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Second Lt. William G. Cheadle, 4801 S. Huron, was the head coach of the battalion football team at Camp McGill-Japan.
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J.C. Penney women employees' take over operation of the store for a day. From left to right: Mrs. Eathel Higginson, Mrs. Ellen Douglas (store manager), Mrs. Dorthie Boling, Mrs. Helen Bowlby, Mrs. Wilma Boles, Mrs. Adline Robbe,
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The J.C. Penney's building in the process of demolition.
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He was born in Iowa to Edward C. and Sarah J. Littler. US Census records show him living in Iowa in 1900, at the age of nine, and in Ft. Collins, Colorado in 1910, at the age of 18. He was educated at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He married Dorothy Littler in 1922. They lived in Montrose, Colorado, where he practiced law. He was elected a District Judge in 1944, and he and his family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado. They had two children....
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An Irish immigrant who became the water commissioner for the Eastern Slope. According to his daughter, Dorothy (Armstrong) Littler, he often knew more than attorneys about water law, because he studied water law on his own. He was married to Annie Lavinnia White, a school teacher.
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Gretchen Reist is the producer and director of the podcast Crossing the Divide.
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Dorothy Littler discusses her father's career as the water manager for the Eastern Slope, her work as a school teacher in Ault, Montrose, and Grand Junction, Colorado, and her husband's jobs as an attorney and District Judge. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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She was born near Ft. Collins, Colorado to Annie Lavinnia (White) Armstrong, a school teacher, and John Lewis Armstrong, an Irish immigrant and the water commissioner for Colorado's Eastern Slope. She attended Colorado College. After her graduation, she taught school in Ault, Colorado. She later married Paul Le Brock Littler in Ft. Collins, in 1922. Shortly after, she moved to Montrose to join him. There, she taught school. They moved to Grand Junction...
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Described as an "alcoholic," Lee had a tough childhood. He seems to have been born around 1943. He first lived with his grandmother, who tried to kill him. After leaving her, he enlisted in the National Guard, got arrested for being drunk and disorderly at 14 years old, and was booted out. He moved state-to-state with his father, always changing their names and identities as they went so that they could avoid the law, because his father had a warrant...
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Alice Johnson discusses the pioneering history of her family in Kansas. She then talks about growing tomatoes and working in the greenhouses with her husband on their family farm in Mesa County, about attending Ross Business College, jobs she held subsequent to her education, and her friends and social life. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the...
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39015) Jim Shield
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Early Mesa County doctor. Chief of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Colorado University School of Medicine. Co-member with Dr. E. H. Munro of the American College of Surgeons.
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He was born in Whatcheer, Iowa, and worked as a mine foreman, a laundry wagon driver, and as an employee of U.S. Bank. After two years in Gilman with his new wife, Alice (Glasco) Johnson, they moved to Mesa County, where they raised tomatoes in greenhouses on River Road beginning around 1912. He suffered a heart attack shortly after getting their highly successful tomato business off the ground, and his wife took over much of the labor until they...
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She was born in Elk County, Kansas to William T. Glasco, a Civil War veteran, and Mary Jane (Messick) Johnson. She married James Pearley Johnson in Grand Junction in 1910, and together they lived in Gilman, Colorado for two years while James worked in a mine. They then moved to Mesa County and lived on a farm on River Road, partway between Grand Junction and Fruita. There, they raised tomatoes in greenhouses and sold them directly to customers and...
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Alcoholics Anonymous is a support group for individuals looking to stop drinking.
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