People

: Henry Clay Schneider; An early schoolteacher in the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado. He had a talent, particularly, for winning respect from his young, male students. William Rump, who went to the Redlands School and had Schneider as a teacher, gave this description of him: “Probably he was well liked by, particularly, the boys. He was a real athletic sort of a fella. In fact, he was the one that was involved in giving those kids all of the lickings. There was an article in the paper by one of the old timers here a couple, three, years ago where we were going to have a big gang fight among the kids and all and he caught us and brought us back to the schoolhouse and said, ‘Okay, boys, you’re going to have to face up to it. You’re either gonna take a lickin’ or you can lick me’. And I was a sort of a cocky kid, I guess, and I said, ‘Okay, guys, let’s have at him’. I was going to try and get out of that doggone lickin’ and I started my operation and nobody backed me up. So we ended up taking a doggone beating. But anyway, he was a real great guy and if his name is still…if he’s still living around, I would like to see him.”

: Henry Collbran; Radio and mining operator for whom the town of Collbran, Colorado is named.

: Henry Gillespie; He was one of the leading mine owners in Aspen, Colorado. He was superintendent of the Sparr Gold and Silver Company as well as part stockholder. Also, he was the owner and operator of the Molly Gibson silver mine, where a very large piece of silver was discovered and put on display for a time at the Colorado State Museum in Denver. On top of that, he owned the El Jebel Ranch, which was four miles from Basalt. He died of fever along with his son after they went to British Guinea in order to research the purchase of silver mines in the interior. Great Uncle of Dudley W. Mitchell.

: Henry Harkins; Henry Harkins, unfortunate participant in the Bloody Espinosas saga. Harkins had set up a sawmill near Colorado Springs in 1863 with his partners. They later found him murdered with no clues and he was buried at Dead Man's Canon near Fort Carson, Colorado. Harkins was the first in a trail of killings committed by brothers Felipe and Vivian Espinosa, who, after murdering at least 33 people, were shot and killed by Tom Tobin.

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