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Edith Sisac talks about growing up in the Pomona area of Mesa County, attending the Pomona School, and riding her bike to Grand Junction High School along the railroad tracks in the early Twentieth century. She recalls the grocery store in Grand Junction owned by Roy Sisac, her husband’s father. She speaks about the Mesa Lakes Resort and the Mesa Lakes Ski Run, which were owned and operated by the Sisac and Foster families, and about the development...
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Homesteader in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado who was said to have planted the first fruit trees in the Grand Valley area. According to Craig Aupperle, Orr planted his apple orchard along Struthers Avenue, close to the Colorado River. The orchard stretched from near 5th Street to the old sugar factory on 9th Street, an area that now encompasses the Western Colorado Botanical Gardens. US Census records show him residing in Pomona by 1900....
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He grew up in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, either on or nearby Third Fruitridge. He often played in the irrigation ditches and went fishing in the ditches with his brother David and their friend Albert Rood. He attended Colorado State University, and later became a teacher in the Grand Valley. He married Margaret Florence Seaman in 1954.
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Verne Judson talks about his early life in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, and the family’s subsequent move to Loma. He speaks about his long career as a farmer prior to retiring in 1965. He remembers some of the people and places of Loma. He talks about his father Orin Judson’s career as a farmer and rancher, and about his death from Tuberculosis in 1923. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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She was born and raised in Mesa County, Colorado. There, she was a school teacher at the Pomona, De Beque, and Kannah Creek Schools before marrying and becoming a housewife.
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An immigrant from Italy who came to the United States in 1908. He settled in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, on a truck farm with bottomland in the Colorado River. He wrote back to Italy asking for a mail-order bride. Rosina “Rose” Paola arrived in June 1913, and they were married on July 20, 1913. Together they had nine children. After picking and washing produce, he and his children sold it out of a truck in areas around Grand Junction....
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Frank Chiaro describes his life as the child of Italian immigrants, farm life in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, and his various jobs, including his work as a boilermaker for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He also talks about the second incarnation of his railroading career as a clerk, about mail cars and mail clerks, about the Durham Stockyards and the many livestock trains departing Grand Junction, and about water towers for steam...
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He was born in Missouri to Mary and William “W.A.” Rice. They were living in Mesa County, Colorado by around 1882, when W.A. and his brother Phidelah “P.A.” Rice (uncle to David), started the first lumber yard and lumber firm in the county. They farmed in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado. David became a farmer in his own right, and his farm was located near that of William Weiser, off of 26 Road on or near Third Fruitridge. He attended...
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Mary Colosimo talks about the life of her Italian immigrant family on a truck farm in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado. She also discusses her marriage to railroad man Charles Colosimo, his career with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, including his stints as a call-boy and an engineer, railroad disciplinary measures, and train accidents. Lorene Roice talks about what brought her to Grand Junction at the end of World War II, her husband’s...
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Early teacher at Appleton School. He also taught at the Heiberger School in Plateau Valley. His father, Ed Currier Sr., settled in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado in the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century.
In addition to teaching, livestock auctioneer Howard Shults states that Lucius continued to ranch in Pomona. He appears eventually to have settled in Plateau Valley, along with some of his brothers.
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He was born in Wisconsin to John C. Carman and Julia Carmen. His mother was a German immigrant. US Census records show him living with his wife, Edith Carman, in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado by 1910, when he was thirty-five. He was a fruit farmer in the Second Fruitridge area of Pomona. He was an extremely organized man who planned his work year very carefully and who provided very specific instructions to his hired help. He grew ten acres...
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In a two-part interview carried out over two days, Howard Shults talks about his experiences as a rancher and auctioneer on Colorado’s Western Slope. In part one, he talks about the arrival of his parents in Mesa County in 1903, their teaching careers at Pear Park and in Fruita, and his father’s move to a career as an auctioneer. He speaks about his childhood in Grand Junction and Collbran, his graduation from Grand Junction High School in 1923,...
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He was born in West Virginia to John D. and Pruda Hyer, where his parents farmed and he was himself a farm laborer. US Census records show him living in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1910, when he was thirty years old. He was an orchard owner in the Second Fruitridge area of Pomona. In addition to growing fruit, he also processed apples into vinegar and cider. He would process apples from other fruit grower’s as well, in exchange...
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His father, Ed Currier Sr., settled in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado in the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century. Ed grew up on a 160 acre ranch and inherited 80 acres himself. He later purchased his brother George’s share of the property. Brother to George, Ted, Lucius, and Tom.
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An Italian immigrant and farmer in Mesa County. He was born in Italy in 1880 and came to Mesa County, Colorado with his wife and children in 1913, at the age of 33. He operated a greenhouse and plant nursery on First Street in Grand Junction in the early Twentieth century. He also owned land in Pomona and on North Avenue before setting at the corner of 7th street and Struthers Avenue, where he raised tomatoes for the Curry Canning Company. There he...
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She was born in Fort Collins, Colorado to Daniel M. and Susan R. Click and game to the Grand Valley in 1896. She grew up on a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, and was one of 10 children (US Census records list her residence as Pomona). Her father was a farmer who bought 40 acres and cleared the land, and constructed a dugout for the family residence until he was able to build a 10 bedroom house sometime later. She married Walter Anderson,...
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She was born in Elk County, Kansas to William T. Glasco, a Civil War veteran, and Mary Jane (Messick) Johnson. She married James Pearley Johnson in Grand Junction in 1910, and together they lived in Gilman, Colorado for two years while James worked in a mine. They then moved to Mesa County and lived on a farm on River Road, partway between Grand Junction and Fruita. There, they raised tomatoes in greenhouses and sold them directly to customers and...
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She was born to Edward Huffer and Edna Kathryn (Bowman) Huffer in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado. Her father was a rancher and her mother was a homemaker. Her family owned a slaughter house, which had been started by her grandfather Charles Bowman, across from the Durham Stockyards. Their ranch was on the River Road between Grand Junction and Fruita.
She attended the Pomona School for ten years. She walked two miles to school, in part...
