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He was born in Centerville, Ohio to William and Nellie Parcell. He came to Telluride, Colorado in 1909, when he was 21 years old. There, he worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He moved to Silverton in 1913 in order to work for the Western Colorado Power Company. He later ran a garage and a grocery store. He purchased the Grand Imperial Hotel in 1958 and ran it for five years. He married Elva Glanville of Silverton in 1914. He was the Democratic...
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She was born the youngest of eleven children on a farm in Illinois to two German immigrants, John Schauster and Theresa Schauster. There, she attended a one room school house for a short time, but did not receive much schooling. Instead, she helped with her sister’s children and with homemaking tasks. Her oldest sister moved to Glenwood Springs, Colorado with her husband when Emma was young. Emma followed her to Glenwood when she was around fifteen...
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She was born in Cravens, Oklahoma to George Earl Boyd and Birdie Mae (Weir) Boyd. She moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in November of 1930, when she was 19. The 1931 Grand Junction City Directory shows her living in what was most probably a boarding house at 1315 North 7th Street, and working as a maid. She graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1931 and went to Mesa College for a semester in 1932. She worked as a housekeeper for Walter and...
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A lifetime resident of Colorado's Western Slope, Davine Pera has been a resident of the Telluride vicinity since 1953. Her love for the history of the area was stimulated by the pioneering roots of both her paternal and maternal grandparents in the Telluride region. Davine's great-grandfather raised vegetables in Ilium Valley which he hauled over Ophir Pass in a wagon for sale in Silverton. Other turn-of-the-century relatives ranches on Wilson Mesa;...
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