People

: David B. Lant; A lesser-known outlaw who was buddies with Harry Tracy of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Lant and Tracy murdered Valentine Hoy, member of a posse who helped capture them in Colorado in 1898. Lant was apprehended in 1898 at Brown's Park, Colorado along with Tracy, P. L. Johnson, and Judge Bennett. Tracey and Lant were placed in the Steamboat Springs jail but escaped. They were caught and transferred to the Pitkin County jail, but escaped again. Lant and Tracey parted ways, and it is unknown what happened to Lant.

: David Barbee; David Barbee is a prominent figure and longtime advocate for education and higher education in Colorado.

: David Brumbaugh; He was the postmaster of Loma, Colorado in the early Twentieth century. He also owned a mercantile company there. He was born in Pennsylvania to Henry Dougherty Brumbaugh and Sarah G. Brumbaugh. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. Census records show that he was married to his wife Elizabeth and living in North Woodbury, Pennsylvania by 1900, when he was twenty-five years old. He worked as a heater in iron production. According to his adopted daughter, Cora (Brumbaugh) Henry, David and Elizabeth owned a grocery store in Dragon, Utah prior to moving to Colorado. He was a butcher by trade. The Grand Junction City Directory shows that he was the manager of the Fruita Mercantile Company, soon to become the Loma Supply Company, by 1907. The 1910 Census shows the Brumbaughs living in Loma, Colorado, where he worked as the manager of a mercantile company. By 1910, Brumbaugh had become the Loma postmaster. The Brumbaughs owned and operated a hotel, general store, and post office in the same location. According to Cora, David also helped with the operations of the nearby Golden Hills Ranch. The Brumbaughs closed the store in 1918 and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska for one year. They moved to Fruita in 1919, where David and his brother William, the postmaster of Fruita, opened Brumbaugh Brothers grocery store. It went out of business in 1940.

: David Burton Downey; He was born in Ohio to Q.C. Downey, a clergyman, and Sarah A. Downey, a housewife. In 1880, when David was 10, US Census records show the family living in Cambridge, Ohio. By 1900, when David was 30, census records show him living as a lodger in Enid, Oklahoma, where he worked as a painter. He married Bertha Suedekum in 1902. By 1910 they lived on a farm in Lincoln, Kansas. According to oral history interviewee and son Wilbur Downey, they moved their children to Loma, Colorado in 1919, where David bought and ran a pool hall for 4 years. 1920 US Census records, however, show the family lived at the intersection of Caroline Avenue and Aspen Street in Fruita, Colorado, and list David Downey as a farmer. It may be that the family lived for a short time in Fruita before moving to Loma. He also served as the caretaker for the train depot in Loma.

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