People

: Harry Donald Brown; He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Harry Lewis Brown and Penelope Chase (Hamilton) Brown. His father was the owner of a Wrigley chewing gum factory and his mother was a homemaker and later worked for the family business. The family moved to the Roan Canyon area near De Beque in 1921, where his father owned and operated the Index Oil Shale Company. He graduated from high school in Denver and later worked as an analyst for the company. He had a cabin at the Roan Creek work camp, but he did ore analysis at a laboratory in the Redlands.

: Harry Donoho; He was a volunteer with the Mesa County Oral History Project. With Virginia Donoho, he conducted interviews with residents of Loma, Colorado.

: Harry Earl Clark; Early 20th century Palisade fruit farmer. His parents, James Allison and Phoebe Jane Clark, moved from southeastern Kansas to homestead the Palisade area in 1900. Sibling of Levi, James, and Bertha Clark.

: Harry Edwards; Acquaintance of Billy the Kid. From the age of eleven, he was a range rider and cowboy in Texas and New Mexico. He was wagon boss of the A. Strauss ranch in Eastern New Mexico for thirteen years. He won several rodeo competitions. His nickname was the Circle S Kid. He came to Delta County, Colorado in 1906. He fought a pitched gun battle with Aught Peterson and two other game wardens. Everyone involved survived, and Edwards was cleared on self-defense.

: Harry Gardner; Harry Gardner was born in Missouri, where he married Arline (Fellows) Gardner in 1913, at the age of 21. He came to Colorado in 1917 and worked as a cattle rancher with his brother. He became a construction worker and road builder for the Forest Service in 1925. He also worked for other Federal agencies, including the Bureau of Public Roads. When the Depression came about, Harry was out of work for a couple of years. During his career he helped build Land’s End Road on the Grand Mesa, Interstate I-70 to the Walker Field airport, the cutoff from south Palisade to Highway 50, and many other projects around Western Colorado. He served as a foreman on CCC jobs and worked multiple other construction gigs until retiring at 72. He was a friend of Evelyn and Jim Kyle. He was a fan of horse racing.

: Harry Goodwin; He owned the Latimer-Goodwin Vinegar Works and donated a great deal of money to the hospitals and charities around Grand Junction. His donation to St. Mary's Hospital allowed the establishment of a radiology department in 1949.

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