People

: John L. Aragon; Born November 18, 1915 in Espanola, New Mexico. Migrated to Salida in 1922. Father: Juan Ricardo Aragon. Mother: Magdalena Vigil. Siblings: Anita, Adelado, Esther, Manuelita, Alfonzo, Regina, Josephine, Irene, Martin, Leonard, and Germo. Attended Longfellow School, St. Joseph's Parochial School, and Salida High School. Postmaster of Poncha Springs, Colorado.

: John L. Bayuk; Born March 3, 1934 in Salida, Colorado. Father: John Nick Bayuk. Mother: Mamie Dorthy Bayuk (Coscarella). Sibling: Elizabeth Jean Bayuk. Attended Longfellow School, Kesner Jr. High, Salida High School, and CU in Boulder. John, aka 'The Beast', was All-American and led CU to victory in the Orange Bowl in 1957.

: John Lake; Contributor to "Our River Our Valley", (source: Our River Our Valley: A Gunnison Valley Journal.)

: John Lawrence Young; He was born to John Lawrence and Kate P. Young in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was an Irish immigrant and naval Civil War veteran. His mother was a homemaker. He worked as a machinist and commanded high wages due to the quality of his work. He married Emily Scatliff on November 13, 1898 in Chicago. They moved to Cleveland, Ohio, Denver, Colorado, Barberton, Ohio, and back to Cleveland. He fathered two sons, Willard and Art, and a daughter, Helen. He went on a lengthy sympathy strike in the early 1900s. While living in Denver with his family, he convinced his wife to invest their life-savings in a land promotion scheme in the adobe hills between Crawford and Delta, Colorado, but there was no possibility of irrigating the plot. The family moved to Hotchkiss, Colorado, where they rented a log cabin, lived partly in a tent house, and where he took work in a coal mine. He took care of his sons for a time when his wife went to Cleveland, Ohio for a surgery in 1913, accompanied by their daughter. He left the boys with a neighbor woman and moved to Kansas before his wife and daughter returned. This was the effective end of his marriage. When the family lived in Hotchkiss, Colorado, they switched between the Methodist and the Baptist churches on different Sundays, but they did attend every Sunday. Father of Helen Lucile (Young) Johnson.

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