People

: Harriett Sophronia (Overton) Hicks; She was born in Missouri to James and Jennie Overton. She moved with her husband Ernest W. Hicks and their family to Mesa County, Colorado in 1937. She was a homemaker on a farm. She also peeled tomatoes and canned peaches for the Kuner Canning Company in Appleton.

: Harriette Dyke Ottman; She was born to William Dyke and Mary (Ludington) Dyke in Wisconsin. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a homemaker. She founded the Twentieth Century Club, a women’s organization, around 1901. She moved to Eaton, Colorado for two years and the club soon disbanded, but she then helped found the Summer Club, along with fifteen former members of the Twentieth Century Club. The Summer Club, also a women’s organization, eventually became the Reviewers Club. According to Ela, Ottman “was a woman of the times, she kept pace with all the thought of the times, and was an ideal leader for a club like the Reviewers Club because she was a great reader and thinker and she kept up to date with world activities and world news and world literature and a very active mind as well as the energy to go ahead and organize something and keep it going.” After she died, many of her books were given to the Grand Junction Public Library. She was the mother by adoption of Dorothy Ottman.