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- Avis (Turner) Corcoran
- She was born in Colorado and graduated from Fruita High School. Her husband was a rancher, and she spent the summers on the ranch above De Beque and the rest of the year with her children in Grand Junction, Colorado.
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- Avis M. Carlson
- An interviewer.
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- Avon Edson Taylor Jr.
- He was born in Palisade, Colorado to Avon Edson Taylor Sr. and Rena M. (Gramps Burdick) Taylor. His father was the Palisade High School principal and a fruit farmer for whom Taylor Elementary School is named. His mother was a school teacher and Colorado State legislator who championed disabled youth. The 1930 US Census shows the family living at 133 First Street, when Avon Jr. was seven years old. Avon had four older siblings from his parents’ previous marriages. He attended local schools. The 1940 census shows him working as a farm laborer at the age of sixteen. The 1950 census shows him living with his parents at the age of twenty-seven and as unable to work. He died at the age of seventy-seven and is buried in the Palisade Cemetery.
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- Avon Edson Taylor Sr.
- He was born in Missouri to Thomas C. Taylor and Leona Jane (Edson) Taylor. His father was a clergyman and his mother was a homemaker. The 1900 US Census shows the family living in Memphis, Missouri, with Avon, at the age of sixteen, older than his nine brothers and sisters. He attended Missouri Wesleyan College and Baker University. He married Bertha E. Snyder in Cameron, Missouri on July 18, 1906. The 1910 US Census shows them living in Cameron with their two year old son, with Avon working as a public school teacher. According to his son, Avon Jr., Avon Sr. and Bertha moved to the Grand Valley in 1914. The 1920 Census shows that they lived in west Palisade with their two sons. The census lists Avon Taylor as working as a fruit farmer. He was also the principal of the Mt. Lincoln School. Bertha died in 1921. Avon Taylor remarried to Rena M. Burdick in Delta on December 24, 1921. Like Taylor, she had been married with children previously. They had a son named Avon Edson Taylor Jr. Rena was also a schoolteacher, and had taught for many years in Delta prior to moving to Palisade. He worked at the Mount Lincoln School for six years before becoming the principal of Palisade High School, where he retired in 1947. Palisade Elementary School was later named Taylor Elementary School in his honor. When Rena served in the Colorado State House of Representatives and in the State Senate, Avon Sr. took over the household chores, and his son remembers him as a good cook. He died at the age of eighty-one.
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- B. Benson
- An interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project.
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- B. Clark Wheeler
- Benjamin Clark Wheeler was born in Pennsylvania, August 11, 1849 and would have been 65 years of age next August. He was married in his native state when a young man, moving with his wife and three children to the Black Hills country in the 70's. It was here that misfortune overtook him, losing wife and children within a few years. In the year 1878 he came to Leadville, remaining there but a short time when he walked over the range from the Cloud City to Aspen in the spring of 1879. He at once became enthusiastic over the great possibilities of the Aspen district and in 1880 and '81 lectured throughout the East and South on the mineral possibilities of Aspen and vicinity, widely advertising the then new mining camp as a paradise for the poor man, where all had an equal opportunity to win favor from the Goddess Fortune. October 30, 1883 he married Miss Olive Isabel, daughter of Governor Davis H. Waite, at Aspen. Mrs. Wheeler died at St. Luke's hospital, Denver, May 13, 1898, and was buried in Aspen Grove cemetery. B. Clark Wheeler is survived by a sister, Mrs. Henry Coffield; a brother, Sam Wheeler, and a nephew Geo. B. Sherman, who were at his bedside at the time of death. Also several other brother and sisters and relatives whose names and wherebouts are unknown to any of his friends here. Posted in the Aspen Democrat Times, on June 20, 1914, page 2. In 1880 B. Clark Wheeler and Charles A. Hallam, agents and co-partners of Cincinnati businessman David Hyman, arrived in Ute City. The two men purchased several mining claims on Aspen Mountain, and Wheeler quickly surveyed the Ute City town site, renaming it Aspen. --Colorado Encyclopedia/Anna Scott of the Aspen Historical Society assisted with this article.
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- B. Heffron
- Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.