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- William "Bill" Tennent
- Former Curator of History of the Museums of Western Colorado.
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- William "Bill" Wallace Cunningham
- He was born in Denver, Colorado during the time in which his family owned a ranch just over the state line in Nebraska. The family moved to Cisco, Utah in 1927, where his family had a long ranching history, and grew up there on the Cisco Ranch (which became the Cunningham Ranch). He twice accompanied his father to Kansas City on cattle-selling trips. He was a rancher.
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- William "Bill" Whatley Jr.
- A native of Mesa County, Colorado and the son of William Whatley, an early veterinarian in the area, and Ann Virginia (Woods) Whatley, an established horsewoman, journalist, and realtor. He attended Ft. Lewis College for archaeology, and became the archaeologist for the Pueblo of Jemez. He assisted with the return of Pueblo Indian remains from Harvard University to the Pueblo people.
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- William "Billy" Fitzpatrick
- He was a sheep rancher who owned a large outfit in the Montrose and Mesa Counties in the first half of the Twentieth century. He was the largest sheep operator in Western Colorado. He died in Leadville of pneumonia sometime in the mid-1900s. His estate, including 36,000 sheep and considerable debt, was administered by William Weiser, and took six years to clear up satisfactorily.
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- William "Billy" Weiser
- He was born in Lyons Station, Pennsylvania. His father died young of tuberculosis, putting a great strain on the rather large family he left behind. At the age of thirteen, William was sent to be reared by his uncle, William Moyer, in Grand Junction, Colorado. He attended public school in Grand Junction through high school and went on to Colorado College and received his degree in 1898 (he was a classmate of Grover Rice). He graduated from Stanford’s Law School in 1902 with a license to practice law in the state of California. He returned to Grand Junction and entered into a partnership with Mr. Wheeler, an older lawyer in the city. In 1914, he was elected DA in Mesa County. He served in the Colorado legislature for a time. He was president of the Grand Valley National Bank for seventeen years. After the bank’s closure in 1933, he opened his own law office on Fifth and Main Streets with Gene Mast as a partner. He was the President of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce in the 1920's and brought Wyatt M. Wood from Texas to assume the Manager position for the Chamber. He was an expert on water law in his private practice and with William Fry of the Grand Valley Drainage District, he was instrumental in including all of Mesa County's municipalities under the District's umbrella, allowing for their taxation and District funding. For a time during the 1930's, he quit practicing law and took up sheep ranching in order to settle debts in the estate of Billy Fitzpatrick, a sheep rancher who had died suddenly. In 1922, he married Edith Florine Turner and adopted her son, Albert, from a former husband. With Edith and Albert, he was an early settler of the Third Fruitridge area in Pomona. He served as president of the Rotary Club, was a Mason, Odd Fellow, and Elk’s Lodge member. He was on the state highway board for many years, and enjoyed traveling with his family around the state, examining highways for needed improvements.
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- William "Bruce" Howard
- He moved with his family from Kansas to Fruita, Colorado during the Dust Bowl. When they moved in 1936, it had not rained in their part of Kansas for seven years. He and his wife, Nellie Howard, settled on Mesa Street in the south part of Fruita, Colorado. William farmed several acres of land and soon became one of the first to bring Black Angus cattle to the Grand Valley. He also helped 4-H clubs and the Mormon Church in Utah start their own herds of Black Angus. William picked peaches for the deBlaquiere family and supervised their peach orchard on the Redlands for ten years. He worked a job on the side hanging wallpaper with the assistance of his wife.