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- William Lefare
- Murderer of cattle rancher E.T. Massey. The murder occurred on the Uncompahgre Plateau.
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- William Lyman Chenoweth
- A geologist involved in uranium mining and exploration. He was born in Wichita, Kansas to Bertrum William Chenoweth and Bessie Lenore (Lyman) Chenoweth. His father appears to have left home when William was young. The 1910, 1920, and 1930 US Census records show William living with his mother and maternal grandparents from the time he was one year old. He attended the Riverside and John Marshall Schools in Wichita, and Wichita High School North. He then went to the University of Wichita, where he received a BA in Geology, before relocating to Albuquerque where he got his MS in Geology from the University of New Mexico in 1953. His thesis on the Morrison Formation was funded by the Atomic Energy Commission and he was offered employment by the Commission after his graduation. He worked in and around the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, studying uranium deposits for the next eleven years. He married Miriam B. “Polly” Pawlicki on January 6, 1955. They had three sons, one daughter, and grandchildren. He served with the New Mexico National Guard from 1955 to 1959 and attained the rank of sergeant. He transferred to the Grand Junction, Colorado office of the Commission in 1963, where he studied uranium deposits in South Dakota and Wyoming. In 1970, he became the Chief of the Geologic Branch in Grand Junction, managing geologists in several states. He retired in 1983 rather than relocate with his position to Washington D.C. He then became a paid consultant and a research associate with the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources. He was the Chairman of the Nuclear Minerals Committee of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He was a member of the New Mexico Geological Society. He worked with the Justice Department to assist uranium workers exposed to radiation. He died at the age of eighty-nine and is interred in the Columbarium at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Grand Junction. *Some of this information was taken from the obituary of William Chenoweth (Daily Sentinel, July 27, 2018, page 5A)
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- William Lyon Wood
- He was born in Pueblo, Colorado to David and Fannie Wood. US Census records show the family living in Ouray, Colorado in 1900 and 1910, when William was 6 and 16 years old, respectively. William Wood was the editor of the Durango Herald contemporaneously to Rod Day's tenure at the rival newspaper, the Durango Democrat, a morning daily (published 1899-1928). According to Al Look, who worked for the rival Durango Herald at that time, Day was hospitalized for delirium tremens. The publisher of the Herald, McDevitt, ordered his staff not to write about Day's alcoholism. Wood ignored this direction and published an editorial about Day's hospital stay and the reason for it. Unbeknownst to Wood, Day had been released from the hospital on the day the editorial was published. When Day saw Wood on Main Street in Durango, he shot Wood in the back of the head as he was crawling away.
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- William M. Dinkel
- William Dinkel was a pioneer known as the "Father of Carbondale" who settled Carbondale, Colorado in 1881 and partnered with Dr. W.A.E. de Beque to run the Shale Oil Syndicate, a company formed to locate and patent shale oil claims on Western Slope.
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- William Maroney
- Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.