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- Edward Costigan
- A senior U.S. senator from Colorado and staunch advocate of public ownership or public utilities. He was also one of the original "New Dealers" and a member of the United States Tariff Commission.
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- Edward Denton
- He was born in Missouri on a farm. Sometime between 1910 and 1920, he moved with his wife May (Legrand) Denton to Mesa County, Colorado. They raised potatoes in Fruita, Colorado and held square dances in the family’s packing and storage house.
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- Edward Emil "Eddie" Drapela
- He was born in Nebraska to John Drapela, an Austrian immigrant, and Stella Drapella. He came to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1936 in order to sell a Curtiss-Robin airplane. With the encouragement of Tom Clark, an early pilot in town, Drapela stayed in Grand Junction. He took over flights selling gas and oil from Clark, and also flew charter flights during the Depression. Drapela flew the plane from which Wyatt Wood took the first aerial photographs of the Grand Mesa. He was also involved in the foundation of Walker Field, the Grand Junction airport. He had a flight school at the airport with 23 instructors and 26 airplanes, first opened in 1939 with the aid of a government training program. He lost most of his airplanes in a hangar fire that destroyed the entire building. The 1940 US Census lists Drapela as the airport manager. He sold his flight school to Jim Rigg Jr. in 1947, and shortly after moved to Denver, where he opened the Eddie Drapela Flying Service. He died in Denver. He was married to Fern Bounds, and together they had three children.
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- Edward Everett Hale "E.H." Munro
- He grew up in Nebraska and Grand Junction, Colorado. He attended Grand Junction High School and then Colorado College, but had to quit due to his father's death. His brother Charles worked for the Department of the Interior, and got him a job as a cowboy for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and as a U.S. Deputy Stock detective on the Crow Reservation in Montana. During this time, he worked with a doctor on the reservation to complete his studies at Colorado College. While in medical school at the University of Washington in St. Louis, he was drafted into the U.S. Army for service in World War I. Because one of his superior officers realized he had some medical training, Munro was sent back to school to finish his MD. Munro served in 328th Medical Battalion, which was a medical reserves unit, and retired with the rank of captain. He also attended medical school at the University of Colorado for a time. He later became a Mesa County, Colorado doctor. In 1922, he became the City Health Officer for Grand Junction. Through a friend of his at John Hopkins University named Leon Havens, who was a Professor of Public Health, Munro received some of the first Diphtheria vaccines in the nation, and arranged for Grand Junction to be the first municipality in the state to immunize against the disease. Also, he improved food handling sanitation, advocated for clean water, and pushed for pasteurization laws in order to eradicate Typhoid fever. He helped Uravan set up a public health program, monitored uranium workers for silicosis, and advocated for strict dust control in the uranium industry. With Herman Graves, he established the Grand Junction Cancer Society (a member of the American Cancer Society). His office in Grand Junction was at 3rd and Main Streets. Munro bought and operated the Bowman Ranch on Kannah Creek and was a member of the Mesa County Medical Society. He served on the Grand Junction School Board for 25 years and was a charter member of the Grand Junction Lion's Club. He served on the board of the Citizens Finance company. He enjoyed tracking and hunting mountain lions on the Bookcliffs. According to oral history interviewee Glenn McFall, he also examined Grand Junction's prostitutes once a week, helping them stay free of disease and treating illnesses. *Photograph from the 1917 Coloradoan (annual of the University of Colorado)
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- Edward F. Eldridge
- A Grand Junction physician who came to the Grand Valley in 1890 and practiced there for around twenty-five years. He owned an old muzzle-loaded canon that was used in Main Street Fourth of July celebrations. The canon sat in his front yard when not in use. He lived in the 500 block of Chipeta Avenue. He owned the six lots east of the Carnahan home at 516 Chipeta Avenue, which he converted into an orchard that Gladys Carnahan described as “a playground.”