People

: Fred C. Clymer; Early Twentieth century resident of Palisade and Clifton, Colorado. He was born in Ohio. He married Maybelle (Gardner) Clymer in Clifton, Colorado in 1915. They were the owners and operators of the Indian School Dairy and later, of Clymer's Rose Glen Dairy on Orchard Mesa. His dairy was one of the earliest (if not the earliest) adopters of pasteurization in Mesa County. According to Dwain T. Jackson, Clymer owned many Holstein cattle. On the occasion of his wedding, he and his wife were shivareed in Clifton (tin cans attached to their horse and buggy were involved).

: Fred C. Graham; Fred C. Graham was born in 1877. He was an engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and was killed by a runaway train on January 22, 1918 at Pando, Colorado.

: Fred Clyde Martin; He was a mortician who founded Martin Mortuary. He married his wife, Carrie Belle Griffin, in 1901. According to his son, Edward Martin, F.C. started out as a farmer. He sold his farm and graduated from Worsham Mortuary School in Chicago, Illinois. He and his family moved to Longmont, Colorado in 1913 due to his wife's poor health. They moved from Longmont to Mesa County in 1915. Oral history interviewee Ann (Reese) Stokes remembers that Martin lived in a home across from the Palisade Methodist Church, and that he had an undertaker business in Palisade prior to moving to Grand Junction. His son Edward came down with Typhoid at that time and Stokes's mother, a nurse, nursed him to health. The family later moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where they founded Martin Mortuary in 1917. He also played on Grand Junction’s town baseball team.