People

: George Mizner, M.D.; Born in Europe in 1930. Left Vienna, Austria with his mother, father, younger brother and maternal grandparents in 1938 when Hitler invaded Austria. Eventually immigrated to United States. Educated in England and U.S. Graduated from Antioch College and University of Rochester Medical School. Did postgraduate training in pediatrics and psychiatry at Yale and Rochester Medical Schools. Married Joanne in 1954. Moved to Denver in 1963 and was affiliated with the University of Colorado Medical School. Became part time resident of Vail in 1974. Retired in 1982. Moved to Vail full time in 1992. Married Carolyn (Carol) Smith in Dec. 2016.

: George Newbury; He was born in Pennsylvania to George and Olive Newbury. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. Wisconsin marriage records show that he married Martha Cordelia Webster in Jackson County on May 24, 1857, when he was about 25 years old. The 1860 US Census shows them living in Lathrop, Pennsylvania, with George working as a blacksmith. By 1870 they had moved to Melrose, Wisconsin. They homesteaded in Mesa County, Colorado beginning in 1889. There, they planted orchards with apples, peaches, cherries, plums, and pears. The 1900 Census shows them living on Rhone Mesa. According to his granddaughter Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, he was considered strange because he believed that there was life on other planets and that humans would someday travel to the moon. He died at the age of 82 and is buried in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery.

: George Oyler; George was owner of the Mountain Mail, Salida's daily paper from November 1, 1951 to May 1, 1971.

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