People

: William A. Doyle; A gold prospector who, along with Joseph Hahn and Captain George Wray, found gold near the foot of Hahn’s Peak in Routt County. He nearly died when Wray, who had promised to return with provisions after a trip to Empire, never returned, leaving Doyle and Hahn to starve. Doyle was unable to save Hahn, who passed away. The article "Time Writes All History" later erroneously referred to Doyle as the person who abandoned Joseph Hahn at Hahn's Peak in October 1866.

: William A. Strimple; Born in Kansas and worked there as a schoolteacher. He traveled with his family to Cedaredge, Colorado in 1913. His wife was a tubercular and they moved for her health. He taught school and farmed in Cedaredge and on Orchard Mesa in Grand Junction.

: William Adelbert Medesy; He was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Albert and Elizabeth Medesy, both Hungarian immigrants. His father was an iron worker and his mother was a homemaker. The 1940 US Census shows him living with his wife, Geraldine, and working as a government or wage worker. He served as a captain in the US Army during World War II. An Associated Press file index notes that Medesy was named director of the Long Island Agricultural & Technical Institute in Farmingdale, New York in 1956. Dr. Medesy became president of Mesa College (now Colorado Mesa University) in 1963 and served until 1970. He kickstarted the building program, which had previously only added dormitories and the student union building. Under his charge, land to the north was added to the property, largely creating the campus as it was known into the 2000’s. He had previously headed the Rangely College. He died in Aurora and is buried in Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver.

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