Organizations

: Twentieth Century Club (Grand Junction, Colorado); A women’s club begun by Harriette (Dyke) Ottman, who had moved to the Pomona area from the Midwest by 1900. Lucy (Ferril) Ela states that the club began around 1901. It disbanded after a short time and several members later became members of the Reviewers Club. While professor Don MacKendrick maintains in his lecture on Grand Junction's cultural history that the Twentieth Century Club assisted in the creation of the Grand Junction Public Library, it was the Twentieth Century Club's predecessor, the Grand Junction Women's Club, who instead had a hand in forming the library association in 1894, and that later begat the first library building in 1898.

: U. S. Public Survey, United States General Land Office; An independent government agency that was created in 1812 to take over the United States Department of the Treasury's functions regarding the survey of public domain lands. Was placed under the Department of the Interior in 1849 and became the Bureau of Land Management in 1949.