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44121. Ethel Jane (Hutton) Keleher
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She was born in Butler County, Kansas to John Baxter Hutton and Mary Ellen (Bradshaw) Hutton. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Otter Creek, Kansas when Ethel was eleven years old. Her family farmed there. She attended school through the eighth grade. When she was nineteen years old, in approximately 1907, the family moved to Colorado, near Trinidad, where they ranched.
She met William Patrick Keleher and married him in Trinidad on...
44122. Rena Schofield
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44123. Maude Schofield
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Doug Westcott talks about his youth in Southern California, and about playing music and making records with a band called the Esquires. He describes the deep US Marine ties in his family that led, in part, to his enlistment in 1960. He recounts his experiences as a Radio Relay Electronics Technician in the 7th Communication Battalion. He remembers training in jungle warfare techniques in the Phillipines, becoming an expert, and teaching jungle warfare...
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Image of San Juan Ranger Station. The station is a white wooden building with a shingle roof. The station has a garage door to the left and a front door to the right. The station is fenced in. To the right on the fence a sign reads San Juan Station. To the right of the station two men are seen conversing. To the left large pine trees are seen. There are pine trees in the background. In the foreground there is a dirt road. In the bottom right corner...
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44128. Interview with Rainez DeDios
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Ray Bernal talks about his early life in the Grand Valley and the wide variety of jobs that he held, including work as a "gandy dancer" on the railroad, mining, farming, thinning beets, janitorial work, and herding sheep. He also discusses a group breakfast he had with President Harry S. Truman, where Truman's daughter staged a musical performance. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration...
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He was born to Warren and Louise Ruth (Percell) Westcott in Mojave, California. His father was a prison road camp warden and his mother was a homemaker. He had two brothers and two sisters. When the family’s home burned down, they moved to Hollywood. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles and then to Lakewood. He attended Stephen Foster Elementary School and Roosevelt Junior High School in Lakewood. His high school years, 1956-1960, were split between...
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William May talks about his upbringing on a ranch in Steamboat Springs and his life as a rancher, hunting guide, and outfitter. He plays guitar and sings songs that his father and others handed down to him, and songs that he made up. He tells stories from his life, and stories that his father and others related to him. Songs that he sings during the interview include: Mickey Mouse, Little Duck, Cuatro, Little Joe the Wrangler, Home on the Range, Oh...
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Luella Morgan talks about starting work in the National Bank in Glenwood Springs in 1916, when she was fifteen years old, and details the Boston System of banking (also known as the Suffolk System) and what it was like working in a bank. She also discusses working at the Palisades National Bank from 1922 to 1978, changes in local banking over the years, women in banking, and selling Liberty Bonds during World War I. The interview was conducted by...
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44136. Luella Frances (Muth) Morgan
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She was born in Rifle, Colorado to Martin Muth, a farmer, and Edith Fredricka (Bahr) Muth, a homemaker. Her parents were both the children of German immigrants. When her uncle gave her the opportunity to work in the National Bank of Glenwood Springs at the age of fifteen, she took it, beginning in 1916 when she was fifteen years old (during a Women of Western Colorado Presentation in 1982, she recounted that she was ten years old at the beginning...
44137. William Bowie "Bill" May
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The owner of Bar S Bar Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Bill's parents, Fred and Anna May, were both from Iowa. His father taught school in Iowa before homesteading in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, sometime between 1900 and 1910. He married Anna in 1917 and together had 5 children. Bill was their first son born in 1928.
He grew up in Steamboat Springs on the ranch and later inherited it. He served as a corporal in the US Army during the Korean...
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While it is not known what became of Grand Junction’s first attempt to organize a public library (a meeting of the Grand Junction Library Association in January 1883), we do know that an effort in 1897 was successful. When Grand Junction was sixteen years old, members of two women’s clubs, the Grand Mesa Club and the Grand Junction Womens Club, united as the Woman’s Library Association in 1894. The goal of the association was to establish a...