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- Thad Tuin
- An artist who had artwork displayed in the Art on the Corner (AOTC) exhibit in Downtown Grand Junction.
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- Thaddeus Bascom "Thad" Duckett
- An early settler in Mesa County, Colorado and founder of sawmills on Pinon Mesa. He was born in North Carolina to James Lowry Duckett and Sarah Caroline (McCracken) Duckett. He married Nancy Cantonwine. The 1880 US Census lists them twice: Living on Texas Creek in Custer County, near Salida, when Thad was twenty-three years old and listed as working as a rancher; and living with three nieces near the Arkansas River in Fremont County, where Thad worked as a farmer. Thad mined for a time in the Gunnison, Ouray, and Telluride areas before he and Nancy settled in Mesa County. They lived on Grand Avenue between 5th and 7th Streets and owned a farm on what was then D Road, near the Teller Indian School. In 1888 or 1889, they moved to Pinon Mesa, where another Duckett had established a sawmill. He ranched near the Little Dolores River, where he dug some of the first irrigation ditches, and operated the sawmill on East Creek on land later owned by the Aubert family. At one point, he sold cattle to the Indian agents at Ft. Defiance and prospected for copper while in Arizona. He went to the Northwest Territories of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. His trip was financed by Mr. B. Cannon, a wealthy promoter, who would share half of whatever Duckett found. Cannon gave land on Orchard Mesa to the Duckett family near the streets of Cannon, Dolores, and Santa Clara. They built a home there from Pinon Mesa lumber in 1896. He died at the age of forty-seven and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery.
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- Thaddeus C. "Thad" Bailey
- Farmer, rancher, and general store owner in Battlement Mesa and Grand Valley area. He was born in North Carolina to Amanda and John Ephraim Bailey. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. His father died in 1879, when Thaddeus was about three-years-old. The 1880 US Census shows him living with his mother and six siblings in Marion, North Carolina, with his mother listed as a housekeeper. It seems likely that as a young man, he lived in Kansas, as he married Prudence Broquet of Norton, Kansas. By 1908, they were in Denver, Colorado, where their daughter Beatrice was born. The 1910 census shows them living in Huerfano County, where Thaddeus operated a general store. In 1917, they moved to a small ranch they had purchased in Battlement Mesa, on the Western Slope. This was known as the Clark and Jenny Ranch. Though they continued to own this ranch for many years, they soon moved to a ranch purchased from Anthony Ische on Ische Mesa. With Otis Tidwell, he purchased a general store in Grand Valley (now Parachute) in the 1920’s. They operated the store for several years. His wife Prudence died at the age of 49, in 1927. He remarried to Mary Allison in 1928. They moved to Grand Valley in the late 1940’s, where they lived with Beatrice and her husband. At this time, they bought the Studt place, which they later sold to Earl Moore.
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- Thaddeus Laird
- Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)
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- Thaddeus Stephen Harp
- An early Rifle, Colorado pioneer. He was born to William Conn Harp and Hannah M. (Brous) Harp in Red Rock, Iowa. He first came to Colorado in 1888, when he visited his brothers H.S. and Pleasant Harp in Meeker. He married Nettie Ross in Iowa in 1890 and they lived in Otley, Iowa, where Thaddeus owned a mean market. Thaddeus and Nettie moved to meeker in March of 1896. With his brother, Simp, he started a stagecoach business, hauling people and freight to Meeker and father north. He later moved to Rifle so that he could handle their freight business there. People knew him by the white horse that he rode everywhere. He chauffeured doctors to appointments around the country, and was an able medical assistant. He served on the board of the Methodist church, and was important in the construction of a new church in Rifle. He died in Glenwood Springs. *Some information for this biography was taken from the typed notes of Mabel (Harp) Cowden.
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- Thatcher Leslie Shaw
- He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1908 to John L. Shaw, a train conductor, farmer, and real estate salesman, and Emma J. Shaw, a homemaker. He was drafted into World War ll as an attorney at the age of 33. He attended officer's school, but not until he had soldiered as a private. He was briefly a foot soldier in France. He was a lawyer during the occupation and was in charge of pardons and parole in Bavaria. He was later made a district judge in Munich, where he presided over cases with German civilians. He was in Germany during the Nuremberg Trails, and attended them as often as he could. He moved to Aspen, Colorado in 1950, and then to Grand Junction in 1954. There, he owned Shaw Thatcher Realtors, and also worked for a time as a uranium broker.