People

: Fred McCarty; A member, along with his uncle Tom and father Bill, of the McCarty Gang. He was killed by Ray Simpson, a hardware store owner in Delta, Colorado, after he and the gang tried to rob the Farmer's and Merchant's Bank on September 7, 1893.

: Fred Milliken; Fred was born in 1912 in Yurksville, Ohio. He married Laverna E. French on January 5, 1930 and they had two children. Fred came to Lafayette in 1922. He served on the School Board in Lafayette from about 1952 to 1958.

: Fred Penny; The manager of Woolworth's and Dr. Peter Matteroli's roommate at the Argonaut Hotel for four or five years. He was also a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

: Fred Powell; He was born in Aspen, Colorado in the late Nineteenth century. His father, Edwin Powell, was a farmer and immigrant from England. His mother, Eliza Powell, was born in New York or Pennsylvania. Edwin and Eliza had moved to Colorado to help Eliza recover from Tuberculosis. Fred Powell farmed fruit in Austin, Colorado for 10 years. There, he met his wife Rose Aukerman, a teacher. They moved to Paonia in 1930, where he was the manager of the Paonia Fruit Growers Association, overseeing the production of fruit crops valued at one million dollars annually. In 1937, they moved to Palisade, Colorado, where Powell became the manager of the United Fruit Growers Association, where he oversaw fruit pickers and saw the shift from locals picking fruit to migrant laborers, and managed shipping for fruit. *Photograph courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.

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