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He ran the Sunday school that held classes in the old Redlands School building in the Redlands area of Mesa County. According to information from Viola Rump, a longtime Redlands resident, he was one of the early settlers. He was also one of the first school bus drivers in the Redlands.
2) Ray Pierson
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With Willis "W. L." Blevins, he pioneered the growing of fruit on the Redlands.
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He owned land where the Panorama Subdivision now sits in the Redlands.
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They owned a peach orchard in the Redlands during the early and mid-Twentieth century.
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She married Willis "W. L." Blevins in 1918, and moved with him to Mesa County in 1920, due to interest in a building project of the Redlands Water and Power Company. They bought land for a farm in the Redlands area. She was a founding member of the Redlands Women's Club, a social club that met in the homes of Redlands residents and later at what is now the Redlands Community Center.
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Early Twentieth century resident of the Redlands in Mesa County. Her parents and family moved from Indiana in 1909. She grew up in a home that served as the first schoolhouse in the Redlands. Later served as a bookkeeper for the Colorado Producer's Coop, which her family's farm business belonged to.
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He came to Rifle, Colorado with his mother in 1912 and married Lotus Hocker in Glenwood Springs in 1918. In response to interest in a building project of the Redlands Water and Power Company, he and his wife came to Mesa County in 1920. They bought land for a farm in the Redlands area, with Willis growing potatoes, corn and fruit trees. With Ray Pierson, he pioneered the growing of fruit in the Redlands. For twenty years, he worked for Independent...
8) Joe Kieffer
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Early Twentieth century resident of the Redlands who farmed potatoes and shipped them from Fruita. He also mined silver and gold in the mountains near Ouray. Uncle of Eileen O'Toole.
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A field paleontologist at the Chicago Field Museum who was brought in to inspect a fossil discovery on Riggs Hill on the Redlands.
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He was born in Illinois to Henry Tupper, a lawyer, and Clara M. Tupper, a homemaker. The US Census shows the family living in Grand Junction, Colorado by 1910, when Harvey was seven, and practicing medicine by 1930. He served as a doctor at Mrs. Comb’s nursery, delivering children. He was married to Barbara Grace Tupper.
According to William "Bill" Rump of the Redlands, Tupper was the Secretary of the Redlands Company, the organization primarily...
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He as a former Union soldier who, in 1905, hired parties to survey the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado for possible settlement. E.L. Morse, a civil engineer who had settled in Fruitvale, did some of the surveys, and was accompanied by his nephew Levi Morse.
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She was born in Illinois to Phillip Steinbach Jr. and Laura (Grimm) Steinbach. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a homemaker. She Married Charles Rump in 1908. Bu 1910, US Census records show that they had moved to Denver, Colorado, following her husband’s work as an irrigation and real estate developer. She was a homemaker.
They moved to the Redlands area of Mesa County in 1919. There, she became one of the organizers of the Redlands’...
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The millionaire and owner of lumber yards in Montrose and Grand Junction, Colorado, including the Independent Lumber Company, in the early to mid-Twentieth century. Along with Clyde Biggs, he purchased and first developed the land just east of 12th Street and south of Lincoln Park in what was known as the Lincoln Park Addition. He and his wife Edna located their home at 1259 Gunnison Avenue, across from the then Mesa County Fairgrounds (now Lincoln...
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She was born to John W. and Maggie Collier in Colorado. She grew up on the Redlands area of Mesa County, and received her high school education at Grand Junction High School. She was married and widowed some time prior to 1956. She became a nurse for the Colorado State health department and worked with families living in the migrant labor camp in Palisade. She was quite good at teaching methods for improving living conditions/lifestyles (e.g. demonstrating...
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She was born in Virginia to David Bowman and Susanah (Hedrick) Bowman. Her father was a Baptist minister and her mother was a homemaker. According to her son, Donald “Don” Rogers, she taught school for many years before marrying Lucas Melvin “Luke” Rogers in Mesa County, Colorado in 1907. They farmed in the Appleton area before moving to Fisher, on the Redlands just across Black Bridge from Orchard Mesa. They ran their ranching operations...
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He was a dry goods merchant in the general merchandise business. The 1912 Grand Junction City Directory shows that he owned a store called William H. Cox and Company in Mack, Colorado, a business that operated at least until 1927. The 1916 Grand Junction City Directory shows that he owned a store called the Regulator Stores Company on Pabor Avenue in Fruita. In 1922, he owned a store called the Cox and Brewer Merc and Cattle Company. He later became...
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He was born and raised in Illinois. His parents were John Henry Rump, an agricultural importer, and Mary A. (Geisel) Rump, a homemaker. Charles's grandparents were all German immigrants. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Quincy, Illinois when Charlie was 17 years old.
He graduated from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 1907, where he was the Student Body President. He married Viola Anna Steinbach in Illinois in 1908. They...
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He was born in Dukedom, Tennessee. His application for social security benefits gives his parents at James H. Collier and Fountain Ella Hughes. According to his obituary in the Daily Sentinel, which also confirms the location of his birth, he was born on March 17, 1873.
He came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1899 and began working as a fireman for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He married Margaret Almeria “Maggie” Howell in Grand Junction...
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An early schoolteacher in the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado. He had a talent, particularly, for winning respect from his young, male students. William Rump, who went to the Redlands School and had Schneider as a teacher, gave this description of him:
“Probably he was well liked by, particularly, the boys. He was a real athletic sort of a fella. In fact, he was the one that was involved in giving those kids all of the lickings. There...
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He moved with his family from Kansas to Fruita, Colorado during the Dust Bowl. When they moved in 1936, it had not rained in their part of Kansas for seven years. He and his wife, Nellie Howard, settled on Mesa Street in the south part of Fruita, Colorado. William farmed several acres of land and soon became one of the first to bring Black Angus cattle to the Grand Valley. He also helped 4-H clubs and the Mormon Church in Utah start their own herds...
