People

: Santo "Sam" Cardman; The owner of Cardman’s Candy Store in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was born Santo Cardamone in Naples, Italy. US Census records show him living in the Marshall, Iowa by at least 1910, where he was a grain merchant at the age of 33. His wife and children joined him in the United States in 1915. They lived first in Minneapolis before moving to Grand Junction.

: Sapiah; Sapiah was the leader of the Southern Ute tribe from 1880 until his death in 1936

: Sara Alyn Oakley; Beginning her career an astonishing and depressing 42 years ago as an illustrator and graphic designer, Oakley has always worked either as a freelancer or studio principal. Oakley spent 15 years teaching at The Art Colony in Georgia. he could also be found making considerable noise at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Oakley Gallery and Colorado Canyons Gallery, all in Grand Junction. In 2002 and 2003, Oakley served as Artist in Residence at Western Colorado Center for the Arts in Grand Junction, Colorado.  In 2003, she founded The Art Colony in Grand Junction.  In the Fall of 2005, the Art Colony began to offer a fine art curriculum. Offering a "working artist" approach, the school continues to offer all levels of instruction, from enthusiastic beginner to frustrated professional.

: Sara Etta (Woodruff) Bristol; 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 were early settlers and farmers.

: Sara Kruh; She was born in Leadville, Colorado to an Austrian immigrant father and an immigrant mother (US Census records show her mother born alternately in Romania and Germany) and came to Mesa County when she was two years old, in 1892. Her father, John Kruh, was a jeweler. The family lived on a 160 acre farm on Georgia Mesa, near Collbran, until just after World War I. Along with other children, she was schooled in local homes until the Georgia Mesa School was built in the late 1870's. Upon finishing the 8th grade, she then moved to Grand Junction to attend Grand Junction High School, where she worked for room and board. There are two records for Sara Kruh in the 1910 US Census, with one that shows her living in Grand Junction and working as a live-in servant at the age of 19, and another that shows her living with her mother and siblings in Collbran. She graduated from high school in 1912 and became a teacher in the Molina School, a two-room schoolhouse in the town of Molina. She then went to college and returned to the area, teaching this time in Collbran, where she taught for four years until she went back to college and finished her Bachelor's Degree. She taught for a bit on the Eastern Slope, and then taught in Grand Junction until her retirement in 1962. She taught for a total of 47 years. She was a charter member of the Mesa County Teachers Federal Credit Union in the 1930's. She was a member of the Collbran Literary Society.

: Sara Kruh; She was born in Leadville, Colorado to an Austrian immigrant father and an immigrant mother (US Census records show her mother born alternately in Romania and Germany) and came to Mesa County when she was two years old, in 1892. Her father, John Kruh, was a jeweler. The family lived on a 160 acre farm on Georgia Mesa, near Collbran, until just after World War I. Along with other children, she was schooled in local homes until the Georgia Mesa School was built in the late 1870's. Upon finishing the 8th grade, she then moved to Grand Junction to attend Grand Junction High School, where she worked for room and board. There are two records for Sara Kruh in the 1910 US Census, with one that shows her living in Grand Junction and working as a live-in servant at the age of 19, and another that shows her living with her mother and siblings in Collbran. She graduated from high school in 1912 and became a teacher in the Molina School, a two-room schoolhouse in the town of Molina. She then went to college and returned to the area, teaching this time in Collbran, where she taught for four years until she went back to college and finished her Bachelor's Degree. She taught for a bit on the Eastern Slope, and then taught in Grand Junction until her retirement in 1962. She taught for a total of 47 years. She was a charter member of the Mesa County Teachers Federal Credit Union in the 1930's. She was a member of the Collbran Literary Society.

: Sara R. Glessner; She owned the Glessner Cafeteria on 126 N. 5th Street in Grand Junction's downtown in the 1920's and 30's. She sold soups and other foods there.

: Sara Rockinger; Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Sara Rockinger moved to Lafayette, Colorado in 1994. She creates art in many forms, but primarily focuses on her work in fiber arts. Amidst the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sara founded the Mighty Linden Tree Public Art Gallery, which provided free art materials for children and sponsored art contests for neighborhood children.

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