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- John Francis Goulet
- He was born to Francis Adrian Goulet and Anne Elizabeth (Sheahan) Goulet in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The 1910 US Census record shows that his father was a cutter in a shoe shop, and that his mother was a presser in a shoe shop. His father’s background was French Canadian. His mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants. Massachusetts death records show that John’s mother died in 1928, when he was seventeen or eighteen years old. The 1930 US Census shows John living with his father and brother at 24 15th Avenue in Haverhill, where his father continued to be a shoe cutter, and with John working as a clerk for a dry goods store at the age of nineteen. By 1940, he was living as a lodger at 213 Beacon Street in Boston, where he worked as the sales manager of a dry goods store. Naturalization records for his wife, Isabelle Salaun of Brest, France, show that John married her in Boston on March 21, 1942. They had two sons. He served in the United States Army from December 11, 1942 to September 4, 1944, during World War II. His war enlistment records show his civil occupation as author, editor, reporter, and that he had a high school education at the time of enlistment. The 1950 US Census shows John and Isabelle living with their seven year old son in Boston, where he worked as an advertising executive and she was a homemaker. They moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in May 1951. There, he worked for the Daily Sentinel in the advertising department. He and his wife became life-long friends with Al Look, who also worked in the department. He was a poet and a musician. He composed a piece for piano entitled Western Colorado Fantasy in dedication to fond memory of “many hikes and picnics in the hills of Western Colorado." The piece aired on KREX radio, most probably in the 1950's or 60's. He also played a piano piece by Mendelssohn with the Grand Junction High School orchestra on November 25, 1958. The family moved to Santa Fe, though it is unknown exactly when this happened. They later moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where John and his wife passed away. He died at the age of 94 and is buried in Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee.
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- John Frank Sleeper
- Owner of the Sleeper Ranch in the Pinon Mesa area. He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire to Charles Wesley Sleeper and Sarah E. (Peavey) Sleeper, both native New Hampshirites. His father was a blacksmith, cattle raiser, and railroad engineer. His mother was a homemaker. John attended Dartmouth College from 1884 to 1886. It appears from his listing in the Non-Graduates section of the Dartmouth College 1910 catalog that he did not graduate, but he did receive sufficient training to become a civil engineer in Mesa County, Colorado. He moved to Mesa County in the 1880's after his schooling at Dartmouth and settled in the Glade Park area. According to John Jay Collier, husband of Sleeper’s daughter, John Sleeper came to the area as a lawman pursuing a criminal and ended up staying. According to his obituary, published in the Daily Sentinel in 1932, his Sleeper Ranch was one of the earliest ranches along the Little Dolores River and in Glade Park (Daily Sentinel, 30 December 1932, p.10). He owned the 2-V Ranch on Pinon Mesa along with Wendell Phillips Ela, who was also from Rochester, New Hampshire. He married Louise Amelia Sieber Saxon on November 26, 1902 in Grand Junction. The 1910 US Census shows the couple and their children living at 114 White Avenue in Grand Junction, with John working as a civil engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation. He designed the grades in what is now known as the Colorado National Monument’s Serpent’s Trail (then part of the road to Glade Park). By 1920 they had moved to Glade Park, where the family ranched. New Hampshire death records show that he died of acute nephritis in 1932 at the age of 67, and that he had been living back in Rochester for three years at the time of death.
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- John Frey
- A volunteer with the Mesa County Oral History Project.
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- John Fulton Emerson
- He was born in San Jacinto, California to Claudius Lee Emerson and Zelma (Schultz) Emerson. Census records list John’s father as the proprietor of a mountain resort. His mother was a homemaker. John was one of six siblings. The 1920 US Census shows the family living in the Claremont area of Los Angeles, when John was five years old. In 1930, the family lived in Hemet, California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley for one or two years. He then attended Colorado School of Mines from 1934 to 1938, where he studied mining, and was a member of the engineering fraternity Sigma Gamma Epsilon. While in school he also ran track, played tennis, was involved in intramural sports, and was a member of A.I.M.E. The 1940 US Census shows him living in Berkeley, California as a lodger and working as a mining engineer. He married Mary Leslie Hastings (of Los Angeles) in San Francisco on April 19, 1941. The 1950 census shows them living in Inyo, California, with John working as a mining engineer in a tungsten mine. At this time they had three sons between the ages of two and seven years old. They moved to Western Colorado in 1943, where Union Carbide had partnered with the Manhattan Project to create the Union Mines Development Corporation. There, he was involved in the search for uranium. He was transferred in 1946, but he and his wife returned to the Western Slope in 1956. He continued to work for Union Carbide. The 1974 Grand Junction City Directory lists his occupation as a general manager of the company. He died in Grand Junction at the age of ninety-two and is buried in Memorial Gardens. *Photograph from the 1938 Colorado School of Mines annual
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- John G. Hansen
- Student at Colorado Christian University, graduated May, 2016.