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- Howard Lathrop
- Early 20th Century sheep rancher in Western Colorado.
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- Howard M. Shults
- Howard M. Shults was born, along with his identical twin Harold, in a log cabin north of Loma in 1905. His parents, James F. Shults and Daisy G. (Hosey) Shults, had come to the Grand Valley in 1902 after graduating from a teacher college in Springfield, Missouri. They married in Clifton, Colorado in 1904. They taught in the Pear Park School before moving west in the Grand Valley. His father eventually became involved in the auctioneering business. When Howard was four, the family moved to Cottonwood Creek near Molina and then to Collbran, where they stayed until he was in 8th grade. While living in Collbran, he and Harold became accomplished riders and cowboys, in part by riding mules. The family returned to Grand Junction and he graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1923. He did clerk work for his auctioneer father at this time. Howard was the boxing champion of the Fort Logan Military Training School. In 1926 his father bought the Golden Hills Ranch in Loma, a large fruit growing operation. Shults worked there until his father sold the farm in the early 1930’s. At that time, he owned what he believed to be the first stock truck in Mesa County, and used it to haul livestock. He bought and sold livestock and transported hogs to Los Angeles. He raised hogs, cattle, and horses on his own farm in Loma, where he lived after marrying Helen L. McFarland in 1935. In 1936, he sold his land to recent arrivals from the Dust Bowl. He had the garbage contract for the city of Grand Junction from 1936 to 1938. He operated a dump to receive the refuse on South Street. He fed old produce to stock animals, but would also let neighborhood youth take produce that was still good. He joined Oren Hopkins in the auctioneering business and they put in a sale yard in Orchard Mesa in 1936. They drove cattle to auction in Orchard Mesa. From 1936-1942, he and Hopkins ran the yard on Unaweep Avenue (in the location of what is now Duckpond Park), before buying land and moving the yard to a location near the Durham Stockyards. He started and was the auctioneer for the Mesa County 4-H Fat Stock Show, and was the yearly auctioneer for the Redd Ranches in La Sal, Utah. He also trained horses that were used in races at Lincoln Park and elsewhere. He worked as an auctioneer from 1936-67, primarily dealing in livestock and real estate. He sold many horses and mules to the US Army during WWII. In 1950 he was elected to the Colorado State Senate, where he was chairman of the Joint Budget Committee and served on other committees. He was a member of the legislature until 1959. He became a member of the State Land Board and lived in Denver with his family from 1963-1972. He ran for the US House of Representatives against his friend Wayne Aspinall in 1952 and was defeated in the election by only 29 votes. *Some of the information for this biography was taken from the Daily Sentinel articles "Former Senator spent his life serving region" (Daily Sentinel, 23 April 1986, p. 6B) and "Twins Mark 75 years" (Daily Sentinel, 16 May 1980).
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- Howard Roland
- He was a long-time auctioneer in Mesa County, Colorado and on the Western Slope. He ended his thirty-seven year auctioneering career in 1983.
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- Howard W. Brown
- A member of the Fruita Union High School class of 1927.