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- George A. Nisbet
- He was born to Robert Nisbet and Charlotta R. “Lotta” (Homan) Nisbet in Nebraska. His father was a farmer and his mother a homemaker. His father died in 1903, the year after George’s birth. Nebraska marriage records show that Lotta remarried to Charles Mahoney, a lumber yard manager, in 1906. By 1920, census records show that George was a boarder with J.H. and Carrie Russell in Loup Ferry, Nebraska. There, George worked as a farm hand. He had arrived in Palisade, Colorado by at least November 5, 1923, the date of his marriage to Rena Mae Smith. He was the superintendent of the local water board.
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- George A. Woolsey Jr.
- A local historian, familiar with the history of the Far East Restaurant and the Ray Quan family. He gave a lecture on the history of the Far East, Ray Quan, and the Quan family at a Mesa County Historical Society event in 1984.
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- George Abshier
- His alias, by which he was known in Grand Junction, Colorado, was Bill Messick. He was a local bootlegger and the landlord of a boarding house just east of 2nd Street and Rood Avenue. With the Fleagle Gang, he took part in bank robberies around the West, including the Lamar Bank Robbery, which was planned in Grand Junction. He was captured a year or so after the robbery by Mesa County Sheriff Charles Lumley.
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- George Addison Crawford
- Western Slope pioneer, and the founder of Grand Junction and Delta, Colorado. According to the Kansas Historical Society, Crawford was born to George and Elizabeth Crawford in Pennsylvania in 1827. Crawford’s father was a district judge, a farmer, and a mill owner. Crawford was sent home from college due to poor health, but eventually Jefferson College at the head of his class in rhetoric, oratory, and Latin. He taught school in Kentucky and Wisconsin before returning to Pennsylvania to study law in 1848. At this time, he became the publisher of the Clinton Democrat. By 1857, he was involved with railroad interests and came west, where he took part in speculation on American Indian lands in order to pave the way for the railroad's expansion. He helped create the Fort Scott Town Company in Kansas, subsequently serving as the company's president. Crawford was vocal in his criticism of the nativist Know Nothing party, voiced opposition to slavery, and opposed prejudice against Catholics and immigrants. He ran for governor many times. He won the governorship of Kansas in 1860, but the election was declared illegal in 1861. Crawford served as the commissioner of immigration under the Kansas governor. He also founded the Fort Scott Daily Monitor newspaper and helped organize the Kansas Historical Society. Crawford owned a flour mill as part of his business ventures. When this building burned, it put him severely in debt. With the forced removal of the Utes from Western Colorado in 1881, he moved to the Grand Valley, and was one of the founders of Grand Junction. He died of Tuberculosis in 1891 and is buried on Reservoir Hill in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery. *Sources: Kansas Historical Society: Kansapedia (online). George A. Crawford Papers at the Wichita State University Special Collections & University Archives (online)
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- George Asher
- George was a student at H Street School in the late 19th century.
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- George B. Smith
- Pioneer resident of Chaffee County, Colorado. George Smith worked at the Madonna Mine at Monarch and later worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad as a brakeman and then conductor. He retired in 1927.
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- George Bardwell
- Taken from The Denver Post, 5/22/23: "George Bardwell, a retired University of Denver professor, labor arbitrator and frequent expert witness in court cases, died June 22 at his Denver home after a long illness. A tribute to Bardwell, who was 85, is planned for 10 a.m. Aug. 8 at Craig Hall, University of Denver, 2148 S. High St. As a labor arbitrator, Bardwell issued more than 500 decisions and was co-author, with the late Harry Seligson, of the book “Labor-Management Relations in Colorado,” published in 1961. Bardwell was asked to use his math knowledge to conduct statistical analyses for court cases including the 1960s integration lawsuit in Denver, racial discrimination in voting and the relationship of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal waste disposal to area earthquakes. He gave expert testimony in as many as 100 cases over 35 years, said his wife, Vivian Bardwell. Walter Gerash, one of Denver’s best-known trial lawyers, who called Bardwell to testify in cases, said most of the cases they worked on had “social significance.” They were able to show in one case, for instance, that juries didn’t properly represent minorities. “He was very generous in testifying in pro-bono cases,” Gerash said. His testimony covered dozens of subjects: health care for the elderly, allocation of unemployment benefits, nurses’ pay and sex discrimination. Mark Bardwell, a son who followed his father into statistical analysis, said his dad was a good teacher who knew how to “make the obtuse and uninteresting” into “memorable classes. He was a disciplined technical writer.” Bardwell “had a tremendous dedication to civil liberties and civil rights and applied his expertise in statistics on such social issues,” said his daughter Susan Bardwell of Denver. George Eldred Bardwell was born in Denver on Jan. 6, 1924, and spent most of his youth in Telluride, where his family owned the Beer Garden Restaurant. Bardwell got jobs trapping muskrats, mink and ermine and sold the pelts, his daughter said. He also worked in Colorado gold and silver mines. Bardwell earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, a master’s in business management and a doctorate in mathematics. He worked in electronics and radar during World War II. He married Vivian Marinoff on Sept. 7, 1946. Bardwell joined the DU faculty in 1953 and retired in 1994. In addition to his wife, son and daughter, he is survived by another son, Steve Bardwell of Marshall, N.C.; two other daughters, Lisa Bardwell of Denver and Janet Bardwell of Tucson; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. --Taken from: https://www.denverpost.com/2009/07/06/du-prof-a-statistics-expert-testified-on-social-issues/ Written by Virginia Culver.