People

: Captain Jack (Ute); A Ute who led a group who refused to follow Nathan C. Meeker to a new White River Agency, prior to the Meeker Massacre.

: Captain Worthington; He as a former Union soldier who, in 1905, hired parties to survey the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado for possible settlement. E.L. Morse, a civil engineer who had settled in Fruitvale, did some of the surveys, and was accompanied by his nephew Levi Morse.

: Cara Guerrieri; Contributor to "Our River Our Valley", (source: Our River Our Valley: A Gunnison Valley Journal.)

: Carillion Creed; Contributor and Assistant Editor to "Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal," Daughter of Joyce Creed, Sister of Cameron and Caleb Creed, moved to Gunnison, CO from western Oklahoma approximately 1994. (source: Being Here: A Gunnison Valley Journal). Contributor to "The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal," (source: The where that tells us who we are: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Carl Alonzo Dewey; He was born to Donald A. Dewey and Dora (Borsun) Dewey in Pitkin County, Colorado. The family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado when he was three years old, in 1900. As a child he attended school in town and graduated from Grand Junction High School. He also attended the Hoel Ross Business College. He began working for the C.D. Smith Drug Company while still in high school and worked there until his retirement in 1963. He became the superintendent of operations for the company and supervised the distribution of fertilizers, insecticides and other products produced in the company’s laboratories. He also worked for the Henry Galley Real Estate Company. He married Merle Alice Nelson on January 19, 1919. They had two children. He served in the US Army during World War I. He belonged to the Masonic Lodge 55, the Western Colorado Horticultural Society, the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists, the Entomological Society of America, the American Mining Congress, the National Plant Food Institute, and the Colorado and Wyoming mining associations. He was also a charter member of the American Legion Post in Grand Junction. *Some of the information for this biography came from an obituary for Mr. Dewey published in the Daily Sentinel in March 1987.

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