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Glenn Berry talks about joining the US Navy at the age of fourteen and describes his experiences aboard the USS Huntington, an armored cruiser. He also discusses working in a vanadium mine at the age of 12, becoming a machine shop apprentice for the Union Pacific railroad at fourteen, and going to night school to get an engineering degree after his discharge from the Navy. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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Ferdinand W. Ambos, at right, and fellow sailor aboard ship in 1912.
"Ferd worked at a number of jobs away from hone including ranch work, carrying the Burns mail on horseback for Charles McCoy. Ferd served four years in the U. S. Navy. He also studied to be a civil engineer and was one of the engineers on the preliminary survey of the Dotsero Cutoff in 1924. After that job was completed he did engineering work for several railroads and was an...