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According to the company’s website, they have been a Ford dealer in the Grand Valley since 1912. Originally, they were located on Grand Junction’s Main Street. James Fuoco, who started the long-running Fuoco Motors, cut his teeth as a mechanic at what was then called Western Ford before buying his own company. Thomas Campbell, a local orchardist and Ross Business College graduate, worked as a bookkeeper for the company.
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It was established a few years after the Seventh Day Adventist Church in the area. In 1920, the Christian Church, which had been organized in 1910, built a church and community center at the intersection of F Road and Main Street. This building still stands and is on the national register of historic places.The church is currently located at 3241 F 1/4 Road.
28370) John Duncan Hart
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He was born in Nevada, Missouri. He lost his father, an Irish immigrant and devout Catholic named Mike Hart, when he was very young. Gertrude (Duncan) Hart, his mother, was a devout Methodist. His maternal grandfather was a cattle rancher and former Confederate soldier who was buried in his Confederate Army uniform.
Sometime soon after his father's death, John's mother married William A. Lowe, who was also from Missouri. They moved to Grand Junction,...
28371) Dorothy (Bryant) Hart
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She was born in Nebraska to John Edward Bryant and Anna (Soule) Bryant. US Census records indicate that they moved to Mesa County, Colorado sometime between 1900 and 1910, when Dorothy was between 1 and 11 years old. There, the family homesteaded and raised cattle. She attended college and was a nurse.
She married fish and wildlife game warden John Duncan Hart on June 7, 1934 in Glenwood Springs. According to John Hart, Dorothy was an accomplished...
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He was born and raised in Illinois. His parents were John Henry Rump, an agricultural importer, and Mary A. (Geisel) Rump, a homemaker. Charles's grandparents were all German immigrants. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Quincy, Illinois when Charlie was 17 years old.
He graduated from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 1907, where he was the Student Body President. He married Viola Anna Steinbach in Illinois in 1908. They...
28373) George W. Kelly
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He worked as a horticulturalist for the Redlands Company’s large agricultural operations in Mesa County, Colorado. He ran a boys club while he lived in Mesa County and remained involved with youth clubs for the rest of his life. William Rump, whose father Charlie Rump was one of the owners of the Redlands Company, had these remembrances of George Kelly during his oral history interview: “Well, that’s where he got his start and among other things,...
28374) Viola Anna (Steinbach) Rump
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She was born in Illinois to Phillip Steinbach Jr. and Laura (Grimm) Steinbach. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a homemaker. She Married Charles Rump in 1908. Bu 1910, US Census records show that they had moved to Denver, Colorado, following her husband’s work as an irrigation and real estate developer. She was a homemaker.
They moved to the Redlands area of Mesa County in 1919. There, she became one of the organizers of the Redlands’...
28375) Wally Holt
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According to William Rump, who played sports at Grand Junction High School, Holt was the only coach of any sort at the school in the 1920’s, and coached multiple sports, including football and basketball. He often carpooled with the Rump family to out-of-town sports engagements.
28376) Thomas Harrison Moore
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He was born in Columbus, Ohio to George Moore and Kathryn (Harrison) Moore. He attended Worthington High School, graduating in 1964. He then attended the University of Ohio at Columbus. He was drafted into the armed forces just before he could graduate in 1968.
He served in the United States Army from January 1969 to September 1970. He was stationed in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Fort Ben Harrison, Indiana, and Chu Lai, Vietnam. He was selected...
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He was born in Clifton, Colorado to Thomas Jefferson Campbell Sr. and Eliza (Warrington) Campbell. He attended the Mt. Garfield School from 1913 to 1920, took his first two years of high school at the Clifton School from 1920 to 1922, and went to Grand Junction High School from 1923 to 1925. He went to Ross Business College in 1925-1926.
The 1930 US Census shows him as single and living with his parents, with his occupation listed as farm laborer...
28378) Henry R. Rhone
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An early Mesa County pioneer who owned a small dairy at the corner of 12th Street and White Avenue. His cinder block house still stands in that location. He invested in the Rhone Fruit Land Company east of Fruita, and the Rhone area took his name.
His son, Bayard Rhone, became a Deputy Attorney General of California.
28379) Olney E. "Ollie" Bannister
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Owner of the Bannister Furniture Company. He was elected to the State Senate in 1918 and retired in 1934. He was then the regional manager of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, a New Deal agency. As a State Senator, he put through the bill that placed Mesa College (now known as Colorado State University) in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was a good friend of Walter Walker, publisher of The Daily Sentinel and state Democratic Party power broker.
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28380) Willis "W.L." Blevins
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He came to Rifle, Colorado with his mother in 1912 and married Lotus Hocker in Glenwood Springs in 1918. In response to interest in a building project of the Redlands Water and Power Company, he and his wife came to Mesa County in 1920. They bought land for a farm in the Redlands area, with Willis growing potatoes, corn and fruit trees. With Ray Pierson, he pioneered the growing of fruit in the Redlands. For twenty years, he worked for Independent...
