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- Clinton A. Martin
- He started the Palisade Tribune newspaper in Palisade, Colorado in 1903. According to later owner William Lorenzen, Martin owned and operated the paper for several years, over three separate occasions. On the last occasion, he quit the newspaper and took with him the newspaper’s assets (he had been funded in part by local merchants). Contractually, this was apparently legal, but it left the Palisade Tribune struggling. He later moved to California, where he established a print shop.
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- Clinton Knorpp
- Member of the band Fox and Hound Duo
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- Clyde Hunter Biggs
- He was born in New Mexico to parents Clinton A. Biggs and Frances W. Biggs. They moved to Canon City, Colorado when Clyde was of school age. He grew up there and in Denver. In Denver, he attended East Denver High School but was forced to leave the school after an incident. He graduated instead from a private school. He went to Yale University, where he seems to have graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1915, when he was about 22 years old. He went to work for his father until the outbreak of World War I. At that time, he went into US Army basic training in Kansas. He was assigned as an officer to the 353rd Infantry regiment, the all-Kansas regiment of the 89th Division, and trained in Fort Funston. He was sent to France ahead of his troops, where he gained trench warfare experience, fought in the Battle of Verdun, and spent thirty days in the Argonne Forest. He returned from Europe in 1919. He attained the final rank of captain in the Army. He later owned a hardware and lumber company in Mesa County. He and Clarence Kurtz apparently went into the lumber business together at some point, as they owned a joint lumberyard near downtown Grand Junction. Along with Kurtz, he first developed the land just south of Lincoln Park and east of 12th Street in Grand Junction. He also donated the land for the Lincoln Park School, which was built around the same time as the neighborhood. With Walter Walker, he was instrumental in establishing the Grand Junction Municipal Airport, later known as Walker Field. He was the head of the committee for aviation on the Chamber of Commerce, and with Edward Drapela and W.C. Kurtz, he applied sometime around 1941 to the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington D.C. for the establishment of a domestic flight service from Denver to Grand Junction to Salt Lake City. With Walker and William Moyer, he served on the board that established the Avalon Theater in 1923. He was the president of Grand Junction's Rotary Club. According to oral history interviewee Walter Dalby, Biggs loaned money to students who wanted to go to college. He was married to Josephine Biggs and the two of them worked together to provide money to area concerns, such as the Western Colorado Center for the Arts. He was one of the builders of the Redlands Community Club. He was also a strong advocate for changing the name of the Grand River to the Colorado River.