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- Frank D. Bradbury
- He was born near Colby, Kansas to Daniel Bradbury and Mary Isabella (Bandy) Bradbury. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family came to the Kannah Creek / Whitewater area of Mesa County, Colorado in 1895, when Frank was about eight years old. The 1900 Census shows them living in Kannah Creek on a farm, when Frank was thirteen. According to census records, he had one sister. The family owned haying operations and sold hay to corrals in Grand Junction and other agricultural operations. He married Nellie Lorena Gilbert on September 28, 1911, in Grand Junction, Colorado. The 1920 census shows Frank living with his parents and working on the family farm. His wife died in 1930, and the 1930 census shows him living with his four children and mother in Kannah Creek. In 1940, he lived with his son Walter and a farmhand. Frank died at the age of ninety-one and is buried with his wife in the IOOF portion of the Orchard Mesa Cemetery in Grand Junction.
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- Frank D. Kiefer
- He was born in Brookville, Indiana to Caroline (Witt) Kiefer and Dominick Kiefer, German Catholic immigrants. The 1870 US Census shows him living on a farm in Brookville with his eight siblings at the age of seven. He came West with his older brother Joseph in the early 1882, agreeing to work on the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad from Gunnison to Montrose in exchange for passage from Indiana to the West. After the line reached Montrose, he and Joseph decided to move to the Grand Valley. They walked from Montrose to Grand Junction, swam across the Colorado River, and arrived on October 12, 1883 with $1.35 in cash between them. He and Joseph purchased 160 acres of land just east of Fruita in 1883. With their brother Ben, they platted the land in 1889 and founded the town of Cleveland, after President Grover Cleveland. In 1884, Frank staked a claim in Fruita. With his brothers he started the Fruita Canal and Land Company and served as President. This organization oversaw and funded what came to be known as the Kiefer Extension Ditch of the Grand Valley Canal, which was completed in 1898. He bought a printing press from Denver in 1892 and founded the Mesa County Mail, a weekly newspaper that later became known as the Fruita Times. He was a founder and president of the Redlands Water and Power Company, which irrigated the Redlands and created hydroelectric power that was sold to the town of Grand Junction. In the early 1900’s, he joined with other Fruita men to bring water to Fruita from Pinon Mesa, which they did in 1907. He was the President of the United Fruit Growers Association until his death. He was instrumental in founding the Mesa Federal Savings, then known as the Fruita Building, Loan and Savings Association. He died at the age of forty-eight and is buried in Fruita's Cavalry Cemetery.
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- Frank Delaney
- A lawyer in Glenwood Springs, Colorado who represented cattle ranchers and their interests in the early Twentieth century. He often collaborated with Charles "Frank" Moore of the Grazing Service and Dan Hughes, a lawyer representing sheep ranchers, in creating rangeland policy under the Taylor Grazing Act. Delaney served as the Democratic candidate in the election to the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado's Fourth Congressional District after the death of Edward Taylor in 1941. He lost the election to Republican candidate Robert Fay Rockwell. Along with Silmon Smith, Delaney also represented Western Slope water interests in negotiation with parties on the Eastern Slope.
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- Frank Delany
- Attorney for cattleman in Glenwood Springs in the early 20th century.
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- Frank Dolinsek
- Frank Dolinsek was an outdoorsman and avid skier who helped develop Aspen during its early stages as a ski destination. Dolinsek was born in Grand Junction on Aug. 31, 1923, and grew up in his family’s Aspen home on South Monarch Street, which was built in 1889 and still stands today. Dolinsek was an avid skier, hunter, climber and fisherman. He was also a skilled mechanic and welder. The brothers also volunteered to help clear the first ski trail on Aspen Mountain’s Roch Run, put in a rope tow and launched the Aspen Ski Club. After graduating from Aspen High School, Dolinsek joined the Army and served in the 10th Mountain Division during World War II. The 10th was known for its ability to work in mountain terrain and snow. Dolinsek was an artillery specialist and spent most of the war serving in the mountains of Italy, where he earned a Bronze Star for his service. After the war, Dolinsek returned to Aspen and worked on Lift 1, the first ski chairlift in the area, and Lift 2, a chair that would go up to the current location of the Sundeck restaurant. The original Lift 1 actually was boarded in the Dolinseks’ backyard for just a few dollars and attracted skiers from all over the country. John and Frank ran the lifts with Frank also being the main mechanic. Frank Dolinsek worked for the Aspen Ski Corp. until 1960. He then worked for the city of Aspen Street Department as a welder and mechanic for nearly 20 years until he retired.--Aspen Times
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- Frank Douglas
- He ran a pool hall in Hotchkiss, Colorado that also served as a gambling parlor and staging location for stag parties. He married a woman named Ollie (in quite a coincidence, so did his brother, Earl).