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"The Conger Mesa School of 1917 was a new frame building located about a half mile north east of the Conger cabin. Some of the earlier settlers of McCoy had never expected this to come about, after their predictions that the Conger Mesa Ditch would go broke and leave. In this school group are, in the back row, Earl Abbett, Martha White (the teacher), Ruth Henry, Katherine Ebert, Florence Henry and Lillian Johannbroer. In front, Roger Butler, Frank...
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Studio portrait of Lena Schrupp Anderson and her son, Melvin, taken in 1921 (from verso of photo). "Lena was first married to Bill Anderson, a son of "shorty" Anderson in 1922, their marriage failed and Lena later married Eric Smith, an Episcopalian minister, in 1927. Rev. Smith died in 1969 and Lena, who is the mother of two children, Melvin and Elizabeth, is presently living in Denver." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 226 [Title supplied from catalog prepared...
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A studio portrait of the Schrupp family taken in Golden, Colorado, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schrupp and family of six: Carl, Louise, Edward, Lena, Emma and Minnie. "Ed Schrupp,his wife, Philomene and their six children came from Golden where he had been employed by Coors Brewery. He had filed on a homestead on the extreme south end of Conger Mesa.... Mr. Schrupp built a cabin on his own homestead but it wasn't occupied until 1905. The Schrupp children...
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"The first school on the Conger Mesa was held in a small cabin on the Schrupp ranch in 1911. The second one was held in this log house built by John Conger in 1892 and abandoned by him a few years later. The building was none too warm and the school furnishings crude but after seven years without a school, no one complained. The building served as a school until a frame building was built in a more central location in 1916. In the fall of 1912...
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Students and teacher at Conger Mesa School, December 1912. From left, Marie Theisen, Ed Schrupp, Cecil Gray, Emma Theisen, Katherine Ebert, John Ambos, Mary Ebert, Kate Pound (teacher), Ethel Gray, Lena and Emma Schrupp. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]