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- Enola Alice (Randolph) Monson
- According to U.S. Census records, she was born in Ohio and moved as a girl with her parents, Justin and Lorenda Randolph, to Henry County, Missouri. In the early 1880’s, she moved with her husband and family to the Steamboat Springs, Colorado area, where they were among the earliest homesteaders.
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- Enos Throop Hotchkiss
- He was born to Samuel Sebra Hotchkiss and Medora (Ackley) Hotchkiss in Pennsyvania. His father died sometime during his childhood and the 1850 US Census shows her remarried to William Sanner, a farmer. The 1850 Census lists Enos as a laborer at the age of eighteen. Enos seems to have married sometime prior to 1856, when his first child, Andrew Monette, was born. He had arrived in Colorado by 1870, when the US Census shows him living in Denver, with his employment listed as miner. Most probably, he was in the state by 1861, as 1970 US Census list his nine-year-old daughter Ida as being born in Colorado. An obituary in the publication Farm and Field gives his arrival date in Colorado as 1858 (January 27, 1900, #734, p.5). In 1870, the US Census shows Enos living with a woman listed as Hannah Hotchkiss and their children, Monett, Ida, Ella, and Charles. Robert J. Hamilton, a carpenter, is listed as living with them. Interestingly, Robert and Hannah are listed as a married couple in the 1880 Census, but no marriage records have so far surfaced to confirm relationships between Enos, Hannah, and Robert. Regardless, Colorado marriage records do show that Enos married Elizabeth Cowan in Denver on October 3, 1877. Enos Throop went to Hinsdale County in the early 1870’s, where he partnered with Otto Mears in the construction of the Saguache & San Juan Wagon Toll Road. While in the process of building the toll road, he discovered gold, which led to the opening of the Golden Fleece Mine in 1874. He and Mears founded the nearby Lake City in 1873. Hotchkiss was injured in the mine in 1876 and it was later sold. According to Dwain Jackson, longtime resident of Delta County, Hotchkiss came to Delta County before the territory was officially open, apparently telling the Ute Indians he encountered that he was there searching for stolen horses. The area he settled came to be known as the town of Hotchkiss, with the post office carrying that name since 1882. The Hotchkiss family became extremely influential in the history of Delta County.
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- Eric Birch
- Student at Adams State University.