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: O.D. Russell; Along with William McGinley and J. Clayton Nichols, he settled the area that is now Grand Junction, Colorado directly after the forced removal of the Utes in 1881. He was elected to the first school board of Grand Junction School District 1 on June 1, 1882.

: Oda Alexander; "In 1906, twelve-year-old Oda Collins and her family moved there (Telluride, Colorado) to work in the dairies. She attended school in San Miguel, graduated from the eighth grade in a class of four girls, then went up to Telluride for high school. Oda met her future husband, Bob Alexander, when he came to work for her mother on the dairy. Her mother had remarried Al Thompson after Oda’s dad passed away, and the Thompson dairy was one of at least four on the Valley Floor at that time. In 1918, Oda and Bob were married in San Miguel. The couple dairied on the Valley Floor until 1927. Oda remembers how hard life was, but she and Bob made it fun. She would time him as he hand-milked the cows. “I did 19 in an hour, that was my best,” Bob recalls in a 1990 interview with Pera." Oda and Bob had 7 children. --Taken 1/13/22 from https://www.montrosepress.com/obituaries/betsy-alexander-davis/article_e34bab82-cc5a-11e8-ac3a-9b9082ce4f5d.html

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