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13301) Frank Willoughby
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Frank Willoughby came to Aspen in 1921 at the age of 11 with his family when his father, Fred D. Willoughby, a major investor in the Midnight Mine, was tasked with running the company. After graduating from Aspen High School, Frank earned a degree in mining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
Frank assumed duties at the Midnight, including engineering work and supervising one of the daily shifts, both underground and at the mill. Frank...
13302) Kermit C. "Bru" Brubaker
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He was born to Albert Brubaker and Mary (Firestone) Brubaker in Enid, Oklahoma. His father was an auctioneer and a salesman for a machine company. His mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that he grew up primarily in Oklahoma and Kansas. He attended Washington Elementary School in Anthony, Kansas, Allison Junior High School in Wichita, Kansas, and Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He married Wilma Lorene Terrell...
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She was born in Grainfield, Kansas to Jessie E. Terrell and Mabel F. (Embree) Terrell. Her father was a farmer and trucker. Her mother was a homemaker who had attended Nebraska Wesleyan University. US Census records show that the family was living in Hugo, Colorado by 1930, when Lorene was 13 years old. She married Kermit C. Brubaker on April 1, 1936 in Pueblo. The 1940 and 1950 US Censuses show them living in El Paso County, where she was a homemaker.
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13304) Rebecca Woods
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Rebecca Woods was the fourteenth Mesa County Libraries Artist in Residence at 970West Studio. She served as the Artist in Residence from February 1 to May 3, 2021.
Woods has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from Colorado Mesa University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Installation and Performance Art from Newcastle University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She has shown work in the United States, Canada, England, and Italy. She lives and...
13306) Joseph Blair Brown
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Taken from Montrosepress.com, on 9/19/22, here is Joseph Brown's Obituary:
"Joseph Blair Brown, 91, of Topeka, passed away Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. He was born Jan. 28, 1921 in Greeley, Colo., the son of Harry and Eva (Daniels) Brown.
Joe was the grandson of pioneers who settled in the San Miguel Valley of Colorado. Joe was raised in Telluride and Redvale, Colo., where he met his childhood sweetheart, Elsie Ross, whom he would eventually marry....
13307) Jill Burkey
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Jill Burkey was the seventeenth Artist in Residence at Mesa County Libraries at 970West Studio. She served as the Artist in Residence from January 10 to April 18, 2022.
Jill Burkey is a poet, writer, and editor living on the Western Slope of Colorado. In her poems, which circle around the themes of nature, relationships, history, and spirituality, Jill explores the larger existential questions of humanity, and makes connections between life, the...
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She was born to John Frank Sleeper and Louise Amelia (Sieber) Sleeper in the Glade Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. Her father was a cattle rancher and surveyor. Her mother was a homemaker. Her ancestors were Glade Park pioneers on both sides of the family. Her father’s family owned the 2-V Ranch with the Elas, and her mother’s family, the Siebers, owned the S-Cross Cattle Company.
She went to Grand Junction High School. She married John...
13309) 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...
13310) John Witt Collier
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He was born in Dukedom, Tennessee. His application for social security benefits gives his parents at James H. Collier and Fountain Ella Hughes. According to his obituary in the Daily Sentinel, which also confirms the location of his birth, he was born on March 17, 1873.
He came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1899 and began working as a fireman for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. He married Margaret Almeria “Maggie” Howell in Grand Junction...
13311) Dr. Larry Hahn
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Taken from Larry Hahn's obituary accessed online 9/22/22:
"LARRY HAHN OBITUARY
Dr. Larry Lynn "Doc" Hahn March 21, 1936 - August 16, 2006 Well-known former Palisade resident Dr. Larry Hahn, 70, died August 16, 2006 at his residence in Molina, Colorado. Larry Lynn Hahn was born on March 21, 1936, on a farm in Phillips County, Kansas. He was the eldest child and only son of Willard Carl and Estella Irene (Jennings) Hahn. Larry grew up in the farm...
13312) John Frank Sleeper
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Owner of the Sleeper Ranch in the Pinon Mesa area.
He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire to Charles Wesley Sleeper and Sarah E. (Peavey) Sleeper, both native New Hampshirites. His father was a blacksmith, cattle raiser, and railroad engineer. His mother was a homemaker.
John attended Dartmouth College from 1884 to 1886. It appears from his listing in the Non-Graduates section of the Dartmouth College 1910 catalog that he did not graduate,...
13313) Avery Newton Burford
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He was born to Roland "Tank" Burford and Caroline (Newton) Burford in Fresno, California. His father was an attorney and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records indicate that he had come to Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1900. In doing so he followed his older brother, Robert "Fred" Burford, who arrived in the 1880's and cattle ranched on Pinon Mesa before moving to Whitewater.
Avery Burford is shown living in Whitewater and working on...
13314) Pete Lapham
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A De Beque resident who worked in the cattle business. According to oral history interviewee Morgan Goss, Lapham had a feud with a man named Hiram, and Hiram shot him in the jaw at a pool hall on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado.
According to rancher Donald “Don” Rogers, Lapham’s beef was actually with a man named Irey Walck. Lapham threatened to kill Walck when they saw each other in the Pastime Café on Main Street in Grand Junction....
13315) Butch Cassidy
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Notorious bank and train robber who operated, in part, in the area of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah with his gang the Wild Bunch.
According to John Jay Collier, Cassidy was supposed to have frequented Pinon Mesa. According to rancher Donald "Don" Rogers, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch would sometimes come through his father’s ranchland on Pinon Mesa on their way to their hideout at Robber’s Roost. Rogers says that Cassidy and the others...
13317) Anna Rebecca (Bowman) Rogers
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She was born in Virginia to David Bowman and Susanah (Hedrick) Bowman. Her father was a Baptist minister and her mother was a homemaker. According to her son, Donald “Don” Rogers, she taught school for many years before marrying Lucas Melvin “Luke” Rogers in Mesa County, Colorado in 1907. They farmed in the Appleton area before moving to Fisher, on the Redlands just across Black Bridge from Orchard Mesa. They ran their ranching operations...
13318) Cherokee Joe
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According to rancher Donald “Don” Rogers, Cherokee Joe had come from Oklahoma Territory as a hired gun of sheep ranchers during the cattle and sheep wars of the early Twentieth century. Allegedly, he was a sharpshooter who shot a few cowboys out of their saddles and killed them. Supposedly, Cherokee Joe killed a man at a saloon on Grand Junction’s Main Street that was owned by Jimmy Purcell. As Rogers recounts the tail, Joe rode his horse through...
13319) Broken Jaw Nell
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A madam who operated a brothel in Grand Junction’s redlight district in the early Twentieth century. Her brothel was reputedly between 5th and 6th Streets on South Avenue. According to rancher Donald “Don” Rogers, stories told of Nell indicated that she was a fast draw and shot with a six shooter, and that she once killed several cowboys who were causing havoc at her house of ill repute.
13320) Lucas Melvin "Luke" Rogers
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He was born in Missouri Valley, Iowa to John Wesley Rogers and Sarah A.P. Rogers. His father was a carpenter. His mother was a homemaker. According to his son, Don Rogers, Luke moved to the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado shortly before 1900. Census records show that his parents had moved to Mesa County by 1910.
Colorado marriage records show that he married Anna Rebecca Bowman in 1907. According to the 1910 US Census record, they were farmers...
