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He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Harry Lewis Brown and Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown. His father was the owner of a Wrigley chewing gum factory and his mother was a homemaker and later worked for the family business. The family moved to the Roan Canyon area near De Beque in 1921, where his father owned and operated the Index Oil Shale Company. He graduated from high school in Denver and later worked as an analyst for the company. He had a cabin...
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He was born to John Wesley Rogers and Anna Rebecca (Bowman) Rogers in Mesa County, Colorado. His parents farmed in Appleton, where they had moved just before 1900. They moved to Fisher, on the Redlands just over the Black Bridge from Orchard Mesa, when Don was not yet six years old. They ranched cattle on the Redlands and on East Creek on Pinon Mesa. Don grew up attending Grand Junction schools and graduated from Grand Junction High School, where...
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He was born to John Witt Collier, a cattle rancher, and Margaret Almeria "Maggie" (Howell) Collier in Grand Junction, Colorado on a farm at 9th Street and Chipeta Avenue, across from the first Grand Junction High School. US Census records indicate that his father was from Tennessee and his mother from Iowa. His father was a farmer who sold hay and raised horses, and later became a cattle rancher. His mother was a homemaker. The family moved to...
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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...
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Dale T. Luke worked as a builder and contractor, and was born and raised in Grand Junction. He attended grade school in Grand Junction and went to Mesa Junior College and the University of Colorado. He was a charter member of the Orchard Mesa Lions Club and served on the board of directors. He later assisted in the founding of the Redlands Lions Club. He was very active in many community organizations, including the National Wildlife Society,...
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He worked as a horticulturalist for the Redlands Company’s large agricultural operations in Mesa County, Colorado. He ran a boys club while he lived in Mesa County and remained involved with youth clubs for the rest of his life. William Rump, whose father Charlie Rump was one of the owners of the Redlands Company, had these remembrances of George Kelly during his oral history interview: “Well, that’s where he got his start and among other things,...
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He was born in Colorado to Charles Albert “Charlie” Rump and Viola Anna (Steinbach) Rump. His father was a civil engineer and farmer. His mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows Charles and Viola living in Denver, Colorado, prior to the birth of William. William was born in Denver and spent some of his childhood in Louisiana before moving with his parents to Mesa County in October of 1919, when he was seven years old. The 1920 census...
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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...
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He was born to Albert Brubaker and Mary (Firestone) Brubaker in Enid, Oklahoma. His father was an auctioneer and a salesman for a machine company. His mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that he grew up primarily in Oklahoma and Kansas. He attended Washington Elementary School in Anthony, Kansas, Allison Junior High School in Wichita, Kansas, and Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He married Wilma Lorene Terrell...
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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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He was born in New Mexico to parents Clinton A. Biggs and Frances W. Biggs. They moved to Canon City, Colorado when Clyde was of school age. He grew up there and in Denver. In Denver, he attended East Denver High School but was forced to leave the school after an incident. He graduated instead from a private school. He went to Yale University, where he seems to have graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1915, when he was about 22 years...