People
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- John Hular
- Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.
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- John Jackson
- He was born in Iowa. Around 1856, he took a job driving a stagecoach between Independence Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He joined the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment in 1861, under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington. During his tenure in the regiment, Jackson took part in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and also fought in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, where he engaged the Confederates at Apache Canyon. He moved to the Western Slope from Trinidad in 1886, settling first near De Beque and then in Meeker, where he cut logs for road builders. He eventually homesteaded on Plateau Creek, before selling out to his son-in-law in 1904 and moving to Steamboat Springs. His wife was Susan Whitely Jackson of Pueblo, Colorado.
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- John James
- John James was a long-time resident of Lafayette, CO and began working in the coal mines at age 17. John married Floy Mae (Thoms) James on February 14, 1934, and they had one son.