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43801) 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...
43802) 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.
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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 Dr. Edward Everett...
43805) 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....
43806) 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...
43807) 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...
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Jack Smillie talks about writing the book Cowboys are People at the urging of his first wife, who wanted him to write his life story. He remembers his time in the US Army during World War I, when he was stationed stateside and achieved the rank of lieutenant. He recalls working on a ranch in Granby, where he met the artist Harold Bryant. He speaks about encountering extreme weather, how it affected travel, and working to clear snow. He talks about...
43810) William J. Moyer
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William J. Moyer was the Vice President of Grand Valley National Bank and the owner, along with Elmer Craven until his death, of the Fair Store in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to David Sundal, Moyer first settled in the town of Socorro, New Mexico and opened a Fair Store there before abandoning the store and town for Grand Junction. There, his store went from a small hole in the wall to a large enterprise.
He walked to the Fair Store from...
43811) Clyde Hunter Biggs
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He was born in New Mexico to parents Clinton A. Biggs and Frances W. Biggs. They moved to Canon City, Colorado when Clyde was of school age. He grew up there and in Denver. In Denver, he attended East Denver High School but was forced to leave the school after an incident. He graduated instead from a private school. He went to Yale University, where he seems to have graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1915, when he was about 22 years...
43812) Aubrey Fenton "Jack" Smillie
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He was born in Colorado to John W. Smillie and Christina (Trenholm) Smillie. Marriage records indicate that his parents, both born in Canada, were married in Iowa prior to moving to Colorado. His mother studied music in Montreal prior to marrying his father. According to Jack Smillie, his father came to Denver to work as a surveyor on an irrigation project near present-day Eaton. He was paid both a salary and given 160 acres of land for his work....
43813) Samuel H. "Sam" McMullin
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He was born in Pennsylvania to Samuel H. McMullin, a minister, and Isabella McMullin, a homemaker. US Census records show him living in Grand Junction, Colorado by 1900, when he was thirty-two. There, he lived with his wife, Rella (Hall) McMullin and their children. According to local historian and professor Don MacKendrick, McMullin was an attorney who practiced in town by the 1880's.
For a time he served as the District Attorney for Mesa County...
43814) Edwin A. Haskell Jr.
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He was the manager of the Park Opera House in Grand Junction, Colorado, which opened in 1892 and closed sometime around 1910. According to local historian and professor Don MacKendrick, Haskell struggled for the opera house’s financial survival for virtually his entire tenure as manager.
43815) Donald "Don" Mackendrick
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A long-time professor of history at Colorado Mesa University, where he taught from 1956 to 1990. He also served as Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences from 1977 to 1990. He specialized in local history, and wrote many articles and gave many speeches about local history topics. He was the editor of Journal of the Western Slope, an academic history journal published at CMU. He also served on the Grand Junction Public Library board for...
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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 Annual Ute Visitation.
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Levi Morse discusses the history of Mesa County, Colorado, including fruit growing, drinking water from the Gunnison River and its link to typhoid fever, the YMCA, and the creamery business. He also talks extensively about social events such as the Mesa County Fair, and gives a firsthand account of the first motion picture showing in Grand Junction. June Morse talks about teaching at Fruitvale High School, community organizations and social gatherings....
43818) Russell Charles Johnson
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He was born to Henry Howard Johnson and Hattie E. (Allison) Johnson in Grand Junction, Colorado. His father began working for a narrow gauge railroad in 1880 and helped to build the Colorado Midland Railroad. After World War I he became a car repairman and train inspector for the Denver & Rio Grande. Russell’s mother, a Californian by birth, was a homemaker.
The 1920 US Census shows the family living at 1330 Ute Avenue in Grand Junction, when...
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Mary Maluy talks about her birth in Kansas, her marriage to Clement Maluy, and their move to the New Liberty area of Mesa County in 1918. She remembers popular dances and other social activities. She recalls the New Liberty School and its history. She speaks about the family’s homestead, learning to irrigate, their first crops, and raising poultry. She gives some history of the town of Mack. She remembers getting electricty in the home and then...
