People

: Harry Augustus Talbott; • Harry Augustus Talbott (interviewee): He was born to Harry Augustus Talbott Sr. and Nellie Talbott in Kentucky. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. The family had moved to Colorado’s Western Slope by 1918 and the 1920 US Census shows them living in Delta County, Colorado, when Harry Jr. was 8 years old. The 1930 US Census shows an 18 year old Harry Jr. living in Eckert and working as a farmhand. He married Margaret “Pearl” Yager of Palisade in Montrose in 1933. The 1940 Census shows them living in Dodge City, Kansas with their two children, and Harry running a produce wholesale business. They had moved to Palisade by 1946, when they purchased land and planted an apple orchard. The 1950 Census shows that Harry Jr. ran a chicken farm and fryer plant, probably in addition to running an orchard. The family lived on Highway 340 in East Palisade. He suffered a stroke in January of 1982.

: Harry B. Peck; He came to Hayden, Colorado in 1883 and was the Routt County superintendent of schools. Grandfather of Harry Peck.

: Harry Bull; An early Cedaredge, Colorado resident and rancher. He was the uncle of Winifred C. Bull and brother of prominent Grand Junction physician Heman R. Bull.

: Harry Cable; Harry Cable served on Salida's police force for 25 years before retiring in April of 1975. He was a special investigator for the D.A. at the time of his death at the age of57.

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