to Earl and Edith Roice. US Census records show the family living in Hotchkiss, Colorado by at least 1920, when Joe was thirteen. He grew up on a fruit farm there. He joined the military during World War II. While in the military, he met Lorena Tatlow, who was working in the Convair aircraft factory in San Diego. Together they had one child. They moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where he worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad...
59) Robert Evans
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He was born in Salt Lake City. His parents were immigrants who traveled with Brigham Young from Illinois to Utah. Being a blacksmith, Robert's father wanted him to follow in his footsteps, but his mother said it was an occupation belonging to the past. Instead, Robert wanted to become a baseball player but his father forbade it until he learned a trade. As a child, he played baseball with a ball that his mother made out of old stockings. Later,...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to William D. Jones and Mattie (Moore) Jones. Her father was a locomotive engineer. Her mother was a homemaker. Her parents were both Mesa County pioneers. She attended the Franklin School as a child. She also worked in her grandmother’s boarding house, which boarded sugar factory workers. She married Walter M. Edwards on October 22, 1911. Mesa County divorce records show that they divorced on October 16,...
