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Studio portrait of Addison L. and Bird Crawford Hockett, early pioneers of Eagle County. He married Birdie Crawford on November 22, 1898. They lived in Gypsum and had six children. Addison's father, Barclay Hockett, first settled on the mouth of Brush Creek in 1882, in an area now known as Hockett Gulch. Barclay Hockett was Eagle's first postmaster. [Thanks to Bill Stephens, Sr., for this information.]
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Studio portrait of Rosamond Skiff Coombs and Harvey N. Coombs.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Dec. 3, 1948 p.1: "Mr. Coombes [sic.] was one of the early settlers of Eagle county, coming in with the laying of the railroad following the work from Red Cliff to Gypsum. In Gypsum he met and married Rosamund M. Skiff on Dec. 11, 1895, and the couple spent their married life together in Eagle and Garfield counties."
Mr. Coombs was buried in Fairview Cemebery...
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Wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Oleson (Grace A. Wolverton) November 29, 1905.
"Hans P. Olesen [Oleson] was one of the pioneer citizens of the Eagle River valley. With his brothers, he settled in the county in the eighties, as a young man. For many years, he has been one of the foremost cattle raisers and ranchers in the county. He owns one of the largest irrigated areas of farm land under one head in the valley, located on the Eagle River,...
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1904 Formal portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Julius P. Oleson. Julius Peter Oleson was born Feb. 16, 1876, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmakr, and came to the United States in 1889. In 1902, he entered the mercantile business in Gypsum, Colorado, until the time of his death in 1958. In 1904, he married Iva Beck, and they had three children, Harry A., Christine and Mabel. --Eagle Valley Enterprise, Obituary, June 1958
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