People

: Emma (Hall) Peck; She came to Hayden, Colorado in 1883 and was the Routt County superintendent of schools from 1912-1920. She was a pioneer school teacher and traveled from school to school across the wide area of Routt County, teaching at each one. Grandmother of Harry Peck.

: Emma (Hollett) Nicolay; She was born in Sawpit, Colorado, after her parent's journey to Colorado in a covered wagon. They moved to Norwood, Colorado in 1901, where she grew up on a homestead. She worked multiple jobs saving for college, including a position at a mercantile store, and another job cooking for hay men on a ranch. She studied home economics at Colorado State University and later received training as a dietician there. She served as a dietician for the US Army 29th Group General Hospital in Baltimore during World War ll and later worked at several other hospitals, including Children's Hospital in Denver and others in California. She moved to Palisade, Colorado in 1975, where she died in 1987. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a long-time member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She married Mervin O. Nicolay in 1961, and he preceded her in death.

: Emma (Schauster) Bierschied; She was born the youngest of eleven children on a farm in Illinois to two German immigrants, John Schauster and Theresa Schauster. There, she attended a one room school house for a short time, but did not receive much schooling. Instead, she helped with her sister’s children and with homemaking tasks. Her oldest sister moved to Glenwood Springs, Colorado with her husband when Emma was young. Emma followed her to Glenwood when she was around fifteen years old, between 1900 and 1905. Colorado’s Statewide Marriage Index shows her married to a Henry Baldarini (possibly Baldasini), a French immigrant, in Mesa County, Colorado in 1905. U.S. Census records show her living in Silverton, Colorado and working as a mining camp cook in 1910; still married to Baldarini, though apparently not living with him. He may have been a miner who lived in mining quarters closer to his work. In 1914 she married again, this time to Pete Bierschied in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He was also a German immigrant. They owned and operated a farm in Garfield County, where Emma was a homemaker. She died in Fruita, Colorado in 1986.

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