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- Ada B. Copeland
- She was a teacher at several elementary schools in Grand Junction, Colorado, including the Bryant School and Riverside School. She later became the principal of the Washington School, which she helped design.
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- Ada Idella "Della" (Snook) Mack
- She was born in Montrose County, Colorado. By 1896, when she was six years old, she and her family were living on the Brink place in Fruita. They moved to what became known as Snooks Bottom around 1900, named for the homestead founded there by her parents William Tunis Snook and Clara Zillah (Park) Snook. The family lived there until 1910, when a reservoir constructed by resident families burst. They moved back to Fruita, where William purchased and ran the livery stable and Della worked in a hotel. She married John W. Mack in Craig, Colorado in 1919. She was a homemaker. She was also a family historian, and much of the information known about the history of the Snook family and Snooks Bottom comes from letters written by her and read during a Mesa County Oral History Project interview by her niece, Ida Mae (Snook) Waggoner.
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- Adair John Hotchkiss
- A Mesa County judge who was raised in Hotchkiss, Colorado. He was born in Colorado to Elizabeth (Mcintyre) Hotchkiss and Enos Hotchkiss. His mother was a Canadian immigrant and homemaker, and his father was a farmer. They were members of a pioneering family for whom the town of Hotchkiss is named. He married Ethel Bear, a school teacher. Together they moved to Grand Junction, where he was appointed as a district judge. He was known to quote Shakespeare and to give stern punishments to juvenile offenders. According to oral history interviewee Helen (Young) Johnson, who lived in the town of Hotchkiss as a child in the early Twentieth century, Adair Hotchkiss owned a fair amount of land in town, and sold two plots to Johnson's family on a payment plan.
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- Adam A. Reeves
- Chemical engineer who worked at Anvil Points Research Facility under the Bureau of Mines and later under the Paraho Development Corporation. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Michael George Reeves and Mary C. (Smith) Reeves. His father was a warehouse foreman, truck driver, and plumber. His mother was a homemaker. The US Census shows that they had moved to Denver, Colorado by at least 1930, when Adam was thirteen years old. There, they lived at 293 South Pearl Street. He attended South High School, where he was involved in Triple S. He graduated in 1935. He first came to Western Colorado that same year, when he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps camp on the Colorado National Monument, where he worked on the Rim Rock Drive road building project. He stayed for six months, leaving in September 1935, so that he could attend the University of Denver under the auspices of the National Youth Administration, which provided him with work near the school. The 1940 census shows him living back home in Denver, where he worked as a substitute clerk for the Post Office. During this time, he was also most likely attending college. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Denver, and then a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma while serving as an Army in Europe during World War II. He served in the United States Army from April 11, 1942 to January 9, 1946. He attained the rank of Corporal. He worked as a chemical engineer and joined the Bureau of Mines and then the Paraho Development Corporation at the Anvil Points facility. The objective of his work at Anvil Points under both organizations was to determine the economic feasibility of commercial oil shale projects. He was the inventor and patent holder for 25 oil shale processes during his work between 1956-1990. He died at the age of ninety-three and is buried in Ft. Logan Cemetery in Denver. He never married. *Photograph from 1944 University of Oklahoma yearbook
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- Adam Booker
- He owned the original City Market store at 400 Main Street in 1922. He sold the store to the Prinster brothers in 1924 and then opened the Grand Market at 4th Street and White Avenue, in the location of the current post office. It stayed in business for many years, although, according to Clarence Prinster, it never did a thriving business.