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25821) Henry Gillespie
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He was one of the leading mine owners in Aspen, Colorado. He was superintendent of the Sparr Gold and Silver Company as well as part stockholder. Also, he was the owner and operator of the Molly Gibson silver mine, where a very large piece of silver was discovered and put on display for a time at the Colorado State Museum in Denver. On top of that, he owned the El Jebel Ranch, which was four miles from Basalt. He died of fever along with his son...
25822) Rose Stanton
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Originally from Chicago, Stanton and her husband, Edgar, were among the first visitors who came to Aspen for skiing. They vacationed here first as guests of Walter Paepcke in 1946 and returned in 1953 as full-time residents.
The Stantons’ daughter, Roddy, said her parents told her Walter Paepcke begged them not to visit Aspen in 1946 because the ski area was not developed enough. But they borrowed the key to his house, hopped on a train and arrived...
25823) Edgar Stanton
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"You have to wonder whatever possessed Rose and Edgar Stanton to move to Aspen in 1954. Why would the advertising manager of a Chicago manufacturing company and his wife who had major business and social ties in the Windy City want to give up their cozy existence for a dusty, dilapidated town with more ghosts than residents only 10 miles from the Continental Divide? Well, for a couple of reasons. First, because they first visited Aspen as guests of...
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An early school district, begun in 1883, in the Purdy Mesa area near Whitewater, Colorado. It was absorbed into Mesa County School District 51.
25825) Sara Etta (Woodruff) Bristol
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She was born in Pennsylvania and, according to her daughter Laura (Bristol) Foster, moved with her husband and children from Pennsylvania to Telluride, Colorado around 1890. There, Laura Foster says, she was a washerwoman for cowboys and a few miners. However, U.S. Census records for 1900 show her still living with her husband and children in Pennsylvania. By 1910, the family had moved to the Paradox Valley, in Montrose County, Colorado. There they...
