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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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Eileen O’Toole discusses life growing up on her family’s farm, one of the first on the Redlands. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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A country club that owned and operated a club house and nine-hole golf course from August 1921-1937 on the Redlands at 2463 Broadway.
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Adrienne Kaga talks about her childhood growing up in Chicago and her early career as a principal in a private equity fund. She discusses the family histories of her mother, who was Chinese-American, and her father, who was Japanese-American, and their lives in the Pacific Northwest. She also talks in detail about the internment of her father’s family in a Japanese relocation center during World War II, about life, school and work at the camp, the...
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John Collier explains his childhood growing up as a homesteader in Pinon Mesa and the Glade Park area, and living in a tent until a cabin could be built. He talks about how his father made money in real estate, farming hay, selling horses, selling lumber for corrals, raising sheep and cattle, and skating on the frozen Redlands Canal. He mentions important landmarks and buildings in and around Grand Junction, Colorado. The interview was conducted by...
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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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John Collier talks about his upbringing on a farm in Grand Junction, Colorado, on ranchland and farmland in the Redlands, and on a homestead in Pinon Mesa. He speaks about the history of the Sleeper and Ela family’s ranching operations on Pinon Mesa. He describes his Uncle Joe Collier, who served as the Mesa County Sheriff during Prohibition, and a bootlegger’s attempt to blackmail him. He discusses what he perceives as the effect of uranium prospecting...
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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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In the early Twentieth century, country schools from Mesa County gathered in Lincoln Park to hold a field day, with graduation ceremonies following in the Lincoln Park Barn. According to oral history interviewee Bertha Schlegel, attendees included students from schools in Pomona, Plateau Valley, Molina, Collbran, Loma, Mack, the Redlands, Clifton, Orchard Mesa, Escalante and Glade Park. Schlegel attended her field days in the 1920's.
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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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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...
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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 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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A Lions Club, based in the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, which served the greater Grand Junction and Mesa County areas for several years. The Fruitvale Lions Club was founded in 1955, with the Clifton Lions Club sponsoring its incorporation. The Fruitvale Lions provided college scholarships and study abroad opportunities to youth, and helped needy citizens of Mesa County get eye glasses through their vision program. Charities they sponsored included: • Student...