People

: Vincenzo James "Jimmy" Arcieri; An Italian immigrant and farmer in Mesa County. He was born in Italy in 1880 and came to Mesa County, Colorado with his wife and children in 1913, at the age of 33. He operated a greenhouse and plant nursery on First Street in Grand Junction in the early Twentieth century. He also owned land in Pomona and on North Avenue before setting at the corner of 7th street and Struthers Avenue, where he raised tomatoes for the Curry Canning Company. There he contracted for 250,000 tomato plants per year. The family sold their greenhouses to Stephen Barnwell Johnson, who established Johnson's House of Flowers, in 1937.

: Viola Anna (Steinbach) Rump; 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’ Women’s Club in 1921. She died in 1957 at the age of 74, and is buried in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

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