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- Thomas Jefferson Hampson
- T.J. Hampson was a miner in the Monarch Mining District in Chaffee County, Colorado in the 1880s.
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- Thomas Knill
- Thomas Knill was born and raised in Lafayette, CO. He earned a degree from the Colorado School of Mines. Thomas went on to have a career as an engineer and surveyor at Lowry Air Force base and various mines in the area. He married Edith Thompson on September 6, 1930, and they had four daughters.
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- Thomas Laffey
- Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.
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- Thomas M. Wilson
- Resident of Gunnison County, Colorado.
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- Thomas Matthew Todd
- Lumber company owner, socialist, and mayor of Grand Junction. Thomas Todd was born in Illinois to Andrew Calvin Todd, a farmer and clergyman from South Carolina, and Margaret Louisa (Willson) Todd. Todd's mother most likely died when he was young, as the 1870 US Census shows him living with his grandmother and siblings in Illinois at the age of 12, and the 1880 US Census shows Todd and his siblings living in Weld County, Colorado with his father (listed as a widower). Todd married Alice Victoria Selfsidge in Weld County in 1879 (Colorado marriage records). According to researcher David Sundal, she and Todd were living in Grand Junction, Colorado at least by 1896, when they built a prominent Victorian home at 929 Main Street. The 1900 US Census lists his occupation as "Dec Inspector." He was an early resident of Grand Junction, Colorado and owner of a lumber dealership that later became Mesa Lumber. He was wealthy but described himself as a socialist. He was elected mayor of Grand Junction on November 2, 1909 by a ranked voting system (also called preferential voting). He was not the clear first place winner, but was declared winner after second and third place votes were calculated. This stirred the opposition of The Daily Sentinel newspaper editor Walter Walker, who came out against ranked voting. Walker actively opposed Thomas and his policies throughout Thomas's mayoral term. Thomas succeeded in setting up a municipal woodpile, staffed by homeless men in return for meals and shelter, but many of his other ideas did not come to fruition. He proposed the construction of a municipal ice house, but was unable to bring it about. He brought a referendum before the voters to make the city's utilities publicly owned, but it did not pass. Walker led an effort to recall both Thomas and socialist sheriff Shiperd B. Hutchinson. While the recall failed, it led to Hutchinson's resignation. *Some information for this entry was taken from the article "Walter Walker and His Fight Against Socialism" by Jeanette Smith, Journal of the Western Slope, V. 12, N. 4, Fall 1997.
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- Thomas McCracken
- Thomas was a student at H Street School in the late 19th century.
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- Thomas Nast
- Thomas Nast was a German American caricature artist and cartoonist, whose career spanned from the 1860's to the early 1900's. He is widely credited for creating iconic cultural depictions of political characters in common use today, such as the Republican Party elephant, the Democratic Party donkey, Uncle Sam, and others.