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1) Fred Egger
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Early Mesa County resident and railroad worker. Brother of Joseph John Egger. Son of Michael and Josephine Egger.
2) Doc Shores
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Federal marshal and early Mesa County lawman. He was the sheriff of Gunnison County in the late 1800's, and at one time had Alfred "Alferd" Packer in jail. Before he worked as a sheriff, he was a railroad detective for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. After retiring, he moved to Mesa County and always wore a gun.
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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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She was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota to Bruce Edward Jackson and Inez Alma Peterson. Her father was a railroader and her mother was a school teacher. She grew up on a homestead in Cheyenne County, Colorado where her family farmed. In 1920, her family moved to Grand Valley, Colorado (now Parachute). She was thirteen years old. She began teaching around 1927, when she was twenty-one. She taught in rural schools in Garfield County before moving to...
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He was born to Thomas S. McCoy and Harriet E. (Brewin) McCoy in Brooklyn, Iowa, and moved with his parents and siblings to Mesa County, Colorado in 1911, when he was about 18 years old. They lived one mile east of Fruita, and he recalled the small ranches and close proximity to neighbors, very different from the large sprawling farms of Iowa. He worked as a locomotive engineer and machinist for the Uintah Railroad and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad...
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He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and came to Salida, Colorado. He was in Mesa County, Colorado by 1907, when he married Luella (Peart) Peacock in Grand Junction. The 1910 U.S. Census shows him working as a freight conductor, and his daughter Gwendolyn (Peacock) McKee confirmed that he worked for the railroad.
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An Italian immigrant and farmer who settled in the Loma and Fruita areas in the early Twentieth century. He came in 1885 as a railroad worker for D&RG, replacing the narrow gauge line with a broader one. He then purchased land, built homes, and returned to Italy to meet and marry Angelina Pepe, a woman from the village of Vailo, in an arranged marriage. He returned with her to Mesa County in 1904.
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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....
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He was born in Ophir, Colorado to father James Gilligan Brewster and his mother David Ann (Kelley) Brewster. The 1900 US Census shows him living with his parents in San Juan County, Utah, when he was five. The family was living in Fruita, Colorado by 1910, when he was 15 years old. His father was a farmer and Joel was an only child. He married Jenny Ellen Menter on June 11, 1927, while he was working as a bridge inspector for the Santa Fe Railroad...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
13) 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...
14) Phillip Guerrie
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An Italian immigrant who worked as a laborer in the steam railroad shop of the Denver and Rio Grande in Grand Junction, Colorado, and who also worked as a section foreman. He was born in Grimaldi, Italy. His first wife Felicia Forillo died in Italy in 1904. He seems to have remarried in Italy, and came with his children to the United States in 1907 along with his new wife, Raffaela Guerrie. He first came to the United States sometime between 1879...
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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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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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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 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...
19) 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 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...
