People
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- William Broderson
- He was born in Millard, Nebraska to Dahma Broderson (a German immigrant) and Julius Broderson (from Denmark). He worked as a farmer and rancher.
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- William Burton "Burt" Rosenthal
- He was born to Hyman and Kitty Rosenthal in Salt Lake City, Utah. His father was a tailor and his mother was a homemaker. They were both Russian Jews who had immigrated from England. The 1940 US Census shows Burt working as a printer for a printing company. He then enlisted as a private in the US Army during World War II. He attained the rank of captain before his discharge in 1946. He married Merian Sedalnick of Grand Junction in Salt Lake City on January 13, 1943. They lived together in Grand Junction. They owned and operated the L Cook Jewelry and Sporting Goods Company for many years. The L Cook was a store founded by Merian’s parents.
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- William C. Dyer
- He came with his wife and family to Colorado from Ohio in 1910, following his son, a photographer, who had settled in the town of Mesa, Colorado. He bought fourteen acres on land two miles west of the Methodist Church in town, and farmed.
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- William Carl Osborne
- According to George Cecil Harper, Carl Osborne was a homesteader near Loma in the 1910’s, along with Harper’s father, George W. Harper. He was involved in the mercantile business and the livestock business in early Fruita, Colorado. He was also involved in business with his son, Max Osborne. He was the Fruita mayor for a time.
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- William Carr
- The Reverend William Carr was the pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Grand Junction, Colorado in the 1890’s and perhaps earlier. He made visits to Denver and met with the Sisters of Charity, who operated a hospital there. During those visits, he advocated for the establishment of a hospital in Grand Junction. In 1895, he went to Leavenworth, Kansas, the organizational home of the Sisters of Charity, and invited them to extend their health services to the Western Slope. They did so that same year.
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- William Charles "Bill" Rump
- He was born in Colorado to Charles Albert “Charlie” Rump and Viola Anna (Steinbach) Rump. His father was a civil engineer and farmer. His mother was a homemaker. The 1910 US Census shows Charles and Viola living in Denver, Colorado, prior to the birth of William. William was born in Denver and spent some of his childhood in Louisiana before moving with his parents to Mesa County in October of 1919, when he was seven years old. The 1920 census shows the Rumps, including William’s older brother Jack, living in the Fisher area, where they farmed. As a child, he drove a spray wagon to combat coddling moths in the Redlands orchards. He attended the Redlands School. As part of a school project, he planted a tree on school grounds and named his Aristotle. He graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1929. He was the Student Body President, played football, and was involved in the G Club and J-R Club. He left Grand Junction in 1933 and was gone for several years before returning sometime after 1945. On November 23, 1935, he married Helen Burgess Gardner in Bexar, Texas. There, he was working as a district engineer for an oil company. The 1950 census shows them living in downtown Grand Junction with Helen, with William working as a lumberyard foreman. The 1953 Grand Junction City Directory lists him as a salesman for Independent Lumber. He owned and later sold a peach ranch near the Gunnison River. He died at the age of 94 and is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery. *Photograph from 1929 Grand Junction High School yearbook