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Chet and Ruth Mayer on their 55th wedding anniversary, May 22, 1984. "Chet was one of the first members of the Eagle County Historical Society and a member of the local Cattlemen's Association." -- Eagle Valley Enterprise March 26, 1992 William and Cora Mayer, Chet's parents, ran the Mayer Ranch before Chet inherited it. That area is now the Eagle Ranch subdivision of Eagle, Colorado. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
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"Grandparents of Byron Leroy Long and Mayme Long Rule." -- verso
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Studio portrait of Nathaniel (Natt) and Clara Payton, early settlers of Minturn, Colorado. The photo was taken on Feb. 15, 1889; Nathaniel was 29, Clara was 28. Nathaniel is seated to Clara's right. She is standing, wearing a dress suit and brooch. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster George, wife of William Henry "Bill" George and mother of "Nona" George Gates. After Bill died in 1900, Elizabeth sold their home in Breckenridge and bought a farm in Fort Morgan, Colorado. "In 1917 when her twin granddaughters, Gretchen and Rowena, were born, their mother died in childbirth. Elizabeth went to Colorado Springs and helped her son, Frank, with the twins and other children until he remarried. About...
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Earl Beck married Dessie M. Tomlin in 1918. They moved to Red Cliff in 1921 and had six boys. Earl died in 1939 of a ruptured appendix and Dessie died in 1947.
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Portrait of George and Lena (Sansoti) Yost.
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"Burns, Colo. 1945. Ted Harris, Calvin and Calla James and Nina Harris." -- McCoy Memoirs p.174 "After Mr. and Mrs. James had sold their homestead they moved to Burns where Calvin worked in the timber and also for a short time on the railroad. The couple retired in 1942 and build a home in Eagle. Calvin died there but his wife, Calla still resides in their home." -- McCoy Memoirs p.175 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical...
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Wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Oleson (Grace A. Wolverton) November 29, 1905. "Hans P. Olesen [Oleson] was one of the pioneer citizens of the Eagle River valley. With his brothers, he settled in the county in the eighties, as a young man. For many years, he has been one of the foremost cattle raisers and ranchers in the county. He owns one of the largest irrigated areas of farm land under one head in the valley, located on the Eagle River,...
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Edna and Sam Lemon standing on the boardwalk in front of a building. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Marie and Ray Warren standing across the street from their home at 567 Eagle St., Red Cliff. Mr. Warren owned a sawmill and was in the logging and lumber industry.
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Studio portrait of Earl and Meleta Skiff. Earl is seated on a chair and Meleta stands to his left. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Vern and Leona Kilgore sitting on chairs outside in the snow.
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Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster George, wife of William Henry "Bill" George, in Fort Morgan, Colorado, at the age of 63 (circa 1917).
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1904 Formal portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Julius P. Oleson. Julius Peter Oleson was born Feb. 16, 1876, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmakr, and came to the United States in 1889. In 1902, he entered the mercantile business in Gypsum, Colorado, until the time of his death in 1958. In 1904, he married Iva Beck, and they had three children, Harry A., Christine and Mabel. --Eagle Valley Enterprise, Obituary, June 1958 [Title supplied from catalog prepared by...
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WIlliam Henry "Bill" George was born April 21, 1850, in Cooper County, Missouri. His family moved to Valley View, Cooke County, Texas, to help his arthritis or rheumatism. While he was living in Valley View, Texas, Bill George met and married Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster. They married on October 23, 1873, in Cooke County, Texas. -- The Gates Genealogy Bill died in 1900 in Breckenridge, Colorado.
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Kate and an unidentified male at the concrete bridge over the Eagle River at Kent.
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Ackie (Alex) and Sadie Macdonell, standing on a beam with an unidentified woman. Possibly a wedding day photo.
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Floyd Beck and Eleanor Frances McLaughlin in Minturn, Colorado, in the early 1960s.
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Studio portrait of Josephine and John Forest taken in 1912. They lived in Red Cliff and Gilman until Mr. Forest retired from mining. They were then owners of the Forest Hotel in Eagle, Colorado, from 1918 into the 1930s. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Formal portrait of Gulling and Olive Porter Offerson. If it is their wedding photo, it would have been taken in Leadville, April 1899. Used on p. 47 of Beaver Creek: the first one-hundred years, by June Simonton. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]