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- Joe Carroll Carns
- He was born in Osborn, Kansas to William K. Carns and Laura O. (Ruby) Carns. His father was a carpenter and his mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Sycamore, Kansas, when Joe was four years old, and lists Joe’s six siblings (some of them half-siblings from the first wife of William Carns). The family moved to Colorado’s Western Slope in 1918, following William Carns's job with Kansas Portland Cement. The 1920 census shows them living in Craig, Colorado. According to Carns, the family lived several places during these years, including Grand Junction, where they camped at the east end of Grand Avenue (where it once crossed the railroad tracks on its way to becoming D ½ Road). Carns states in his interview that he delivered bootlegged liquor to the five brothels in town. He also bootlegged himself during Prohibition. He began hauling agricultural products for Ray Morris on Glade Park, and built a home in Glade Park in the 1920’s. He worked with Morris until the late 1920’s. Sometime before 1930, the whole Carns family moved to Glade Park. The 1930 US Census shows Joe living with his parents, siblings and nieces in Glade Park, with him working as a farmer at the age of twenty-two. During this time, he also drove cattle down from Pinon Mesa, across the 5th Street Bridge, up Grand Avenue, and over the Main Street Bridge and onto the Redlands, where they grazed. He married Georgia Davis in Grand Junction on January 12, 1932 (while certain genealogies list her as Georgia Boldt, the Colorado Marriage Records and State Index lists her name as Georgia Davis). They had four children. The 1940 census shows him living with his wife in children in Glade Park, working as a farmer. The 1950 census lists him as a ranch owner. He helped to build the first telephone line on Glade Park. The Carns later moved to the Redlands. His wife died in 1982. He died at the age of eighty-two and is buried in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery.
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- Joe Danni
- Born in Gunnison Valley in 1927. Married Gwen Dean and raised two sons with her. (source: Oral History of the Gunnison Valley Video Series: Joe Danni)
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- Joe Davenport
- Joe Davenport was a champion of higher education and student success. He was a great leader who served his country in both World War II and Korea. Dr. Davenport was Colorado Mountain College's first president. Less than two years into his term, his life was tragically cut short while trying to land his single-engine plane in Glenwood Springs.
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- Joe Dixon
- Contributor to "The place they like best", (source: The place they like best A Gunnison Valley Journal.)
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- Joe Edwards, Jr.
- Joe Edwards, Jr was raised in Texas, attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas, and the University of Housing studying engineering and law with a BS in 1965 and a law degree in 1966. Joe has 4 children—3 girls and a boy. Edwards likes motorcycles, hot roads, sports cars and motorcycle racing and appreciates the slower pace of life living on a sailboat from 1989 to 1992 with his wife, Linda, and two daughters. Edwards started his employment in Texas at the Brown Oil Tools in Houston where he worked during college. In the spring of 1967 he worked at the Aspen Highlands Ski Area and then for the Snowmass Corporation as assistant to the development director, Chuck Vidal. In 1968, Joe began his legal career in Colorado working with attorneys Frank Johnson, Dwight Shellman Jr., Joe Krabacher, Tom Hill, Herb Klein, Lance Cote, and his son, Jody Edwards. In 1967, Edwards filed a civil rights case against city of Aspen officials for harassing hippies, commonly referred to as the “hippy trials”. An outgrowth of this was the formation of Citizens for Community Action, a forum for community consensus which defined the image and character of Aspen and the upper Roaring Fork Valley Elements of the CCA included creating a city/county planning office, adopting a master land use plan, establishing public transportation and supporting citizen participation in long term community planning processes. In 1968, Edwards ran for Mayor, narrowly losing to Eve Homeyer. Edwards filed a petition to establish the Aspen pedestrian malls. Edwards also petitioned to stop Aspen and Pitkin County from supporting the 1976 Olympics. Edwards was elected Pitkin County Commissioner in 1972 along with Dwight Shellman and later served with Michael Kinsley. During his tenure as Pitkin County Commissioner, Edwards led the development of a county-wide trails and bicycle master plan, the results of which are evident today. Edwards was the leading advocate for protection of open space including gaining support from the U. S. government to establish Hunter Creek Valley as a wilderness area. Edwards led the campaign for the acquisition of North Star Ranch, gaining federal grant money to finance this transaction. While a Pitkin County Commissioner, Edwards supported the county-wide growth management plan, one of the first of its kind in the nation, which controlled the pace and location of development throughout the county. Edwards supported downzoning legislation, the 1041 hazard are legislation, a county-wide sign code prohibiting the placement of billboard signs adjacent to highways and roads.--
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- Joe Erickson
- A Swedish man from whom James R. Silliman, father of Esther (Silliman) Knowles, purchased acreage on the Grand Mesa in the early 1900's.
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- Joe Fein
- Joe was a student at H Street School in the late 19th century.