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44161) 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....
44162) 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...
44163) 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.
44164) 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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Bob Klenda, an accomplished saddle maker, talks in detail about the craft of saddlery and about the utility of different saddle types. He recounts how he got his beginning in the craft. The interview was conducted by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
*Note: Transcripts have been machine-created and do contain inaccuracies. In time, each transcript will be audited...
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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 Summer Fun, about...
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Image of San Juan Ranger Station in August of 1937. The station is a wooden building with a shingled roof. The front door is on the right side of the station and an entrance for possibly a car is on the left side. The station is fenced in with a large gate in the front. To the right of the gate is a sign that reads San Juan Station. To the right two men are seen conversing. To the left there are tall pine trees. In the background pine trees are seen....
44168) 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...
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Image of San Juan Ranger Station in 1930. A fence like hedge row is seen. To the right there is a small wooden building further back. To the left there is a larger wooden building behind the hedge row. In the back ground there are pine trees.
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Leonard Lewis recalls his upbringing in Gateway, Colorado. He remembers being drafted into the US Army, being stationed for nearly one and a half years at Fort Carson, and his eventual transfer to Vietnam in 1968 with replacement troops for the 9th Infantry Division in Ben Hoa. He describes patrolling the countryside with his reconnaissance unit and working as the radio operator to the forward observer. He talks about working with a mortar unit and...
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Ruth and Charlie Benson talk about running a hunting camp near Parachute, Colorado for several years and tell stories about foolish hunters. They remember songs they sang and games they played as children. Charlie talks about irrigation and building fences. Charlie speaks about his youth on a dairy farm in Parachute and on a nearby homestead. He recalls helping to build the Granlee Trail in the 1960’s. Ruth recalls the Granlee School, where she...
44172) Leta Ruth (Funk) Benson
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She was born in Russell, Kansas to Bertha Luella (Brown) Funk and Carl Funk. Her father was a farmer and her mother a homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to a farm in West Cheyenne Wells, Colorado by 1920, when Ruth was ten years old.
She graduated from the University of Colorado Normal School in Boulder, where she was involved in the Girl Reserve, Glee Club, Denver Chorus, Trio, Chimes of Normandy, Pinafore, Ermine, and...
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He was born on Parachute Creek, in Garfield County, Colorado, to Arcadeous Benson and Bertha (Gardner) Benson. His father was born in Kentucky and his mother in Wisconsin. They had both moved to the Western Slope by at least April 28, 1895, when Colorado marriage records list their marriage. They were farmers.
When Charles was ten years old, his father acquired a homestead “on the mountain” (possibly on Battlement Mesa). Charles grew up in...
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A KOTO newscast, from 10/07/1994 to 10/25/1994, featuring Jon Kovash and Eric Whitney. Here are the headlines:
10/07/1994: Five candidates will seek council seats. Both sides claim victory in a legal battle over the Uravan radioactive waste dump. Native writers go high tech. Museum benefactors found dead in Wisconsin. We'll have those stories and more, including the mountain weather forecast.
10/10/1994: Council candidates introduce themselves....
44176) 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...
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The first Christian Science church in Grand Junction, Colorado was founded by Susan Etta (Lewis) Carpenter in the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century. Originally called Carpenter Hall, it was initially located on North First Street. The church then moved to 535 N 7th Street, a building they occupied for many years before selling it in the 2010's.
The church maintained a reading room at 113 N 6th Street in the 2000's before moving both the...
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On September 24, 1934, a fire burnt down the first Fruita Union High School, which was located on South Maple Street in the Reed Park block. The fire began on the roof. All students and teachers escaped the building in time, and no one was hurt. Students were able to grab musical instruments and some athletic equipment, but had to leave the school’s new textbooks behind. Though it was worried that the fire, which came from unknown origins, would...
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The organization was founded in 1936. Philip Griebel was a founding member. According to Griebel, the Fruita Rotary assisted with youth agricultural and 4-H events. By 2015, they provided food to those in need and youth scholarships (“Fruita Rotary Club provides valuable services to Fruita, including beer pouring,” Post Independent, September 1, 2015). The club continues to be active in the Fruita community.
