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He was born in Tehachapi, California. He married Gula Jayne on October 3, 1901 in Toppenish, Washington. They moved to a homestead near Whitewater in Mesa County, Colorado in 1908. He worked as a carpenter and a farmer, and was also the postal carrier on the Star line from Whitewater to Gateway for 20 years. He built the original Gateway school house in 1912 and several homes on 28 ½ Road on Orchard Mesa.
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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 born in Montana and went to high school in Grand Junction, Colorado. He went to Western Colorado University (then Western State College), where he became knowledgeable about the Little Book Cliff Railway and the town of Carpenter. He delivered a lecture on the Little Book Cliff Railway to the Mesa County Historical Society in November 1979. At that time, he was a resident of Gunnison, Colorado. Along with Robert W. McLeod, he published the...
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She was born in Mountaindale, Pennsylvania to George W. Ross and Sarah A. (Miller) Ross. Her father was a carpenter and her mother a homemaker. The family moved to Iowa when she was at a young age, and she grew up in the Dutch community of Pella. After finishing school, she taught school and was a soprano in the church choir. She quit teaching when she married Thaddeus Harp, who owned a meat market. Together they moved to Meeker and then to Rifle,...
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Identified in error as Frances (Dorr) Wheeler in the article "Frances (Dorr) Wheeler".
