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- Forrest L. "Frosty" Tilton
- Frosty Tilton was born in Des Moines, Iowa to E.L. Tilton, a farmer, and to Sarah L. (Gerard) Tilton, a homemaker. Because of a bad heart, he was unable to do farm work. His brother Archie Tilton, who had homesteaded in Eastern Colorado, contacted him regarding a position at a bank in Holyoke. So Frosty moved to Holyoke, Colorado in 1917 when he was 16 years old and began working in the bank as a janitor. On top of that, he did any other job that needed doing, and so by the end of his first year at the bank, he knew every job there. While in Holyoke he met Ruth Zingg. They were married in Boulder in 1920 and moved to Palisade in 1924. In Palisade, they raised peaches and Frosty worked at the Palisades National Bank, which was opened in part by his brother. In 1933, the Federal Government ordered the bank to close and liquidate its assets due to the depreciation of its bond account. Frosty was appointed conservator of assets by the bank's board of directors. After a year, he succeeded in liquidating the bank's assets and paying off depositors. The bank then reopened, but Frosty went to work as the cashier and trust officer for the First National Bank in Grand Junction. Tilton and his brother later repurchased the Palisades National Bank. In 1958, Frosty became a member of the Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association board and later became its president. He also became the president of the Mesa County Bankers Association, a position he held for several years. *Photo courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
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- Forrest Livingston
- A cattle rancher in the Gateway, Colorado area.
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- Forrest M. Carhartt
- He was born in Iowa to Elsie Verness (Forrest) Carhartt, a homemaker, and James Seth Carhartt, a farmer. He moved to Ogden, Utah in 1914, where he lived with his grandparents. There, he joined the Utah National Guard. He received a scholarship to the University of Denver and was classmates with Wayne N. Aspinall. While on tour with the DU Glee Club, he received a telegram ordering him to mobilize for the Guard. His guard had been converted to an artillery unit and was deployed to the Mexican border in response to Pancho Villa-led raids into the United States. He received officer’s training during the ramp up to World War I. He also played football on the battery football team. At the end of the war, he quit the army so that he could resume his studies at DU. He received his B.A. and M.A. in theology. He worked as a teacher, a high school principal, and as a deputy coroner. He was the commanding officer who brought the CCC camp to Grand Junction’s Lincoln Park in 1936. He served in World War ll (Reserves and National Guard), and later worked in Military Retirement and Investments. He married Helen Johnson in 1922. They had two children. *Photograph from the 1922 University of Denver yearbook.
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- Forrest W. Cave
- Eagle County Treasurer, 1937-1963
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- Foster Symes
- The federal judge who was in charge of property during the bankruptcy of the Rio Grande Railroad. He ruled that no more interest would be paid in order to ensure the physical rehabilitation of the railroad.