People
Collection for person entities.
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- Jake the Dog
- Jake the Dog was owned by the family of Frances and Elmer Dorr, residents of rural Routt County. Jake is featured in a poem by Frances (May) Dorr Wheeler in the article "Frances (Dorr) Wheeler".
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- James "J. B." Baker Hunter
- He moved with his family from Florida to land east of Fruita in [1881?], where they established the Hunter Ranch. The area comprising the Hunter Ranch later became known as the Hunter District. He and his grandson developed a vein of coal near Mt. Garfield that he could see from his home on the Hunter Ranch. The mine that he developed was called the Hunter Mine.
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- James "Jim" Davis
- According to author Ruth Moss, Davis was the first marshal of Grand Junction. According to Moss, he “proved to be the right man in the right place. Nerve at that time was required in his position and this he possessed in a remarkable degree. Nervy Jim was able with his guns. he kept the peace well until November 10, 1882, when a man by the name of Mike Dunn got too frisky and Davis killed him" (Mesa County Historical Society newsletter, May-June 1983).
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- James "Jim" E. Moore
- Alberta was born in Longmont, Colorado, in 1914, daughter of Swedish immigrants. The family raised alfalfa, wheat, sugar beets and prized cattle. Alberta took a job at the local Woolworths store where she met Jim in 1936. Jim worked with his father at the family’s barber shop down the block from the Woolworths. The couple began dating, and when Jim was given the opportunity by Lawrence Elisha to run the barber shop at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, they married on December 29, 1936, and immediately moved to Aspen. Alberta recalls waking up the next morning and looking out the window from her third floor room in the Hotel Jerome—seeing the broken down buildings and unpaved streets, she told Jim, “I’m only staying five years in this dump!” She never did leave and died in her own home on Maroon Creek. Alberta and Jim had three children—Sally, Jane, and Tom—who grew up ski racing. Jim was a founding member of the Aspen Ski Club in 1938 before the chairlifts were installed. Jim volunteered his time with the ski club to drive to ski racing events, act as timer and raise money for the kids’ uniforms. Jim knew that he needed to do more than run a barber shop to support his family, so he started a real estate business, the first one in Aspen. They bought what is now the Monarch Building on Main Street which then was Moore’s Court, a motel. Jim also had a barber shop and a real estate office in the building. They also lived in the building until 1955. It was difficult to close deals because many of the houses had no clear chain of title, having been abandoned. It was also difficult to obtain mortgages since the only bank in town, the Bank of Aspen, had seen so many loans default. Jim solved this problem by enlisting the help of down valley ranchers who had some surplus cash to loan. Alberta and Jim were very involved with the community. Alberta began volunteering at the Thrift Shop in 1951 and continued for over 45 years working every other Thursday. She also was very involved with Aspen’s Literary C lub which she joined in 1952. This was a small group of local women and one of the oldest organizations in Aspen (and still is). Alberta worked hard keeping up Moore’s Court in those early days. Very few ladies worked as hard as she did! Jim was a member of the Aspen Elks Lodge and served as Exalted Ruler two years running in 1948 and 1949. Jim was also on the Aspen School Board for years in the early to mid-50s. When the couple realized that the schools were over crowded, they donated land near Aspen Highlands for a new high school campus to be built on Maroon Creek in 1966. They also felt that the community needed a new public swimming pool and donated 3 acres for the facility in 1972. This was named the James E. Moore Swimming Pool and is now part of the Aspen Recreation Center. --Aspen Hall of Fame bio Photo: Aspen Historical Society
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- James "Jim" Kyle
- An officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he worked for Independent Lumber managing lumberyards around the Western Slope. Wherever he and his wife Evelyn moved they established and acted in community theaters. They established community theaters in Cortez and Meeker, and started Telluride Arts, now known as the Telluride Council for the Arts. He and Evelyn were recognized by the governor of Colorado as significant contributors to the arts. He was also a volunteer interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project. After years of relocation, he went into the construction business for himself in Cortez, Colorado. At that time, the family also had a summer house in Telluride. After selling his business, he became the Cortez Chamber of Commerce manager. When that was cut to part time, he resigned, and the family moved to Telluride for six months. He then applied for the position of Mesa County Land Use Coordinator. He received the position and the family moved back to Grand Junction. He worked for the county for four years and then became a fee collector on the Colorado National Monument.
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- James "Jim" Lannon
- A 1948 graduate of Grand Junction High School who went on to work for the CBS television affiliate in Denver. According to the Broadcast Professionals of Colorado The History of Television in Denver, he won a Peabody Award (along with Gene Amole) for his direction of Panorama, a weekly public affairs series. Prior to coming to CBS in 1953, he worked for Denver’s Channel 2. *Photograph from the 1948 Grand Junction High School annual.
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- James "Jim" Massey Sr.
- An early settler of Unaweep Canyon, Colorado. He was born in Colorado to Edward T. Massey and Mary E. (Bryan) Massey. 1900 US Census records show that his father was a dairy farmer. His mother was an Irish immigrant and homemaker. US Census records show that the family had moved to Mesa County, Colorado by at least 1910, when James was six years old (it is unknown if he was born there or in Colorado Springs). There, the family lived on a cattle ranch in Unaweep Canyon, halfway between Uravan and Gateway. He married Mary Ester Casto on April 1, 1927. They continued to live on the Massey Ranch with their children after ownership was passed onto his brother Weston and his wife Nellie. According to oral history interviewee Dorothy Tindall, James Massey was paid to keep, board, and prep a change of horses for the Gateway-Uravan Stage/Star Postal Route.