People
Collection for person entities.
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- Avis M. Carlson
- An interviewer.
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- B. Benson
- An interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project.
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- B. Clark Wheeler
- Benjamin Clark Wheeler was born in Pennsylvania, August 11, 1849 and would have been 65 years of age next August. He was married in his native state when a young man, moving with his wife and three children to the Black Hills country in the 70's. It was here that misfortune overtook him, losing wife and children within a few years. In the year 1878 he came to Leadville, remaining there but a short time when he walked over the range from the Cloud City to Aspen in the spring of 1879. He at once became enthusiastic over the great possibilities of the Aspen district and in 1880 and '81 lectured throughout the East and South on the mineral possibilities of Aspen and vicinity, widely advertising the then new mining camp as a paradise for the poor man, where all had an equal opportunity to win favor from the Goddess Fortune. October 30, 1883 he married Miss Olive Isabel, daughter of Governor Davis H. Waite, at Aspen. Mrs. Wheeler died at St. Luke's hospital, Denver, May 13, 1898, and was buried in Aspen Grove cemetery. B. Clark Wheeler is survived by a sister, Mrs. Henry Coffield; a brother, Sam Wheeler, and a nephew Geo. B. Sherman, who were at his bedside at the time of death. Also several other brother and sisters and relatives whose names and wherebouts are unknown to any of his friends here. Posted in the Aspen Democrat Times, on June 20, 1914, page 2. In 1880 B. Clark Wheeler and Charles A. Hallam, agents and co-partners of Cincinnati businessman David Hyman, arrived in Ute City. The two men purchased several mining claims on Aspen Mountain, and Wheeler quickly surveyed the Ute City town site, renaming it Aspen. --Colorado Encyclopedia/Anna Scott of the Aspen Historical Society assisted with this article.
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- B. Heffron
- Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.
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- B.A. "Billy" Weil
- He began his military career with the Fourth Cavalry before World War II began. He finished with his year of mandatory service and was out for two weeks when he was recalled for further service. He went to communications school in Kansas to become a communications officer. He then became the headquarters motor officer at Fort Hood in Texas. Prior to the Army, he was a cowboy for ranching outfits.
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- B.M. Price
- B.M. Price was a plumber in Durango, Colorado. He worked for James Gorman at the Durango Plumbing and Heating Company. Shortly before his death, Gorman sold the company to Price.