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14141) Howard Delmar Brouse
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The one-time District Foreman of the Mesa County Road and Bridge Department (circa 1950). He was born to Elwood and Edith Brouse on a farm in Glade Park, Colorado.
14143) Walter August Flasche
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He was born in Stratton, Nebraska to Freidrich Wilhelm “William” Flasche and Marie Katherine “Mary” (Vatz) Flasche. Census records indicate that his father was an immigrant from Germany, and that his mother immigrated from a German settlement in Russia. They were farmers. According to Walter, his father had two wives and families, with one in Germany.
The 1900 US Census shows Walter living with his parents and siblings in Burntwood, Kansas...
14144) Michael B. Husband
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A one-time employee and lecturer of the Museum of Western Colorado. He has enjoyed a long career in historical research and museums. As of 2024, he is working for Heberling Associates.
14145) Warren John Kiefer
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He was born to Samuel Frederick Kiefer and Maude Marie (Hummel) Kiefer in Yakima, Washington and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was a saleman, broadcaster, and broadcast writer. His mother was a homemaker. Warren was working for the railroad by at least 1940, when the US Census lists him as a “wayo maintenance” worker in railroad construction. It also shows that he had attended a year of college.
He was hired as a fireman on the...
14147) Forrest L. "Frosty" Tilton
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Frosty Tilton was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. Because of a bad heart, he was unable to do farm work. His brother Archie Tilton, who had homesteaded in Eastern Colorado, contacted him regarding a position at a bank in Holyoke. So Frosty moved to Holyoke, Colorado in 1917 when he was 16 years old and began working in the bank as a janitor. On top of that, he did any other job that...
14148) Marion George Bowman
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He was born to George Wallace Bowman and Nancy “Nannie” (Cutter) Bowman in Palisade, Colorado. His dad was a fruit farmer, the inventor of the Fruit Gathering Bag (Bowman picking sack), founder of the Palisades National Bank, and founder of the United Fruit Growers Association. His mother was a homemaker. US Census records show the family living in west Palisade.
Marion married Helen Maher in Grand Junction on November 16, 1937. Like his parents,...
14149) Archie "Arch" Tilton
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He was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. He homesteaded near Holyoke, Colorado and then came to Palisade, Colorado sometime between 1917 and 1924. With George Bowman, he participated in the establishment of the Palisades National Bank and hired his brother, Forrest Tilton, as a cashier. He also had fruit orchards, ran a fruit association, and worked as a depot agent/station master for...
14150) Ruth Bereman (Zingg) Tilton
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She was born to Ottway C. Zingg and Bernice Kina Mowry in Holyoke, Colorado. Her father was from a Swiss-American family. He was a history professor and a band director. Her mother was a teacher and principal from Iowa. She grew up in Holyoke and in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she attended high school. After graduating from high school around 1918, she became a teacher. She taught in country schools outside of Holyoke. She met Forrest L. “Frosty”...
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He was born to Warren and Louise Ruth (Percell) Westcott in Mojave, California. His father was a prison road camp warden and his mother was a homemaker. He had two brothers and two sisters. When the family’s home burned down, they moved to Hollywood. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles and then to Lakewood. He attended Stephen Foster Elementary School and Roosevelt Junior High School in Lakewood. His high school years, 1956-1960, were split between...
14152) Luella Frances (Muth) Morgan
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She was born in Rifle, Colorado to Martin Muth, a farmer, and Edith Fredricka (Bahr) Muth, a homemaker. Her parents were both the children of German immigrants. When her uncle gave her the opportunity to work in the National Bank of Glenwood Springs at the age of fifteen, she took it, beginning in 1916 when she was fifteen years old (during a Women of Western Colorado Presentation in 1982, she recounted that she was ten years old at the beginning...
14153) William Bowie "Bill" May
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The owner of Bar S Bar Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Bill's parents, Fred and Anna May, were both from Iowa. His father taught school in Iowa before homesteading in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, sometime between 1900 and 1910. He married Anna in 1917 and together had 5 children. Bill was their first son born in 1928.
He grew up in Steamboat Springs on the ranch and later inherited it. He served as a corporal in the US Army during the Korean...
14154) Roy Frederick Schumann
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He was born in Montrose, Colorado to John Schumann and Anna Katherine (Weidenkeller) Schumann. His parents were Germans from Russia who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890’s. Anna’s family lived in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood and were also farmers in Eastern Colorado. John’s family purchased land in Eastern Colorado. Anna and John married in Loveland in 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them farming in Weld County with their...
14155) Edward Farrington Carpenter
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*His restricted signed release allows for his oral history interviews (conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project) to be used inside the Museum of the West or the Mesa County Libraries Central Library only.
14156) George Wallace Bowman
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An important early Palisade fruit grower. He was born in Ohio to Alexander and Jane Bowman, Scottish immigrants and farmers. The 1860 US Census shows them living in Ruggles, Ohio, when George was five years old. By 1870, the census shows them living in Jackson, Iowa, when George was sixteen. His memoirs, located in the Palisade Branch Library, indicate that he first came to Colorado around 1880, and that he headed to Leadville in January of that year....
14157) Mary Jane Rait
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One of the founding teachers of Grand Junction Junior College, (now Colorado Mesa University). She was born in Kansas to Alexander Rait and Charlotte (Cutter) Rait. She grew up partly in Palisade, Colorado, where her family were fruit farmers. She graduated from the Mt. Lincoln School in 1912. She attended the University of Colorado, where she received her Bachelors and Masters degrees.
She taught first in Palisade, then at Grand Junction High...
14158) Ira James Caley
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He was born in Joplin, Missouri to James W. Caley and Myrtle M. (Mixson) Caley. His father was a Native American from New Mexico and his parents were farmers. He had two younger sisters and a younger brother. The family moved to Cave Junction, Oregon in 1947, when he was about a year old. There, he grew up on a farm and in a farm house that lacked running water or electricity. He was in charge of much of the farm work during this time, as his father...
14159) Robert Clement "Bob" Klenda
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A saddlemaker in Plateau City, Colorado. He was born in Kansas to Clement and Emma Klenda. His parents were farmers. The 1920 US Census shows Bob living at home with his parents and working as a “Farm Boy” at the age of thirteen.
He learned leather crafting in the US Army. He learned saddlemaking in a shop in Yakima, Washington, where he acquired the basics and his teacher stressed quality. He moved to Utah in 1957, where he ranched and learned...
14160) Philip Louis "Dutch" Griebel
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A longtime Fruita Monument High School teacher and coach. He was born to Louis Griebel and Annie (Reikauff) Griebel in Warrensburg, Missouri in 1889. Ships passenger lists show that his father arrived in New York from Germany on June 25, 1868, when he was 25 years old. His occupation was listed as shoemaker. His mother was an immigrant from Switzerland and a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Warrensburg, Missouri when Philip...
