People

: Orel Melvin "O.M." Hopkins; He was the business partner of livestock auctioneer Howard Shults in Mesa County, Colorado. Together they opened a sale yard on Orchard Mesa in the location of what later became Duck Pond Park. They operated together in the business from 1936 to 1942. He may still have been involved in the business after Shults moved it to near the Durham Stockyard.

: Orin H. Judson; He was born in Iowa to William A. Judson and Phoeby Judson. His father was a farmer and his mother a homemaker. William Judson died in a granite stone processing accident in 1922 Orin married Carrie Amelia Smith in Barre City, Vermont on June 24, 1896, when he was 26 years old. The US Census record shows them and their son Verle living there in 1900, with Orin working as a stone polisher. Due to Carrie’s poor health, the family moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1904, settling first in the Pomona area, where they farmed. To obtain better farmland, they moved to Loma on March 1, 1919. They leased land from Loma Securities, owned by Verner Z. Reed, until they were able to purchase the 80 acres in 1923. With his brother in law, Orin also owned cattle that they ran near Collbran. He died in Collbran from tuberculosis in 1923. He is buried in Grand Junction, Colorado.

: Orlando R. Lindesmith; He was born in Minnesota and lived subsequently in North Dakota. He married Marian Dickinson in North Dakota in 1922. By 1929, they were living in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he taught physics and inorganic and organic chemistry at Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University). Eventually, he retired to Henderson, Nevada. He was the father of twin boys. One son went on to become a nerve surgeon in California. Lindesmith suffered from diabetes for many years and eventually died from it.

: Orlin Corn; Early Twentieth century Mesa County resident and rancher. Brother of Esther, Betty, Edith, and Lelia Corn.

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