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- Earl Douglas
- He owned the only café and restaurant in Hotchkiss, Colorado aside from the restaurant in the Hotchkiss Hotel in the early Twentieth century.
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- Earl Frederick Land
- He was born to John Conrad Schwabenland and Dorothea (Miller) Schwabenland in Denver, Colorado. His parents were Russian German immigrants. His father, a preacher who worked in German-language churches, came to the United States in 1891. His mother came to the United States in 1886. She was a homemaker. German and English were spoken in the home, and Earl learned both. As a child, Earl lived in Denver; Lodi, California; Portland; Windsor, Colorado; and Berthoud. He graduated from Berthoud High School in 1933. While in high school he took part in the Boys’ Chorus, orchestra, theater productions, and yearbook. He attended the University of Oregon in 1933 and Washington State University from 1934 to 1939. He graduated with a B.S. in mining engineering. After graduation, he worked as a mining engineer for the Emigrant Gap gold mine near Nevada City, then for US Vanadium (now Union Carbide) at a tungsten and molybdenum mine in Bishop, California. He served in the US Army from December 3, 1941 to 1946. He trained in Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri and Camp Polk in Louisiana as a soldier. He then attended officer’s training school in Window Rock, Connecticut. He was assigned with an aviation engineer battalion before going to England as an officer with the 8th Army Air Force, and to France and Germany with the 9th Army Air Force. He changed his name from Schwabenland to Land during the war. He married Muriel T. Maxim in 1945, while stationed in England. They had four children. After the war, he worked for Alcoa Aluminum in Vancouver, Washington before returning to mining work at a lead-zinc mine near Metaline Falls, Washington. He worked there for eight years as supervisor and foreman. He came to Western Colorado in 1955, when he took a position with the US Atomic Energy Commission. During his work for the government, he lived in Grand Junction from 1955 to 1958, Salt Lake City from 1958 to 1962, Grand Junction from 1962 to 1972, Grants, New Mexico from 1972 to 1974, and Grand Junction from 1974 on. His first three years on the job, he examined uranium claims. He retired from the Federal government in 1975 and worked for the Bendix Field Engineering company for one year before retiring in 1976. He belonged to the Toastmasters, the Grand Junction Genealogical Society, the Men’s Garden Club, American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Association of Retired Persons, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, and the Mesa County Council on Aging. He was the president and/or board member of many of these organizations. *Photograph from the 1939 Washington State University yearbook
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- Earl Keen Laycock
- He was born in a log cabin in Georgetown, Ohio to Peter Laycock and Mary Belle (Evans) Laycock. His father was a tobacco farmer and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records show the family living in Pleasant, Ohio in 1900, when Earl was five years old. In 1904, his family and other local farmers joined the American Society of Equity, an association of small tobacco farmers that had formed previously in Kentucky and Tennessee to fight the monopolistic practices of big growers. The association struck and refused to grow tobacco plants. They also actively destroyed the plants of strike breakers. The family moved to Armstrong County, Texas around 1908, when he was thirteen. There, he finished high school and worked as a farm laborer. After graduation he worked as a cow hand, with a top pay of $27.50 per month. During World War I, he achieved the rank of First Sergeant in the Texas Cavalry. He failed to ask for his discharge after the war, and did not receive it until after World War II. He came to Delta, Colorado in 1918 and went to work for his brother Austin Wilbur Laycock at Laycock and Keppler, a motor company that sold Durant and Star automobiles. While in Delta County, he lived on Garnett Mesa and California Mesa. He married Caroll Oliver in Ouray, Colorado on September 19, 1920. On August 13, 1928, they moved to Grand Junction, where Austin and Earl ran the Laycock Motor Company. The 1930 US Census shows him living with his wife and daughter at 928 White Avenue. He moved to Long Beach during World War II, when rationing prohibited the sale of new cars to the public. There, he worked as a detail technician for Consolidated Steel. He returned to Grand Junction in 1949 and rejoined the Durant Motor Company. He continued to work there after the company was sold to Jack Williams in 1965, retiring in 1970 when he was 75 years old. He sold enough cars in his career to become a member of the 100 club, for which he was awarded vacation packages. He was a member of the Elks and the First United Methodist Church.