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- Will Cleo Minor
- A longtime Fruita resident from the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century. According to Marjorie (Raber) Likes, the Minor family came to Fruita from Eastern Colorado when he was about nine years old. According to Dorothy (Raber) Beard, he worked as goat herder for his father and then for the Raber family. He attended to the lambing at night. He didn’t complete formal schooling but was an accomplished writer and photographer. He also collected butterflies and discovered a rare type of butterfly at Black Ridge on the Colorado National Monument. Subsequently, the butterfly was named after him: Papilio Indra Minori. He wrote articles about nature and sheep ranching for the Daily Sentinel. In 1915, he wrote the book Footprints in the Trail, which was reprinted several times.
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- Will Fredrick "Bill" Hartman Jr.
- He was born in Spearfish, South Dakota to William F. Hartman and Madora Mae (Ricks) Hartman. The 1910 US Census shows that his father worked as a clerk in a grocery store. His mother was a homemaker. The family moved to Bayard, Nebraska around 1915, when William Jr. was five years old. His mother died there in 1916, and the 1920 Census shows that William Sr. was a widower working as a laborer in a sugar factory. The 1930 Census shows William Jr. still living at home and working as a retail salesman. He briefly attended the University of Missouri before touring the United States by freight train and hitchhiking. He ended up in Greeley, Colorado, where he found work and met future wife Lucille “Lucy” Carlson. He attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley in 1930, where he majored in Commercial Education and was a member of Phi Delta Pi. He then attended the University of Wyoming, graduating with a B.A. in 1933. He taught in Sterling, Colorado and worked at the Sterling Advocate as a journalist. He married Lucy Carlson on June 19, 1937 in South Dakota. Mesa College dean Horace Wubben interviewed him for a position as a journalism teacher, and William and Lucy came to Grand Junction in 1938. He taught at the college and was the faculty advisor for the Criterion, the college newspaper. The 1940 US Census shows William and Lucy living at 1017 Chipeta Avenue in Grand Junction by 1940. According to oral history interviewee Al Look, at the time of Pearl Harbor’s attack, Hartman and Look were eating lunch on the Uncompahgre. They returned to Grand Junction and Hartman soon joined the Army, having been sworn in by Look. He became part of the Army’s journalism department. However, Hartman’s draft card appears to show that he registered with draft board on October 19, 1940, when he was 31 (and over a year before Pearl Harbor). Walter Walker procured a four-year appointment in the US Army Air Corps for him during World War II. After the war, he got a job at Colorado State College (now Colorado State University). He and Lucy later remained on the Eastern Slope, where they raised their children. *Photograph from the 1930 University of Northern Colorado yearbook
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- Will Silzell
- A cowboy and cattle rancher who came with his parents to Whitewater from the San Luis Valley in 1901.
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- Will T. Avery
- Student at Colorado Christian University, graduated May, 2015.
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- Will Thompson
- Will Thompson was born in 1945 and raised in San Francisco. He moved to Denver, Colorado, where he sold original art graphics to art publishers. In 1985, Will, along with his wife (Hilary) read a Time Magazine article about Telluride, Colorado. They were both skiers and excited to check out the area. Once they came for a visit, they decided to stay. So, that same year, they started the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, which they ran until January of 2017 (when they finally retired). Will also served on the Wilkinson Public Library's board (in Telluride) as a Library Trust for about 10 years, starting in the late 1990's.