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- Albert Moon
- Born January 26, 1890, in Lafayette, Colorado. Worked the coal mines for 23 years, then in the fields when the mines closed.
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- Albert Perry Christensen
- A sheep rancher in Mesa County, Colorado. He was born in Fairview, Utah to Albert Earl Christensen and Cleo (Olson) Christensen. His father was the manager of a coal mine. He died in 1932, when Albert Perry was 9. His mother was a homemaker. The 1940 US Census record shows Albert, his mother and siblings living with Albert’s grandparents on a farm in Manti, Utah. He enlisted in the US Marines during World War II. He married Helen Doraine Thorpe in Juab, Utah on September 8, 1947, and their marriage record shows them living in Snowmass, Colorado. US City Directories show that they had moved to Grand Junction, Colorado by at least 1951. The 1951 directory shows them living in an apartment at 1039 Chipeta Avenue, with Perry’s occupation listed as rancher. Though they appear to have lived in town during their lives, Perry herded sheep in Snowmass, the Bookcliffs, and other areas. Perry sold wool from his sheep, and was honored with the senior agricultural award, given by Grand Junction’s service organizations, in 1978. He was a past president of the Colorado Wool Growers’ Association, served on the Bureau of Land Management advisory committee, the Forest Service advisory committee, the American Sheep Producers’ Council, the Colorado Sheep and Wool Board, and on the Mesa College advisory board. He was a lifelong member of the Mormon Church and a local leader in the organization. *Some information for this biography was taken from “Clubs honor Christensen, Harper,” Daily Sentinel, March 4, 1978. **Photograph from 1940 Manti High School (Utah) yearbook.
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- Albert Phillips
- He was born in Wales and immigrated with his wife, Diana (Jenkins) Phillips, to the United States. They settled in Palisade, Colorado, where they owned a peach growing operation. During the winters he worked as a coal miner. He was a charter member of the United Fruit Growers Association.
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- Albert Phillips Jr.
- He was born in Palisade, Colorado to Albert Phillips and Diana (Jenkins) Phillips, immigrants from Wales. His family owned and ran a peach farm. He attended the Mt. Lincoln School from 1926 to 1936, Grand Junction High School from 1937 to 1941, and Mesa College in 1941. During his teenage years he also worked for the United Fruit Growers Association (of which his father was a founder). He was also a fruit farmer and rancher in his own right, and farmed exclusively from 1946 to 1962. In 1962, he became a laborer for the UFGA and later became the warehouse manager. He was still working for the UFGA at the time of his oral history interview in 1981. He raised cattle in the Rhone Creek area. He married Ruth A. Phillips of Grand Junction. *Photograph from the 1940 Grand Junction High School yearbook.