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She was born in Park City, Utah and came to Mesa County, Colorado in 1906, when she was one. The family lived for a time on a ranch on Salt Creek twenty miles from Collbran, then moved to Grand Junction, Colorado around the time Mary turned six. She graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1923. During her first marriage, she lived in Death Valley with her husband, who was engaged in gold mining there. She later married Edwin A. Cox and together...
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She was a teacher at several elementary schools in Grand Junction, Colorado, including the Bryant School and Riverside School. She later became the principal of the Washington School, which she helped design.
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A Western Slope pioneer, one of Grand Junction's founders, and builder of Crawford Addition, where he had a brick factory. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His wife was Indjanne Sophia "Jennie" Ernsten. They had four children. The 1910 US Census shows them living at 537 Lawrence Avenue, which was also located in the Crawford Addition (now the Riverside Neighborhood).
According to Mary Plaisted, who lived in the Riverside Neighborhood, three...
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Former director of the Museums of Western Colorado. He was born in Riverside, California and received his PhD in American History from University of California Riverside in 1974, when he was 28. He worked for several museums and public entities as director or in a historical capacity, including the Museums of Western Colorado from 1978-84. With Al Look and Robert “Bob” Collins, he served on Grand Junction’s Centennial Committee, which celebrated...
5) Amos Raso
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A well-to-do citizen in the early Twentieth century in Grand Junction, Colorado. He owned several buildings on Main Street. He married and had sons. According to oral history interviewee Eugene Perry, Raso got his start in the Riverside neighborhood. He died prior to 1982.
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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 in Cosenza, Italy and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1909, when he was five years old. His father was Giovanni "John" Mancuso, a railroad worker. His mother was Mary Mancuso, a homemaker. He grew up in the Riverside neighborhood and went to the Bryant School, then to Lowell and Emerson. He worked in the ice house and then in the round house of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, cleaning windows on the engines. He became a long-time...
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He was born in Illinois. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War, and came to Grand Junction, Colorado in order to recover from a war injury sometime between 1900 and 1904. There he met his future wife, Alice Coombs, who was teaching in Kannah Creek. They married in Salt Lake City in 1904, and lived in Park City for a time. In 1906, he bought a ranch on Salt Creek, near Collbran, where they lived with their child. The family moved again when...
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He was one of three children born to Italian immigrants John Colosimo, a coal cutter for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and Angelina Letizia Colosimo, a homemaker. He was born and grew up on Hale Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado’s Riverside neighborhood. As a young man he worked in Grand Junction’s movie theaters. He married Mary Louise Chiaro in 1934. After a brief time in Fruita, where Mary was a homemaker and he managed a theater, they...
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She was born in Minnesota. Sometime between 1900 and 1910, she came to the Kannah Creek area of Mesa County, Colorado with her mother and sister. There she lived on the Riddle Ranch, and taught Nora Riddle (sister of Andrew Riddle), among others. She taught Latin, and was able to speak Latin and some German all of her life. The move was made to help the sister’s health, as she suffered from asthma. Alice met her future husband George Robinson there,...
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He was born to Antonio “Tony” Perri and Mary (Carvello) Perri, in Grand Junction, Colorado. US Census records show his given name as Domino Perri. His marriage and military records show him as Biassi Perisi. His parents were both immigrants from Italy. The 1900 US Census shows that Eugene was also born in Italy. The 1910 Census shows his birthplace as Colorado, and he maintained that he was born in Grand Junction. His father was a laborer for...
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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 Montrose, Colorado to John Schumann and Anna Katherine (Weidenkeller) Schumann. His parents were Germans from Russia who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890’s. Anna’s family lived in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood and were also farmers in Eastern Colorado. John’s family purchased land in Eastern Colorado. Anna and John married in Loveland in 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them farming in Weld County with their...
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She was born in Toppenish, Washington. She was sickly as a child, so her family moved to Colorado in 1908, when she was three years old. The family homesteaded near Whitewater Creek, between Whitewater and Purdy Mesa, until 1929. During her youth, she travelled from Whitewater to Grand Junction via horse and wagon, approximately three times a year. She was schooled in Whitewater through 8th grade (which she completed in 1919). She went to Grand Junction...
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She was born in Clear Lake, South Dakota and moved to Grand Junction, Colorado with her parents in 1902, when she was six years old. She grew up in a home constructed by her father at 516 Chipeta Avenue. At the time, they lived next to an orchard, which separated them from their neighbor, Doctor Edward Eldridge. When she was younger, she had fond memories of her father taking her to First Fruitridge to see the orchards and pick apples. She attended...
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Mary was born in Phillips County, Kansas to Michael Henry Powers and Mary Louisa (Hoover) Powers. Her father was a farmer and a “proud Irishman.” She was one of nine children. She recalled her childhood in Kansas as a warm, safe one in which she never lacked for anything. Sometime after her father's death in 1902, when Mary was six, the family moved to Colorado.
The family relocated to the Milldale area around Grand Junction's sugar beet factory...
