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A clothing store owner on Grand Junction, Colorado’s Main Street in the early Twentieth century and possibly the first clothier in town. He was a Jewish immigrant from Wurttemberg, Germany who, according to the 1860 US Census, was living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania by the age of 22 and working as a merchant. IRS valuations from 1864 show his business worth $600. The 1870 Census shows him living in Illinois and married to Terrise Strouse, also of...
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Ted Albers, Bob Hall, Lowell Heiny and James “Jim” Kyle discuss the early history of Grand Junction and Mesa County, Ute Indians, and the formation of the Mesa County Historical Society at the September 22, 1975 meeting of the Society. This recording is provided by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado, and the Mesa County Historical Society.
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A postcard advertising Strawberry Day in Glenwood Springs, taking place June 21-22, 1912. An annual event celebrating the strawberry harvest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It began in 1898, and is ongoing. According to the Glenwood Springs Visitor’s Center, it is the longest continually held civic celebration west of the Mississippi River. It began as an agricultural festival. At one time, a bicycle race between Grand Junction and Glenwood was held...
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U.S. Fish and game board representative in Colorado. He was born in Canon City to William Underhill and Nannie (Blaine) Underhill (Grand Junction's first teacher). The 1900 US Census record shows him living with his family in Fremont, Colorado at the age of twelve. The 1909 Grand Junction High School yearbook shows that he was a sophomore at that school, which would indicate that he was about fifteen or sixteen years of age at that time and living...
5) Jean Urruty
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A Basque immigrant who came to Mesa County in 1925. Along with other Basque immigrants, he was a sheepherder in the Pinon Mesa and Green River, Utah areas. After approximately five years of herding sheep, he and other Basques pooled their money and purchased a sheep ranching outfit, which they did in the middle of the Great Depression. In 1935, he purchased the LaSalle Hotel on Grand Junction’s Colorado Avenue, and helped decrease prostitution and...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Eben McKean "Mac" Miller, a rancher, and Emelia Marie Barth Miller, a German immigrant and homemaker. She attended the Palisade School 1916-18, the Lowell School 1918-22, the Hawthorne School 1922-23, and Grand Junction High School from 1923-27. She also attended the Ross Business College 1927-28, where she took a complete secretarial course in place of her last year of high school. She went back to Grand...
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She was born in Kansas to William Walter Tatlow, a farmer, and Alta Clara (Becker) Tatlow, a homemaker. US Census records from 1920 to 1940 would seem to indicate that she was an only child. According to Roice, she ran off to get married shortly before her high school graduation (possibly to a Mr. Brooks). The 1940 Census record shows her living with her parents at the age of 22, listed as single, and waitressing in a restaurant, but according to...
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Colorado Mesa University was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1925. It began as Grand Junction Junior College and was established with the support of Colorado State Representatives Sterling Lacy and Ollie Bannister, who worked with representatives from Trinidad and Pueblo to secure colleges for all three areas.
During its first years of existence as Grand Junction Junior College, classes were taught in the old Lowell School, which had been...
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to William D. Jones and Mattie (Moore) Jones. Her father was a locomotive engineer. Her mother was a homemaker. Her parents were both Mesa County pioneers. She attended the Franklin School as a child. She also worked in her grandmother’s boarding house, which boarded sugar factory workers. She married Walter M. Edwards on October 22, 1911. Mesa County divorce records show that they divorced on October 16,...
10) Hugh R. Jones
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He was born to William William Jones and Jannie E. (Sluder) Jones in Bucklin, Kansas. His father was a farmer and Welsh immigrant. His mother was a homemaker born in Missouri. He attended the Eagle School in Bucklin from grades 1 to 8. He later received his GED in Sterling, Colorado.
Because of the Dust Bowl, he moved to the Roan Creek area in August 1938, when he was about 21 years old. The 1940 US Census shows him living in Garfield, County....
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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...
12) John Jay Collier
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He was born to John Witt Collier, a cattle rancher, and Margaret Almeria "Maggie" (Howell) Collier in Grand Junction, Colorado on a farm at 9th Street and Chipeta Avenue, across from the first Grand Junction High School. US Census records indicate that his father was from Tennessee and his mother from Iowa. His father was a farmer who sold hay and raised horses, and later became a cattle rancher. His mother was a homemaker.
The family moved to...
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He was born in Dukedom, Tennessee. According to Montana marriage records, his father was James Collier of Tennessee. The US Census shows him living in Ada, Montana in 1910, where he was a farmer. He married Leota Pearl on October 22, 1913 in Big Sandy, Montana. The 1920 Census shows them living in Red Wing, Montana, where they farmed and had a daughter, Dortha.
According to the nephew of Joe Collier, John Collier, he served as the Sheriff in Mesa...
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A Grand Junction hospital established by the Catholic Sisters of Charity on May 22, 1896. In the 1890’s, Reverend William Carr of Grand Junction’s St. Joseph’s Catholic Church made several entreaties to the Sisters of Charity in Denver and in Leavenworth, Kansas, asking for health services and a hospital in Grand Junction. In 1895, Sister Balbina Farrell and Sister Louisa Madden arrived in Grand Junction to establish a hospital. While Farrell...
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A KOTO reel-to-reel news archive #22 recording, from 1978. Total length is about 3 hours, 11 minutes.
See transcription for time stamps, to jump between tracks.
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1.) Report on the Grand Junction Office of Attorney General, by Jim Martin: 10/1978.
2.) The food co-op possibly operating out of the Reid building, report from Dean Randall: 10/02/1978.
3.) A report on creating the new Placerville Park with Robert (Bob) Dempsey and...
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The Mt. Garfield Chapter of DAR was organized on February 22, 1910 by Maria Bleeker Wheaton. The organization took place at the LaCourt Hotel in Grand Junction.
Over the years, members of the organization have preserved many aspects of local history with the placement of plaques and with research that contributes to preservation. Such plaques include a marker showing the crossing point of the Colorado River on the Old Spanish Trail, and the site...
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Real estate appraisal card. 234 E. 2nd Street, lots 21 & 22, block 23, in Salida, Colorado.
This house was built between 1898 and 1904. The city directory of 1905-06, when John G., Blossom G., and Mamie Nash lived here. Mr. Nash was born in 1845 in Ireland and was a laborer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He was a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for 25 years. He died of pneumonia in April 1915, after residing in Salida for...
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A KOTO newscast, from 05/05/1994 To 05/20/1994, featuring Jon Kovash & Matthew Lewis. Here are the headlines:
07/22/1996: a Grand Junction man commits suicide near Trout Lake. Local architects talk more about potatoes and politics than about buildings. Western Colorado fires make for foggy skies. A ski expansion decision, will it be appealed? And we have a mountain weather report.
07/23/1996: the Forest Service grants full tilt ski expansion. Telluride...
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Robert “Bob” Collins was born to John A. Collins and Margaret R. (Lacy) Collins in Horse Valley, Pennsylvania. His father was a school teacher and his mother was a homemaker. The 1920 US Census shows that the family had moved Madison, Ohio by the time Bob Collins was one year old. The 1930 census shows the family living in Washington, Ohio.
He married Marcella M. Stetzel in Sandusky County, Ohio on May 28, 1939. He is shown living with Marcella...
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She was born in Colfax, Louisiana to James W. O’Quinn and Mary Catherine (Killingsworth) O’Quinn. Her father was a watchman and a machinist. Her mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census lists Josephine by the nickname “Minkie” at the age of 13. Josephine attended Colfax High School, a boarding school in Natchitoches, and then the Louisiana Teacher College in the late 1910’s. The 1920 Census shows her living with her parents and teaching...
