People

: William A. Strimple; Born in Kansas and worked there as a schoolteacher. He traveled with his family to Cedaredge, Colorado in 1913. His wife was a tubercular and they moved for her health. He taught school and farmed in Cedaredge and on Orchard Mesa in Grand Junction.

: William Adelbert Medesy; He was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Albert and Elizabeth Medesy, both Hungarian immigrants. His father was an iron worker and his mother was a homemaker. The 1940 US Census shows him living with his wife, Geraldine, and working as a government or wage worker. He served as a captain in the US Army during World War II. An Associated Press file index notes that Medesy was named director of the Long Island Agricultural & Technical Institute in Farmingdale, New York in 1956. Dr. Medesy became president of Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University) in 1963 and served until 1970. He kickstarted the building program, which had previously only added dormitories and the student union building. Under his charge, land to the north was added to the property, largely creating the campus as it was known into the 2000’s. He had previously headed the Rangely College. He died in Aurora and is buried in Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver.

: William Albion Lynch; He was a Canadian and Grand Junction pioneer who moved to the area in 1882, shortly after the town's founding. United States Census records list him working in multiple occupations, including: cigar merchant, miner, and contractor. His daughter Nevada Burford's oral history recounts his involvement in some important early town enterprises. For instance, he contracted with the Denver and Rio Grande to build fills for railroad lines, moved fertilizer to stockyards and Palisade fruit growers, and reinforced piers that were once located on the Colorado River near the Grand Avenue bridge. Also, he homesteaded in Kannah Creek.

: William Alexander; Developer of the Alexander Lakes, beginning in 1896. He allowed the public (mostly residents of Surface Creek and Cedaredge) to continue fishing the lakes despite his ownership.

: William Aloysius "Gimpy" Yeagher; Incorrectly identified as William Aloysius Yeager in the article "William Aloysius Yeager"

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