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- Thomas Harrison Moore
- He was born in Columbus, Ohio to George Moore and Kathryn (Harrison) Moore. He attended Worthington High School, graduating in 1964. He then attended the University of Ohio at Columbus. He was drafted into the armed forces just before he could graduate in 1968. He served in the United States Army from January 1969 to September 1970. He was stationed in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Fort Ben Harrison, Indiana, and Chu Lai, Vietnam. He was selected from his company for a specialization in finance. He arrived in Vietnam on July 10, 1969. He was assigned to the Army’s 23rd Infantry Americal Division at Chu Lai, where he was posted to guard duty. He received the Arcom Medal for his service in the Vietnam War. He attained the rank of E4. After the war, he traveled for a couple years before moving to Western Colorado. He attended Western State College, finishing in 1972, before embarking on a career in counseling that same year. He was a counselor at the time of his oral history interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project in 1983. He married in 1976. He and his wife had two children. He was a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America. He is the author of the book, Driving to the Darkness: Splinter’s Journey Through the 1960’s.
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- Thomas Harrison Moore
- He was born in Columbus, Ohio to George Moore and Kathryn (Harrison) Moore. He attended Worthington High School, graduating in 1964. He then attended the University of Ohio at Columbus. He was drafted into the armed forces just before he could graduate in 1968. He served in the United States Army from January 1969 to September 1970. He was stationed in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Fort Ben Harrison, Indiana, and Chu Lai, Vietnam. He was selected from his company for a specialization in finance. He arrived in Vietnam on July 10, 1969. He was assigned to the Army’s 23rd Infantry Americal Division at Chu Lai, where he was posted to guard duty. He received the Arcom Medal for his service in the Vietnam War. He attained the rank of E4. After the war, he traveled for a couple years before moving to Western Colorado. He attended Western State College, finishing in 1972, before embarking on a career in counseling that same year. He was a counselor at the time of his oral history interview with the Mesa County Oral History Project in 1983. He married in 1976. He and his wife had two children. He was a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America. He is the author of the book, Driving to the Darkness: Splinter’s Journey Through the 1960’s.
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- Thomas J. "T.J." Flynn
- In 1932, at a cocktail party in LA, Aspen native TJ Flynn, with mining claims to sell, met Olympic gold medal bobsledder Billy Fiske, who, along with Ted Ryan of Aspen, wanted to see an American resort to rival Europe’s finest. They settled on the Castle Creek Valley near Aspen. The Highlands-Bavarian Lodge opened in 1936 and operated ski tours in the valley. Guests would climb the surrounding mountains and ski down, back to the lodge at the confluence of the Conundrum and the Castle Creeks. Flynn and Fiske—along with Ryan—proposed Colorado's first major ski area on the slopes of Hayden Peak with the grand ambition of an aerial tram that would reach all the way to the 13,000-foot saddle south of Hayden Peaks's summit—covering 3.2 miles of slope with a vertical rise of 4,000 feet. Andre Roch and Italian Gunther Langes surveyed the east slopes of Hayden Peak, and the following year Flynn's company obtained title to the ghost town of Ashcroft. A year later, the route of the aerial tram was surveyed. Ted successfully lobbied the Colorado Legislature to issue $650,000 in bonds for this valley-to-peak tramway, and a 1936 brochure, written by columnist Robert Benchly and entitled How to Aspen, sought endorsements and investors for the project. The Highland-Bavarian Corp. was about to get its first chairlift when the United States entered WWII and all steel orders were cancelled. Fiske was killed fighting with the R.A.F. in 1940, and with the inspirational heart of the plans gone, their plans came to an end. But, after the war, the focus would shift to the town of Aspen where an infrastructure already existed and the spirit of the dream of Fiske, Flynn and Ryan would be realized. —Photos: Aspen Historical Society
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- Thomas Jefferson Campbell Jr.
- He was born in Clifton, Colorado to Thomas Jefferson Campbell Sr. and Eliza (Warrington) Campbell. He attended the Mt. Garfield School from 1913 to 1920, took his first two years of high school at the Clifton School from 1920 to 1922, and went to Grand Junction High School from 1923 to 1925. He went to Ross Business College in 1925-1926. The 1930 US Census shows him as single and living with his parents, with his occupation listed as farm laborer at the age of twenty-one. During this time, he made fruit boxes for orchards. He also helped to build the Dotsero cutoff for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, which was completed in 1934. He married Virginia Rucker in Grand Junction on May 23, 1937. The 1940 census shows him as living with his parents, working on the family farm, and lists him as married, though his wife is not shown as living with him. They appear to have separated and then divorced. He was drafted into the US Army on December 16, 1942 and served as a Private 1st Class. He received a marksmanship medal. He married Ilo Roxie Cash Wright sometime before 1950, when the census shows them living with her four children from a previous marriage on the north bank of the Grand Valley Canal. She died in 1974. He remarried to Helen Land Campbell, who operated the American Beauty College, on February 2, 1976. He worked as a bookkeeper for the Western Slope Auto Company, now Western Slope Ford, in the parts department. He also worked as construction worker, as a fireman and engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and was a fruit farmer. He was a member of the Clifton Lions Club and was the 1st Vice President. *Photograph from the 1925 Grand Junction High School yearbook
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- Thomas Jefferson Charles
- He was born in Ohio. Military pension records indicate that he was a Civil War veteran who served in the 191st Ohio Infantry. US Census records show Thomas living in Georgetown, Colorado with his brother James by 1870, when Thomas was 28. He married Mary Catherine Kavanaugh sometime before 1880 and they are shown living together in Nebraska by the 1880 census. He was listed by the census as a quartz miner. The US Census record shows the family living again in Georgetown by 1900. He and his wife Mary Catherine moved to the Fruitvale area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1905. There, they planted 40 acres in apples, pears and peaches. Their land was located near the present Memorial Gardens cemetery.