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39461) Tell Ertl
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He was the engineer in charge of the mining and development at the Anvil Points Research Facility under the United States Bureau of Mines. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of Washington and worked as a miner before earning an M.S. in mining engineering and a doctorate in philosophy and pure science from Columbia University in 1946. His interest in oil shale grew out of his position as chief of the mining section at the Oil Shale Mine...
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The Standard Oil Company (Ohio) was an American oil company, a successor of the original company established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller. It was established as "Standard Oil Company of Ohio" as one of the separate entities created after the 1911 breakup.
In the 1960s, Standard Oil of Ohio partnered with British Petroleum, in the development of the Prudhoe Bay, Alaska petroleum reserves and the construction of the Trans Alaska pipeline. The complex...
39463) Robert W. Delaney
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Dr. Robert W. Delaney, former Fort Lewis College professor of history and Southwest Studies and the first director of the college's Center of Southwest Studies, died November 10, 2000 at his home in Albuquerque. He was 82. The cause of death was cancer. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Columba Catholic Church in Durango, Colorado and burial will occur at Greenmount Cemetery in Durango. Dr. Delaney joined the Fort Lewis College faculty...
39464) Margo Bryan-Peterson
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A then-Colorado artist who created public art installations. She received a Covisions grant to create a series of tile murals with Wingate Elementary School students in 1996. She also served as the Fruitvale Elementary School artist-in-residence, and was a teacher at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts (now known as the Art Center of Western Colorado).
In 1997, she offered a course on tile making to any parent, teacher or education professional...
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A panel of ceramic tiles created by Fourth grade classes at Columbine Elementary School as part of a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The students made the panels with Colorado History in mind. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.
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The first of two panels of ceramic tiles created by Kindergarten, First, Second and Third grade classes at Columbine Elementary School as part of a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.
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The second of two panels of ceramic tiles created by Kindergarten, First, Second and Third grade classes at Columbine Elementary School as part of a school-wide project during the 1997-1998 school year. The tiles are now displayed in the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch in an East Entrance hallway.
39471) James Earl Shaw
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He was born in Grove City, Pennsylvania to John Scott Shaw, a farmer and automobile salesman, and Margaret Shaw, a homemaker. He came with his mother to Pinon Mesa, Colorado in 1912, when he was five, following his father, who had come in 1910. There, they lived on the S Cross Ranch. U.S. Census records show that by 1920, the family had moved to Grand Junction, where Shaw’s father was part owner of the Colorado Midland Garage.
He went to Grand...
39472) Creston Ralph Bailey
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He was born to Dwight B. Bailey, a grocery store owner, and Etta M. (Spicer) Bailey, a homemaker, in Boulder, Colorado on December 10th, 1906. The 1910 US Census record shows that his family had moved to Grand Junction by the time Ralph was three years old. There, his dad ran the D.B. Bailey grocery store.
Ralph attended local schools, including Grand Junction High School. He married Ethel Sheppard on July 3rd, 1925 in Grand Junction, Colorado....
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A genealogy form that Mildred Carriere filled out when she had her oral history interview, on 11/11/1989.
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James Earl Shaw talks about his father James S. Shaw and his days running the S Cross Ranch on Pinon Mesa, Colorado, mining vanadium on Polar Mesa, Utah, and operating an early automobile dealership on Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado. The interview was conducted 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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An oral history interview, given by Davine Pera, to Mildred Carriere, on November 11, 1989.
39478) Dwight Blossom Bailey
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He was born in Wisconsin to Dwight B. Bailey and Phidelia [Fidelia] (Spencer) Bailey. His father is listed as a merchant and his mother as a homemaker. He married Arrieta “Etta” Spicer in 1892. The family lived in Boulder, Colorado for a time, and US Census records show that he had moved with his wife and children to Grand Junction, Colorado by 1910. He owned the D.B. Bailey grocery store in Grand Junction, Colorado during the early Twentieth...
39479) Thomas F. Callahan
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He was born in Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants. He married Josephine “Josie” Hurley in El Paso County, Colorado on August 31, 1895. The 1900 and 1910 US Censuses show them living in Teller County, where he worked first as an engineer, and later as a plumber with his own business.
They moved to Grand Junction in 1910. With Ray Younker, he purchased the Griffins and Stowe Mortuary sometime between 1910 and 1914. The mortuary’s name was changed...
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One of Grand Junction’s first churches. It’s first location was on the northeast corner of White Avenue and 4th Street. White Hall, a prominent local building, hosted the Presbyterian Church for many years at that location. It burned and was ultimately demolished in 2015. The church now resides at 3940 27 ½ Road.
Reverend Herbert Hezlep was the presiding minister at the church from December 1914 until June 1, 1919.
