People

: Jennie Elizabeth (Jones) Dixon; She was born in Kansas. Her mother was born in Denver in 1861, and her mother’s family was a pioneering family in Colorado. Her father was a baker and a printer from Kansas. She moved with her parents to Ridgeway, Colorado in 1893, returning to Kansas in 1903. She began learning the printing trade from her father when she was 11 years old. She worked on many area newspapers, including Ouray’s Plaindealer, the Ridgeway Sun, the Gunnison News-Champion, the Montrose Enterprise, the Telluride Journal, and the Grand Junction News. She was a member of the International Typographical Union. She moved to Mesa County in 1918 and was married to Ivan L. Dixon in 1919.

: Jennie Ellen (Menter) Brewster; She was born in Nebraska. Her mother died when she was young, and her father left her and her brother with their grandparents in Oklahoma. She married Joel Brewster on June 11, 1927, while she was working at the Harvey House in Flagstaff, Arizona. They moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1931, and bought a small farm in Mack, Colorado. In 1946, they bought a turkey ranch, where they raised turkeys by the thousands. She would take the turkeys for a walk each day so that her husband could get some work done, since they were always underfoot. She was a homemaker.

: Jennie Harris; She was born in Trinidad, Colorado. She and her husband settled what became known as the Harris Ranch on the Grand Mesa in 1904. The ranch was located on land near Plateau Creek where her father, John Jackson, had homesteaded in the 1880's. The ranch was a farm, a ranch, inn, restaurant, and place to rest teams of horses between Palisade and Collbran.