People
Collection for person entities.
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- Benerita Dolores (Velazquez) Urruty
- Twentieth century resident of Mesa County. Wife of Jean Urruty.
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- Benjamin "Ben" Griffith
- An attorney who, along with Henry Tupper, helped write the bill that organized a new drainage district in the Grand Valley, passed into law by the Colorado State Congress in 1923.
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- Benjamin "Ben" Tillman Wright
- He was born to Ben T. Wright and Meriam F. (Sharp) Wright in Colorado and grew up in the Whitewater area of Mesa County. His parents owned and operated the Whitewater Hotel. He was drafted into the armed forces during World War I and served in 1917-18 before being discharged. The 1920 US Census indicates that he returned to Whitewater where he was employed as a rural mail carrier, a job he kept for at least twenty years. He married Agnes Marie Peugh in May 1918. Census records show that they had moved from Whitewater to Grand Junction by 1930.