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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. US Census records indicate that he had come to Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1900. In doing so he followed his older brother, Robert "Fred" Burford, who arrived in the 1880's and cattle ranched on Pinon Mesa before moving to Whitewater.
Avery Burford is shown living in Whitewater and working on...
82) Walter Stokes
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He was a coal miner from Scotland who settled in the Rockville, Colorado, where he was a coal miner. US Census records indicate that he came to the United States in 1882, when he was 25. As a union member, he became involved in a fiercely contested strike between workers, non-union workers, and the CF&I Railroad, owners of the coal mine. As his daughter-in-law and oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes tells it, a “Ludlow kind of massacre”...
83) Edward Schultz
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He was born in Russia, near the Volga River, to Fred Schultz and Amelia (Groff) Schultz. His family were Germans living in Russia. In the early Twentieth century, they fled persecution against Germans and went to France, where they worked to gain money for passage to the United States.
They came to the United States on a cattle boat. They stopped in Baltimore for six weeks before making their way to Susank, Kansas, where they lived in a German...
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She was born in Kansas to Burton “Bert” Cunningham and Marguerite “Maggie” (McCartney) Cunningham. Her father was a locomotive engineer and her mother, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, was a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Grand Junction, Colorado at least by 1910, when Isabella was four years old. Her father died in 1911. Her mother remarried to Walter Rodabaugh, a foreman on the railroad, in 1914, when Isabella...
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He was born in Clifton, Colorado to Thomas Jefferson Campbell Sr. and Eliza (Warrington) Campbell. He attended the Mt. Garfield School from 1913 to 1920, took his first two years of high school at the Clifton School from 1920 to 1922, and went to Grand Junction High School from 1923 to 1925. He went to Ross Business College in 1925-1926.
The 1930 US Census shows him as single and living with his parents, with his occupation listed as farm laborer...
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She was born in Harper, Iowa to Peter Baker and Amelia (Burkenbine) Baker. In 1900, when Grace was 4, the US Census shows the family living in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, where Grace’s father was a farm laborer and her mother was a homemaker. According to Grace, she attended grade school in Glenburn, North Dakota.
By 1910, Peter and Amelia Baker had divorced and Grace was living with her mother in Montrose, North Dakota, where Amelia was a servant...
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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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He was born to Grace Lydia (Baker) Wood and Herbert Wood in Fargo, North Dakota. His father was an inspector for the F&M Street Railroad Company. His mother was a homemaker. The 1930 US Census shows that his mother remarried to David R. Moe, and Harold and his brother Donald are shown living with them in Jamestown, North Dakota at the ages of 10 and 13.
The boys moved with their mother to Grand Junction, Colorado around that time, where they finished...
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He was born in La Junta, Colorado to John C. Inskeep and Mamie (Cox) Inskeep. US Census records show that his father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He attended the Hasty and Cloverleaf Schools. He played baseball, boxed, and wrestled.
He moved with the family of Grace Winkle to Mack in Mesa County on May 20, 1920, when he was 21 years old. He and Grace were married in Grand Junction May 28, 1920. They had ten children, 38 grandchildren...
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He was a Civil War Veteran, physician, and coroner who came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1883 to enter into the cattle business.
He was born in Canada, but came to Maine in order to join the 2nd Main Cavalry, so that he could fight for the Union in the Civil War. He came to Colorado in 1880, and was a coroner in Fairplay for a few years. Shortly after coming to Grand Junction, he scouted the area, searching for a suitable place for a cattle...
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He was born to Joseph Scudder Berry and Matilda Cora (Hummel) Berry in Leonard, Colorado. His grandfather and father were both Army Indian scouts, and settled in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). His mother was a homesteader in her own right, and had also settled in Indian Territory prior to moving to San Miguel County. She was also a teacher who, according to Glenn Berry, taught the Eisenhower boys in Kansas. Joseph Berry died when Glenn was 1, and...
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Owner of the Sleeper Ranch in the Pinon Mesa area.
He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire to Charles Wesley Sleeper and Sarah E. (Peavey) Sleeper, both native New Hampshirites. His father was a blacksmith, cattle raiser, and railroad engineer. His mother was a homemaker.
John attended Dartmouth College from 1884 to 1886. It appears from his listing in the Non-Graduates section of the Dartmouth College 1910 catalog that he did not graduate,...
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Dr. Robert W. Delaney, former Fort Lewis College professor of history and Southwest Studies and the first director of the college's Center of Southwest Studies, died November 10, 2000 at his home in Albuquerque. He was 82. The cause of death was cancer. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Columba Catholic Church in Durango, Colorado and burial will occur at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango. Dr. Delaney joined the Fort Lewis College faculty...
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He was born in the Globeville neighborhood of Denver, Colorado to Carl Herman Gustafson and Alma Bernhardina Gustafson, Swedish immigrants. His father was a laborer on the railroad and in city parks, and his mother was a homemaker. He grew up in a Swedish neighborhood and was a member of the Augustana Lutheran Church. The 1920 US Census shows the family living at 4809 Wyandot Street.
He started working as an office boy for the Public Service Company...
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In March 1983, he was a guest lecturer of the Mesa County Historical Society who spoke about the history of the Uintah Railway. He was born to Joshua L. Britton and Mary Ellen (Taylor) Britton in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father was a butcher and later, the assistant manager of a wholesale company. His mother was a homemaker. J. Paul seems to have been an only child.
US Census records show that he grew up at 209 Teller Avenue. He attended Grand...
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She was born to Guy L. McQueen and Emma E. (Barker) McQueen in Missouri. Her father was a time keeper and clerk for a railroad in Texas, and later the owner of a paint store in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her mother was a homemaker.
Ruth grew up in Texas and in Grand Junction. She attended one year of high school in Palestine, Texas and finished school at Grand Junction High School. While in high school she was in the Glee Club, was the treasurer...
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Mary was born in Phillips County, Kansas to Michael Henry Powers and Mary Louisa (Hoover) Powers. Her father was a farmer and a “proud Irishman.” She was one of nine children. She recalled her childhood in Kansas as a warm, safe one in which she never lacked for anything. Sometime after her father's death in 1902, when Mary was six, the family moved to Colorado.
The family relocated to the Milldale area around Grand Junction's sugar beet factory...
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He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Italian immigrants Frank and Angelina (Audino) Simonetti. His father worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. His mother was a homemaker. He attended the Whitman School and St. Joseph’s Catholic School. He graduated from Grand Junction High School, where he was a member of the Hi-Y Club, the Latin Club, Kalklub, and the National Honor Society.
He served in the United States Army Air Corps as a Staff...
100) Ernest Antonio Perry
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A United States Navy Veteran who served on the U.S.S. Helena during World War II. He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Rose (Chiodo) Perry and Eugene Biassi Perry. His father was a section foreman for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. His mother was a homemaker. He attended Emerson Elementary in Grand Junction, then Grand Junction High School. He did not enjoy school and dropped out to enlist in the Navy before graduating.
He was present...
