People

: William James Whatley; He was a veterinarian in Grand Junction and De Beque, Colorado. He was born in Denver, Colorado to Barney L. Whatley, an attorney, and Gertrude (Thielen) Whatley, a homemaker with a college degree. US Census records from 1930 and 1940 show him living there at the ages of 3 and 13. He attended Colorado State University (then Colorado State College of Agriculture) in 1927, where he received his veterinary degree. He practiced as a veterinarian in both Grand Junction and De Beque, Colorado. He was married and then divorced from Ann Virginia (Woods) Whatley. He is buried in Breckenridge. *Photograph from the 1927 annual of the Colorado State College of Agriculture.

: William Jennings Bryan; William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's nominee for President of the United States (1896, 1900, and 1908).

: William Kirk Bunte; A local historian in Mesa County, Colorado and a graduate of Palisade High School. He is the grandson of George Bunte Jr., an early farmer, business owner, and county assessor in Palisade, Colorado. Kirk Bunte recently rented the historic George Bunte Jr. residence to the Palisade Historical Society as their headquarters for a low fee. He is the author of “A History of Rapid Creek” (Journal of the Western Slope, Fall 1994, V.9, N.4). *Some information taken from New Palisade Museum in the Works, Bob Silbernagel, Daily Sentinel, December 11, 2019.

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