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- Ed Grange
- Ed Grange’s parents and their families migrated to the U.S. from the Aostan Valley in northern Italy. Grange’s father migrated in 1912, while his maternal grandfather immigrated in 1898. In 1915, Grange’s parents met in Leadville; they were married a few months after. Upon arrival in Leadville, Grange’s father worked in a smelter, while Grange’s older brother, Joseph, worked in a mine. In 1916, the family relocated to the Roaring Fork Valley, and due to word-of-mouth, a chain migration occurred. At one point, Grange counted eighty-five Italian Aoastan Valley ranching and farming families in the Roaring Fork Valley. Grange’s parents bought the eighty-five acre Arbaney ranch near Basalt for twelve thousand dollars. It is now the sight of the Roaring Fork Club and golf course. Grange reports that his Uncle Joe’s ranch is still in the family after nearly one hundred years. After deciding that farming and ranching was not for him, Ed Grange asked if he could attend college. Ed Grange graduated from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado and attended graduate school at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1950, Grange was offered a temporary summer job in Glenwood Springs with Holy Cross Electric Association. The job became a permanent one, which he held until retirement in 2011. Grange retired as CEO of Holy Cross Energy. He has a rich understanding of the Gore Creek Valley prior to 1960 and the beginnings of the Vail ski area. Ed Grange’s parents did not have electricity on their ranch until 1949. It is clear Grange feels warmest about the benefits women received when home electricity became a reality; their workload and labor, including food preservation and laundry, was eased considerably. During his college years, Grange met Lorraine Zelnick from Aspen. Her father had been a silver miner in the Aspen area. Ed and Lorraine Grange were married in 1951 and were blessed with five children. They celebrated nearly sixty years of marriage prior to her passing in 2011.
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- Ed Gunderson
- Cattle rancher from Denver (although he grew up in Plateau Valley) who donated money to the Plateau Valley Hospital. He was descended from the blind Gunderson who settled in Plateau Valley.
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- Ed Howard
- 2005 Cattlemen's Days Parade Marshall, third generation Gunnison-area rancher, had 6 siblings, raised 5 children with wife Vonnie, former leader of 4-H club, former member of Junior Livestock Committee, Iola Powderhorn Cattlemen's Association, Soil Conservation Board, County Planning Commission, and the Gunnison County Electric Association Board, for nearly 50 years has been a member of the Gunnison County Stockgrower's Association, Colorado Cattlemen's Association, and the National Cattlemen's Association. (source: 2005 Cattlemen's Day Brochure)
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- Ed Jones
- A resident of Delta, Colorado who discovered a dinosaur fossil sometime in the Twentieth century.
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- Ed Kennon
- Good friend of Dr. W.A.E. De Beque who helped him with cattle ranching.