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- David Edwin "Dave" Butler
- He was born to Joseah Butler, a road worker for the WPA, and to Eileen Butler, a homemaker who was involved with Grand Junction’s Handy Chapel. He attended Grand Junction High School, where he was the student body president. He was also the student body president in college. He became a civil rights investigator, and later opened the first African-American bookstore in Denver, Colorado. He also made appearances on radio and television, and once interviewed white supremacist Richard Butler. During the interview, Dave Butler suggested that two could be related, which was in keeping with his sense of humor. He was the uncle of oral history interviewee Janielle Butler.
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- David Evans
- Settler of Grand Valley (Parachute), Colorado. Adoptive father of Melvin Branson.
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- David Fodel
- David Fodel is an artist based in Lafayette, CO. He founded the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival, which began in 2016 and has since become a multi-venue and largely attended event by the community.
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- David Frakes "Dave" Day
- Editor of the Solid Muldoon newspaper in early day Ouray, Colorado. According to the website of the Durango Herald, Day was brought from Ouray to Durango in 1892 in order to establish the Durango Democrat, a rival newspaper to the Republican-held Durango Herald. Both the Herald website and interviews with Al Look, a one-time employee of Day, recount a longstanding rivalry between Day and other local publishers. In one such rivalry, between Day and the publisher of the Trade's Journal, Frank Hartman, the two men exchanged gunshots. Day was born in Ohio to Allen Cullum Day and Ruth M. (Frakes) Day. His mother passed away in 1854, and his father later remarried to a woman named Rachel A. Day. Dave Day married Victoria Sophia Folck in Missouri on March 10, 1870. The 1880 US Census shows them living with their children in Marshall, Missouri, with Dave working as an editor. The 1880 US Census for Ouray, Colorado also lists Dave Day living there and working as an editor. It shows him as married, but living alone in what seems to be a boarding house in Ouray. The rest of his family appears to have joined him in Ouray prior to his relocation to Durango, but the 1900 Census shows Victoria and her children living without him in Ouray. The 1900 and 1910 US Census records also list Dave as married but living without her in Durango. Day served in the Union's 57th Infantry during the US Civil War. His service began on September 23, 1861 and ended on August 14, 1865. He received a Medal of Honor for his service. He died on June 22, 1914, and is buried in Durango's Riverside Cemetery.
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- David Fritzlan
- A volunteer with the Mesa County Oral History Project
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- David Grover Rice
- He was born in Missouri to Mary and William “W.A.” Rice. They were living in Mesa County, Colorado by around 1882, when W.A. and his brother Phidelah “P.A.” Rice (uncle to David), started the first lumber yard and lumber firm in the county. They farmed in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado. David became a farmer in his own right, and his farm was located near that of William Weiser, off of 26 Road on or near Third Fruitridge. He attended Colorado College, where he was a prominent football player. He ran track and field, and the Colorado College annual from 1905 states that he was never beaten in hurdling competitions, that his marks in the running high and broad jumps were second in the state, and that he was the overall point winner among all the colleges of Colorado. There, he was also a member of the Hesperian Literary Society. He suffered from Graves’ Disease in later life and stepped back from the physically demanding work of running his farm, though he did serve as a ‘County Agent’ for a time. His children included Allie, William, and David Rice. He was married to Mona Rice.