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- William L. Billin
- In 1880. William L. Billin managed the North Fork Consolidated Mining and Tunnel Company, which operated the Pride of the West lode.
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- William Lace "Bill" Rice
- He grew up in the Pomona area of Mesa County, Colorado, either on or nearby Third Fruitridge. He often played in the irrigation ditches and went fishing in the ditches with his brother David and their friend Albert Rood. He attended Colorado State University, and later became a teacher in the Grand Valley. He married Margaret Florence Seaman in 1954.
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- William Lawrence "Bill" Reeves
- He was born in McCune, Kansas to John Reeves, a farmer, and Margaret Jane “Maggie” (King) Reeves, a homemaker. His father was an immigrant from Ireland and his mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants. As a boy, he attended a one-room schoolhouse in Walnut, Kansas until 1910, when he was sixteen. He went on to attend an embalming school in Springfield, Missouri while working for Bill C. Lohmeyer’s undertaking establishment. He was the youngest person to pass the Kansas board examination for undertakers. He was drafted into the US Army’s 10th Division at Camp Funston in 1917. He received the rank of sergeant and battery commander before his discharge in January 1918. He was one of several civilian undertakers called up by the army to help manage those who died from the Spanish Flu. He was discharged early because undertakers were needed back in Kansas, where most of the doctors had been drafted and the flu’s death toll was high. His unit was not deployed to Europe during World War I. The 1930 US Census shows Reeves living alone in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he is listed as a widower and working as an automobile salesman. He moved to Western Colorado later that year, but returned to Colorado Springs to marry Minnie Christine Emerson on February 9, 1931. They had one daughter. The 1940 US Census shows them living at 746 Colorado Avenue, with Bill managing a filling station. He was a member of the American Legion, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Loyal Order of Moose.
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- William Lefare
- Murderer of cattle rancher E.T. Massey. The murder occurred on the Uncompahgre Plateau.
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- William Lyman Chenoweth
- A geologist involved in uranium mining and exploration. He was born in Wichita, Kansas to Bertrum William Chenoweth and Bessie Lenore (Lyman) Chenoweth. His father appears to have left home when William was young. The 1910, 1920, and 1930 US Census records show William living with his mother and maternal grandparents from the time he was one year old. He attended the Riverside and John Marshall Schools in Wichita, and Wichita High School North. He then went to the University of Wichita, where he received a BA in Geology, before relocating to Albuquerque where he got his MS in Geology from the University of New Mexico in 1953. His thesis on the Morrison Formation was funded by the Atomic Energy Commission and he was offered employment by the Commission after his graduation. He worked in and around the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, studying uranium deposits for the next eleven years. He married Miriam B. “Polly” Pawlicki on January 6, 1955. They had three sons, one daughter, and grandchildren. He served with the New Mexico National Guard from 1955 to 1959 and attained the rank of sergeant. He transferred to the Grand Junction, Colorado office of the Commission in 1963, where he studied uranium deposits in South Dakota and Wyoming. In 1970, he became the Chief of the Geologic Branch in Grand Junction, managing geologists in several states. He retired in 1983 rather than relocate with his position to Washington D.C. He then became a paid consultant and a research associate with the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources. He was the Chairman of the Nuclear Minerals Committee of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He was a member of the New Mexico Geological Society. He worked with the Justice Department to assist uranium workers exposed to radiation. He died at the age of eighty-nine and is interred in the Columbarium at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Grand Junction. *Some of this information was taken from the obituary of William Chenoweth (Daily Sentinel, July 27, 2018, page 5A)
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- William Lyon Wood
- He was born in Pueblo, Colorado to David and Fannie Wood. US Census records show the family living in Ouray, Colorado in 1900 and 1910, when William was 6 and 16 years old, respectively. William Wood was the editor of the Durango Herald contemporaneously to Rod Day's tenure at the rival newspaper, the Durango Democrat, a morning daily (published 1899-1928). According to Al Look, who worked for the rival Durango Herald at that time, Day was hospitalized for delirium tremens. The publisher of the Herald, McDevitt, ordered his staff not to write about Day's alcoholism. Wood ignored this direction and published an editorial about Day's hospital stay and the reason for it. Unbeknownst to Wood, Day had been released from the hospital on the day the editorial was published. When Day saw Wood on Main Street in Durango, he shot Wood in the back of the head as he was crawling away.