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Edward Schultz talks about his childhood in a German settlement in Russia and the family’s subsequent flight from the country in the face of persecution against Germans. He remembers immigrant and family life in a German community in Kansas, where they settled after immigrating to the United States. He discusses his brief career as a machinist for the railroad in Kansas. He recalls leaving home at sixteen and meeting his future wife in Mack, Colorado,...
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Warren Kiefer talks about his career as a fireman and engineer on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and working the line between Grand Junction, Colorado and Salt Lake City. He gives specifics about the technical aspects of the fireman position on a steam locomotive. He speaks about the relationship between the fireman and the engineer, and tells stories about comical and contentious interactions between different workers. He explains the purpose...
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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...
84) 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...
85) 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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Emma Conner talks about the lives of her parents and grandparents, Mesa County pioneers. She speaks about her early schooling at the Franklin School and work in her grandmother’s boardinghouse. She details restrictions that were put into place during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. She discusses the railroad occupations of her father and husbands, and a rail accident that killed her second husband. She talks about downtown Grand Junction’s dirt...
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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...
91) 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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A railway line the Gilson Manufacturing Company created that ran from Crevasse, Colorado (later known as Mack, Colorado) to Black Dragon in order to mine natural asphalt from the Black Dragon uintaite vein.
The railway was headquartered in Mack, Colorado. It’s final destination and turning point was Watson, Utah. It’s main mission was to haul gilsonite, but it also included one passenger car. According to Mesa County History Project interviewee...
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"The Bill Johannbroer Ranch on Conger Mesa in 1970." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 235
"Billy Johannbroer was a locomotive engineer on the Clear Creek Branch of the Colorado and Southern Railroad. He did very little active work on his homestead. His wife and children, Bill, Lillian and Kenneth, were the chief ranchers with Billy only being able to help during his vacations and during slack railroad seasons.
Bill Jr. married Verna Ray, daughter of Daniel...
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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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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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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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The town of Durango was created by Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company to process ore from the mines in nearby towns and the railroad has been a significant factor in the town from 1882 until now. According to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, providing a scenic ride through the majestic San Juan Mountains for passengers was an important part of the train’s purpose from the start, along with hauling hauling gold and silver ore to...
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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 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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A group photo taken on March 24, 1930, Easter Sunday, at the Thompson Ranch on Conger Mesa.
"From left to right in back: Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bowles and their two children, Mary and Joe Nichols, Helen and Art Hudson, Bill and Verna Johannbroer, Verna Rose Johannbroer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hamilton, Francis, Eleanor and Blanche Thompson, Harry Abbett, Bill and Florine Connor, Edith Thomas, Charley Thompson, Martin Schomers
In front: Minnie Ambos, ? ...
