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- William "Grandpa" Bird
- Note: Referred to, in error, as William Byrd in the article, "Time Writes All History"
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- William "W.A." Rice
- With his brother Phidelah "P.A." Rice, he established Mesa County's first lumber mill, located by Enoch Lake on Pinon Mesa, in 1883. He later lived in the Pomona area, on or near Third Fruitridge. There, he farmed. His wife was Mary E. (Gover) Rice.
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- William "Will" Nessler
- ): He was born in Lancaster, New York to Fred Nessler and Elizabeth (Bach) Nessler. His father was a wagonmaker. His mother was a homemaker. His parents are identified by US Census records as being immigrants from Germany (father) and France (mother). Fred Nessler died in 1868, when William was about 10 years old. The 1870 Census shows a 12-year-old Will and his mother being supported by Will’s older brother Fred Jr., who worked as a wagonmaker. Will had moved to Iowa by 1883, and Iowa marriage records show that he married Ella Moore, a fellow New Yorker, in Buena Vista County on June 28th of that year. In 1900 they lived in Sioux Rapids with their daughter Eva Nessler, with Fred working as a harness maker. Along with many other Iowans, they moved to Mesa County, Colorado in 1906 and settled in Palisade, where they farmed fruit.
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- William "Will" Watts
- He was born in Washington County, Arkansas to Doctor Calvin Watts and an unknown mother. His father moved with he and his siblings to Colorado in 1897, when he was nine years old. According to Will, his father took him away from his mother in Arkansas when he was five years old. He grew up instead with Nancy Watts, his step-mother, as a parent. The family lived in Delta until 1899. The 1900 census shows them living in Telluride, when Will was twelve years old. There, his father worked as a laborer. His father hired him out for work caring for 72 milk cows on Hastings Mesa, outside of Telluride, when he was 12. Watts worked there for six months and came home. Watts says that he ran away from home at the age of thirteen, telling his father he was going to Telluride. He missed the train, so instead walked with a sixteen year old to Colorow (Olathe), where he took job caring for milk cows, helping to drive them up to Hastings Mesa. There, he took a job in Mrs. Cushman’s boarding house. His father tried to get him to come home, but he worked instead on a milk farm for Frank Brown and also did work for Boyd Collins, doing things like operating a threshing machine and cutting logs. Will did not see his father again for 24 years. When he was fired at the age of sixteen for refusing to work on the Sabbath, he went to visit his mother in Rocky Ford, Arkansas. He married Edith Jane Caddy on July 24, 1903. They had two children. The 1910 census shows them living in Montrose County, where they farmed. By 1920, they had moved to East Telluride, where he worked as a gold miner and later in a graveyard. By 1940, they had returned to Montrose County, where Will worked as a trucker, hauling coal from Cedaredge to Montrose. He also worked in the firehouse for twenty-three months. In 1950, both he and Edith worked together in the grocery business in the town of Orchard. He died in Montrose at the age of ninety-seven, just eighteen days after his wife passed away.
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- William "Willi" Edmondson
- He was a long-time professor at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. He joined the faculty there in 1960, and was still teaching into at least the 1980’s. He was known for his intriguing lectures, and was one of the most popular teachers on the campus. He was born in Iowa and received his BA degree from Augustana College, his MA from Vanderbilt University, and his doctoral degree from Claremont Graduate University.
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- William (Bill) Hamner
- "Owner of the Senate-McPherson Boarding House who used the Telluride building as a studio." --Taken 5/17/21 from: https://www.telluridenews.com/opinion/columnists/article_84d51816-2434-11e6-b5c1-47ba6a3838f8.html "One-time owner of the Senate, during the interregnum years when it was evolving from a bawdy house to a restaurant, was "quite a colorful character," according to one who knew him, and he looked every bit the part." --Taken 5/17/21 from https://www.telluridenews.com/the_watch/news/article_dab0314d-d26f-5732-8ea6-7c0b7180ca1b.html William Marion Hamner Born: 1906 - Kipp, Kansas Died: 1997 - Los Angeles, California Known for: Painting, animation, teaching Born in Kipp, KS on April 24, 1906. From UCLA Hamner enrolled at the Otis Art Institute in 1925 for a four-year course. After that he studied at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Yale where he received his B.F.A. degree in 1932. He worked as an animator for Disney Studios for eight years and then became director of U. B. Iwerks Cartoons. By 1941 he was teaching at Otis and producing his own commercial films. From 1945-66 he headed the art department at Chadwick School in Rolling Hills, CA. Upon retirement, he moved to Telluride, CO and established a studio-home in an 1880's saloon. He died in Los Angeles on July 13, 1997. Exh: Younger Painters of LA, 1929. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" Who's Who in California 1942; The Otis Story, p. 21. Taken 5/17/21 from: https://www.askart.com/artist/William_Marion_Hamner/11004049/William_Marion_Hamner.aspx
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- William (Bill) Mahoney
- Raised in Telluride, Colorado, Bill Mahoney Junior was an employee of the Telluride Ski and Golf Co. Mountain Village, which was a real estate development undertaken by Telski, and both Mahoney Junior and Senior were two of the very first employees when the Mountain Village Metropolitan District was formed in 1983 to build the infrastructure for it. Mahoney Junior and his father oversaw many construction projects in Mountain Village, Colorado and Mahoney Junior worked as the head of the ski patrol in 1989. --Information taken from: https://www.telluridenews.com/the_watch/news/article_78244437-cd03-5572-80fd-b5066d8c59ac.html Accessed 01/30/20