People

: John Prentice; The first school teacher in Paradox Valley, Colorado. He was reportedly murdered by his brother there.

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

: John R. Gaddy; He was born in Lacoma, Missouri. He moved with his wife to Montrose, Colorado in 1908, shortly after their marriage, and the two of them raised a family there. He was the proprietor of a barber shop. He later became a cobbler, and opened a shoe repair shop in Olathe. Father of three children, two boys and a girl. He was a member of the National Guard.

: John Raymond Brumgardt; Former director of the Museums of Western Colorado. He was born in Riverside, California and received his PhD in American History from University of California Riverside in 1974, when he was 28. He worked for several museums and public entities as director or in a historical capacity, including the Museums of Western Colorado from 1978-84. With Al Look and Robert “Bob” Collins, he served on Grand Junction’s Centennial Committee, which celebrated the town’s centennial anniversary in 1981. After leaving Grand Junction, he became the director of the Charleston Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, where, according to that museum's website, he was credited with modernizing the museum and creating a coherent organizational structure. He served as the director there for thirty years. *Some information for this biography came from Prabook.com **Photograph from the 1963 Riverside Technical High School yearbook

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