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He was a mortician who founded Martin Mortuary. He married his wife, Carrie Belle Griffin, in 1901. According to his son, Edward Martin, F.C. started out as a farmer. He sold his farm and graduated from Worsham Mortuary School in Chicago, Illinois. He and his family moved to Longmont, Colorado in 1913 due to his wife's poor health. They moved from Longmont to Mesa County in 1915.
Oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes remembers that Martin...
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She was the wife of Fred Martin and helped to run their family business, Martin Mortuary, in Grand Junction, Colorado. She was born in Illinois to Edward Griffin, a farmer from England, and to Maria Griffin, a homemaker. She and Fred moved to Longmont, Colorado shortly after his graduation from mortuary school, in 1913, when she was 31. The move West was made in order to improve her health.
The family moved to Palisade in Mesa County in 1915. There,...
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He grew up in Nebraska and Grand Junction, Colorado. He attended Grand Junction High School and then Colorado College, but had to quit due to his father's death. His brother Charles worked for the Department of the Interior, and got him a job as a cowboy for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as a U.S. Deputy Stock detective on the Crow Reservation in Montana. During this time, he worked with a doctor on the reservation to complete his studies at Colorado...
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An early Grand Junction physician who came to the Grand Valley in 1887. He was born to Sidney Bull and Ruth (Cooling) Bull in Warwick, New York. He was the oldest of six children. In 1868 or 1869, when Heman was six years old, the family moved to Amity, Missouri.
At the age of sixteen, he went to Topeka, Kansas to attend the preparatory school of Washburn College, and later attended Washburn itself, graduating as valedictorian in 1884. He graduated...
