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An employee of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, the chairman of the Brotherhood of the Railroad Trainmen union, and the owner of a chain of Colorado laundries that included the Excelsior in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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He was born in Colorado to Italian immigrant parents. He was a laborer in the steam railroad shop for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Grand Junction.
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An employee of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and the chairman of the Order of Railway Conductors. He lived in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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Bob Pierce was born July 20, 1885, in Montevello, Missouri. As a young man, he moved to Hotchkiss, Colorado, where he was employed by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. His entire working life was with the Railroad. He moved to Salida in 1909 and became supervisory agent with the railroad until his retirement in 1955.
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He was a conductor on the West End of the Colorado Midland Railroad in the early 20th century, working between Leadville and Cardiff. He met his wife, Marcia (Willits) Mitchell, while working on the Colorado Midland in Basalt, Colorado. He later worked for the Central Illinois Railroad.
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Fred C. Graham was born in 1877. He was an engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and was killed by a runaway train on January 22, 1918 at Pando, Colorado.
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Henry administered the Rio Grande Railroad property as a trustee. He was associated with the Slown Land and Cattle Company, which was a large northwestern Colorado livestock concern.
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Husband of Nora McGinley Flynn. Time Keeper for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in Gunnison, Colorado. Early Grand Junction resident.
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Close friend of Dudley Mitchell. He worked for the Colorado Midland Railroad and survived a runaway train near the Moyer Branch in Leadville, Colorado. He was also a fighter who was rumored to have fought and beaten a lightweight world champion.
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He was a railroad detective and a special agent with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He was born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1908. He began working for the railroad as a messenger boy in 1922, and worked his way up to night watchman in the Pueblo and Grand Junction yards. He became a clerk in Pueblo, and then was promoted to night watchman in the Denver yards. In 1936, he was promoted to a special agent job in Alamosa.
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He was born in Cosenza, Italy and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1909, when he was five years old. His father was Giovanni "John" Mancuso, a railroad worker. His mother was Mary Mancuso, a homemaker. He grew up in the Riverside neighborhood and went to the Bryant School, then to Lowell and Emerson. He worked in the ice house and then in the round house of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, cleaning windows on the engines. He became a long-time...
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Roy Foster Leininger was born in Mason City, Ill. on Oct. 21, 1890. He was a brakeman for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and was killed by a runaway train at Pando, Colorado on January 22, 1918.
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Pioneer resident of Chaffee County, Colorado. George Smith worked at the Madonna Mine at Monarch and later worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad as a brakeman and then conductor. He retired in 1927.
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He was born in Ohio. He later moved with his wife and children from Missouri to Las Animas, Colorado, where he painted houses and worked for the Santa Fe Railroad.
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He was born in Cosenza, Italy and came to Grand Junction, Colorado with his wife and children in 1909, when he was 25 years old. He worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
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He was born in Toronto, Kansas and was three years old when his family moved to Colorado. He grew up in Gunnison. At the age of 17, his parents signed a release that allowed him to work for the railroad. He worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Gunnison, Colorado for fifty-one years. He worked as a coal boy, and then as an engine watcher, a fireman, and finally an engineer. He married Bertha (Scott) Wright in 1913. Frank had nine children....
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He was born in Syracuse, Nebraska. He married Inez Alma Peterson in Minnesota in 1905. They moved with their children to Cheyenne County, Colorado by 1910, where they farmed. The family moved to Grand Valley, Colorado (now Parachute) in 1920. He also worked for the railroad.
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He started the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. In the late Nineteenth century, he also established Redstone as a company town for his workers on the Crystal River Railroad, which transported coal from Western Slope mines to the Colorado Fuel and Iron foundry in Pueblo.
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He was born in Pennsylvania and moved to Colorado as a railroad surveyor. He homesteaded in Whitewater with his family after marrying Minnie (Virden) Geiger. There, they raised apples, pear, plums, cherries, and grapes. With eggs provided by the state of Colorado, he raised pheasants and accidentally introduced them to the wild when they wandered off.
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He was born in New York and grew up on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. He came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1883, not long after the town’s founding. He was sixteen. He became a locomotive engineer and later a railroad inspector.