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- Walter Paepcke
- Skiing had already started to boost Aspen out of its 50-year hibernation when the Paepckes arrived in May of 1945. Walter Paepcke, is best known, not for his business success with the Container Corporation of America, but for bringing culture out of the city and building Aspen into a year round cultural and skiing mecca. The Paepckes infused Aspen with numerous cultural activities and were instrumental in creating a stable economy for the area. After the innovative Goethe Bicentennial Convocation in 1949, he established the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, the International Design Conference of Aspen (IDCA) and the Aspen Music Festival and School in order to fulfill his dream of the "Aspen Idea." Elizabeth, known as the "Grand Dame of Aspen," and Walter were instrumental in bringing about what we now call the "renaissance" of Aspen. In Walter's own words, his vision for Aspen was "a community of peace" with opportunities for man’s complete life "where he can earn a living, profit by healthy physical recreation, with facilities at hand for his enjoyment of art, music, and education." Always gracious, Elizabeth Paepcke expressed her sense of fun, whimsy and creativity in her endeavors, from garden parties to board meetings.--Aspen Hall of Fame bio
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- Walter Richard "Dick" Lloyd
- He was born to Sidney Lloyd and Jessie Irene (Knusen) Lloyd in Palisade, Colorado. His parents came from Overland, Kansas and settled in Palisade in 1887. His father was a fruit farmer and, reputedly, a horse trader. His mother was a homemaker. Dick had two brothers: Merle and Sidney. His family moved frequently. The 1910 US Census shows the family living in Goshen, Utah on a fruit farm, when Dick was two. According to the article, “History rides tall on Lloyd ranch,” he went to school in several places, including: Palisade, Mt. Garfield, Clifton, and Pear Park (Daily Sentinel, May 18, 1975). His first job as a cowboy was for Jim Nelson, who had a ranching operation on Whitewater Creek. He then worked as a ranch hand for E.D. Stewart near the town of Mesa. It was in traveling to work each day that he met his future wife, Bertha Johnson, who worked at the Lee Prewett Store. They married in Grand Junction on April 7, 1928. They moved to a homestead near Mesa, along the road to De Beque from Highway 65, that grew to become the Lloyd Ranch. Over time, the Lloyds purchased several ranches on the Grand Mesa and expanded their holdings to 26,000 acres. Lloyd also built two reservoirs, Rapid Creek 1 and 2, relying on a team and dynamite to blast ditches into the Mesa's granite top from the reservoirs. Lloyd owned the 111-Bar brand. He won the roping challenge at the Mesa rodeo in the town of Mesa for five years running. He and his wife had two children, Doris and Harold. He also had short-lived forays into sheep rearing and trucking. He was a member of Plateau Lodge 101 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Grand Junction Consistory, Knights Templar, Western Colorado Shrine Club, Collbran Conservancy District Board, and the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. *Public domain photograph of Walter "Dick" Lloyd [circa 1924]
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- Walter Stokes
- He was a coal miner from Scotland who settled in the Rockville, Colorado, where he was a coal miner. US Census records indicate that he came to the United States in 1882, when he was 25. As a union member, he became involved in a fiercely contested strike between workers, non-union workers, and the CF&I Railroad, owners of the coal mine. As his daughter-in-law and oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes tells it, a “Ludlow kind of massacre” occurred in the late Nineteenth century after a militia was brought in by the CF&I to break the strike, and Stokes was told he could no longer work for the railroad. He then moved his family to the Pear Park area of Mesa County sometime around 1890, but returned to Canyon City for a time, as evidenced by US Naturalization records that show him becoming a US Citizen as a resident of Canyon City in 1894. He purchased a farm and grew grapes and pears in Pear Park, but preferred coal mining. He instead mined a vein of coal that became known as the Stokes Mine, in the Spiral Dell Canyon near Palisade. US Census records show him working as a farmer in 1900, so it is likely that he began the Stokes Mine sometime after that. He employed 25 to 30 men. He eventually developed Black Lung from his work in the mines.
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- Walter Vern "Walt" Simineo
- He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to Fred Simineo and Josephine (Vincent) Simineo. His father was a cattle rancher and his mother was a homemaker. At his birth, the family lived in a log cabin near the Colorado River. They moved shortly after to Whitewater, where his parents rented a cattle ranch. He attended the Whitewater School and also high school. He purchased a ranch in Kannah Creek Canyon and US Census records show him living there by at least 1930. He widened a horse trail in the canyon into a road by using dynamite. He also put in an orchard, an alfalfa field, and kept pigs and other animals ("Canyon Sculpter: Kannah Creek loner lives in Indians' Shadow" by Gary Massoro, Daily Sentinel, circa 1981). He married Lillie Hartman.