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: Frank Benjamin Wright; He was born in Toronto, Kansas and was three years old when his family moved to Colorado. He grew up in Gunnison. At the age of 17, his parents signed a release that allowed him to work for the railroad. He worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Gunnison, Colorado for fifty-one years. He worked as a coal boy, and then as an engine watcher, a fireman, and finally an engineer. He married Bertha (Scott) Wright in 1913. Frank had nine children. They moved to Grand Junction in 1931.

: Frank Bradbury; Frank Bradbury was a miner in the Chaffee and Lake County region for much of the late 19th and early to middle 20th century. He settled in Granite, Colorado with his wife Mary Galvin.

: Frank Butala; Born October 7, 1926 in Salida, Colorado. Father: Jake Butala. Mother: Anna Bayuk Butala. Sibling: Mary Ann Butala (Veltri). Attended St. Joseph's Parochial School from 1st to 8th grades, then attended Salida High School from 1940 to 1944. Owner of Butala Construction in Salida, Colorado.

: Frank C. Hennes; He was born in Houghton, Michigan to Joseph Hennes, a merchant and immigrant from Germany, and Elizabeth Hennes, a housekeeper from Michigan. He graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Master of Science degree and moved to Colorado in 1908, when he was 23. He went shortly after to Carbon County, Utah. There, he was employed as an engineer by the Utah Fuel Company in the Sunnyside Coal Mine. He did surveying work in all the coal mines that the company owned. He also attended underground wrestling and boxing matches, and went to dances and social events in the company's recreation hall. As one of the only single engineers, he went on dates with teachers who worked in the mining camp schools. He married Barbara Twaddle in Alameda, California in 1919. She died in 1967. He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1968. He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He died at the age of 102. *Some of the information for this biography was taken from Frank Hennes' obituary appearing in a February [26-28], 1988 issue of The Daily Sentinel.

: Frank Cardman; He was born in Minnesota to Santo “Sam” Cardamone and Maria Angela “Mary” (Mendocino) Cardamone, shortly after their arrival in the United States from Naples, Italy in 1915. The family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado by 1920, where Sam and Mary ran the Favorite Candy Shop. He attended Grand Junction High School. After attending Mesa College, he graduated from the University of Colorado, and then from Harvard University with a degree in Business Administration. During his summer breaks in college, he came home to do roadwork in Utah. *Photograph from the 1932 Grand Junction High School yearbook

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