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He was born in Minnesota and grew up, in part, on California Mesa in Delta County. His father was Frank X. Goettelman of Iowa, the son of French and Canadian immigrants. He was a farmer. His mother was Lena Goettelman of Minnesota, the daughter of Canadian immigrants. She was a homemaker. The 1920 U.S. Census shows Clem working as a printer in Delta County at the age of 18.
Clem worked for The Daily Sentinel from 1923 until 1946. He worked for...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her mother was Alice Elizabeth (Bittinger) Buthorn of Iowa. Her father was William Frederick Buthorn, a German immigrant and owner of the prominent La Court Hotel on Main Street in the early and mid-Twentieth century. She had a twin sister named Willa Maude. While in high school she played in the orchestra, sang for school clubs, and was a member of the Spanish Club. They grew up living in the LaCourt Hotel...
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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...
44) Dale T. Luke
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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 branch of a revised version of the organization that began in 1915 and grew stronger in the 1920s. The Ku Klux Klan inflamed prevailing prejudices against Catholics, Jews, Blacks and immigrants, and promised a return to "Old Time Religion" and Americanism. As Colorado was a primarily Protestant state, the Klan's influence was particularly strong here during the 1920's. The Klan had several members in positions of power, including the governor,...
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Marie Treece was an early Mesa County, Colorado resident who was heavily involved with teaching music and directing chorus arrangements. She was born in Baxter Springs, Kansas to Edgar Covey, a drayman, and Nora Covey, a homemaker. The 1920 US Census shows her working as a milliner in a Dock Store at the age of 24. By 1930, US Census records show her married to Ted J. Treece, a furniture store proprietor, and living in Grand Junction, Colorado with...
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A Depression era organization that provided clothes and toys for poor and minority children at Christmas, and meals for people in need. It was organized by Al Look, advertising agent and columnist for The Daily Sentinel newspaper and backed by Walter Walker, publisher of the Sentinel.
The group staged fundraising events at the Avalon Theater, the Mile-Away Dance Hall and other locations. Look arranged to buy gifts for children at cost by buying...
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He was born in New Mexico to parents Clinton A. Biggs and Frances W. Biggs. They moved to Canon City, Colorado when Clyde was of school age. He grew up there and in Denver. In Denver, he attended East Denver High School but was forced to leave the school after an incident. He graduated instead from a private school. He went to Yale University, where he seems to have graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1915, when he was about 22 years...
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With his three brothers, an owner of City Market grocery stores. He was born in La Junta, Colorado to Joseph Frank Prinster and Millie (Kroboth) Prinster. His father was the owner of a meat market and grocery store. His mother was a homemaker. Different US Census records give the country of Joseph’s birth as Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. New York ship passenger arrivals show that he arrived from Germany on February 21, 1883, and that he was...
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Fruita's first hospital was located near the mortuary and run at first by the doctors James Moore Beard and Porter. Doctors White and J.S. Orr ran the hospital at a later date. It received funding from Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel, and others.
According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, who was friends with Dr. Beard, he ran a small hospital from his home in Cleveland, the town that adjoined Fruita, in the late Nineteenth and early...
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He was born in Spearfish, South Dakota to William F. Hartman and Madora Mae (Ricks) Hartman. The 1910 US Census shows that his father worked as a clerk in a grocery store. His mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Bayard, Nebraska around 1915, when William Jr. was five years old. His mother died there in 1916, and the 1920 Census shows that William Sr. was a widower working as a laborer in a sugar factory.
The 1930 Census shows William Jr....
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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 Nebraska, and raised in Lincoln and in Stockton, Kansas. His father was Albert Look and his mother Marie Look. Both parents were the children of German immigrants. They ran a grocery store, a dry goods store, and then a creamery. While in high school, he was active in theater productions, sang bass in a local barbershop quartet, and sang in the Methodist choir. He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where he studied journalism,...
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On July 30, 1921, at around 5 p.m., seven men were killed and three were seriously injured in Wheeler Gulch, five miles north of Parachute, Colorado, when a tramway cable slipped loose at the Schuyler-Doyle Shale Company mine. Twelve passengers had boarded the car, the majority of whom had just started working for the mine that very morning. As the car started down the slope, the cable became dislodged from the post it was anchored to, launching the...
55) Wayne Aspinall
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Wayne Aspinall was a U.S. Congressman from Palisade, Colorado. He was a Democrat who represented Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District from 1949-1973. He was the head of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959-1973. His accomplishments included the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, which he initially opposed. He also actively promoted water reclamation projects in Colorado and throughout the West, including Glen Canyon...
56) Dalton Trumbo
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Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado to Orus Bonham Trumbo of Indiana and Maude Tillery of Kentucky. According to information presented by David Sundal, who had conversations with Trumbo, his Great Grandfather Tillery was an early day Montrose sheriff. His family moved to Grand Junction in 1908, when Trumbo was four. He grew up in a house at 1124 Gunnison Avenue that was torn down and replaced by a newer home in 1929. He grew up attending...
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History professor William Edmondson gives a comedic account of historic personages from Colorado and American history at an event sponsored by the Mesa County Historical Society and Mesa College in 1981. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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A local chapter of the international organization created by attorney Silmon Smith, M.N. Due, Bob Ross, and man named Jones in 1921. According to Lion Laird Smith, the club briefly disbanded when Walter Walker brought the Rotary Club to town. In 1922, the Grand Junction Lions Club reformed with Silmon Smith as president (Laird's father). According to Silmon Smith, because he and others had not been offered membership in the Rotary Club, he and other...
59) The Pro's
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Larry Kaminski, Doak Walker and Walt Barnes talk about their careers in the National Football League.
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To mark the centennial celebration of the town of Grand Junction, Colorado in 1981, the Mesa County Oral History Project wrote and recorded several radio plays about local history. Beginning on September 26, 1981, local radio stations KSTR, KREX-AM, KREX-FM, and KMSA broadcast the plays. Authors of the plays used interviews recorded by the Mesa County Oral History Project as inspiration. This archival recording contains the play Sousa Day in Grand...
