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Lucy Ela discusses John Otto, the Colorado National Monument, and the settlement of Glade Park. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
*Photograph from the 1936 Grand Junction High School yearbook.
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Lucy Ela talks about the history of the Reviewers Club, founded in 1904, one of the first women’s clubs in Grand Junction, Colorado. She speaks about Harriette Ottman, a “woman of the times” who had broad knowledge of many topics and organized the group’s presentations. She describes the varied presentations that members gave. She discusses the role of the Women’s Club in the creation of the Grand Junction Public Library, and the support...
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Early Twentieth century Glade Park resident. Wife of Wendell Ela. Sister of Denver poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. She was born to William C. "Will" Ferril and Alice (McHarg) Ferril in New York State. According to US Census records, her father Will was a journalist from Kansas whose own father had been a preacher. According to Lucy, Will was well known as a journalist, was the owner and editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald (the oldest weekly newspaper...
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William Ela talks about his family’s arrival in the Little Dolores River area of Mesa County in 1881 and their establishment of the 2-V Ranch. He tells stories about his grandfather, the pioneer rancher and Grand Junction town mayor William Phillips Ela. He remembers his grandfather’s horse Looney and his escapades. He speaks about the dangers of travel to and from Glade Park in the early days. He recalls stories passed down about his ancestors’...
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Husband of Lucy (Ferril) Ela.
Wendell Dennett Ela was born at 640 Rood Avenue in Grand Junction, Colorado to Wendell Phillips Ela and Lucy Abby (Drake) Ela. His first childhood home, adjacent to the Excelsior Laundry, was later sold to the Daily Sentinel and torn down, although the pear tree the family had planted stayed alive for many years.
His father was an early pioneer of the Glade Park area, the mayor of Grand Junction, and a longtime...
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He was born to Wendell Dennett Ela and Lucy Brainerd (Ferril) Ela in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father was a bank vice president and the son of Mesa County pioneer Wendell Phillips Ela, early Pinon Mesa rancher and Grand Junction mayor. His mother was a homemaker, the sister of Colorado poet William Hornsby Ferril, a member of the Grand Junction School Board and Colorado State School Board, and active in many other community organizations. His...
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According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, the club was founded around 1900 by a Mrs. Oglesvie, a “thinker and doer” who had just moved to town. Six of the members educated themselves about the countries of the world and then attended the World’s Fair [in 1904]. The club eventually disbanded.
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A women’s club begun by Harriette (Dyke) Ottman, who had moved to the Pomona area from the Midwest by 1900. According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, the club began around 1901, and was a women’s organization, one of Grand Junction’s first. It disbanded after a short time and several members later became members of the Reviewers Club.
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Early Grand Junction social organization and literary society. According to Lucy (Ferril) Ela, The Reviewers Club rose from the ashes of the Twentieth Century Club, a women’s organization that was formed by Harriet (Dyke) Ottman around 1901, after her arrival from the Midwest. The Twentieth Century Club was short lived and Ottman left Grand Junction for two years.
In another version of the Twentieth Century Club's history given at a "Women of...
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Early pioneer of Glade Park area and mayor of Grand Junction, Colorado from 1897-90.
He was born in New Hampshire to Jacob Hart Ela and Abigail Pearson (Kelley) Ela. His mother’s name as listed in birth records is Abigail Pearson Moore, indicating that she may have been married once before her marriage to Jacob Ela. Wendell’s father was a printer and publisher, a depot master, the US Representative for New Hampshire’s First Congressional...
11) Cecilia Cardman
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She was born in Italy as Cecilia Cardamone to Santo “Samuel” Cardamone and Maria Angela “Mary” (Mendocino) Cardamone. Records of US Passenger ships show that she arrived with her family in the United States aboard the ship Finland in 1915, when she was nine years old. The family moved first to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she attended grade school and learned English at the age of ten.
The US Census indicates that by 1920, the family lived...
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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 The Making of a Legend:...
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Dorothy Ottman discusses her childhood in Grand Junction, fruit growing and agricultural industry in Mesa County, and the social life and customs of women, youth, and others in the Grand Junction area. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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Artist Cecilia Cardman talks about her struggles with the English language and her experience in public schools as a young immigrant from Italy, and about her higher education in both Italy and in Boulder at the University of Colorado. She speaks about teaching art at early Mesa College and what the college was like at that time. She describes the “topnotch” teachers she had at Grand Junction High School. She discusses leaving her teaching career...
