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A family photograph with the Gates brothers, Albert Gates and James P. Gates, at the Burns ranch.
Back row: Bert (George Albert) Gates, Albert, Martha, Mary, Berta, Lemley, Clark and James.
Front row: Uncle Albert, Nona holding baby Edith, Grace Gates holding Eva, Grandma "Kate," and Grandpa James P. holding Marie.
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Headstone for the progenitor of the Gates family in Colorado, George Gates (son of Johannes Andreas Getz) in the Boger Cemetery, York, Ohio.
"Gorg Getz born in 1759 also became a professional soldier, serving as private in the Colonial Militia, Pennsylvania Line, Northampton county, Pennsylvania.
In 1778 Gorg Getz transferred from the Colonial Militia to the command of Major Daniel Boone as Ranger on the Frontier, stationed at Fort Reading. He was...
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[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Martha Goodall, standing, is watching her daughter, Alice Goodall, bottle feed a fawn. They are standing in front of the first house built in Eagle, Colorado. There are other structures in the background. Two men are seated in a wagon at the far right. William F. Woods is on the left. Henry C. Goodall, at the far right, is holding snowshoes.
Alice was married in this house in 1884 to William Franklin Wood. She was the mother of Robert Woods....
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First school house on Gore Creek, built between 1886 and 1888. Outhouse at right of school building. Photo taken about 1907. Rhoda Rockwood's father, John Wesley Phillips, framed the building and then went to the County school board for help to complete the project. The County provided roofing, doors and window. Bill Webb, a school board member, helped with the construction, as did other people moving into the valley. --Rhoda Rockwood
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"Grandma Grant's Home, Eagle River. Just East of Eagle, later was Ernie Nogal's home. Grandma Grant, Mary Catherine Grant Borah, and my mother (Minnie "Min" Borah)"
47) Groh Ranch
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"Pioneers Mary and Frank Groh on their still unimproved ranch on Rock Creek, below McCoy [1/4 mile south] in [May] 1891. The man to the right of Mr. Groh is unidentified but the man doing the driving is Sam Elliott." -- McCoy Memoirs p.121
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
48) Gypsum locals
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Inscription reads: "Pearce, Daggett, Jim, Polo, Schliff, Noecker."
[Good example of thumbprint on right side]
49) Holden Family
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The Holden family at Beaver Creek. Agnes Holden (Randall) is the girl at far right. Agnes and her family moved to their ranch at Beaver Creek from Washington state in 1912. "Agnes completed grades one through eight in Avon and then attended school in Minturn, Colo. for two years. She then attended school for two years in Gypsum, Colo. graduating from the high school there in 1928. In 1929, she was married to Harold Randall and they moved to Eagle,...
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"I think it would be best to label this as 'homestead on Hernage Creek' rather than 'Hernage Homestead.' I checked the patent records and they do not indicate that Henry Hernage homesteaded this specific parcel. Rather, he homesteaded clser to the mouth of Brush Creek. ... Location: T5S R84W Sec. 21, NW1/4 SW1/4 A patent search indicated the earliest record on this property is a homestead claim by Issac Kalbaugh on 160 acres in 1912. However,...
51) Hunting party
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Circa 1880s, hunting group including members of the Wellington Family, possibly in Kansas. Grandmother Wellington is the first woman on the left, Grandfather Wellington is on the far right. Gentleman in the center of the photo is holding a flintlock rifle.
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Ida Oyler Herwick, wife of Josiah Herwick. She became a member of Pacific Circle, Women of Woodcraft, Circle No. 132 at Eagle, Colorado, on Dec. 16, 1898. She died at Grand Valley, Colorado (now Battlement Mesa, Colorado, on March 8, 1919. -- Carol Crawford McManus, from "Ida, her Labor of Love," 1999.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
53) Jim Dilts
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Jim Dilts, a pioneer of eagle County, seated in front of his cabin on Deep Creek. He was County Superintendent of Schools (1896-1897) and an attorney.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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"Eleanor, John and Jack [Alonzo] Hudson at their home on Trail Creek, ten miles northeast of McCoy in 1901." -- McCoy Memoirs, p. 282
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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John Wesley Philips, Rhoda Rockwood's father, who was instrumental in building the Gore Creek School in 1886 (circa). Rhoda attended the school which met for only three months, in the summer. She crossed three creeks to get there. There is a dog at the right side of the photo.
For more information see Simonton, June. Vail: Story of a Colorado Mountain Valley, p.38.
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Family photograph taken in front of log house:
L to R: Joe and Selina [sic.] Johnson, Lula and Pearl Perch (mother and daughter), Durward Litton and mother Blanche Johnson Litton and father Earl Litton (brother-in-law of Steve Bivans)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Born January 22, 1829 in Tennessee. This is an original photograph taken August 8, 1902 in Missouri. Joseph was married to Roselba Johnson and the two are the parents of William S. Johnson, grandparents of Dorris E. Johnson.
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Josiah (Si) Herwick in a suit with boutonniere for a studio portrait. He was the husband of Ida Oyler Herwick, both coming to the Eagle River Valley in 1881, locating on the property now known as the Nottingham Ranch. He and his family lived in Avon, Edwards, Wolcott, Burns, State Bridge and Eagle. The Eagle residence was on four lots at the corner of 3rd and Howard Sts. They moved to Glenwood Springs in 1902. Eight children were born in the...
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Katie Gates standing in a yard next to her niece, Anna Gates. Anna was the daughter of James P. Gates' brother, Albert.
