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25910) James Moore Beard
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Doctor in Fruita, Colorado in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. His office was in Cleveland, a small town adjoining Fruita on the southeast. He made his office in his home, where he also had a drug store and a small hospital. He later helped to establish and run the Fruita Community Hospital and, according to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, was also a surgeon for the Unitah Railway.
He attended his house calls by horse and buggy. When...
25911) Daniel Isaac J. Thornson
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Daniel I.J. Thornton served as the 33rd Governor of Colorado from 1951-1955. According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, Thornton and her husband Loyd Files were founders of the short-lived newspaper, The Morning Sun, which provided competition to the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction during the 1940's.
25912) David "Dewey" Miracle
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Dewey Miracle lived at Miracle Ranch on Glade Park, Colorado. He moved to the area from Kentucky in 1921 with his wife, Rachel China Miracle, and their children.
According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, he was blind and had three children who were also blind. The children’s teacher, Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, encouraged David and his wife to send their children to the Colorado School for the Blind in Colorado Springs. As a result, both daughters...
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She was born in Maryland to Samuel S. Webster and Martha (Packard) Webster. Her father was a bootmaker and her mother was a homemaker. US Census records show that she grew up in Massachusetts and Wisconsin.
Wisconsin marriage records show that he married George Newbury in Jackson County on May 24, 1857, when she was about 16 years old. George was a blacksmith. Census records show them living in Melrose, Wisconsin and Albion, Kansas before moving...
25914) Benjamin Curtis Maynard
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He met his wife Addie (Russell) Maynard while attending school in Missouri to get their medical degrees, and got married in Kirksville, Missouri in December of 1927. They were both osteopathic doctors who practiced in the Grand Valley for many years. According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, he was also a family doctor who practiced in Glade Park during the Depression.
25915) Monard H. "Unc" Lawrence
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He was the owner of the Glade Park Store in the early Twentieth century and said by oral history interviewee Glenn McFall to be a benefactor to the land around Glade Park, helping to “carry some men through the Depression.” He married Loda Thirsk, who helped him run the store.
25916) Jay Nearing
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A cattleman who lived with his wife Celia and daughter Mable in Fruita, Colorado. In the summer, he ran cattle near De Beque. His daughter Mable married a cowboy named Dale Mitchell, who worked for Nearing.
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A canning company located in Grand Junction, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. According to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, the Kuner factory suffered a fire in the 1940's and was forced to sell it's surviving stock as salvage. Files' husband Loyd Files bought the stock through his company Files Brother Wrecking Yard.
