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- Edward Schultz
- He was born in Russia, near the Volga River, to Fred Schultz and Amelia (Groff) Schultz. His family were Germans living in Russia. In the early Twentieth century, they fled persecution against Germans and went to France, where they worked to gain money for passage to the United States. They came to the United States on a cattle boat. They stopped in Baltimore for six weeks before making their way to Susank, Kansas, where they lived in a German immigrant community. His father worked in Kansas City for a year before going to work for the railroad. His mother worked as a washerwoman. Edward learned English in school and a teacher, Mrs. Noyes, came to his home to teach English to the rest of the family. He lettered in athletics in high school and had ambitions to become a coach, but his father wanted him to be a machinist. Like his father, Edward became a machinist on the railroad. He served time as an apprentice before becoming a mechanic for the Southern Pacific. He left home at sixteen or seventeen and visited Mack, Colorado, where he met his future wife, Lucille Cox, and worked in her father’s general store. US Census records show him still living with his parents and siblings in Kansas at the age of nineteen, in 1930, so evidently, he returned home for a time. He came back to Mack, where he and Lucille married. Edward and Lucille had two children. The 1940 census shows the Schultz family living in Cedaredge, where Edward purchased and operated a general store of his own, the Cedaredge Mercantile. The 1950 census shows them living in Los Angeles, where she kept house and Edward worked as the owner of a retail produce business. He worked for Safeway there for 2 ½ years before going back into business for himself. After his wife's death in 1977, he returned to the Western Slope. He died at the age of seventy-four.
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- Edward Touber
- Ed Touber was born on August 12, 1918 and died on April 15, 2003. His name is memorialized on the Touber Building, 448 E. 1st Street, in Salida, Colorado.
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- Edward W. Martin
- He was born in Tehachapi, California. He married Gula Jayne on October 3, 1901 in Toppenish, Washington. They moved to a homestead near Whitewater in Mesa County, Colorado in 1908. He worked as a carpenter and a farmer, and was also the postal carrier on the Star line from Whitewater to Gateway for 20 years. He built the original Gateway school house in 1912 and several homes on 28 ½ Road on Orchard Mesa.
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- Edwin "Big Ed" Carl Johnson
- Edwin Johnson was a Democrat from Kansas who moved to Colorado seeking a dry climate as treatment for tuberculosis. He settled near Craig on a homestead. He served in the Colorado House of Representatives for four terms, beginning in 1923. He became Lieutenant Governor in 1931, and Governor in 1933. He served three terms as U.S. Senator for Colorado between 1937-1955. According to the Colorado State Archives, Johnson's rustic reputation helped his standing among Colorado voters. During his time as Governor he established programs and reorganized statewide government in response to struggles of the The Great Depression. He is also remembered for his criticizing speech about Ingrid Bergman's affair that led her to leave the country. The eastbound bore of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel, which began construction in 1974, was named after him. Wayne N. Aspinall once remarked that despite his long career and “tremendous personality,” Johnson had received little recognition for his service outside of being the namesake for the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel. *Some information from this entry was taken from the Colorado State Archives. https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/Edwin%20Johnson.pdf **Photograph of Edwin Johnson from the Library of Congress.
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- Edwin "Ted" Winterburn
- He was born in Olathe, Kansas to Samuel Winterburn, a carpenter and contractor, and Olive (Mussellwhite) Winterburn, a homemaker. By 1900, when Edwin was two, the US Census shows that the family had moved to Otero, Colorado. He came to Grand Junction in 1905, at the age of seven. During World War I, he worked as the motorman on the night run of the Rural Interurban Line, the train that ran from Fruita to Grand Junction at a time when there were few automobiles in the Grand Valley. He married Lucile Jones on August 10, 1927. Edwin started Winterburn Electric in 1924 and ran it until 1938. He then moved away and worked multiple jobs as an electrician around Utah, Tennessee, Nebraska, and Colorado before settling down in 1974 and moving to Palisade. He belonged to the First United Methodist Church in Grand Junction, Grand Junction Masonic Lodge No. 55, and the Palisade United Methodist Church.
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- Edwin A. Haskell Jr.
- He was the manager of the Park Opera House in Grand Junction, Colorado, which opened in 1892 and closed sometime around 1910. According to local historian and professor Don MacKendrick, Haskell struggled for the opera house’s financial survival for virtually his entire tenure as manager.