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- Frank Bradbury
- Frank Bradbury was a miner in the Chaffee and Lake County region for much of the late 19th and early to middle 20th century. He settled in Granite, Colorado with his wife Mary Galvin.
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- Frank Butala
- Born October 7, 1926 in Salida, Colorado. Father: Jake Butala. Mother: Anna Bayuk Butala. Sibling: Mary Ann Butala (Veltri). Attended St. Joseph's Parochial School from 1st to 8th grades, then attended Salida High School from 1940 to 1944. Owner of Butala Construction in Salida, Colorado.
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- Frank C. Hennes
- He was born in Houghton, Michigan to Joseph Hennes, a merchant and immigrant from Germany, and Elizabeth Hennes, a housekeeper from Michigan. He graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Master of Science degree and moved to Colorado in 1908, when he was 23. He went shortly after to Carbon County, Utah. There, he was employed as an engineer by the Utah Fuel Company in the Sunnyside Coal Mine. He did surveying work in all the coal mines that the company owned. He also attended underground wrestling and boxing matches, and went to dances and social events in the company's recreation hall. As one of the only single engineers, he went on dates with teachers who worked in the mining camp schools. He married Barbara Twaddle in Alameda, California in 1919. She died in 1967. He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1968. He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He died at the age of 102. *Some of the information for this biography was taken from Frank Hennes' obituary appearing in a February [26-28], 1988 issue of The Daily Sentinel.
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- Frank Cardman
- He was born in Minnesota to Santo “Sam” Cardamone and Maria Angela “Mary” (Mendocino) Cardamone, shortly after their arrival in the United States from Naples, Italy in 1915. The family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado by 1920, where Sam and Mary ran the Favorite Candy Shop. He attended Grand Junction High School. After attending Mesa College, he graduated from the University of Colorado, and then from Harvard University with a degree in Business Administration. During his summer breaks in college, he came home to do roadwork in Utah. *Photograph from the 1932 Grand Junction High School yearbook
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- Frank D. Bradbury
- He was born near Colby, Kansas to Daniel Bradbury and Mary Isabella (Bandy) Bradbury. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family came to the Kannah Creek / Whitewater area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1895, when Frank was about eight years old. The 1900 Census shows them living in Kannah Creek on a farm, when Frank was thirteen. According to census records, he had one sister. The family owned haying operations and sold hay to corrals in Grand Junction and other agricultural operations. He married Nellie Lorena Gilbert on September 28, 1911, in Grand Junction, Colorado. The 1920 census shows Frank living with his parents and working on the family farm. His wife died in 1930, and the 1930 census shows him living with his four children and mother in Kannah Creek. In 1940, he lived with his son Walter and a farmhand. Frank died at the age of ninety-one and is buried with his wife in the IOOF portion of the Orchard Mesa Cemetery in Grand Junction.
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- Frank D. Kiefer
- He was born in Brookville, Indiana to Caroline (Witt) Kiefer and Dominick Kiefer, German Catholic immigrants. The 1870 US Census shows him living on a farm in Brookville with his eight siblings at the age of seven. He came West with his older brother Joseph in the early 1882, agreeing to work on the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad from Gunnison to Montrose in exchange for passage from Indiana to the West. After the line reached Montrose, he and Joseph decided to move to the Grand Valley. They walked from Montrose to Grand Junction, swam across the Colorado River, and arrived on October 12, 1883 with $1.35 in cash between them. He and Joseph purchased 160 acres of land just east of Fruita in 1883. With their brother Ben, they platted the land in 1889 and founded the town of Cleveland, after President Grover Cleveland. In 1884, Frank staked a claim in Fruita. With his brothers he started the Fruita Canal and Land Company and served as President. This organization oversaw and funded what came to be known as the Kiefer Extension Ditch of the Grand Valley Canal, which was completed in 1898. He bought a printing press from Denver in 1892 and founded the Mesa County Mail, a weekly newspaper that later became known as the Fruita Times. He was a founder and president of the Redlands Water and Power Company, which irrigated the Redlands and created hydroelectric power that was sold to the town of Grand Junction. In the early 1900’s, he joined with other Fruita men to bring water to Fruita from Pinon Mesa, which they did in 1907. He was the President of the United Fruit Growers Association until his death. He was instrumental in founding the Mesa Federal Savings, then known as the Fruita Building, Loan and Savings Association. He died at the age of forty-eight and is buried in Fruita's Cavalry Cemetery.
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- Frank Delaney
- A lawyer in Glenwood Springs, Colorado who represented cattle ranchers and their interests in the early Twentieth century. He often collaborated with Charles "Frank" Moore of the Grazing Service and Dan Hughes, a lawyer representing sheep ranchers, in creating rangeland policy under the Taylor Grazing Act. Delaney served as the Democratic candidate in the election to the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado's Fourth Congressional District after the death of Edward Taylor in 1941. He lost the election to Republican candidate Robert Fay Rockwell. Along with Silmon Smith, Delaney also represented Western Slope water interests in negotiation with parties on the Eastern Slope.
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- Frank Delany
- Attorney for cattleman in Glenwood Springs in the early 20th century.