People

: Andrew Gulliford; He grew up in Lamar, Colorado and attended Lamar High School. According to his website, he began writing a column for the Lamar Daily News at the age of fourteen. During the 1970’s and 80’s, he directed a project called The Country School Legacy Project (sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association and funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities). This project documented rural school houses in Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. According to the April 1981 edition of the Colorado Heritage News, the purpose of the project was to “document and share information about country schools and their importance as educational and community institutions.” He received his PhD from Bowling Green State University in 1986, and is now a professor of history and environmental studies at Ft. Lewis College in Durango. He is also a photographer and author, and has written several books, including: America’s Country Schools, Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, and The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes.

: Andrew J. Macky; Andrew J. Macky was a prominent businessman involved with the town of Boulder in the late 19th century. Macky served as the President, as well as a stockholder of the First National Bank, an institution founded by another early CU supporter, Lewis Cheney. Macky is credited with a number of landmarks throughout Boulder, where he was a carpenter and involved in politics.

: Andrew J. Macky; Andrew J. Macky was an early pioneer of Boulder. He came to Boulder in 1859, where as a carpenter he built the first frame house in the town. He became postmaster, county treasurer, justice of the peace, school secretary, town treasurer, clerk of the district court, and city clerk. He became a prominent businessman and served as the President of the First National Bank.

: Andrew J. Moore; He was born in Vermont to Andrew Moore, a carriage driver, and Marcia Moore, a homemaker. US Census records show that he was living with his wife and family in Missouri by at least 1870, when he was 24. Colorado State Census records indicate that he had moved with his family to Grand Junction, Colorado by at least 1885. According to his granddaughter, oral history interviewee Emma (Jones) Conner, he was a carpenter who built several early homes in Grand Junction. He also owned his own lumber mill in the Unaweep Canyon area.

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