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- Albert Robinson
- An early resident of Garfield County, Colorado and the son of Colorado pioneers.
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- Albert Sada
- An Italian-American who owned a general store in Loma, Colorado in the early Twentieth century.
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- Albert Turner (Jr.)
- Early 20th century Mesa County, Colorado and Grand County, Utah rancher and the son of Albert Turner (Sr.).
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- Albert Verne Echternach
- He was born to John A. Echternach and Mary (Farquharson) Echternach in Gueda Springs, Kansas. In 1894, when he was four, he was kicked in the head by a colt and a surgeon removed the crushed skull and inserted a silver plate. He did not seem to suffer serious side-effects from this blow, but, on account of his age and the inability to fit the plate to his eventual adult size, that portion of his head would pulsate in adulthood. He attended school through the ninth grade in Peckham, Oklahoma and went to high school in Stillwater. He moved to Palisade, Colorado with his parents and siblings in 1909, when he was 19. In 1913, he took supplies from the family’s Palisade orchard to Green River, Utah in order to begin development of their land there. In addition to his agricultural pursuits, he started at the University at Boulder in the fall of 1913, where he belonged to the Scoop Club, presumably a journalistic society. He edited the Silver and Gold, the university paper. He went to law school and later worked for the Rocky Mountain News. He, his brother, and his father traded the Green River orchard for a ranch in Weisner, Idaho. He began working for a newspaper in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He entered the National Guard in the Artillery and own a French newspaper’s essay contest while deployed during World War I. He won a French newspaper’s essay contest while deployed. He was transferred to the Intelligence Department and was stationed in Paris, France. After the war, his family sold the Idaho ranch. In 1919, he moved with his wife Rite to California and entered the advertising business. He died of heart failure in June 1943. He was a Mason. *Photograph from the 1917 University of Colorado at Boulder annual.
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- Alberta (Lund) Moore
- Alberta was born in Longmont, Colorado, in 1914, daughter of Swedish immigrants. The family raised alfalfa, wheat, sugar beets and prized cattle. Alberta took a job at the local Woolworths store where she met Jim in 1936. Jim worked with his father at the family’s barber shop down the block from the Woolworths. The couple began dating, and when Jim was given the opportunity by Lawrence Elisha to run the barber shop at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen, they married on December 29, 1936, and immediately moved to Aspen. Alberta recalls waking up the next morning and looking out the window from her third floor room in the Hotel Jerome—seeing the broken down buildings and unpaved streets, she told Jim, “I’m only staying five years in this dump!” She never did leave and died in her own home on Maroon Creek. Alberta and Jim had three children—Sally, Jane, and Tom—who grew up ski racing. Jim was a founding member of the Aspen Ski Club in 1938 before the chairlifts were installed. Jim volunteered his time with the ski club to drive to ski racing events, act as timer and raise money for the kids’ uniforms. Jim knew that he needed to do more than run a barber shop to support his family, so he started a real estate business, the first one in Aspen. They bought what is now the Monarch Building on Main Street which then was Moore’s Court, a motel. Jim also had a barber shop and a real estate office in the building. They also lived in the building until 1955. It was difficult to close deals because many of the houses had no clear chain of title, having been abandoned. It was also difficult to obtain mortgages since the only bank in town, the Bank of Aspen, had seen so many loans default. Jim solved this problem by enlisting the help of down valley ranchers who had some surplus cash to loan. Alberta and Jim were very involved with the community. Alberta began volunteering at the Thrift Shop in 1951 and continued for over 45 years working every other Thursday. She also was very involved with Aspen’s Literary C lub which she joined in 1952. This was a small group of local women and one of the oldest organizations in Aspen (and still is). Alberta worked hard keeping up Moore’s Court in those early days. Very few ladies worked as hard as she did! Jim was a member of the Aspen Elks Lodge and served as Exalted Ruler two years running in 1948 and 1949. Jim was also on the Aspen School Board for years in the early to mid-50s. When the couple realized that the schools were over crowded, they donated land near Aspen Highlands for a new high school campus to be built on Maroon Creek in 1966. They also felt that the community needed a new public swimming pool and donated 3 acres for the facility in 1972. This was named the James E. Moore Swimming Pool and is now part of the Aspen Recreation Center. --Aspen Hall of Fame bio Photo: Aspen Historical Society