People

: John A. Echternach; He was born to John H. Echternach and Lydia (Lutz) Echternach in Reading, Pennsylvania. German was spoken in the home. He had two brothers, William and Charlie, and four sisters. The family moved to Slate Creek, Kansas around 1872, when he was sixteen. He became a school teacher and farmer. He married a pupil, Mary Farquharson, on April 10, 1881. He became a sheriff’s deputy (he kept the records since the sheriff was illiterate) and continued farming. He fathered William Roy, Arthur Merle, Albert Verne, and Marion Julian. He participated, successfully, in the race for the settling of the Oklahoma Strip. With his family, he visited his adult son in Palisade, Colorado in 1907. In 1908, their Oklahoma home burnt to the ground. No one was hurt. The family moved to Palisade in January 1909, where they purchased and ran a fruit farm. John also purchased 40 acres of land for his sons in Green River, Utah. He and his sons, Verne and Merle, traded the Green River orchard for a ranch in Weisner, Idaho. He suffered a strangulated hernia in 1917 and began a serious decline in health.

: John A. Wilcoxon; An early Twentieth century Mesa County with a large operation near De Beque. According to oral history interviewee Charles Edward Burg, who worked for him, the bunks Wilcoxon provided for cowboys were infested with bed bugs.

: John Adolph Greve; Identified in error as John Grieve in the article "It was the largest movie theater in Northwest Colorado, the Chief Theater".

: John Albert Carroll; A Democratic politician from Denver. He was a special assistant to President Harry Truman in 1951 and 1952 before being elected into the senate in 1956.

: John Allen Crider; He moved from Kansas to Colorado with his wife sometime between 1920 and 1930. They farmed first in Fruita, and then in the Rhone area just east of Fruita.

: John Anderson; Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.

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