People

: Thomas McCracken; Thomas was a student at H Street School in the late 19th century.

: Thomas Penrose; Thomas Penrose was born in Cornwall, England and emigrated to America in 1874. He worked at various places around the country and eventually ended up working at the Pride of the West Mine. He wrote a statement of his pioneer experiences.

: Thomas Roberts; Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.

: Thomas Rodgers; Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.

: Thomas Roland "Tom" Biglin; He was born in Philadelphia. His father, also Thomas Biglin, was a stonemason who worked on railroad bridges. Biglin’s family lived in Boston, where his father worked on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, before moving to Northwest Iowa in 1898. Biglin’s father died in a railroad accident near Ogden, Utah in 1906. His mother, Beatrice Biglin, remarried in 1907 and moved to Nucla, Colorado in 1909, where the family owned 160 acres through preemption. Tom Biglin attended grade school and some high school in Iowa. Montrose had the high school nearest to Nucla, and he quit school rather than commute when they got to Western Colorado. During World War I, he served in the US Army as an ambulance driver attached to the French 38th Division from North Africa. He ranched and raised hay until 1969, when he sold most of the ranch and built a home wired for electricity.

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