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Helen (Maher) Bowman was born in Salida, Colorado to Matthew B. Maher and Priscilla Bessie Crossley. The 1910 US Census shows her father working as a brakeman for a railroad. Helen moved to Grand Junction with her parents in 1918. There, Matthew worked as a railroad conductor while her mother was a homemaker. Census records show the family living at 560 Teller Avenue in 1920, when Helen was ten years old.
She attended Grand Junction High School,...
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She was born in Grimaldi, Italy. Her mother, Felicia Forillo died in 1904. In 1907, when she was almost eight years old, Frances came with her father, siblings and her father’s new wife, Raffaela Guerrie, to the United States. Because her father was a U.S. Citizen who had lived previously in the United States, the family’s processing was expedited upon their arrival at Ellis Island. The family settled in Grand Junction, Colorado, where she spent...
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He was born to William Harrison Jackson and Hazel Edith (Thompson) Jackson in Blackfoot, Idaho. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Cedaredge, Colorado in 1925, when Dwain was one year old. They came to Delta County in order to be closer to Dwain’s grandfather, Tommy Thompson, who had settled in the area in 1893. He grew up on his grandfather’s land three miles north of Cedaredge, near Young’s Creek. His...
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She was born in Illinois to Charles T. Jenkins, a farmer, and Mary Margaret (Beye) Jenkins, a homemaker. The family had moved to Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1897, when Bessie was six, and she grew up in Molina, Colorado on her father’s ranch. She attended the Molina School from 1897 through 1905. As a child she helped her family cream butter and sell dairy goods. On October 8th, 1910 in Mesa, Colorado, Bessie married Danford N. Wheeler, fireman...
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He was born in Kansas to Benjamin Franklyn Kreps and Ellen (Adams) Kreps. His father was a cobbler and his mother was a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows John Kreps working as a farm laborer at the age of thirteen. Census records indicate that he attended school through the 8th grade.
He had come to Colorado’s Western Slope by at least 1907, when Colorado marriage records show him marrying Dorothy Tufly in Grand Junction. They homesteaded in...
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Early Twentieth century Grand Junction and Fruita resident, cowboy and rancher. He was born a few miles north of Fruita, Colorado, as the youngest of 13 siblings (6 brothers and 7 sisters). He began cowpunching when he was 12 years old in the Douglass Pass area, on a roundup for a man named John White. He quit after five years, when his parents became ill. At that point, he had 110 cattle of his own, which he sold. Morgan met his wife at the Cowpuncher’s...
67) Gilbert Limberg
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He was born in Missouri. His father, a farmer, died when Limberg was one year old. His mother had two sisters in Grand Junction, Colorado, and so the family moved there in 1903, when Limberg was nine. They lived in boarding houses that his mother ran, and then moved to a farm on Old River Road, where the family raised and sold vegetables. He attended the Lowell School and then the Franklin School. At the age of seventeen, Limberg left high school...
68) 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...
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He was born to John and Emily Young and grew up in Hotchkiss, Colorado. He had what his sister Helen Johnson called a delicate chest and very poor vision. He served as the primary target of his father’s frustration and anger. He completed eighth grade and then entered the workforce as a housekeeper to John the Belgian, a local farmer. He worked for the United States Postal Service (sorting the mail) and also for the Frisco Railroad as an express...
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He was born to Charles "Chalk" Dinkins and Margaret (Hyatt) Dinkins in Salida, Colorado, and grew up there. According to US Census records, his father worked as a steward for the Elks Club for many years. His mother was a homemaker. He became a machinist for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as a young man. He moved to Grand Junction sometime in the 1920's or 30's, where he was the co-owner of Costanzas Liquor Store. He married Bernadine Goe in...
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He was born to John A. Echternach and Mary (Farquharson) Echternach in Gueda Springs, Kansas. He went to business college in Quincy, Illinois in 1900 and became secretary to the president of the Santa Fe Railroad prior to 1905.
In 1905, he took a job with the Liberty Bell Gold Mining Company in Telluride, Colorado. He toured Green River, Utah sometime around 1910, and he and his brother, Merle, were given 20 acres of land on which to plant fruit.
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She was born to David J. Hamilton and Alice E. (Willett) Hamilton in Perth Ambry, New Jersey and baptized on March 5, 1899. Her father was a broker and later, a telegraph man for the railroad. Her mother was a homemaker.
She married Harry Lewis Brown on April 18, 1908. They moved to Glen Reach, New Jersey where they had a daughter, Penelope, and a son, Harry. They moved to Colorado in the early part of the 1920’s, following her husband, who...
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He was born just outside of Delta, Colorado and raised in Grand Junction. He received his medical training at Colorado General Hospital in Denver, where he met his wife Lydia Parker, who was a nurse-in-training. They married, and after finishing their training came to Grand Junction, where Dr. Parker had a job as a time keeper for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. After finishing his medical internship, he began practicing medicine in Montrose...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Hugh E. Soule and Anna (Olston) Soule. Her father was a salesman in a general store. Her mother was a homemaker. Elberta was a distant relation of Silas Stillman Soule, an abolitionist on the underground railroad and the commander of Company D in the 1st Colorado Cavalry (in this capacity, he refused to allow his troops to fire on defenseless Cheyenne people during the Sand Creek Massacre, and later testified...
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He was born in Missouri Valley, Iowa to John Wesley Rogers and Sarah A.P. Rogers. His father was a carpenter. His mother was a homemaker. According to his son, Don Rogers, Luke moved to the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado shortly before 1900. Census records show that his parents had moved to Mesa County by 1910.
Colorado marriage records show that he married Anna Rebecca Bowman in 1907. According to the 1910 US Census record, they were farmers...
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He was born to farmers Sylvester Myers and Carrie Schepp Myers in Kirkview, New York. He attended Minoa High School in Minoa, New York from 1914-1916. He served as a private in the US Army during World War I, and his draft record shows him working as an inspector for a railroad in New York in 1918. According to the US Census, he was working as a stenographer for a steam railway in New York by 1920, when he was 21 years old. He married Nellie Schaffer...
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He was born to Antonio “Tony” Perri and Mary (Carvello) Perri, in Grand Junction, Colorado. US Census records show his given name as Domino Perri. His marriage and military records show him as Biassi Perisi. His parents were both immigrants from Italy. The 1900 US Census shows that Eugene was also born in Italy. The 1910 Census shows his birthplace as Colorado, and he maintained that he was born in Grand Junction. His father was a laborer for...
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He was born in Ashe County, North Carolina and came with his parents to De Beque, Colorado in June 1918, when he was 16 years old. His parents were John Rufus Latham and Annie Latham. J.W. was the nephew of J.A. Wilcoxon, an early rancher. Although J.W.'s father was also a rancher, he had four brothers and there was not enough work for all of them, so he became a cowboy for Dan Burns, and then worked for an oil shale survey gang. He attended grade...
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Western Slope pioneer, and the founder of Grand Junction and Delta, Colorado. According to the Kansas Historical Society, Crawford was born to George and Elizabeth Crawford in Pennsylvania in 1827. Crawford’s father was a district judge, a farmer, and a mill owner. Crawford was sent home from college due to poor health, but eventually Jefferson College at the head of his class in rhetoric, oratory, and Latin. He taught school in Kentucky and Wisconsin...
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He was born in Maryland to Lawrence Miller, a farmer, and to Amelia Miller, a homemaker. All three came to Western Colorado in 1887, when Mac was 21. They shipped their 1,500 cattle by narrow gauge railroad to Montrose and then drove them to Palisade. There, they purchased land in a gulch where they could pasture their cattle. They lived on Fifth and South Streets in Palisade and brought water from the Colorado River by barrel. He also had Angora...
