People
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- Civallus A. Brett
- The Grand Junction News of April 14, 1883 describes him as builder of the first cabin in Mesa County after the removal of the Ute (others believe that George Hawxhurst built the first log cabin near Collbran). According to researcher David Sundal, his cabin was on River Road. He became one of the county's first commissioners. He was from Massachusetts, and his obituary in a 1921 Daily Sentinel stated that he fought in the Civil War and was a participant in the California Gold Rush.
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- Clair Hotchkiss
- The descendent of Colorado pioneers. He was in the Department of Fish and Game, and was reputed to have looped a rope over a sleeping bear’s neck and given the other end of the rope to an unsuspecting “flatlander” to pull.
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- Claire Sandersen
- Claire Sandersen first came to Aspen on a ski vacation with her husband in 1952. She became “addicted to Aspen” and convinced her husband to return in 1955. They bought the Aspenhof Lodge where they had stayed three years earlier and Aspen became her “place.” Claire graduated from Yale University with a Masters in Nursing in 1942 and her interest in health care continued when she moved to Aspen. She began her involvement with improving Aspen by setting out to clean up Aspen’s drinking water. She tackled the reluctant City government and quickly convinced them of the need to have quality water for locals and visitors. Claire also worked with the schools on health initiatives involving nutrition and other needs. Claire felt that it was not enough to just live but that one needed to insure those around you thrived. Her daughter, Anne Owsley, remembers that during the turbulence of the late 60s, Claire would house runaway teens who arrived in town with nothing: “Our house was like a halfway house.” The list of organizations in which Claire was involved includes Touchstone Mental Health (later Aspen Counseling Center), Aspen Valley Visiting Nurses, Aspen Community Health Services, Aspen Incident Management Team, the Red Cross and Assistencia Para Latinos. According to Eve Homeyer, “Claire was an ardent protector of those who could not protect themselves.” Claire was a peace activist who advocated against conflict. Claire’s son Bill was killed in action in Vietnam on August 19, 1968. She and Rick Buesch, a decorated Vietnam vet, established the Vietnam War Memorial on the grounds of the Pitkin Co. Courthouse. — Aspen Hall of Fame bio, Photo-Aspen Historical Society
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- Clancy Mills
- A volunteer and interviewer for the Mesa County Oral History Project.
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- Clara (Jordan) McFall
- She was born somewhere between Iowa and Colorado on the Burlington Northern Railroad. She was a homemaker, typist and bookkeeper for C.D. Smiths drugstore. She attended the Hoel Ross Business College. She loved to dance and taught her son how to waltz. She enjoyed going to dance halls. She was married to Elmer McFall but they separated.
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- Clara (Milton) Foster
- A cook for her father's construction men in the late 1920s. Oral History interviewee Earl Eugene Foster talks about when he was a foreman of a power plant in Telluride, Colorado, and how a significant rainstorm had damaged the plant. Clara's father was among the men fixing the damage, and she would cook for them. Earl courted Clara and claims to have had her father's approval. They got married on October 19th, 1928. They had two boys and two girls.
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- Clara (Thompson) Sewell
- Pioneer of Thompson Creek area. Mother of Robert Sewell. Wife of Charles Sewell. Resident of Sewell Ranch (formerly Thompson Ranch).