People

: Eyrealynne Barcus; A member on a Mesa County Historical Society panel that spoke about Glade Park, Colorado history at a program in the 1970’s.

: Ezra D. Stewart; He was born in Illinois to George W. Stewart and Phebe Ann (Burns) Stewart. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. US Census records show the family living in Trivoli, Illinois in 1870, when Ezra was seven years old. Phebe Stewart died in 1872. Illinois marriage records show that George Stewart subsequently remarried to Susan Kimsey in 1874. According to the 1880 US Census, the family was still living in Trivoli when Ezra was 19. The census shows no occupation for Ezra at that time. According to oral history interviewee and former Stewart Ranch employee Walter “Dick” Lloyd, Stewart later became a school principal, so it might be assumed that he was attending school. Iowa marriage records show that Ezra Stewart married Ida A. Hall in Fremont, Iowa on October 9, 1887, when Ezra was about 24 years old. Lloyd recounts that Ezra and Ida came to Colorado from Nebraska, where they had worked as a school principal and teacher respectively, in 1899. After traveling via buggy looking for good land to purchase, they settled on land that had been owned by E.C. Brink on the Grand Mesa, near the town of Mesa. There, they operated a ranch for several years. According to Lloyd, Ezra Stewart “never took to the cow business very well. But they started out and I guess they had a lot of hogs and that kind of thing when they first started.” The family lived in a home made of sandstone that had been built by E.C. Brink in 1886.

: Ezra Jaynes; Early Mesa County, Colorado fruit farmer. He moved to the Clifton area from Illinois in 1892, after scouting it with John W. Gimple in 1891. He settled instead in the First Fruitridge area of Grand Junction, where, according to his grandson Oscar Jaynes Jr., he owned the land that was later developed by KREX station owner Rex Howell. He later moved to Clifton. Father of Edith Jaynes and Oscar Winfield Jaynes Sr., and grandfather of Velma E. (Borschell) Budin.